Healthcare

Meeting the Challenge:

Healthcare providers today face many challenges. Rapidly rising costs, expanding regulations, and pressure to improve quality, safety, and access are just some of the issues faced by hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities. At the root of these issues is the difficulty healthcare professionals face in accessing information.

Whether it is information needed to make clinical decisions, or financial data required to drive business decisions, healthcare providers are hampered by paper-based data collection and disconnected, proprietary information systems. Together, these two factors have a significant impact on the cost and quality of healthcare.

In order to help healthcare providers respond to the challenges they face, Microsoft provides a framework for streamlining the way medical information is created, collected, accessed, and shared through its Collaborative Health initiative. The goal: to enable clinicians, researchers, and administrators to work together in integrated collaborative teams to deliver affordable healthcare.

Financial Reporting

FRx®, the industry-leading financial report writer from Microsoft, uses a spreadsheet-like interface to deliver the ultimate in report design flexibility. Powerful row, column, and reporting tree building blocks make it easy to construct new reports that are customized to answer specific business questions.

Reports can be

• automatically distributed by e-mail
• printed
• viewed on screen
• exported to a Microsoft Office Excel® PivotTable®
• or published to the Web

FRx also offers exclusive drill-down functionality which enables users to access actual source documents.

Budgeting and Forecasting

The FRx Forecaster module is a Web-based tool for creating and managing budgets and forecasts at any level. With FRx Forecaster, healthcare providers can shorten the budget cycle and generate more accurate financial forecasts. Highlights include automated workflow and planning coordination based on user-defined roles and rules.

Accounts Payable

Microsoft Dynamics SL Accounts Payable enables healthcare providers to track and analyze extensive vendor information, efficiently process payables, and make the most of vendor discounts while maximizing cash flow. With Accounts Payable, healthcare administrators have instant access to all vendor history, including checks, invoices, and purchase orders.