MEDITECH
Executive Support System
functionality brief

The Executive Support System functionality in MEDITECH's General Accounting product offers hospital executives and department managers from both multiple and single facility health care organizations a powerful management tool to gather and analyze information from throughout their health care networks. It produces user-defined reports instantaneously, enabling decision makers at all levels to view integrated financial, clinical, and statistical information from all departments, facilities, and corporations.

Highlights:
Executives and managers benefit from:
   • Summary and detail information from throughout the organization
   • Historically trended information
   • Standard and individualized reports
   • Comparative data and period analysis capabilities.

Standard Features

Network-Wide Information
The Executive Support System collects and displays financial and statistical information residing in MEDITECH's Health Care Information System (HCIS). Screen displays or printouts may include information from a single department or present information from multiple departments throughout the health care organization.

Financial, Administrative, Clinical, and Patient Care Information
The information contained in the Executive Support System is updated automatically, and functions within the Executive Support System searches the HCIS to gather new statistical information that may have been entered. The Executive Support System gathers and assembles information from the following applications:

• Health Information Management
• Patient Care and Patient Safety
• Enterprise Medical Record (Order Entry functionality)
• Pharmacy
• Laboratory and Microbiology
• Revenue Cycle
• General Accounting
• Supply Chain Management
• Medical and Practice Management.

Historical Information
Administrative, financial, and patient care information from the last two years is automatically retrieved and loaded into the Executive Support System functionality at the time of installation.

Supplemental Information
Information not already resident on the MEDITECH system may be entered and compared with existing data to assist in budgeting and other decision-making analyses.

Available to All Levels of Personnel
Facility administrators, department managers, and supervisors can view and access information specific to their locations or departments. For example, managers in patient care departments can, with the proper security, view general ledger, materials management, and payroll information for their departments without waiting for printed reports. In addition, managers of departments such as billing, payroll, laboratory, and purchasing can use the Executive Support System to obtain financial and statistical data to assist in running their departments.

Standard View Fields and "Views"
The Executive Support System is installed with extensive lists of data fields for executives and managers. These standard fields represent data elements from the departmental applications frequently requested by executives, managers, and administrators.

Standard views and reports are also available in each application from which the Executive Support System gathers and assembles data. Some applications have two standard views, since data is captured on a daily and a periodic basis (such as Admission Daily and Admission Period).

Standard and Individualized Reports
The Executive Support System lists data fields from MEDITECH's HCIS in a "view" format. Users can, based upon their security clearance, access both standard and individualized reports.

Individualized "Views"
Executives and managers have several options available for creating their own customized views:
• User-defined fields
• Calculated fields
• Reporting of external data
• Utilizing standard fields.

Effortless, Yet Powerful, Report Generator
The Executive Support System makes accessing and viewing information practically effortless. Users simply identify the categories of information they want on a particular view. The Executive Support System automatically displays the data in tabular and graphic formats. Once in the view, the user has several options for changing the display of data or the breakdown of data.

Flexible Data Analysis
The Executive Support System includes a number of features, which enable users to gather and analyze information at various summary levels and in different time periods. Depending upon the specific application, data is captured on either a daily or period basis. Users have the option of changing the time scale on a view to quarterly, fiscal year, fiscal YTD, or a range.

Drill-Down Capability
Executives and managers view increasingly specific information by drilling down through multiple levels of detail. Point-and- select operation and windows of choices instantly move users to additional detail, saving valuable time and effort.

History Option
View information is displayed in the time scale currently associated with the view. Additionally, the net change and percent change in data values over the time period are calculated and displayed in tabular and graphic form to clarify trends.

Breakdown Option
Detail about selected information is displayed. For example, the number of admissions may be broken down by physician, location, or service. Users drill down to detail based on how the data is stored in the feeder applications.

Time Slice Option
Information from one time period is compared to prior data in another time period. Additionally, the net change and percent change in data values between the two columns are calculated and displayed for all the data fields on the view.

Selection Option
Viewed data can be temporarily or permanently limited. This is particularly useful to decision-makers who need or want to only view information from certain areas of the organization.

Data Display Options
The Executive Support System offers the user several options for data display:
• Ascending order
• Descending order
• Value
• Net change
• Name
• Percent change.

Security Measures
The Executive Support System provides a number of security checks to verify, restrict, and track users and to protect sensitive information, such as:
• Password-based security checks appear at several levels in the system
• Audit trail reports link each Executive Support System activity to a specific user password
• "View only" access protects against accidental altering or deletion of information
• Performance reports automatically detail compilation, usage, and computer memory storage of the system for MIS personnel
• Users are assigned to dictionaries so they can create
customized views and give access to proper users
• Users may be restricted to specific data fields

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MEDITECH
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