Avega Health Systems(R) Launches the Latest Healthcare Decision Support Technology for Clinical, Operational, Financial Improvement.ATLANTA -- Avega Health Systems, a subsidiary of MedAssets Inc., has released the latest healthcare decision support technology, Alliance Decision Support 4, designed to help providers accelerate decision-making enterprise-wide for business process improvement and margin enhancement. Alliance 4 integrates clinical, financial and operational information into a common data set for accuracy and ease of use across the organization. This information is intuitively displayed through a new intelligent dashboard design with multiple interactive panels to help executive and department-level users relate financial outcomes to clinical and operational decisions for performance improvement and enterprise-wide accountability. The fully integrated Alliance 4 product line includes budgeting, cost accounting, contract management, clinical analytics, and executive and department-level reporting. "Alliance 4 surpasses any healthcare decision support software on the market by delivering consistent, reliable information to all levels of management," said Thomas J. Kazamek, President, Avega Health Systems. "By creating unique capabilities such as the intelligent dashboard design, we put easy-to-use software tools in the hands of managers and front-line staff to build their budgets; develop and revise cost and productivity standards; and evaluate performance against budget, standards and benchmarks." Additional benefits of the highly scalable and customizable design include a time-efficient single data load for all the components of Alliance, audio and video online context-sensitive help Context-sensitive help is a kind of online help that is obtained from a specific point in the state of the software, providing help for the situation that is associated with that state. to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. end-user acceptance and training, and a rich web-based browser experience through fully secured and encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science communications that meet the highest level of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, security standards. "With Alliance 4, we can quickly tell what is going on in the business and react immediately," said Laurel Ragland, Director, Decision Support and Revenue Operations for Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. of Pittsburgh. "Because of Avega's experience, they understand the users' informational needs and package that into dashboards and graphs to supply actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information, which makes adoption easy for new users." "Alliance 4 builds upon our company's foundation of innovation and success," said Kazamek. "It empowers the providers' entire management team with the information they need to make operational decisions that positively impact the bottom line." Avega is celebrating 23 years as the health care industry's choice for decision support solutions. In addition to its main office in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif., Avega maintains an office in Nashville, Tenn. Alliance 4 product demonstrations are available at HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Booth # 7137 during the 2007 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , February 25-March 1. Please call 1-866-AT-AVEGA for more information or to schedule a product demonstration. Additional information about Alliance 4 is also available at www.medassets.com/DecisionSupport/Alliance.htm. About MedAssets MedAssets partners with healthcare providers to improve operating margins Operating Margin A ratio used to measure a company's pricing strategy and operating efficiency. Calculated by: and cash flow while supporting quality of care goals. MedAssets implements integrated solutions to address the greatest opportunities for financial and process improvement and drives performance in revenue cycle, supply chain and clinical service line management. MedAssets is a business partner to more than 2,400 hospitals and 25,000 non-acute care healthcare providers. For more information, go to www.medassets.com. |
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