HEALTH

Cortell provides a range of Business Intelligence products and services to support Clinical and Financial managers in the Health Sector. Cortell serves a variety of clients in this sector including a number of Hospitals, Government departments, Health Boards and also other Health solution providers such as medial device suppliers and pharmaceutical companies. Solutions and services cover Planning, Budgeting, Costing, Reporting and Patient Intelligence.

Cortell develops a Hospital Costing and Patient Intelligence systems for the Hospital market and uses other renowned Business Intelligence tools such as Cognos TM1, Xcelsius and Microsoft AS to provide solutions to clients

Solutions include:

The ValuMax Costing System for Hospitals

The costing system has been deployed in a number of hospitals and provides cost information per cost object such as bed and accommodation, theatre cases and minutes, admissions and discharges or trauma cases. These interim products are then used in the IntelliMax system below to determine Patient and Case profitability.

It is structured according to client needs and traces the patient through the full value chain. It integrates with most patient management systems and general ledgers and is particularly useful where costing has to be repeated regularly. It is a fully fledged Activity-based costing system that can be deployed over single or large groups with many departments and large volumes.. ValuMax is also be used in other industries such as manufacturing of drugs and components

The IntelliMax Patient and Hospital Business Intelligence system

The IntelliMax system is a web-based solution that provides all costing and clinical information per patient providing for full profitability analysis by patient, by ward or service, by doctor, by Procedure or DRG or any other client defined view .It gathers information from a variety of systems such as Booking, Admission, Patient management, Theater, Laboratory and even Ambulatory systems to trace the full value chain of the patient. It has a data mart of Patient information that could also be used for many other clinical analyses and data mining.

Budgeting and Forecasting

Cortell develops fully integrated financial planning and budgeting solutions that provides for budget templates for a variety of expense items, labor planning, capital budgeting and even resource forecasting based on drivers. Its budgeting solution is normally developed on Cognos TM1 multi-dimensional database which is one of the fastest performing OLAP tools on the market an provides for real-time recalculations, top down budgeting (or break backs) and also integrates with a variety of other solutions to extract information for further processing.

Resource Planning

Cortell has developed resource planning that forecast staff and other resources based on a variety of other drivers. This solution can be adapted to most hospital needs.

Financial reporting and Consolidations

We support a large number of clients with their period close as well as the production of full report packs, often delivered in electronic format. These may include management accounts but may also include statutory reporting and accounting consolidations.

Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators or Balanced Scorecards

Cortell has considerable experience in providing dashboards and reporting of KPIs. It can collect information from a variety of sources using extraction, transformation and load (ETL) tools and provides some really interesting and interactive graphics with drill-downs, slicing and dicing and other customized reports thru Web Information Portals.