| Microsoft Great Plains fits multiple services market | | | | reports: Income Statement, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet. |
| niche and healthcare is not exemption. In the case of | | | | Reporting tree utilization in FRx allows you to select |
| Healthcare/Hospital there is usually healthcare patient | | | | business units and do performance comparison- |
| history tracking system in place and backoffice or | | | | Compliance Reporting. Microsoft Great Plains, being |
| accounting application should be integrated on the | | | | SQL application allows you to deploy such tools as |
| ongoing basis with the above mentioned system plus | | | | Crystal Reports to create healthcare-specific reports |
| often Hospital or association is non-profit organization | | | | for your clients, contractors, state and federal |
| and non-for-profit accounting specifics should be taken | | | | regulation authorities. In Crystal Reports you can |
| into consideration.- Integration. Great Plains is MS SQL | | | | create report with the data from Microsoft Great |
| Server based application and SQL scripting/stored | | | | Plains and Patient tracking system., even if the last one |
| procedures is the choice for ongoing integration. The | | | | if not SQL Server based. Crystal Report can work |
| second option is Great Plains Integration Manager - it is | | | | with heterogeneous queries and stored procedures- |
| end-user tool and it should be considered if the | | | | Patient Invoices Lookup. If patient calls you and |
| integration volume is low or moderate (up to thousand | | | | questions the bill - you should have quick lookup from |
| transactions per day). Usually you do integrate | | | | your CRM to Great Plains invoices for this customer. |
| customer billing records and do billing from Great Plains. | | | | Some Hospitals offer internet bills lookup for their |
| Great Plains advanced reporting functionality will allow | | | | clients. This might become required feature in the |
| you to control your cost and expenses.- Financial | | | | following three or five years. You can implement this |
| Reporting. FRx is the tool of choice in the case of | | | | web-lookups via web publishing from Microsoft Great |
| Microsoft Great Plains. Being healthcare organization | | | | Plains database.We encourage you to analyze your |
| you can consolidate multiple companies (hospitals or | | | | alternatives. |
| clinics) and have all standard and advanced financial | | | | |