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