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