ECG Management Consultants — Information Technology

We assisted the professional fee billing office for a large academic medical center in developing a sophisticated patient registration interface from the hospital’s admission/discharge/ transfer system (McKesson Pathways). The interface included sophisticated logic and coding to translate and cross-map data from the hospital environment to the professional fee billing system (Epic Resolute). Our role in this process included: (1) reviewing the system structures, use, and HL7 specifications for the sending and receiving systems to develop an appropriate data cross-map; (2) providing oversight for the interface development process; and (3) developing a comprehensive interface test plan and overseeing testing activities. As a result of this project, the client was able to interface data successfully, requiring only minimal intervention and ongoing data monitoring.

We assisted the professional fee billing office for a large academic medical center in developing an interface to gather patient demographic, insurance, and guarantor information from the hospital Cerner admission/discharge/transfer (ADT) and registration system (Patient Account Manager, or PAM). Our role in the project encompassed: (1) upgrading the interface from HL7 2.2 to HL7 2.3; (2) developing a data cross-map between the sending and receiving systems; (3) monitoring the interface development; and (4) providing an appropriate test plan and assisting in issue resolution. As a result of this assignment, the practice management system (Epic Resolute) is able to receive information from the hospital ADT system (Cerner Access Management).