Lutheran Health Network: Five primary facilities totalling approximately 800 beds
Hospital Information System: McKesson HBO Star
User: Henry Taylor, Applications Analyst
Using Boston WorkStation™, Henry Taylor has developed several scripts to handle transactions for all five primary facilities. Reliability is a necessity because they are run on a regular basis.
Process self pay accounts. When Lutheran turns accounts over to a collection agency, they need to change the schedule code in their billing system for each of the accounts and add a note to it. After 90 days, an account may be moved to a
second agency and the schedule code and note will need to be updated. Taylor developed a script to update the appropriate accounts automatically.
Automatically post adjustments. This script is tightly integrated with Microsoft Access® allowing it to perform auditing functions and it executes multiple phases of adjustment postings. First, the script performs an ftp file transfer from another financial system. The script parses the file and uploads the transactions in the file. it then opens a batch, enters the batch, and processes the records. This script typically uploads 400-500 transactions each day. It would take a person at least a half day or more to manually entry these.
Automatically update charge master. This script performs two processes for Sim and Fim items. It inactivates items and updates prices. The script processes several 1000 per month. After users have reviewed the data, the script uploads from an Excel® spread sheet.Currently, the same script is being tested to update the McKesson Horizon Lab System, a Windows application.
Automate report runs. In addition, when they do a Star upgrade, they need to stop all scheduled reports (300 to 400 of them) and then after the upgrade, reschedule the reports. This very tedious manual process has been successfully scripted.
