Interesting article for the layperson from columnist Morton Kondracke:

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Dear Viewer:

Over the last several years, we've focused more on day-to-day client needs and neglected our website.  We know the website has been useful to many, but it needed a serious overhaul to continue to be useful.  The new site is quicker for users, and easier for us to maintain.  It's not flashy, but we hope you will agree that it has useful content and is a better experience for you.   Once the site is live, we plan to add more graphical content, so come back and visit us frequently to see what is new.

Our goal will be to update the site more frequently with ideas and solutions as we are working on them, so you can see what others are asking us for.  In a way, you'll be able to see how others are putting their tools to work to respond to this environment.

We are also open to your ideas on how we can make the site more useful.  Use the "Contact Us" option on the menu to the left.

Over the last couple of years we've developed a number of tools on request for our clients.  We think that several of them have real merit in our increasingly difficult environment, and may be of interest to others.  Here's a summary and where to learn more here on the site.  These are applications we can provide you in records time, since we've built them before.

• Labor Productivity in HBI: to control labor spending (see "HBI Horizon Business Insight" in menu to the left)
• Cost accounting: to develop service line P&Ls, physician scorecards, reality-based pricing (see "Hospital Cost Accounting in menu to the left)
• Modeling: activity, cost and revenue scenarios (see "Contract Management and Modeling" and  EBB under "Horizon Performance Manager" in menu to the left)
• Physician Scorecards: control resource use and quality (see "Physician Scorecards" in the menu to the left)

These are fundamental applications your organization needs to be successful.  Call us to see them operating live in HBI, HPM and TRENDSTAR.