Kreg clients can easily extract more detail than this from EV-CMA, our Contract Management System. The report below can be constructed in the EV-CMA Report Writer. You build custom calculated fields to isolate and compare Cases, Charges, and Expected Payments (Net Revenue) from year to year. Not only does it present variances, it presents the information at the contract/clause level of detail. This way clients can identify variances in specific lines of business.

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2010-2011 Net Revenue Trend by Contract Clause

 Kreg can deploy its systems in the following five ways:

• On-Site Client Server Based. The physical server is located at the client site and is part of the client’s network. Multiple users access the Kreg systems on a daily basis over the local network.
• On-Site Client Server on VMWare Server. The Kreg systems are implemented in a VMWare virtual machine located at the client site and is part of the client’s network. Multiple users access the Kreg systems on a daily basis over the local network.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) – No server is located at the client site. The client operates the Kreg systems using a web-browser via a secure internet connection. The software resides on a VMWare Services virtual machine located at the Kreg data center in Atlanta, GA. Under this option Kreg provides all software and hardware.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) II. - No server is located at the client site. The client operates the Kreg systems using a web-browser via a secure internet connection to a physical server provided by the client, but housed at the Kreg data center in Atlanta, GA.
• Monthly Report Package – This option is primarily for organizations that do not have the staff to operate the Kreg systems on a daily basis, but need the information to manage their operations. Kreg sets up and imports data on a monthly basis, then provides a customized report set that meets the ongoing needs of the client.  Kreg will also spend up to two hours per month with senior management “drilling through” the data and generating reports for specific projects.

 If you are interested in discussing any of these options, please email us at info@kreg.com.

The report below shows the costs broken down by major category for DRG 470 – Major Joint Replacements.  You can see that although Dr. Jarvis and Dr. Webster have almost the same number of cases for the period, Dr. Jarvis’s patients cost the organization more than twice as much.  You can analyze the cost for each of Dr. Jarvis’ cases to determine if any one case may be causing the variance.  You can also compare charges, costs and utilization by charge item between the two doctors to determine exactly where the variances are occurring. This is the type of report that you can provide to the Medical Director so he/she can deal with Dr. Jarvis directly.

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Here are just a few of the new features:

• Totally redesigned Report Control Center that is the users’ home page to organize, view, share, or edit reports.
• Organize reports into any number of major, minor, and sub-categories using a familiar folder interface. For example, you can create major folders on topics like Clinical, Key Indicators, Payer Performance, Profitability, Trending Analysis, etc.
• New user interface based on ASP.NET 3.5. This creates better performance, especially for reports with many rows. Also you can maximize the report to fit your entire screen.
• Faster data imports, and faster calculations due to 64-bit calculations.

Brian Farber, Vice President of Development says “We shipped our first EV-PLM 2012 server to Phoenix Baptist Hospital in August, and are currently using EV-PLM 2012 with our SaaS offering. Clients are going to love this new system. 64-bit processing is the future of computing, and you can’t purchase a new Windows Server or SQL Server that isn’t 64-bit. These new features that clients have requested require the power and capabilities only available in 64-bit processing. Older 32-bit systems just aren’t up to these demands.”

In order to determine the fees associated with this new release for existing clients Kreg will perform an analysis of your existing hardware and systems software. EV-PLM 2012 is a terrific reason to upgrade your aging hardware and systems software.

Kreg will offer free webinars on EV-PLM on September 12^th and 26^th. Click here to register for a webinar, or contact your Kreg representative for more information.

Microsoft recently issued Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) as a critical update for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.  This browser is not available for Windows XP (or older desktop operating systems) or Windows 2003 server (or older server operating systems).

Kreg has identified several issues when using either Kreg EV-CMA or Kreg EV-PLM using Internet Explorer 9.  Kreg’s software development team is currently working on fixing these issues.  When the Kreg software has been updated, you will receive another email notifying you that IE9 is supported with Kreg products.

Kreg recommends that IE9 should not be installed on user’s workstations or servers until the software has been updated.

Please contact Henry Lowendick at 404-261-5734 x211 directly if you have any issues or concerns.

Since the two systems are being functionally merged to promote system interoperability, we have decided to merge the support staffs. Our support will be stronger as a result of doing this because we will have more people trained in both systems, not just one system.

As part of this reorganization Kreg is proud to announce that Preston Coates has been promoted to Director of Decision Support and will be responsible for this combined support staff. Preston holds a Bachelor of General Studies degree from the University of Connecticut. Preston has worked for Kreg for the past twelve years primarily in the EV-PLM area, so he is now taking on the additional responsibility of managing the EV-CMA staff. Over the next few months Preston will be getting acquainted with the EV-CMA clients and will help you assess how your organization is using EV-CMA, and how it can achieve an even bigger return on your investment.

During an early session to educate our department managers and VP’s on drill-to-detail  we arrived at the Hospital five minutes before the session and the room was already filling up. As we prepared for our presentation the room kept filling up to the point we were at standing room only status – usually budget managers don’t get this type of response to our meetings but the word was out in our organization on Kreg’s latest product and people were eager to see what they were to be receiving. The minute we opened a report and clicked on one expense subaccount which automatically displayed detailed GL transactions tied to the account we had many comments like “Oh my goodness” and “this is just what we need”.

As we progressed with our meeting the enthusiasm in the room could not be contained and before we finished this someone asked if they could get this information on the grant reports generated by Kreg as well – we showed them a drill-to-detail enabled grants report as our finale. One manager stated that the ability to drill down in the departmental reports while reviewing expenses saves her time and alerted her to excessive spending habits and overtime of staff. Being able to see this immediately enabled her to instantly alert staff to cut spending on certain items as well as monitor overtime of several staff. To further her point she told us that she believes this software does not cost, it pays! I honestly believe the people in the room were more excited than we were and at the end of the presentation we got applauded for this – another thing that has never happened before and we could not have done it without the Kreg system.”