Increased government regulations. E-business challenges. Rising patient expectations. Are you prepared to meet these difficulties while delivering high-quality healthcare services that contain - and even lower - costs? In today's competitive healthcare marketplace, you need to be. And Blue Monitor can help. We offer solutions to help you meet the many challenges facing your company today.

Implementation

We put the full power of our Framework to work for your managed care organization.

Facets are about to put your MCO on the fast track to a more flexible, secure, and adaptable IT environment. But who is going to get you started and keep you going at top speed and maximum efficiency? Blue Monitor, that's who.

As your partner, we offer broad-based solutions in the following areas:

• Data Conversion from Legacy system to Facets
• Analysis, Design, Development and implementation of
  • Inbound and Outbound Interfaces
• Custom Reports and
• Facets Extensions
• Database Administration
• Data Warehouse Consolidation
• Version Upgrades
• Maintenance and Support

Blue Monitor Technology Solutions offers the IT expertise - and the healthcare industry experience - to put the full power of Facets to work for your organization

Our proprietary framework is adaptable to your every business need, and function.

Application Management

With the emergence of e business, global enterprises have little time to waste when it comes to systems development and maintenance. With the IT skills shortage not likely to disappear anytime soon, global enterprises must carefully consider where to deploy their increasingly precious resources.

Healthcare organizations are being pushed like never before to innovate new technologies at "Internet speeds," which call for projects to be delivered in days or weeks, not months or years. Yet, no organization can afford to sacrifice routine application maintenance and application enhancement in order to accelerate the rollout of new systems.

The Blue Monitor Application Management Solution (BMS) helps global organizations turn challenge into benefit. We address all the key issues, balancing cost, complexity, and capacity for all areas of the application lifecycle, from development or enhancements to everyday maintenance or support.

E-Business

As competitive pressure continues to build within the healthcare industry, Blue Monitor can help you realize the potential for administrative and medical cost savings, increased patient satisfaction and more streamlined business processes through a well-thought-out e-Health initiative.

Blue Monitor understands how the Internet is affecting every aspect of the Healthcare Industry. We can help you meet your stake holder's web-based expectations by delivering in-depth, hands-on experience in the core IT areas you need to compete. Our technical proficiency in e-business can help your company develop new market opportunities.

Data Where housing

Today's healthcare industry is faced with the enormous task of reducing costs while maintaining and improving the level of care and accessibility to health care services. Governmental regulations, such as HIPAA in the US are on the increase, margins are getting slimmer, and competition is growing.

Under these circumstances, using clinical, financial and operational information in an integrated decision support database to provide immediate easy access to healthcare practitioners and company managers is becoming increasingly important. The question is how do you turn disparate islands of company data into competitive advantage? The answer is Blue Monitor.

HIPAA

Patient information privacy protection. Stringent standards. Strict deadlines. Opportunities. The HIPAA countdown has begun. Are you ready for it?

Blue Monitor provides end-to-end services to enable healthcare organizations to meet the requirements of HIPAA. Based on our proven methodology, HIPAA program management experience, tool suites, and our long track record of application management and development engagements in the healthcare field, Blue Monitor is uniquely qualified to enable your organization to meet the challenges of HIPAA.

We have developed a multi-step, phased implementation approach to enable healthcare organizations to transition their systems and electronic commerce processes to meet HIPAA's requirements.

Our methodology is based on the following elements:

• HIPAA Education and Awareness
• Assessment & Gap analysis
• Remediation planning and implementation

HIPAA Education and Awareness

More than just a technology migration, HIPAA will impact the way the organization conducts business. To successfully comply with HIPAA requirements, your organization must gain a good understanding of the intent of HIPAA regulations and how they will impact your business processes. Therefore, the first step in HIPAA compliance process is to focus on internal awareness at all levels of the organization, from staff to top management.

Blue Monitor provides web-based HIPAA training for Management team and operation teams in the areas encompassing transactions, privacy and security. The training material is organized in two stages:

• Stage 1: HIPAA overview and its impact on stakeholders
• Stage 2: Aimed at the operations team, this phase covers HIPAA operational impacts, covering transactions, privacy, and security compliance. We focus on the regulations, requirements, exception scenarios, and their impact on compliance issues.

Assessment & Gap analysis
Pre-assessment and Planning : The objective is to quickly assess the current state of readiness of

Covered entity. As part of pre-assessment, we address the following:

• Technology Inventory: This encompasses IT systems, applications, policies, procedures and contracts
• Organizational Preparedness: This assesses your organization's HIPAA management structure, task team, and steering committee
• Detailed Assessment Plan

Detailed gap analysis and assessment : As part of detailed gap analysis, we carry out the following:

• Detailed data element level gap analysis of proprietary transaction formats
• Development of Impact matrix
• HIPAA compliance strategy for in-house applications
• Analysis of vendor's HIPAA compliance strategy
• Study of different options
• PHI information flow
• Mapping of privacy regulations to policies and procedures
• Findings and Recommendations
• Preparation of Remediation road map

Remediation Planning and implementation

Planning : The detailed implementation plan is prepared, taking into account:

• Applications to be re-mediated
• Trading partner readiness
• Internal resources availability and subject matter expertise
• Time frame for HIPAA compliant version of vendor applications
• Testing strategy
• Extent of gaps in the existing policies, procedures and contracts from privacy perspective
• Resource and effort estimation
• Preparation of detailed implementation plan

Implementation : In this phase, we remediate applications, generate EDI files, and prepare test plan. Then we conduct extensive compliance testing of EDI transactions using Blue Monitor tools in trading partner scenarios. Once the systems/applications are put into production we provide post implementation support.

Blue Monitor phased HIPAA compliance methodology assists the healthcare organization in all stages of its HIPAA initiative.