About scihg
Our Vision
Our Approach
Our Vision
SCI Healthcare Group, Inc. (SCI) is a leading provider of information technology professional services for the healthcare industry and employs consulting professionals located in offices throughout the United States.
In serving healthcare providers over the past twelve years, SCI has addressed numerous IT and business office requirement
SCI Healthcare Group, Inc. (SCI) is a leading provider of information technology professional services for the healthcare industry and employs consulting professionals located in offices throughout the United States.
In serving healthcare providers over the past twelve years, SCI has addressed numerous IT and business office requirements and continues to enjoy long-term relationships with many institutions. These relationships are built upon mutual respect and common objectives, transcending Departmental, IT Management and User levels. Working as partners with hospital Management and Staff, SCI provides a platform for meeting client requirements and objectives, and has without exception been prepared to address them.
During our 30+ year history SCI has provided the healthcare community with IT consultants for McKesson’s HealthQuest Products (Patient Management, Patient Accounting and Medical Records), Interface Engine components, and General Electric’s Centricity (ORMIS) software. While existing friendships are important, of even greater value is the working knowledge and extensive experience we have with many hospitals’ current IT environments. There are no HealthQuest areas that SCI consultants have not touched in terms of installation, modification, or support, which provides us with the ability to hit the ground running and to address any additional requirements that may arise. This ability, combined with the value of our working relationships, has enabled us to consistently meet objectives and to continue to address future needs for our clients.
Since 1994, a singular vision, "Exceeding Expectations", has helped SCI achieve its position as a leading provider of superior IT professional services. The company possesses several areas of specialty expertise, including IT consulting for most McKesson software products and interface engine/integration consulting for all major software vendors. SCI also offers a unique Consolidated Patient Statement software product for McKesson clients.
SCI was formed to provide healthcare facilities with the expert resources needed to deliver system solutions for today’s healthcare environment. The core team of SCI, individuals with extensive experience in the healthcare and professional service environments that founded the company, remains in place today.
From the beginning, our philosophy has always been to provide clients with the skills and talents of technical professionals whose expertise is second to none in the healthcare industry. This combination of experience and knowledge with personalized service enables SCI to provide our clients with the most cost effective and innovative system strategies.
We accomplish our mission by adhering to the following core values:
• Demonstrating respect for our clients and associates
• Maintaining open communication with clients at all levels
• Pursuing strategic partnerships with clients and solution providers
• Providing key leadership while exceeding our clients' expectations
• Maintaining state-of-the-art technical knowledge and expertise
• Demonstrating honesty and integrity in all interactions
Our Team
Our Approach
Our Vision
SCI is extremely proud of its employees. From the beginning, our philosophy has been to provide our clients with access to the most experienced and talented professionals in the marketplace. These resources possess the understanding and insights necessary to quickly respond to even the most complex challenges.
SCI will provide an outstan
SCI is extremely proud of its employees. From the beginning, our philosophy has been to provide our clients with access to the most experienced and talented professionals in the marketplace. These resources possess the understanding and insights necessary to quickly respond to even the most complex challenges.
SCI will provide an outstanding team of specialists for client hospitals using McKesson HealthQuest® or Series 2000™ applications. The consultants on our application team have a minimum of fifteen years of experience working with these specific applications. SCI can meet any needs in terms of application maintenance and support, and can provide management consulting to ensure that our clients fully utilize all that these McKesson applications have to offer and more.
Our Approach
Our Approach
Our Approach
The SCI team provides in-depth Healthcare Integration knowledge combined with industry best practices across the entire project lifecycle, helping clients rapidly harvest maximum value from their Integration solutions. We bring to each engagement the best and the brightest resources, each with specific experience in solving integration
The SCI team provides in-depth Healthcare Integration knowledge combined with industry best practices across the entire project lifecycle, helping clients rapidly harvest maximum value from their Integration solutions. We bring to each engagement the best and the brightest resources, each with specific experience in solving integration technology problems. Our consultants are chosen for their client dedication, creativity, and their experience in providing strategic, consulting, system integration, and management services to the industries we serve. We are a proven firm of specialists.
HealthQuest
SCI's staff consultants average over 25 years of experience with McKesson HealthQuest® software applications. These professionals have served hospitals in all the software's functional areas (e.g. Patient Accounting, Patient Management, Medical Records, and with the interface product, IIP) using their combination of experience, product knowledge, and "user" communication skills to provide innovative system strategies in a cost effective, timely fashion.
The following services are available on-site or remotely:
• Project Management
• Project Design and Task Assignment
• Software Installation
• Upgrade Installation
• Software Modifications, Design, & Implementation
• On-call support
• Profile review
• Charge-capture system analysis
• Functional & Technical Training including ADS, Queue Processing, JCL, CICS and
COBOL
HealthQuest Consulting History
In the course of providing consulting and technical services to HealthQuest clients, SCI has:
• Provided assistance with every HealthQuest version upgrade beginning with version 2.0. This experience includes Project Management, modification analysis and installs, and programming and testing in both Guarantor and Non-Guarantor environments.
• Developed and continues to support a Consolidated Statement software product designed to function in the Non-Guarantor environment.
• Acquired detailed knowledge and experience with Michigan Billing regulations and nuances.
• Developed and implemented the first Physician Line Item Billing system product, which became the template for the “base” product modification by McKesson.
• Created the automatic HMO contractual write-off process at Henry Ford Health System prior to this function being offered as a part of the base product.
• Performed multiple migrations from other hospital software applications to HealthQuest including adding new entities to existing HealthQuest systems.
• Modified and simplified financial reports for business offices that helped reduce gross days of revenue in A/R.
• Streamlined the Michigan Medicare Secondary Payor Questionnaire to help accelerate the payment process.
• Redesigned Medicare Insurance collection processes and designed the Medicare Advantage system, effectively reducing on-line “Abends” dramatically.
• Developed techniques to help prevent the creation of duplicate patients during the registration process, as well as techniques to help prevent siblings from being detected as potential duplicate patients in Patient Management.
• Developed “Fault Tolerance” to aid in reducing revenue cycle delays.
• Developed “Shadow” Patient Management files for use in the revenue cycle, resulting in virtually zero Patient Management downtime.
• Developed and implemented “search” and “formatting” utilities for HL-7 messages.
• Developed programs for copying PM, PA and MR records from production files to test files with all demographic data modified in a repeatable but non-reversible manner to protect patient privacy.
• Developed programs to track changes to Patient Management data, identifying when and by whom the data was modified.
• Created databases and reports for Patient Accounting administration and JCAHO extract routines.
• Developed an in-house program that included an Audit function to improve cycle times, data verification and clean up, and extracts and reports, effectively replacing an existing vendor’s interface software.
• Developed a process to extract data to an external organization that would re-evaluate certain accounts for insurance payments, patient payments, and provide assistance in the collection process. This partnership produced significant value to the participating hospital.
EPIC
Our consultants have over 13 years experience with Epic installations and support. They have various certifications to support what your needs may be.