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MDS - Medical Development Services is a division of STV which focuses on software and application tools which automate business and clinical practices in a hospital or private practice medical setting. The flagship enterprise application, MMIS is utilized to run a medical facility from A-Z. This would include Personnel and Resource Management, Accounting, Clinical Notes and Follow-Up, Scheduling, Marketing, and Operations.
Why was the product developed?
STV has identified the development of a product / service targeting to fulfill the Medical Center’s (irrespective of size and number of offices) requirements starting with Patient, Insurance and Center Management in this phase moving on to encompass all processes for any medical center.
Medical centers looking for shifting over from manual to automated process increasing efficiency, convenience, and all benefits associated with automating processes.
Medical Centers looking for shifting from inefficient and cumbersome software processes to better software services.
Medical Centers looking for cost cutting by subscribing to the STV’s Medical Center management Information system offering which doesn’t require Centers to invest in expensive hardware and technical people to maintain them. Centers only have to invest in inexpensive client machines to connect to the internet. Storage of data also managed by STV.
STV plans to develop services encompassing all requirements of a Medical Center right from a individual practitioner office to big hospitals.
There are many competitors in this market for Medical center management information center. But many offer only part of the solution. STV plans to cater to every need of a Medical center based on an Application service provider model delivered via a web-based application. Not many solutions from competitors are web based.
What is the product?
STV offers this Service as an Application Service Provider
model to which any Medical Center (Irrespective of size
and number of offices) can subscribe for a Fee.
- This service can be accessed via any web-enabled computer
or many handheld devices from any location around the
world at any time in the day or night.
- STV takes care of storing the centers data.
- Very user friendly interfaces.
- Users of the service can post queries and complaints.
The service helps the center in:
- Managing Patient accounts.
- Managing Patient’s medical records (diagnosis,
services availed, etc).
- Managing Patient’s Insurance transactions.
- Managing payments from Insurance firms.
- Managing Patient Billings and payments.
- Managing Processes at the Medical Center.
How was the product developed?
The above project is being developed using the following
technology:
- UML
- Dot Net Framework
- C#
- ASP.Net
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Windows 2000 Server
- Internet Information Server 5.0
Value Proposition
- MDS should bring about increase in productivity and
ease of use (user friendly interfaces) and ease of data
retrieval for Medical center employees.
- It is further envisioned to include other services that
would cover all activities in a Medical Center for e.g.
Electronic submission of Insurance claims to clearing
houses directly from the system.
- The Total Cost for this service is very attractive and
also it is less troublesome because the medical centers
do not have to hire lots of technical staff for maintenance
of the application, network, hardware on the center’s
site of location.
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