A Government Healthcare Department Cuts Down Invoice Data Extraction Time from Hours to Less than a Minute
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Astera ReportMiner
技术栈
- Microsoft SQL Server
- SSIS
- Excel
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用行业
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 采购
- 质量保证
用例
- 欺诈识别
- 库存管理
- 补货预测
服务
- 数据科学服务
关于客户
This government department works with 1,255 medical institutions to provide healthcare facilities to 9 million military veterans every year. It contracts medication wholesalers and PBMs to meet veterans' medication needs and uses Astera ReportMiner to process invoice data from PDFs for reporting and analyses. The department has the largest integrated healthcare network in the United States, contracting 1,255 medical institutions to serve 9 million military veterans every year. It has dedicated Veteran Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) that work with selected hospitals and outpatient clinics to meet veterans’ medical needs in the covered states. VISNs employ medication wholesalers and PBMs on a contractual basis to supply pharmaceutical products to the designated healthcare institutions and bill the government healthcare department.
挑战
The government department had to manually extract and aggregate data from more than 1,000 transactions every day. This prevented the team from having an in-depth view of the medication wholesaler’s purchasing patterns and performing accurate cost analysis to utilize the monthly budget better. Similarly, PBMs sent monthly invoices comprising of prescription and billing information in a spreadsheet. However, these invoices had the same compatibility issue and couldn’t be called in the SQL Server database, making it challenging to aggregate usage data for drugs.
解决方案
The VISN sought a solution that can parse the incoming invoices, whether in PDFs or spreadsheets, and convert them into a format that SSIS can read and query. In addition, the solution must be able to build a repeatable process so that the business users don’t have to extract data from the invoices every time manually. After reviewing multiple products in the market and trying Altair Monarch, the team chose Astera ReportMiner to build extraction templates for the job. Astera ReportMiner enables users to build report models and extraction templates that can automatically process countless invoices, as long as the layout remains the same. The product helps extract data based on the predefined extraction logic.
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