Comprehensive Hospital Financial Capabilities for all your Revenue Cycle Management and Business Office Needs

The Paragon® hospital information system (HIS) offers a comprehensive healthcare revenue cycle management solution for hospital financials, including patient management, supply chain management, patient access, health information management, billing and collection systems. Paragon is designed to increase hospital revenue by improving the quality and efficiency of information management within the revenue cycle. In addition, the system reduces the cost of billing and collection through automated processes. Paragon Financials is a 2011 KLAS category leader in the Patient Accounting and Patient Management (Community) market segment.*

Paragon hospital financial capabilities include:

Business Office & Administration

• Patient Management: Offers a complete patient accounting application, including billing and collection, acclaimed by customers as one of the best available
• General Ledger: Provides inquiry, audit trails and automated entries to help organizations analyze current performance and project future trends
• Accounts Payable: Provides management of multiple discount rates, minimum dollar order limits and payment cycles
• Materials Management: Improves control over inventory management with tracking and extensive reporting
• Payroll: Enables users to provide and manage employee compensation, including data for tax reporting, budgeting and analysis
• Patient Supply Charging: Stops revenue loss from undocumented patient supplies and improves inventory management
• Fixed Assets: Manages the organization's physical plant and equipment, as well as forecasts future depreciation assets
• WebStation for Executives: Provides a personalized gateway and decision support tool to a broad array of enterprisewide information
• Automated Daily System Close: Enables unattended backup and night-time operation

Patient Access

• Referrals and Authorizations: Allows users to enter and track data regarding referrals for services and authorizations
• Resource Scheduling: Allows users to better manage and control resources through coordinated scheduling of patients for clinics, procedures or exams
• Registration: Provides access to patient admission, registration and discharge information across episodes of care

Health Information Management

• Medical Records: Offers an intuitive, cost-effective process for maintaining and updating medical records
• Medical Records Transcription: Automates the transcription process and decreases completion time
• Utilization Review: Automates proactive inpatient case management from admission through discharge to reduce loss from unpaid patient days
• Release of Information: Tracks the release of patient health information data by the Health Information Management department

To learn more, contact McKesson or request a demo online.

*Source: 2011 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Professional Services report. © 2011 KLAS Enterprises, LLC. www.KLASresearch.com. All rights reserved. KLAS Enterprises, Inc. is a healthcare industry group that compiles customer feedback to determine the industry’s best systems and vendors.