To manage daily clinical and financial operations, healthcare organizations need to automate processes and procedures surrounding the health care revenue cycle, including access management. Operating in an open systems environment on a variety of hardware platforms, the STAR 2000™ family of solutions includes STAR Patient Accounting, STAR Financials and STAR Clinicals (STAR Radiology, STAR Pharmacy and STAR Laboratory).

Each solution is UNIX or Linux-based and follows industry standards such as HL7 to improve communication with third-party products, thereby protecting an organization's information technology investment. STAR products share a single logical database that populates reports and transactions throughout the hospital information system.

Hospitals and health systems using the STAR solution have seen significant improvements in key performance indicators, including:

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems:

• $9.6 million improvement in cash collections
• $813,000 reduction in denied claims
• $1.16 million reduction in claims on hold

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System:

• 8-day reduction in accounts receivable days
• $28 million reduction of unbilled accounts
• $6 million decrease in failed claims

The STAR solution

• Allows for proven success in any size facility from small hospitals to large care delivery organizations
• Offers graphical user interfaces (GUI) for select applications, enhancing the hospital information system look-and-feel and making the access management, patient accounting and other solutions more user-friendly
• Integrates with multiple McKesson products, providing the opportunity for additional or advanced functionality
• Provides Web access to clinical data for physicians via the HorizonWP® Physician Portal