Healthcare Almanac is a group of computer software products that provide easy access to publicly available healthcare information. The software provides tools to easily locate and access provider, supplier and population information. The information is specifically for marketing, public relations, business intelligence, and strategic planning. The software and data are available over the Internet and DVDs.
“The Healthcare Almanac Companys approach is simple.” stated Robert Neal, CPA & Founder. “We provide state-of-the-art software to access healthcare information from public sources. Our Almanacs allow organizations an efficient way to analyze and report basic healthcare information. Customers include hospitals, providers, healthcare consultants, researchers, and other healthcare service organizations.” In early 2005, the overall design of Healthcare Almanac was completed. This design structured the definition of the future almanacs. Information was organized into Provider Almanac, Population Almanac, Reference Almanac, and Healthcare Almanac. The Provider Almanac provides the definition of businesses in the healthcare industry. The Population Almanac provides the census and demographics of healthcare patients. The Reference Almanac provides additional information for DRGs, medical terminology and summary information. The final almanac is Healthcare Almanac. This almanac uses the information from the three almanacs to create a forecast of population, use rates, billing rates, and projected financial statements. Healthcare Almanac is designed to provide tools to show the effects of changes to service areas, changes in billing rates, and the impact of changes in medical care practices. Healthcare Almanac allows for multiple methods to forecast population, billing rates, use rates, and cost to charge rates. Healthcare Almanacs initial product is the Provider Almanac. This healthcare information source is available to Users on DVD and internet connection to bring to healthcare professionals a desktop solution. It includes three to five years of healthcare information from publicly available federal and state sources. Healthcare consultants and executives now have a new healthcare information means for strategic planning, capacity planning and analysis of Primary Service Areas & Market Share. Provider Almanac is affordably priced according to the number of Users in a Customers organization. It includes Medicare Cost Reports (all reporting facilities), Provider of Service (POS) files, Unique Physician Identification Numbers (UPIN), Ambulatory Studies, and Security and Exchange (SEC) Stock Quotes–10 Q & K files.
