UNI/CARE and ITX Enterprises are giving you a solution to the number one issue that face most agencies, that is the difficulty of reporting against the Pro-Filer™ database. The Pro-Filer™ database has been designed to do what it does very efficiently and as a production database it functions very well. It is, however rather difficult to report from. This is really no longer an issue with this announcement from UNI/CARE and ITX Enterprises.
It is never a good idea to report from any production or transaction database on any system, not just Pro-Filer™. Frankly I have often said "If you are reporting from your production database, then you are doing it wrong." Reporting from any large database should always be done from a data warehouse. Today with the complexity of all EHR databases rising to meet the demands placed on them, it has become time to seriously consider implementing a data warehouse solution within your organization.
There are a number of very strong benefits to adding a data warehouse to your Pro-Filer™ system. First, it removes the reporting load from your production server, I can tell you that after 8 years experience on Pro-Filer™; the number one cause for slow-downs, locking and blocking is reports. Secondly, your reports will run faster, they are no longer sharing resources with the Pro-Filer™ program or needing access to the same records concurrently.
I conceived of this data warehouse solution while with ITX Enterprises in order to solve the same issues for the HDS Utah Consortium that you are seeing with your Pro-Filer™ implementation today. It is a strong testament to UNI/CARE's continuing product improvement initiatives and customer service that they not only offer this solution to all UNI/CARE clients, but do so for free.
At the core of this data warehouse is a series of denormalized datamarts that I authored while at ITX Enterprises which will rapidly improve report writing efficiency and the speed of report processing from Pro-Filer™. We found that about 90% of all reports; especially QA reports can be run from the datamarts. When reports have been written and optimized to use these denormalized tables, speed increases of several orders of magnitude have been seen.
Call Jamie at UNI/CARE to get your agency on the list for installing this data warehouse as soon as possible.
Below is UNI/CARE's press release concerning this great new solution.
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December 11, 2009
Pro-Filer™ data warehouse is to be utilized across the entire UNI/CARE customer organization as a strategic resource for reporting and data analysis
Sarasota, Florida, December 11, 2009 – UNI/CARE Systems, Inc., a leading provider of technical solutions to the human services industry, and the developer of Pro-Filer™, announced today in partnership with ITX Enterprises the release of a complimentary Pro-Filer™ Data Warehouse. UNI/CARE and ITX Enterprises have been collaborating for over 7 years on the development of a Pro-Filer™ data warehouse to be used as a management information repository for real time reporting of information processed through Pro-Filer™.
The newly available Pro-Filer™ data warehouse is to be utilized across the entire UNI/CARE customer organization as a strategic resource for reporting and data analysis. Implemented on its own Microsoft SQL Server and on the same network infrastructure as Pro-Filer™, the data warehouse will be saving UNI/CARE customers years of development time that normally would be required to build a data warehouse of this level of sophistication. Pro-Filer's data warehouse can be leveraged to provide key information to the entire staff, including senior management, program directors, clinicians, service coordinators, and administrators. UNI/CARE's enterprise customers will especially benefit from having an out-of-the-box data warehouse to use as their primary reporting source.
ITX Enterprises was an early adopter and catalyst, as a service provider to UNI/CARE's customers, of the advanced Pro-Filer™ reporting capabilities. Together, UNI/CARE and ITX Enterprises have been able to develop and realize this powerful business intelligence resource. ITX Enterprises is also the developer of the Recovery Companion and Decision Support modules available in the Pro-Filer™ Electronic Health Record. "We are excited to be providing our customers with a no-cost, turn-key data warehouse as a standard feature, said Jim Catan, CIO of UNI/CARE. "Our customers will immediately be able to take advantage of the increase in efficiency for both report development and most importantly for report performance with report production 5-to-20 times faster depending on the report design."
“Information provides the basis for agile decision making and the expediency a data warehouse provides will propel our customers far ahead of their competitors.” added Dr. May Ahdab, President and CEO of UNI/CARE.
Scott Brian, President of ITX Enterprises, understood early in his work with Pro-Filer™ and the human service organizations implementing Pro-Filer™, the importance of getting information to the managers and staff in a concise and actionable format. “We have years of real-world human services practice evidence that using a data warehouse enables staff and management to make improved, forward thinking decisions in support of their clients, as well as working towards meeting organizational goals,” said Scott Brian, President of ITX Enterprises. “We know the Pro-Filer™ data warehouse will have an immediate positive impact throughout the organization because it unlocks a treasure of immediate query and analysis capabilities. Most organizations will find it a positive eye opener!”
UNI/CARE's Pro-Filer™ EHR is the only Microsoft .NET certified solution that enables human service organizations to effectively service one or more healthcare domains within a continuum of care environment. Pro-Filer™ is designed using a Service Oriented Architecture, is scalable to thousands of users and includes multiple company collaboration. In addition, Pro-Filer™ supports the host of emerging web services such as GIS, PHR’s, Imaging, Benefit Eligibility, ePrescribing, HL7, and HIPAA within one secured database.
For more information about the Pro-Filer™ data warehouse, please contact Jamie Smith, Media Contact at 941-954-3403, extension 310 or email jamies@unicaresys.com.
About UNI/CARE Systems, Inc.
Over its 27 year history, UNI/CARE has established itself as the premier partner for progressive, technology-astute Human Services organizations. From large providers’ agencies and counties, through multi-state organizations, UNI/CARE has offered a top-rated industry enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR), Pro-Filer™, and a platform strategy that is poised to take the industry to the next level in terms of interoperability, extensibility and ease-of-use.
UNI/CARE Systems, Inc.’s Corporate Office is located at 540 North Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Florida 34236. The phone number is (941) 954-3403, fax (941) 954-2033. For more information, visit www.unicaresys.com or contact UNI/CARE Systems, Inc.
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