What is the Anodyne Intelligence Platform?
Anodyne's proprietary Business Intelligence (BI) platform provides unprecedented visibility into all areas of the revenue cycle. We have taken all the characteristics that business users need, and that the status quo has failed to deliver, and packaged them into an industry-leading suite of data analysis and visualization tools for healthcare business professionals. The Anodyne Intelligence Platform™ includes not only the Web-enabled software that we provide our users, but also the entire process by which we extract, transform, and load our clients' revenue-cycle data and make it available via the Internet using a Software-as-a-Service business model. On top of our technology, the Anodyne Intelligence Platform also includes our people. Everyone at Anodyne, from our leadership team to our client account executives to our information technology professionals, is a veteran of the healthcare industry and understands the nuances that make the healthcare domain so complex. The combination of our people, process, and technology is what enables us to deliver a truly transformative experience to our clients.
The Status Quo Produces an Inefficient Analytical Cycle
The analytical cycle for what Bill Gates would call “knowledge workers” is the same for most large provider groups across the country. When the knowledge worker needs information, they make a request to either an IT person or a “power user”. The technical intermediary then queries the transaction system or data warehouse or uses the BI tools in place. Depending on the importance of the requesting individual, or perhaps of the request itself, the information is delivered back in a few hours, a few days, a few weeks or a few months. The knowledge worker then takes the data, moves it into Excel, manipulates and formats it in an attempt to create insight, professionally visualized information, or both. If any part of the data request wasn’t translated properly, then the whole process starts over. If the knowledge worker wants to slightly modify the request, such as including or excluding a specific payer, provider or CPT Code, then the whole process starts over. If the knowledge worker believes the data delivered lacks believability and can’t possibly be correct, then the whole process starts over. This cycle has been so prevalent for so long on the business side of healthcare, that most organizations and knowledge workers alike don’t even appreciate how antiquated this approach is.
Creating a True Paradigm Shift in how Knowledge Workers Access Business Data
Traditional BI tools do not meet the needs of healthcare business professionals. Anodyne's solutions are designed to address all of the "pain points" where these legacy tools fail to deliver. In particular, Anodyne's BI solutions are:
- Interactive – Interact directly with your own data, with no need for IT or “power user” intermediaries
Accessible – Internet-based solutions are available anywhere that a broadband connection exists
Secure – Role-based security restricts users to just the data they need; fully HIPAA-compliant
Fast – Queries are lightning fast; Excel extracts are lightning fast; time-to-insight is lightning fast
Easy to Use – Point-and-click user interface that you don’t have to be a “techie” to master
Precise – It is very easy to focus in on your desired data, all the way down to the line-item level
Integrated – Share your findings in Excel with full export capability and instant pivot-table generation
Relevant – Tailored to produce actionable information across the entire revenue-cycle continuum
A Business Model that Puts the Risk on Anodyne
Legacy BI tools were developed in an era when million-dollar software licenses were the norm along with expensive maintenance and support agreements. In an Internet-enabled world, those business models are outdated. Anodyne follows a Software-as-a-Service business model that completely changes the way you will think about buying software. Anodyne charges a monthly subscription fee and asks for no long-term commitment, whether contractually or in spirit. There are no hidden costs, such as additional servers, enterprise software licenses, or extra IT personnel. Our solution is fully hosted, which means that Anodyne manages the data transformations, secure hosting, disaster recovery, user training, and support. Bottom line, we provide all of the resources necessary to deliver your organization a world-class BI solution that is unparalleled in both content and usability.
Solutions that are Easy to Buy and Easy to Own
Most Business Intelligence packages are complicated. They are expensive to buy, forcing you to make a massive capital investment in software licenses and massive server farms. They confuse users with their non-intuitive interfaces, require extensive training for users to understand, and don't come with any healthcare domain expertise built in. Organizations spend millions of dollars years on these legacy BI packages, only to find themselves no better off than they were before. Everything about Anodyne's BI solutions is specifically designed to address and overcome these problems with legacy BI packages. We don't ask you to make a massive investment just to get started. Our Software-as-a-Service business model means that an Anodyne subscription is a monthly operating expense item with modest implementation fees and a clear-cut ROI. We don't try to lock you in with long-term contracts and huge annual maintenance and support costs. Our solutions are easy to own, with no long-term commitment or hidden costs of ownership. We don't expect your users to suddenly become SQL experts or learn complicated interfaces that were designed for programmers instead of business professionals. Our solutions are easy to use, giving you fast, precise, and relevant access to all your data, across your entire enterprise, with rich graphical visualizations that cause actionable insights to literally "pop off the screen" when you see them.
Anodyne Health Business Intelligence Case Study