Anticlue

Soarian Financials

Yesterday, I spent quite a bit of time with Dennis from Siemens Soarian Financials. We are going to the Soarian Suite of Applications, we have started with the Soarian Clinical Access which should be up and running in June, early July. However, my role has changed quite a bit in the last year, one of the changes was a switch in reporting from the clinical side of the house to the revenue cycle side of the IT house.

It was several years ago, that I got my first glimpse of Soarian Financials. The power point presentation didn't even have a prototype yet, needless to say the company has come along way.

As Dennis answered all of my questions, or astutely asked for further information into items like registration coding primary dx's according to chief complaints, or how mid-level providers billing was handled, how smart claims edits can be handled, and finally patient days and census reporting. One item that really struck me is that I'm not aware of any IT community, listserv or forums, that handles Soarian Financials, another item to follow up on later.

Soarian Financials appears to be a much smoother product than Invision, Signature, Invision Patient Accounting, and Eagle. Although the creation and engineering is continuing with features and functions, the road map is there.

I will say one item, I'm concerned over is the KLAS rating for both products was so low for the admission discharge portion. From HeathcareITnews, buyers guide on admission/discharge.

1. Quadramed Affinity Healthcare
2. GE Healthcare IDX Flowcast
3. Keane EX-Access Patcom
4. Meditech Registration, Community-Wide Scheduling, Billing/Accounts Receivable
5. McKesson Access Management Solutions
6. Eclipsys Sunrise Access Manager/Patient Financial Manger
7. Intranexus Saphhire
8. Siemens Invision Financials

And surprising not even meeting KLAS minimum confidence level

• Cerner Millennium ProFi
• Epic Resolute Inpatient
• Siemens Soarian

The other item I learned was that if you need to do reporting out of invision, signature, eagle, at any type of drill-down level, one needs to take a look at Siemens Datawarehousing. All of those Patient Census, and Patient Days reports are nicely in the system. Just an item, we choose not to purchase at an earlier time