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Optimized migration from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for SAP BusinessObjects at Tuscon Medical Center

Tucson Medical Center has been Tucsons locally governed nonprofit regional hospital for more than 65 years. TMC is Southern Arizonas leading provider for emergency care and pediatric care, with top-notch intensive care units for adults, children and newborns.

The issues encountered by the SAP BusinessObjects team


Dan Dellacona, the senior application system developer had been hired as the first BOE administrator. He explains We are using Epic as our health care software. Epic is reselling SAP BusinessObjects as part of his reporting solution. Before I joined, BO administration was a shared responsibility, but the developers couldnt keep spending the time on sharing administration. Every time we need to apply an Epic patch which include schema changes, the question was: whats the impact in SAP BusinessObjects of the Epic patch? We need to be proactive and no longer reactive. Something has to change and we have to make it more manageable. We need something clean, organized, simplified and make life easier to monitor, to upgrade our Business Objects platforms Dan Dellacona keeps explaining One of our major concern was to migrate our SAP BusinessObjects assets from ICD-9 to ICD-10. We needed simplified and reliable impact analysis process to help us with transition to ICD10 by defining ICD9 codes as selection criteria. The aim was to Identify Crystal reports and webis using those codes. More generally Dan needs were: My users are using SAP BusinessObjects to determine the health of our patients, the health of our business and the health of our processes. I need the same for my Business Objects systems. I need some transparency. I need BI for SAP BusinessObjects. I need also to clean up my system but the trick was to identify unused content, dormant users. Before I could do really too much I have to ensure that I have easy to use backup and version control so that if I delete something I can get it back easily. All of that with minimum complexity and thats why 360suite came through for us

The benefits of the 360suite solutions


GB & SMITH is a software company that streamlines and extends SAP BusinessObjects software. It develops and markets powerful and intuitive solutions. Dan Dellacona explains by choosing the 360suite, we have the suitable SAP BusinessObjects metadata extraction and analysis solution. It has help us to achieve our icd9 to icd10 conversion project around SAP BusinessObjects. Whenever we have a need we just look what the products can offer: for example we just complete a comparison projects to align our development and production system.

The 360suite range combines 4 solutions: 360view (security), 360plus (backup and promotion), 360cast (dynamic bursting) and 360eyes (audit and impact analysis). By purchasing the 360suite range, Tuscon Medical Center will gain daily time for performing routine SAP BusinessObjects administration tasks. 360suite has becoming a must have product at TMC. I want to go deeper in the products in the future and thus maximize our return on investment and spread more insights from our BO platforms to developers, key users and auditors.

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