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NGS Announces New Reporting & Analytics Solution for Healthcare

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-(Business Wire)-February 13, 2008 - New Generation Software, Inc. (NGS) announces Decision Assist - Healthcare, featuring ready-to-run patient, revenue, and clinical care reports and analysis for hospitals, clinics, and healthcare ISV's.

The solution enhances DB2 data presentation via Adobe Flash and Microsoft Office. It includes an IBM System i data mart, Web portal, performance dashboards, multidimensional models, Excel spreadsheets, and reports. A Web demonstration of Decision Assist - Healthcare is scheduled for March 13, 2008.

Training is available for integrating this solution with System i-based hospital information systems applications. NGS also offers a fully-integrated version to Siemens Medical Solutions MedSeries4 users.

Decision Assist - Healthcare dashboards include:

— Admissions by Week Day, Patient Type

— Patient Visits by Physician, Visits

— Revenue/Charges by Patient Type

— Charges/Payments by Financial Class by: Patient Type, Expected Revenue, Reimbursements, Patient and Insurance Payments

— Minimum, Maximum, Average Length of Stay by Admitting Day, Physician, DRG, Patient Age

— Average Inpatient Stay Lengths by 30-Day Period, Date, Week

Reports that output to Excel spreadsheets, NGS-IQ's OLAP module, PDF, HTML, etc. include Monthly Revenue by Financial Class, Insurance Carrier, Patient Type, and Charge Number; Outpatient Revenue and Visits; Charge Details by Patient; Patient Charges Exceeding Entered Amount; Top Charges by Service; Length of Stay; Patient Insurance Payments; Length of Stay by Insurance Carrier; Mortality Rate; and DRG by Group and Patient Days.

"Hospitals are under tremendous pressure to meet their financial and patient care quality goals. Decision Assist - Healthcare gives them unprecedented insight into their performance so they can quickly and cost-effectively achieve these goals," explains Bernard Gough, NGS' CEO and President.

Healthcare providers with HIPAA, PCI, or other compliance concerns can license NGS' IQ SeQure security management system to control users' data access at the field and record level and to block specific users from functions such as FTP, e-mail, and downloading data to Windows. Third-party data encryption software may be integrated so customers can encrypt and decrypt data as needed.

Since 1982, NGS has developed field-proven business intelligence and financial management software for IBM midrange users. NGS-IQ(TM) Business Intelligence and Concert Series(TM) Financial Management System are recognized as IBM ServerProven(R) Solutions. NGS is an Advanced Member of IBM PartnerWorld and a member of the System i Initiative for Innovation.

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