CHESHIRE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--May 26, 2004--Urix announces the availability of USTART(TM) v.6, a suite of healthcare specific data warehousing tools for the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of claims data. The tool specializes in cleansing, balancing, and
normalizing of the data for reporting.
''One of healthcare`s greatest challenges is the multitude of data standards that make it difficult to compare information across carriers meaningfully,'' explains John Farrell, CEO of Urix. ''Urix` system allows one to import any type of healthcare claim feed from a variety of data sources. The system then standardizes and cleanses the data to simplify and improve the quality of the overlaying analytical applications.''
''The system is fully modular, giving flexibility in deployment and maximizing re-usability,'' says VP of Technology Avi Perez. ''The user controls the system through an intuitive web-based dashboard interface, and can monitor exactly how each module is operating, and whether it has run successfully. This increases the confidence factor in the output, and gives an enormous advantage troubleshooting data related issues.''
In addition to the normalization process that allows disparate data sources to be melded into a single unified data structure, the USTART suite has ''fuzzy logic'' algorithms for extrapolating and triangulating certain healthcare data points that are either corrupted or missing in the original data source.
The USTART package addresses numerous fields, including:
-- Provider: Cleansing provider data (both professional and institutional) and collapsing duplicate provider records across data sources
-- Member: Cleansing member data and determining member month counts
-- Claim: Cleansing of claims data and the different claim codes (ICD9, CPT4 etc) and determining metrics and data points not explicitly on the claim itself (episodes, type of service, severity scores, etc.)
About Urix, LLC
Urix is a healthcare analytics and reporting company that offers its clients insights into their own data to pro-actively manage their healthcare costs while improving the quality and effectiveness of care. Urix healthcare experts cleanse, balance and normalize clients` claims data and then make it available to the client through an easy-to-use, interactive analytics and reporting environment. Urix has solutions designed for self-insured employers, care providers, managed care organizations, re-insurers and government. Urix clients include nationally known marquee healthcare leaders and large employer groups.
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