Working with Axiom Enterprise Decision Support
Axiom Enterprise Decision Support is primarily a web-based application that helps you easily walk through the process of configuring default system settings, managing data, setting up and processing methods, reclasses, and overhead allocations. You can also manage unit cost calculations and cost assignments as well as manage and view reports.
When you log into the system and launch the application, the Axiom Enterprise Decision Support home page displays a series of card buttons that open utilities, reports, and other functions. Cards can include multiple levels, depending on the number of tasks to complete. A breadcrumb link at the top of the page informs you of where you are in the system. You can use these links to quickly and easily move through the system.
Card are grouped into the following functional areas:
- Data Control - Dimension, statistics, costing, and data import management
- Data Enhancement & Refinement - Service line management and processing, population management, episode building, and encounter viewing
- Cost Accounting - System configuration, data management, methods and assumptions management, method processing, reclass and overhead allocation management and processing, RVU development, unit cost calculations, and cost assignment
- Reporting - Axiom Intelligence report building and standard Excel reports
- Administration - Security management, job process management, product configuration
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For more information navigating and using the Web Client, see Web Client basics.
Costing Process Guide
The Costing Process Guide is a series of grouped utilities and functions specifically for configuring and managing the cost accounting processes. The guide is accessed by clicking the Costing Process Guide card on the home page.
The guide works, as follows:
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Tasks are grouped together into similar areas and sub-areas. For example, you can find all of the tasks associated with setting up and managing methods and assumptions in the Method and Assumptions section. Next to the card, the page displays a description. Click the card to navigate to the task(s) for that area.
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The status column on the right side of the page displays tasks as Completed, In Progress, or Not Started. You can click the circle to toggle the status from one status type to another. For example, if all of the tasks for Data Management are now complete, click the circle to toggle the status from In Progress to Complete.
NOTE: All of the tasks in a specific area need to be marked as complete in order for the button above it to be marked as complete. For example, in Data Management area, all of the tasks in Data Management must be marked complete in order for the Status column for the Data Management button to be marked as complete.
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The Checklist View provides a list of tasks to complete as part of the set up and configuration process.
TIP: You can toggle back and forth between the Guide View and the Checklist View.
- If you need help configuring a specific area, click the question mark in the upper right corner of each screen. A help panel displays conceptual information or contextual instructions for the page that displays. For more detailed help, the instructions include links to fuller topics in the online help. To access the full online help for Axiom Enterprise Decision Support, click the question mark in the upper right corner of the page, and click Open Help. The online help opens in a separate browser window.
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From the Costing Process Guide, the Checklist View offers administrators an easy and convenient way to manage and track each of tasks required to set up the costing process. You can add, edit, clone, and delete processes as well as toggle to view different costing processes. The page also displays the high-level configuration parameters for the current costing process, including the active cost set as well as the method and versions being used.
NOTE: The Method section only displays those methods that have been selected in the System Configuration page to be used by your organization. The Active Cost Set version comes from the Method Definition version.
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Desktop Client
While a majority of the setup and configuration tasks can be done using the Web Client, there are times when you may need access to Axiom system-level utilities. The Desktop Client provides all of the options provided by the Web Client as well as access to multiple reports. You can also manage security, processes, and other system administration tasks.
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