Product Spotlight:
AcuPort Advanced
TCS has just released AcuPort Advanced (APA), version 6.0, in conjunction with the new Acuity Advanced Care 6.0 suite (ACUITY). APA 6.0 has been upgraded to support all ICD-10 and 5010 regulatory requirements.
APA 6.0 is a powerful, easy-to-use extract transformation and load tool (ETL). AcuPort Advanced is considered the best-in-class ETL tool that allows TCS clients to load data into ACUITY faster than ever. The first version of APA was released during the fall of 2008. Since then, TCS has continued to upgrade and advance the application in both breadth of functionally as well as performance through several subsequent releases.
The premiere design for AcuPort Advanced was built around ease of use and performance. Due to the abundance of data available to TCS clients it was important for the company to build an ETL tool that could transform as the data changes and perform well under large data sets. It is middleware software used for importing and exporting data to/from ACUITY to other systems such as claims, pharmacy, predictive modeling, data warehousing, and electronic medical records.
AcuPort Advanced provides the ability to:
- Create data maps between files (i.e., mapping patient demographic data from the claims system to ACUITY)
- Schedule the data transfers (i.e., nightly)
- Execute the data transfers from one system to another
APA 6.0 is significantly improved over its predecessor “AcuPort Classic” application which was released in 2008. The ETL tool has the ability to import and export hundreds of thousands of records in minutes versus days, and it allows our clients to react to the ever-changing healthcare requirements. In addition to performance, APA 6.0 also includes several other key features such as drag and drop interface, central area error logging, customizable error handling, historical tracking, preview data prior to loading and, best of all, comes with a built in scheduler for automating all imports and exports.
The Acuity Advanced Care product suite is compatible with Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2. TCS Healthcare's Acuity Advanced Care products are available for infrastructure as well as an online service. The product suite includes ACUITY, AcuPort Advanced, AcuCare, AcuStrat and AcuExchange.
