The Decision Support Department manages the Allscripts (EPSi) Decision Support System, also known as Sunrise EPS and provides a broad range of analytical services including direct access to audited clinical, financial, and operational data across Vanderbilt University Hospital, MCJ Children’s Hospital, The Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, and The Vanderbilt Clinic since 1998. The application actively supports performance improvement efforts, cost accounting, contracting, net revenue modeling, reimbursement analysis, underpayment tracking, revenue and billing compliance, resource utilization, benchmarking and research, to name a few.

What We Do: Allscripts (EPSi) is a fully integrated solution for financial and clinical decision support that supports a broad range of functions to include the following:

• Financial Analysis
• Cost Accounting
• Clinical Process Analysis
• Modeling and Strategic Planning
• Episodes of Care / Bundles
• Labor Reporting and Analysis
• Revenue Management Continuum of Care
• Executive and Ad-Hoc Level Reporting Functions
• Summary Information (EDW; EPSi)

For information on the EPSi Data Flow Diagram see Diagram.

For Department Contact see the VUMC Org Chart