Complete Integration of the strategic, operational, and financial planning processes.

Scenario Builder is the link between the utilization forecasts of DemandScope and the financial performance of your facility.  Scenario Builder provides market share sensitivity analyses for any level of service at your facility (product line, sub-product line, or individual codes).  Your facility's adjusted forecasts are then seamlessly integrated into our powerful Excel model located on your computer where you can enter your financial data to complete the analyses.

Multiple scenarios and true sensitivity analyses can be completed quickly and easily by even the least skilled user.  With code level detail, the system will instantly create accurate estimates of the financial impact of any competitive scenario change using the industry's most sophisticated models of healthcare services utilization and your hospital's own cost structure.

The foundation for the strategic planning function is the seamless combination of the historical data resources, forecasted market utilization, and your facility's own cost structure.

Scenario Builder's Exclusive Features

• The creative combination of the historically derived market share with the forecasts of community wide utilization at the detailed code level.

• The ability to modify your market position and the positions of your key competitors and tie those changes to hospital level utilization.

• The direct link between market share changes and financial forecasts of revenue, expense, and operating nets at the detailed code level

• The inputs to the financial models are no longer limited to trend line projections of your facility's historical data, but they are derived from the industry's leading independent utilization forecasts for 1, 3, and 5 years.

Scenario Builder sets a new standard for strategic and financial planning models by combining the best in class independent utilization forecasts with the most forward looking financial models.

How it works:

1. Adjust your facility's market share for any competitive scenario.

2. Adjust the market share of your closest competitors based on your knowledge of their plans.

3. Seamlessly update the utilization changes in your desktop Excel model provided by Health Forecasts.

4. Enter your financial data into the desktop Excel model - your facility's financial data never leaves your computer

5. Evaluate the market scenario with reports that detail the market share in your community, market share trends in your community, the financial performance of your facility, and the financial summary for your entire community.

Scenario Builder empowers every user, allowing you to run multiple scenarios in seconds to evaluate the impact of strategic initiatives on utilization volumes, market share, and financial performance.

MDScope

MDScope provides real-time tracking of overall physician activity in any local market in the nation. It lets clients profile individual physicians and view the highly accurate estimates of their activities over the last year and last quarter.

Our point-of-service capability model is based on exclusive access to the largest ongoing physician claims data stream - including all payers - for nearly 60% of all physicians in private practice in the U.S. This daily stream is compiled of over 2 million claims from more than 275,000 physicians in active practice in all specialties, across the nation. Monthly and quarterly updates enhance utilization and supply metrics in local MSAs.

MDScope employs this unprecedented data resource as the foundation of its accurate models of the actual service capacity of each individual physician in a local market today. When combined with the accurate local market utilization forecasts produced by Demand Scope, clients receive the most accurate predictions of the market potential for individual physicians.

With Health Forecasts' flexible data visualization platform, this unique information can be analyzed and presented in reports, graphs, or maps in virtually unlimited ways.

MDScope provides accurate local physician practice patterns to sharpen planning in:

• Physician staffing and recruiting

• Managed care organizations

• Medical group strategies

• Pharmaceutical and device company marketing and sales

• Hospital and health system service lines and investments

With an unparalleled focus on local market conditions, MDScope provides the clearest picture of how trends in the health care sector will impact your particular market. Contact us today and see just how valuable our answers can be.