3i People developed Sierra Corporation's Billing And Accounts Receivable Management System (BARM) to resolve these problems and allow the company to progress.Patient information and treatment history are immediately available. The software automated the "Therapists Guidelines Manual", with on-line rules and prompts, including recommended treatments and billing codes. And the Billing-Log Report provides properly formatted billing records on demand to the Billing Office, ready for key-in to the billing system.

BARM restored Sierra's ability to control its operations, to assure profits and to continue its growth pattern.

Technology

BARM is a modular application based on OPEN architecture. It requires only an ISP host. The field requirement is Thin Client. The Front End is HTML, JavaScript and JSP. The Business Logic is in Java Servlets, housed under JRUN with JSP. The JDBC object can be made compatible with either SQL Server or the Oracle Relational Database Engines. The current implementation is driven by SQL Server, and hosted under the IIS Web Server.

BARM's OPEN architecture and modular design provides the ability for other systems to be "plugged in" to the application engine. This design also allows information in the database to feed into other application packages to share billing, accounting and documentation information.

BARM is optimized to run with Internet Explorer 5 and above