Delphi with Interbase. The Challenges were to Deliver a high value solution with industry leading features at a lower price point than the competition. Provide an easy to use, intuitive software interface for medical practices. Respond quickly to industry regulations and customer requirements with new feature releases. Reduce or eliminate complex database administration requirements. The results were ManagementPlus consistently beats the competition with better features at a better price. Customers give rave reviews to ManagementPlus for the user friendly graphical interface. Compared to other solutions, ManagementPlus enables customers to adapt much more quickly and easily to new industry regulations. ManagementPlus stores customer records securely and reliably without the complexities of an “enterprise” database.

1. Success Story
“Delphi significantly enhances our development
productivity and provides us with a real advantage
Delphi with InterBase
over our competitors. Using Delphi, we can offer our
”
customers more functionality at a lower price point.
OrganizatiOn
ManagementPlus Healthcare
– Bryan thorell, Development Manager, ManagementPlus
Information Systems
ManagementPlus™ intrODUctiOn national provider ID numbers for doctors (one
ID number for each provider that is used by
ManagementPlus offers one of the fastest
aPPlicatiOn all insurance companies). They were able to
growing medical practice management software
ManagementPlus Practice add this feature much more quickly than other
packages available today. The company’s
Management System vendors, resulting in a significant competitive
solution is widely recognized as having one
advantage in the market.
of the most user-friendly interfaces available.
tOOlS
By using superior technology, ManagementPlus
Delphi®, InterBase® aDvanceD gUi FeatUreS iMPrOve
has created an easy to use, powerful solution
cUStOMer SatiSFactiOn
that can simplify administration and increase
challengeS
profitability for specialty practices. ManagementPlus takes advantage of Delphi
• Deliver a high value solution
add-on components to provide an intuitive,
with industry leading features
DevelOPMent FlexiBility anD SPeeD user-friendly interface that receives rave reviews
at a lower price point than
BeatS the cOMPetitiOn from customers. “Our customers are healthcare
the competition
providers whose focus is on delivering
ManagementPlus takes advantage of Delphi’s
• Provide an easy to use, excellent care to their patients – and not on
advanced features to implement a flexible,
intuitive software interface becoming software gurus,” explains Thorell.
modular architecture, giving them the agility to
for medical practices “ManagementPlus’s intuitive, graphical interface
respond quickly to new customer requirements.
allows our customers to manage their business
• Respond quickly to industry As a result, the company can more effectively
more effectively, without the need for extensive
regulations and customer implement new, advanced features and improve
training.”
requirements with new feature customer satisfaction.
releases The ability to customize the Delphi environment
Leveraging the productivity features of Delphi,
has proven a real benefit for ManagementPlus.
• Reduce or eliminate complex ManagementPlus has implemented each module
A variety of add on components enables the
database administration of the company’s software as a DLL, so that
company to implement sophisticated GUI
requirements the development team can update one DLL
features very quickly and cost-effectively.
without rebuilding the entire application. “All of
ManagementPlus uses third-party, off the shelf
reSUltS
the DLLs are OLE servers, and Delphi provides
Delphi components and has also written some of
• ManagementPlus consistently a great template wizard and other capabilities
their own custom components for data access,
beats the competition with to create the OLE servers,” says Bryan Thorell,
forms processing, work flow, and reporting.
better features at a better price Development Manager at ManagementPlus.
These advanced capabilities provide a real
“As a result, we can implement new features
• Customers give rave reviews to differentiator for ManagementPlus.
and capabilities quickly. This capability for rapid
ManagementPlus for the user
Delphi’s reporting capabilities provide another
application development is by far the biggest
friendly graphical interface
important advantage for ManagementPlus.
reason why we have standardized on Delphi for
• Compared to other solutions, “We always get praise on reporting. Delphi
all of our software.”
ManagementPlus enables lets us offer lots of flexibility in aggregating
For ManagementPlus, time to market is
customers to adapt much and presenting the data. And we are looking
another key advantage to using Delphi. The
more quickly and easily to forward to updating our reporting with
company’s solution must accommodate a
new industry regulations added layout capabilities and charting using
constantly evolving list of government and
standard third-party components,” said Thorell.
• ManagementPlus stores
insurance regulations. And in response to these
ManagementPlus includes a custom report
customer records securely
regulations, the company places a priority on
generator that provides users with secure
and reliably without timely, high quality software releases. Delphi
access to any data in the system. Using Delphi
the complexities of an helps them to achieve these goals. For example,
components, ManagementPlus can easily output
“enterprise” database ManagementPlus recently had to implement
this data to various formats including HTML,
PDF, text, and XLS.

2. A Delphi with InterBase Success Story
eaSily enhance aPPlicatiOnS tO
“we especially like interBase because the database
SUPPOrt new weB ServiceS
is self-tuning without the need for maintenance.”
Delphi’s web capabilities have also allowed
ManagementPlus to support new web
– Bryan thorell, Development Manager, ManagementPlus
services introduced by the insurance
companies to system and get a response
from the insurance company indicating
whether the patient is covered and at what reliaBle anD SecUre
window, and authentication with the
level. The query uses the web services ManageMent OF Patient Data
claims processing servers is handled
features built into Delphi, which benefits our
automatically by the application. ManagementPlus ships with the InterBase
users by providing up to date information
ManagementPlus users gain the advantage database for reliable data management
from the insurance providers.”
of faster and more accurate processing of confidential patient records. In a typical
With Delphi, the developers at all within their existing ManagementPlus customer environment, office staff are
ManagementPlus have added the capability application. And ManagementPlus responsible for entering and maintaining
for online claims processing entirely benefits from reduced training and all of the patient records in the system. The
within their application. Users do not support costs, as well as improved customers do not have an on-site database
need to open a separate browser customer satisfaction. administrator to manage the system.
“We especially like InterBase because the
database is self-tuning without the need for
maintenance,” explains Thorell. “InterBase
Delphi’s advanced provides a robust, extensible data store that
GUI development is incredibly fast. The database can handle
tools provide millions of transactions without a problem.
ManagementPlus Just about the only thing our customers
a significant need to do is run the backup utility from
competitive time to time.”
advantage
in delivering aBOUt ManageMentPlUS
an intuitive,
ManagementPlus is a privately owned
compelling user
company founded in 1995 with corporate
interface for
offices in Salt Lake City, UT. The company
medical practice
offers a fully integrated Windows-based,
management.
practice management and electronic medical
records solution used by more than 2000
professionals nationwide, with installations
ranging from solo practitioners to multi-
provider networks supporting as many as
300 users. By using superior technology such
as Delphi, ManagementPlus has created
an easy to use, powerful solution that can
simplify life and increase profitability for the
company’s customers.
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