SMART vs STARSFL vs EAS IV MEPRS

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SMART vsSTARS/FLvsEAS IV (MEPRS)
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STARS/FL

• The Standard Accounting and Reporting
  System/Field Level (STARS/FL) is the Official
  accounting system for the Navy (the entire Navy,
  not just Navy Medicine).
• Transactions are tracked by Job Order Number
  (JON) and date.
• Data is pulled from STARS/FL and populated into
  SMART daily.

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SMART (Background)

• The Summarized Management Analysis Resource Tool
  (SMART) is a cost tracking and analytical
  web-enabled application which is used to monitor
  the cost and expense (both financial and
  workload) of operating Navy hospitals and
  clinics. It also provides numerous analytical
  features which allow users to manipulate the data
  and create reports, charts, or other useful
  information. SMART uses data pulled from our
  official accounting system, the Standard
  Accounting and Reporting System (STARS), as well.
  
• SMART data is Read Only.
• The data contained in SMART is for the current
  fiscal year and previous 5 fiscal years.

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SMART (Background)

• The SMART Web application was developed using a
  web interface that integrates with a decision
  tool. The decision tool allows a user to view
  multi-dimensional data in a grid, in an OverView
  object, or a chart using the World Wide Web. The
  system works with a standard Java-enabled
  browser, Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
  (Netscape is no longer supported), and standard
  HTML editors - yet provides dynamic drill down
  and rotation through a drag and drop interface. A
  dimension controller lets the user rotate or nest
  dimensions, as well as select off-grid members.
  The grid, chart, dimension controller, and
  OverView are Java applets that are incorporated
  into a web page.

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Screen shot captured 06 July 2005
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Purpose of SMART

• The purpose of SMART is to provide a cost
  tracking and analytical web-enabled tool. It
  allows you to
• Monitor the cost and expense (both financial and
  workload) of operating Navy health care
  facilities.
• Manipulate the data with a variety of analytical
  tools to create reports, charts, or other useful
  information.

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EAS IV (MEPRS)

• The Expense Assignment System, version IV (EAS
  IV) is a cost accounting application that pulls
  in feeds from CHCS (clinical workload data),
  expenses (STARS/FL for the Navy), personnel hours
  and expenses (currently SPMS II for Navy, DMHRSi
  will eventually replace SPMS), and manual entry
  for workload to provide cost comparison by
  Functional Cost Code (FCC) (commonly referred to
  as a MEPRS Code).

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Data Flow (Current)

• SPMS currently produces two output files
• SMART
• Hours and Expenses for military personnel (staff
  and borrowed) (DMHRSi output file will also
  contain hours reported for contractors).
• Data is calculated and rolled up to common JONs,
  Expense Elements (EE or SUEE), and person type
  (Officer, Enlisted, or Contractor).
• EAS IV
• Hours and Expenses (if applicable) for military
  personnel (staff and borrowed), civilians,
  contractors, volunteers, and local foreign
  nationals.
• Data is calculated and rolled up to common UIC,
  DMIS ID, FCC, SUEE, SAG-PEC, BSL, Occupation Code.

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Data Flow (Current)

• The two output files are to be produced at the
  same time so that the common data included in
  both files matches.
• The SMART file is transmitted via FTP to NMIMC.
  BUMED Accounting staff then FTPs the files and
  imports the data into SMART.
• The EAS IV file is transmitted via FTP to the
  sites local EAS IV server, where it is imported
  into the current months data and processed. EAS
  IV data is transmitted in monthly increments to a
  central repository (tri-service).

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Data Flow (Current)
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DMHRSi Data Flow
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