VCASE (Visual Connections’ Analytic Service Environment) is an advanced analytic environment is powered with the SAS suite of analysis tools, including SAS statistical and data visualization software, data management, and predictive tools.

• Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) is provided as a cloud resident service available in a 24/7 environment hosted by a FedRAMP certified cloud service provider.

• The platform and environment are secured by multiple layers of security to provide confidentiality, availability, and integrity of the data in transit and at rest in this environment.

• This highly-advanced environment is used to generate analytics, models, dashboards, and other statistical reports available via a web-based interface.

• The service also provides electronic reports, or hard copies, as required by our clients.

In collaboration with our clients, we design, develop, and validate data optimization and program integrity pilots designed to demonstrate some aspect of pattern recognition, computational learning theory, machine learning, and other approaches. We employ learning algorithms to make data-driven predictions and decisions. In conjunction with these approaches, we also employ traditional predictive analytics that rely on parametric and non-parametric statistical analyses.  Additionally, we provide visual analytic studies via this environment, leveraging SAS.

Visual Connections offers a full array of Information Technology professional services and solutions, including:

Health Information Technology Consulting

Visual Connections has built its reputation as a Health IT consulting firm. We have substantial past performance on nearly two dozen contracts at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)–including many of which are prime–and have also had contracts with the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Health, and the Veterans Health Administration, among others.

VC supports the Department of Health and Human Services and (remove “the”) CMS where we have led development efforts involving system modernization and case processing. VC has introduced innovations for case management and business processes that have helped drive improved communications and increased efficiencies for HHS and CMS’s overall responsiveness to its constituents.

Visual Connections has worked on large complex projects and multiple task orders under Federal legislation relevant to the Health IT space, including the following:

• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

• Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) Title I and II

• Admin. Simplification Compliance Act (ASCA), Coordination of Benefits Agreement (COB)

• Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers (SMART) Act, Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) program and Title II of the Medicare IVIG Access Act [H.R. 1845]

• Sections 1152-1154 of the Social Security Act

• Medicare Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Visual Connections engages with our clients to provide subject matter expertise to provide analytic methods, statistic modeling, and data visualization. We provide direction on how to examine data and formulate an approach to problem solving based on business objectives. We develop performance metrics and make needed adjustments so that statistics are meaningful. Performance metrics may include measures related to claims processing, appeals/redeterminations, medical review, audit/reimbursement, provider enrollment, provider customer service, and beneficiary inquiries. We develop quantitative measures that permit evaluation and operational efficiency ranking within the organization. We provide:

• Requirements gathering and documentation

• ETL design, code, and testing

• Development of dashboards, visuals, and reports

• Creation of report cards, scorecards, etc.

• Learning algorithms to make data-driven predictions and decisions

• Statistical and predictive modeling

• Big Data mining