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The ETCETERA® Platform facilitates rapid internal development of solutions designed to streamline processes, increase efficiencies and ensure regulatory compliance across the enterprise.
Facilitate: Make (Something) Easier, Help Bring (Something) About
ETCETERA® is the platform for configuring solutions tailored to your project management, operational workflow and administrative workflow requirements that replace enterprise system customizations, legacy applications, technology silos, software subscriptions, orphaned systems and paper-based processes. Behavioral Health organizations accomplish more with ETCETERA®, the flexible no-code/low-code platform that adapts to your unique requirements, compliments your enterprise applications and serves as the platform for simplifying, integrating and optimizing your business processes and data requirements
ETCETERA® Enterprise Process Management (EPM)
ETCETERA® EPM is the browser-based platform used to design, develop and implement online work processes for nearly any business process that include automated processes, comprehensive online user interfaces, data capture and validation, content capture, work routing and validation, rules-based workflows and offline to online work process synchronizations. With EPM, organizations manage the quantity, quality and velocity of applications deployed while minimizing the need for other software products and avoiding the costs of multiple systems.
ETCETERA® Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
ETCETERA® ECM is your browser-based document and file management system for nearly any department and any purpose. It provides for storing and accessing over 100 file types through a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) viewer supporting HTML5 and access on mobile devices. Documents include everything from receipts to E-size drawings, DWG files and reports from host systems. Zoom capabilities make viewing easy, even on small devices in the field. ECM is used to enable other applications and business processes with content and supporting documents.
Examples of Optimized Processes
The ETCETERA® Platform enhances operational efficiencies and project management. By integrating the ETCETERA® ECM and EPM modules and AI services, organizations can optimize processes in departments throughout the agency. The platform’s flexibility enables it to adapt to specific departmental and process needs, ensuring that data is consistently managed, easily accessible, and compliant with industry standards such as CARF, COA, JCAHO and URAC. This comprehensive approach to data management fosters integration throughout agencies, collaboration, reduces administrative burdens, minimizes risks, and ensures faster project delivery—ultimately leading to improved client services and reduced costs.
Software – Licensing (own) vs Subscriptions (rent)
Opting for a software license over a subscription offers several compelling advantages, particularly in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While software subscriptions may appear attractive due to their lower initial costs, subscriptions represent a perpetual expense. As long as the product is in use, the payments continue indefinitely. Further, they often come with escalating expenses over time. For instance, it’s common for subscription prices to increase by approximately 10% annually, potentially doubling the cost in just eight years. This escalation can outpace business margins and diminish the value derived from the software.
In contrast, purchasing a software license involves an upfront investment, which can be made more manageable through financing options. For example, ScerIS’ banking partner offers financing for ETCETERA® software at rates between 0.00% and 3.99%, resulting in monthly payments often significantly lower than subscription fees. This financing can also encompass implementation services, eliminating initial costs in favor of a consistent monthly payment over three to five years.
Once the license fee is fully paid, ongoing costs are significantly reduced, typically limited to software maintenance fees that are about 60% to 70% lower than ongoing subscription prices. This reduction becomes even more pronounced when considering the cumulative effect of subscription price increases over time.
Moreover, software licensing allows for tailored solutions that leverage a company’s unique innovations and the talents of its employees. In contrast, generic subscription models may standardize processes, potentially eroding competitive advantages.
In summary, if TCO is a critical consideration, owning software through a licensing model offers substantial long-term financial benefits and supports the development of customized solutions that can enhance your business’s competitive edge.
Licensing – Concurrent User vs Named User
ScerIS offers flexible licensing options for our software, allowing customers to choose between concurrent user and named user licenses based on their specific needs. Many of our clients prefer concurrent user licenses due to their cost-effectiveness and flexibility.
Concurrent User Licensing permits a specified number of users to access the software simultaneously, regardless of who they are. This model is particularly advantageous for organizations where multiple employees need periodic access to the software but not all at the same time. Additionally, organizations with multiple shift operations find this very beneficial. By purchasing licenses based on the maximum number of concurrent users, businesses can optimize costs, ensuring efficient utilization of resources.
Named User Licensing, on the other hand, grants exclusive access to the software for specific individuals. This approach is beneficial when certain employees require constant and unrestricted access or when utilization is extraordinarily high.
Recognizing that business requirements can evolve, ScerIS provides the flexibility for customers to switch between Named User and Concurrent User licensing as their needs change. This adaptability ensures that your licensing model remains aligned with your operational demands, offering both efficiency and scalability.
In summary, our dual licensing options empower you to select the model that best fits your organization’s usage patterns, with the added assurance that you can transition between models as your requirements evolve.
Featured Success Story
Case Study – Summary: Crittenton Services, Inc.
The Story: Crittenton services women and children in their community and residential programs. With a service area of 16 counties and over 4,400 square miles, staff members were spending endless hours organizing and maintaining client paperwork and moving charts for audit purposes from remote offices to the main office and back again requiring Chain of Custody documentation for gathering charts for review processes. In both of their community and residential programs, staff members were always feeling like they were two steps behind with paperwork requirements. A significant challenge at Crittenton was the West Virginia regulations requiring provisional counsellors to be supervised for two years prior to obtaining their license, meaning that Crittenton supervisors had to review all documentation generated by these counselors.
Documentation in their residential programs, where clients typically stayed for six to nine months, was all paper based, stored in binders, which meant that the client charts couldn’t be restricted to just those staff members requiring access.
The Solution: ScerIS helped Crittenton with a phased implementation starting with the ETCETERA® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform for managing Electronic Health Records (EHR). Existing client records were scanned into the system and digitization included ongoing daily documentation. In this environment there is an automatic assembly of documents into a digitized tabbed presentation by client, just like the organization of documents in a paper chart or binder. This made the transition from paper to digital easy for staff members to understand, facilitating adoption of the system.
In the next phase, ScerIS implemented the ETCETERA® Enterprise Process Management (EPM) platform. Crittenton has build hundreds of online E-Forms for treatment plans, clinical documentation and more. For new staff, these online documents are routed to a supervisor for review, maintaining compliance with West Virginia regulations. Completed documents are archived into client records in ECM.
In the third phase, ScerIS implemented remote online forms, which include signature capture capability for client signatures when needed. Many of the Crittenton clients are in rural West Virginia, and staff members do not have access to the online forms in EPM, therefore Crittenton uses the ScerIS offline forms that, when completed, automatically create forms in EPM for completion.
There is practically no limit to the uses for ECM and EPM in any organization. Electronic Health Records are just one area of use, but every department and nearly every process can benefit from the implementation of the ETCETERA® Platform.