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Starling Consulting is
pleased to announce the conversion of our WIC automation product to a web-based interface
using Microsoft .NET technology. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-learn user interface
with an Internet browser, with the same full system functionality of our current WIC
system. The conversion has also given us the chance to implement some new capabilities
that are enabled by the use of a browser. Starling Consulting will be ready to demonstrate
our new web-based clinic application in November 2004 and we are working towards an
initial release of the product in May 2005.
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System
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Industry Standards
Our
experienced developers have prepared a new development framework using Microsoft recommended
best practices. New system displays have been developed using ASP.NET. For displays
that require additional client-side interactivity, we have developed .NET Winforms
deployed by the browser and interacting with secure web services. By utilizing database
procedures and encapsulating all data access in a strict data layer, we can offer
support for Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase databases without any modification to the
business or user-interface layers. This architecture meets the requirements specified
by USDA for SAM architecture (http/html).
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Feature Rich
In
the web-based conversion, we are implementing the same comprehensive set of system
features that characterize our current system used in Kansas, Puerto Rico and Washington
State - in short, full compliance with all priority one FRD requirements and most
other priority levels as well. Features include an intuitive, interactive graphic
appointment book, FI issuance on demand using MICR printing, automatically plotted
CDC growth charts, auto-calculated risks, guided ad-hoc reporting, vendor peer groups,
integrated high risk vendor management, and over 200 reports delivered directly to
user workstations on demand. The system provides excellent performance of consolidated
participation and financial reports by accessing summarized data in our data warehouse. |
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A Comprehensive
Public Health Solution
The new clinic
application supports non-WIC public health and supplemental nutrition services, Commodity
Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP), for
those WIC programs that provide integrated services. A public health client may be
certified for WIC and/or CSFP and receive additional public health services as well.
The system supports transfer of public health clients along with transfer of WIC participants.
We are also building consolidated support for different
types of Food Instrument issuance and reconciliation. The system will support multiple
means for issuance and redemption within a single WIC program simultaneously (i.e.
some clinics issue checks while other clinics issue EBT, vouchers, or direct food
distribution). The system will consolidate and resolve issuance food category and
volume; and financial reporting. This capability will support the transition from
one issuance type to another over a period of time without manual intervention in
financial and participation reporting to USDA.
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