Michigan CardioVascular Institute Selects Sage Intergy EHR to Streamline Clinical, Workflow and Reporting Ef...(arget _new EHR goes live in mid 2009 MC...),Health

• Prescribe and sign orders and charts electronically for the first time.
• Reduce telephone calls from pharmacists because clinicians, including 14 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, will quickly know whether prescriptions are covered by insurers' drug formularies before patients leave the office.
• Eliminate redundant data entry due to Sage Intergy EHR and Sage Intergy PM's integrated, single-database platform.
• Streamline access to patient information.

"Physicians will be able to securely access a patient's complete record anytime anywhere via a secure Web connection, enabling them to make better and timelier treatment decisions," Hardimon said.

Additionally, the group is purchasing Sage Practice Analytics and Sage Intergy Practice Portal, enabling the practice to mine its data and facilitate secure, electronic practice-patient communication, respectively.

"By combining Sage Intergy EHR with Sage Practice Analytics, we will gain a level of insight into our clinical and financial performance that is impossible with the system that we are replacing," Hardimon said. "Due to the difficult economic climate, the national movement to link reimbursement to quality of care and the incoming administration's plan to reform healthcare, it is imperative we measure quality indicators and outcomes as soon as possible. Sage provides the powerful tools we need to accomplish those goals."

Sage Intergy EHR and Sage Practice Analytics also will allow the practice's cardiovascular research team, which is comprised of 12 full-time employees, to work more efficiently. "Additionally, these two solutions will boost staff productivity by sharply reducing the time -- more than 20 hours a week -- our employees currently spend manually analyz
'/>"/>