New Features Enhance Connectivity and Patient Engagement
Sage is pleased to announce the release of Sage Intergy and integrated Sage Intergy EHR V5.5. Reach farther than ever before by connecting with payers, patients and other providers of care, while working smarter by leveraging clinical information.
Find out about the many practice management and clinical enhancements included in the Sage Intergy Suite V5.5.
Practice Management System enhancements
Feature: Global periods – Useful for surgical practices and others who provide multiple dates of service under a single global procedure code
Benefit: Prevents denials and artificial inflation of practice A/R
Feature: User definable procedure alerts – Create specific procedure code warnings available at multiple levels (carrier/plan, self-pay, etc.)
Benefit: Maximizes clean claims submission leading to better cash flow
Feature: ERA enhancements – Further automate the process of electronic payment posting
Benefit: Reduces time spent processing electronic remittances
Feature: Sage Intergy Enterprise Desktop – Provides large multi-practice organizations the ability to work statement batches, send and work tasks, and manage journals, all across multiple practices from a single desktop
Benefit: Streamlined workflow and greater efficiency
Ease-of-use, workflow and improved clinical documentation
Feature: Document Templates in Encounter Note – Use a “Wizard” tool to create templates for modifying the output of structured Medcin® findings
Benefit: Bridges the gap between powerful codified data and easily readable narrative output
Feature: Improved navigation in Encounter Note – Reduces the number of clicks needed to document a patient visit
Benefit: Streamline provider workflow and productivity
Feature: Predictive Order Management (POM) – A single screen suggests condition-specific orders based on established provider treatment patterns, including the ability to see treatment guidelines used by other providers
Benefit: Decision-support and streamlined provider workflow
Enhanced clinical connectivity
Feature: Immunization registry reporting – Allows a practice to submit to immunization registries based on charge data
Benefit: Eliminates manual labor of registry reporting
Feature: Interoperability – Sage Intergy EHR now provides the ability to generate and consume patient records using all three standards CCD/CCR/CDA
Benefit: The ability to interoperate with a broad range of EHR systems and health information exchanges
Feature: Sage Intergy Practice Portal – Enhancements, including ability for patients to download a CCD care summary, complete guided pre-visit health questionnaires and receive lab results - all online from a secure login
Benefit: Streamlined practice workflow and improved patient communication
What customers are saying about Sage Intergy V5.5
Feedback from early adopters of Sage Intergy V5.5 has been overwhelmingly positive. According to Jeff Livingston, MD, of MacArthur OB/Gyn in Irving, Texas, “The additional high-risk features in this version helps our medical assistants, labor and delivery nurses and covering physicians easily recognize the medical complications of a particular patient’s pregnancy. This allows for quick, well-informed decision making. We also appreciate the increased eprescribing interoperability. The new functionality allows me to see drugs that other providers may have prescribed, absolutely helping me to analyze interactions and prevent errors.”
Dr. Livingston also stressed the importance of ease of use and support. “The workflow enhancements have dramatically improved my efficiency,” he stated. “Sage Intergy EHR is designed around physicians’ usual method of documenting on paper, so the transition is natural. The customer support and integration teams from Sage are excellent and light years ahead of the competition. Most physicians undervalue the need for good support. But in my opinion the support provided should be the number one concern when choosing an electronic health record.”
Carol Eleder Ellis, Practice Administrator at Alliance Pediatrics, PA in Gainesville, Florida, praised Sage Intergy EHR pediatric enhancements.
“Our six providers – 4 physicians and 2 nurse practitioners – see between 100 and 120 patients daily. From a pediatric standpoint, the information that Sage Intergy EHR requires the provider to enter will allow us to improve accuracy and better track – and improve – immunization compliance. From a general standpoint, we’re excited about the Encounter Note enhancement. The new output that we developed using the wizard is clean, professional and personalized with our logo.”
Ready to get started?
There are a couple hundred enhancements in the Sage Intergy V5.5 release, but we ask you not to just focus on the new features. Our goal is to provide your practice with a total solution that helps you improve workflow, optimize the revenue cycle and leverage your clinical data in ways that will make a difference to your bottom line.
Contact us today, so we can help you with a practice “discovery,” so you can begin leveraging the tools that will address the business needs most important to your practice.
