Remote Access Means Improvements for Providers and Patients

Welcome to your next issue of the Sage Software eBrief. In this issue, we'll examine how remote access to your office can improve your quality of life and your patient's care.

Making the Transition to Online Access
Imagine if you could access your patient records online from home or another remote location. At Upper Michigan Cardiovascular Associates (UMCA) and many other practices, this is exactly what physicians are doing, and it is making a world of difference in their quality of life and the care of their patients. Thanks to Intergy EHR by Sage, providers like Thomas LeGalley, M.D., F.A.C.C., can review patient charts from home while on call or access histories from the hospital while on rounds.

According to Dr. LeGalley, "The transition to electronic medical records was remarkably easy and it provides quick record accessibility so that we no longer need to have bits and pieces of records faxed from our office, and we no longer need to carry copies of charts to the hospital or outreach clinics. When a referring physician calls for a consultation or question on a patient, that patient's record can be called up quickly on the computer while we are on the phone. This saves both our time and the referring physician's time."

Physicians within the practice are also more productive, largely because they have access to information even when they are at the hospital. With 80% of the encounters taking place at one of 15 hospitals, UMCA used to send out approximately 300,000 copies of documentation for various purposes to the hospitals and referring physicians. Now, the practice has collaborated with the hospital IT departments to create secure, online connectivity to the practice's EHR so providers can access records online. Not only is this saving thousands of dollars a year in copying supplies, it has also resulted in faster discharge time for patients due to the availability of clinical information. Often they are released in a matter of minutes instead of a half hour or more.

For the physicians this connectivity is very different from their prior experience. "They are much more efficient because they are actually connected to the office now," explains Shawn Wagner, Chief Operating Officer of UMCA. "Before, they would come in maybe once a week if that and if they had time off it could be weeks without seeing them. Now they are connected to us all the time."

Sage Software Can Help
The fully integrated practice and clinical management solutions from Sage Software offer a range of connectivity solutions from remote access at home to intuitive handheld devices you can carry in your pocket. Your Sales Representative can work with you to choose the right options for your practice.

Ready to Get Started?
Your Sales Representative can provide a comprehensive on-site demonstration of the Intergy suite of products, including Intergy EHR, or you can view an online demonstration of Intergy EHR right now!

To learn more about how Intergy can support and transform the way you work please call 877.932.6301, Option 1 or complete our Request Info form.

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