Recent News: Mercy Medical Center Extends PatientKeeper Platform for Health Information Exchange

Physicians Will Have Anytime, Anywhere Access to a Longitudinal View of Combined Inpatient and Outpatient Information from Sage Intergy EHR and Hospital System

BOSTON, MA, August 18, 2009 -- PatientKeeper®, Inc., the leading developer of physician information systems, and Sage, a leading provider of physician solutions including practice management and electronic health records, jointly announced that Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids will be expanding its PatientKeeper platform. With the new capability for health information exchange (HIE) between Mercy Medical Center’s PatientKeeper Physician Information System and Sage Intergy EHR ambulatory electronic health records system, physicians will have access to integrated inpatient and outpatient records, across care settings, to optimize patient care and improve operational efficiency.

Mercy Medical Center CEO, Tim Charles, said, “We are thrilled to be on the forefront of meeting the evolving government and quality standards. Our physicians will be using our existing, well adopted PatientKeeper Portal™ to provide the best care possible for the patients in our community, and I am particularly excited to implement a cost effective health information exchange solution. Leveraging existing technology and improving physicians’ access to key patient information helps us contribute to keeping overall healthcare costs down.”

Mercy will implement PatientKeeper’s Physician Practice Connector™, giving providers access to inpatient information, and outpatient information – through Sage Intergy EHR – anywhere, anytime, through one system. Providers will use the HIE functionality to access an aggregated longitudinal view of current and historical patient information.

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