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Sage North America
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Sage Healthcare Division to Automate 16 Healthcare Facilities with Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition Software

TAMPA, Fla. – June 14, 2011 – Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America, today announced that more than a dozen healthcare facilities have chosen Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition Software to improve clinical efficiency and manage the administrative operation of their practices through their use of electronic health records (EHR), serving thousands of patients, throughout the United States.

Facilities from Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, West Virginia, Connecticut, Texas, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania selected the Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition solution because of its ability to enhance practice management and improve patient care. The Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition will help physicians improve quality of patient care and chart documentation; improve coding; reduce patient wait times; create more efficient compliance with and reporting for federal, state and regulatory agencies; as well as reduce and eliminate inaccessible results and charts for the clinic.

The Sage system offers one of the most comprehensive analytics and reporting tools in the healthcare market, and allows for integration with the Sage Practice Portal, which provides secure Web access for physicians and their patients to communicate about the patients’ healthcare.

The healthcare facilities selecting the Sage Meaningful Use Edition solution include:  

• Cardio Specialists Group, based in Olympia Fields, Illinois
• Charlotte Heart & Vascular Institute PA of Port Charlotte, Florida
• Custom Medical Services of Deerfield Beach, Florida
• Excell Care Alliance in Vineland, New Jersey
• Family Healthcare Assoc. Inc. of Pineville, West Virginia
• Florida Joint & Spine Institute in Sebring, Florida
• Generations Family Health Center, based in Willimantic, Connecticut
• Health Financial Services, LLC of Wolcott, Connecticut
• Integrated Medicine Alliance in Red Bank, New Jersey
• Midland Women’s Clinic PA of Midland, Texas
• Milwaukee Nephrologists, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Monroe Health Center in Union, West Virginia
• Ocala Heart Institute of Ocala, Florida
• Orthopedic Specialists in Palm Harbor, Florida
• Pittsburgh Oculoplastic Assoc. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
• Texas Pulmonary & Critical Care Association of Arlington, Texas

Sage has one of the largest U.S. ambulatory physician practice footprints among software solution providers in the market, providing ambulatory clinical and financial solutions to healthcare systems for 30 years, serving more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,000 physicians in the United States. Each year, Sage clinical physician partners accommodate more than 133 million patient visits in their practices.

Sage was recently named a top EHR vendor for multispecialty clinics by Black Book Ranking, an international research firm, based on the “highest scores in customer experience in the areas of Document Management, Practice Administration and Revenue Cycle Management, E-Prescribing and Accessibility.”

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About Sage Healthcare Division
Sage Healthcare Division provides integrated electronic health records, EDI applications and practice management systems to approximately 80,000 physicians and thousands of ambulatory care practices throughout North America. These systems enable physicians and practice managers to better manage their practices and improve quality of care. Sage Healthcare Division is based in Tampa, Fla., and is a division of Sage North America. For more information, please visit www.sagehealth.com <http://www.sagehealth.com/default.aspx>  or call (877) 932-6301. Follow Sage Healthcare Division on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/SageHealthcare, and Twitter, http://twitter.com/#!/sagehealthcare.

About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and related products and services, principally for small to medium-sized businesses. Sage North America employs 3,900 people and supports more than 3 million small and midsized business customers. Formed in 1981, Sage was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. Sage has more than 6 million customers and 13,600 employees worldwide. We operate in over 24 countries covering the UK, Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, India and China. For more information, please visit the website at www.sagenorthamerica.com. Follow Sage North America on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/SageNorthAmerica, and Twitter, http://twitter.com/#!/sagenamerica.

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