RSMUS.comSage Intacct gives users more than just a powerful toolkit for accounting and finance. In practice, Sage Intacct serves as a platform to integrate and organize data from multiple sources plus an engine for analyzing that data to understand its financial implications.
The healthcare industry is a prime example. Sage Intacct can handle patient data as well as billing information, which providers can then analyze jointly to understand the true costs, revenues, and profits of providing care. The robust features native to Sage Intacct give healthcare decision-makers tremendous degrees of visibility, control, and insight over all the data within the system, including EMRs.
There’s just one hurdle: getting EMRs into Sage Intacct in the first place.
How do you get EMRs into Sage Intacct?
EMRs comes in so many different formats, each with characteristics unique to the major vendors (Athena Health, MultiCare, PointClickCare, Nextgen, and others) that loading all records into Sage Intacct typically requires manual entry, requiring time- and labor-intensive effort from staff members that makes typos inevitable. Many providers end up with bad EMR data, limited data, or no data at all in Sage Intacct. As a result, they miss the opportunity to run some of the most important data they have (medical records) through one of the most powerful tools in their tech stack (Sage Intacct).
Not anymore. Getting EMR data into Sage Intacct recently became much easier. Healthcare management will never be the same.
Introducing EMRConnect
EMRConnect is a tool that automatically imports clinical data from electronic medical records into the relevant part of Sage Intacct.
It works agnostic to any EMR system by way of a flat file exchange. If data can be extracted from an electronic medical or patient record, that data can now travel seamlessly into Sage Intacct. Users have granular control over what data gets extracted and where it goes, yet they save huge amounts of time and stress by moving data with automation instead of manual processes.
Any healthcare organization that utilizes Sage Intacct (or plans to) now has an efficient pipeline to pull EMR data into the system. That’s a big upgrade over what came before. However, much more exciting than how EMR data gets into Sage Intacct is what it can do once inside the system.
Learning More With Sage Intacct
The more data that’s stored inside Sage Intacct the more that decision-makers can accomplish in terms of planning strategy, predicting outcomes, prescribing improvements, and preventing disruptions.
Combining clinical, financial, operational, and other data in one place gives healthcare organizations unprecedented visibility across silos and the ability to analyze and understand performance with depth and detail that wasn’t available before. Knowledge is power. And with Sage Intacct and EMRConnect, healthcare leaders have more knowledge than ever.
They also move their organizations a big step forward on their digital transformation journey. These organizations are urgently trying to digitize data, integrate sources, automate workflows, and optimize outcomes to stay competitive. Being able to automatically import EMR data into the accounting system advances all those objectives and, in the process, turns clinical data into a dynamic resource available for any purpose.
RSM: Supporting the Leaders in Healthcare
EMRs remain an untapped asset in healthcare. To many, they’re as much a burden as a benefit as organizations struggle to get the electronic data they have to where they actually need it to be without compromising efficiency, security, or compliance.
Sage Intacct has become the financial management platform of choice for financially-fit and strategically-savvy healthcare organizations. The innovation of EMRConnect only makes Sage Intacct a better choice for this industry.
With experience spanning Sage Intacct, healthcare tech, and accounting, there are few consulting partners with more to offer than RSM. Rely on our team to implement Sage Intacct, install EMRConnect, or highlight how to use both for maximum success. Contact our team to find the approach that fits your agenda.
Authors: Omar Panjwani, Jennifer Bailey
