Sage Software & IDMsys launch Hospital & Lab ERP

Sage Software expands its product portfolio with a vertical solution for the health care industry

New Delhi, July 31, 2007 Sage Software India announced the launch of Hospital ERP and Laboratory ERP products for Indian market. The solution has been developed by ID Business Solutions a sister concern of Infinite Dimensions Inc., USA a development partner of Sage Accpac International. .

IDMsys is a modular, work-flow based software product that automates enterprise-wide patient management that helps to eliminate manual error-prone interventions. IDMsys makes it easy for a care provider to view a patient's progress at any point in the care process - from patient appointment scheduling to patient admission and discharge. You can register patients and record vital signs, assign physician and schedule the out-patient services.

IP management module allows you to admit patients, and with a click on a graphical interface you can assign beds and manage bed-maintenance activities such as transfer of patients between beds, and control the status of beds for house-keeping or disinfections. The comprehensive billing & insurance claim management modules capture changes in real time resulting in increased hospital efficiency and reduction of revenue losses.

IDMsys HIS suite of end-to-end solutions also include Sage Accpac ERP 500 series financials comprising of GL, AR, AP, Asset Management with multi-level integration between various functionalities in a enterprise-wide hospital environment from patient appointment, registration, EMR, OP & IP management to the pharmacy, inventory, Insurance, Billing that ends with final balance sheet with drill-down facility for easy reconciliation. The segment-based accounting also offers possibilities to generate P&L and Trial Balance for each department and for every doctor / consultant / equipment / laboratory or specialty clinic.

Further, various business intelligence (BI) tools like CFO (Comprehensive Financial Optimizer), KPI (Key Performance Indicator), Microsoft Excel-based FR (Financial Reporter), Cash-flow macro, budget macro, facility for multi-year budgeting and financial analysis are also available.

The Hospital ERP & Laboratory ERP products will be offered in India through the partner network of Sage Software and the team at IDMsys will take up the project execution responsibility.

Mr. Thomas Abraham, Managing Director of Sage Software India stated: "We are excited about launching of IDMsys in India. The Indian healthcare sector is expected to touch a figure of 45.76 billion dollars in the next 5 years. As Indian hospitals woo the global traveler and focus on improved customer service, they will have to invest more in IT solutions to make their operations cost-efficient. IDMsys gives us an opportunity to offer a tailor made hospital ERP and tap this booming market. Sage is committed to introduce vertical solutions which can meet specific needs of our customers and introduction of IDMsys is a step in that direction"

Mr. Abdul Zahir, President & CEO of ID Business Solutions said "Our healthcare ERP products would add a new dimension in terms of data integrity, industry-standards across modules, with the state-of-art software technology."

Regarding the IDMsys LIMS, The Laboratory ERP, Mr. Zahir added "Our LIMS takes care of entire laboratory testing cycle with emphasis on specimen procedures starting from collection, accession, receipt at each stage of specimen processing, to the final report after complying with quality control. The LIMS conforms to quality standards with rule-based actions, delta checks, and allows incorporation of pre-defined (canned) interpretive comments: The LIMS is built to accept the data from wide range of testing equipment avoiding possible human error and enabling complete automation of the workflow. LIMS achieves 100% paper less work culture in deployed area."

Further Mr. Zahir stressed "The microbiology module of IDMsys LIMS facilitates rule-based logic that includes: automatic reflex ordering of ABST panels according to the organism identified and the source, reflex messages and appended comments for culture and ABST results, drug classification logic."

For more information write to salesindia@sage.com or contact at idmsys@infdim.com