Finding Care Gaps that Compromise Quality and Increase Cost

SAGE is a powerful tool which allows you to identify care gaps in treatment and compare those gaps with evidence based medicine all within the context of an episode of care using ETGs. SAGE is customizable which means that the guidelines can be changed to meet your physician community’s approval. In fact, you can even take guidelines you have already developed and put them into SAGE or create new ones too! Unlike some EBM products, we designed SAGE to fit your needs, not for you to fit ours.

Care gaps occur in every specialty with virtually every disease. Quality measures from organizations like the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the National Quality Forum cover only a small percentage of the most common care gaps. The ProfSoft Standards and Guidelines Engine comes with a starter kit of over 500 built-in measures covering over 90 different medical conditions. Rather than a few quality measures focused on prevention, SAGE provides a wide array of measures covering all aspects of health care from prevention to routine primary care to complex specialty care.

Highlights:

• Consistent methodology for identifying care gaps.
• Complete documentation of the measures including links to source material.
• Allows full customization of rules to meet your organization’s standards.
• Estimates of the financial impact of care gaps.
• Drill-down analysis identifies providers with high non-compliance rates.
• Supports a wide range of reporting, including physician reports, employer reports, and management reports.
• Integration with ProfSoft Episode links standard ETG-based efficiency measures with compliance to guidelines.
• Provides actionable information to physicians about how they can improve their practice patterns.
• Trend reporting highlights changes over time, e.g., changes in use of MRI’s for low back injuries.
• Case lists provide patient-level information about who is non-compliant.