SAPPHIRE allows you to achieve maximum return on investment, facilitating process automation for all departments across the entire hospital. It provides users the ability to access documents and files directly from within SAPPHIRE without reentering patient name or medical record number (MRN). Stored images and documents are presented the way the user needs to see them to be more efficient in their job. The document management component is designed to automate healthcare business processes as varied as patient registration scanning, chart deficiency management, patient record coding, secondary billing, accounting, new-hire processing, procurement, etc.

Features:

• Stores document images, MS-Office documents including email, as well as faxes and any other electronic file types
• Documents check-in/check-out with versioning and full-text search capability
• Supports archival of digital images to microfilm, and retrieval of microfilm images into digital format
• Allows users to have "Lockable" content stores to simplify data backups
• Supports High Availability Configurations for guaranteed enterprise-wide uptime
• Supports multiple databases including MS-SQL, Oracle or DB2
• Optional robust workflow engine can be added to provide further automation with a graphical process model with built-in due dates, alerts, notifications, approval, and process audit reporting