Sage Applications was founded to meet the need for an interactive, realistic, and user-friendly educational electronic health record system for students entering healthcare professions. Our two founders each brought unique expertise in educational software development and clinical practice, resulting in an educational electronic health record system tailored to meet the needs of learners as they embark on their healthcare careers.
David Bingham Brown is a co-founder and technical lead at Sage Applications. He has been a pioneer in online medical content delivery with over twenty years of experience at multiple American Board of Medical Specialties member boards. He holds a PhD in computer science with an emphasis on software analysis and testing, bringing a passion for high-quality software to Sage’s development group.
Jackie Christianson is a co-founder and the lead user interface specialist at Sage Applications. She has extensive experience as a clinician and has worked in over 30 different healthcare institutions including roles in emergency medical services, laboratory services, and nursing. She holds a PhD in nursing is currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate nursing students.
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower the next generation of healthcare professionals to provide safe, competent, and evidence-based care with educational software that bridges the gap between the classroom and the patient’s room. Our interactive educational EHR provides opportunity for students to learn how to formulate a clinical plan, and review hyper-realistic case studies that are based upon real patients while they simultaneously learn how to interact with and document in an EHR. Our software includes options for students to turn in deliverables to demonstrate their competence, and case documentation inputted by students is fully auditable by instructors.
We also believe that educators deserve to work with user-friendly software that is customizable to their needs. and includes deliverables for students to demonstrate competence. Our case studies have many customization options, including assigning questions to case studies, and come pre-built with sample deliverables as well as options for the instructor to develop their own student deliverables. Our simulation-compatible case studies come with a simulation instructor guide which includes pre-brief, simulation information, and suggested debrief topics for every case.
How We’re Different
We take great pride in our work and want our product to suit your needs as an educator; we believe partnerships with educational institutions and meeting the needs of the educators is critical to our mission. We are a small company local to the Madison, Wisconsin area, and we take great pride in our highly-responsive customer support team because our goal is to make our software use as seamless as possible.
We also take great pride in our catalogue of case studies! Our case study developers include clinicians with decades of expertise in diverse areas of clinical practice, including emergency medicine, sexual and reproductive health, critical and intensive care, and mental health.