Columbia University Medical Center Physicians Select Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 2,200 Physicians
Prestigious Academic Physicians Group Signs Enterprise-Wide Agreement, Largest in the History of Allscripts
CHICAGO (September 05, 2007) –
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Columbia University Medical Center (Columbia) has selected Allscripts as its Electronic Health Record provider for Columbia’s outpatient physician group and planned community-based Independent Practice Association. The agreement is the largest in Allscripts history and the latest example of the company’s leadership among the nation’s top academic medical centers.
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Columbia University Medical Center provides world-class leadership in scientific research and patient care, and its College of Physicians and Surgeons is consistently ranked one of the top medical schools in the nation. Columbia’s physician group represents nearly 2,200 faculty members that count among their ranks 16 past and current winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology and 45 members of the Institute of Medicine.
“Columbia’s physicians and surgeons have a long history of world-class leadership in research, education and patient care, and an investment in electronic health records is the latest example of our core commitment to high-quality and to patient and family-friendly medical care,” said Lee Goldman, M.D., Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Columbia. “By automating and connecting our physicians, we hope to have a positive impact on our ability to deliver true continuity of care for our patients and enhance our ability to deliver important breakthroughs in clinical research in a timely fashion.”
The web-based Electronic Health Record from Allscripts will automate everyday clinical tasks such as prescribing medications and documenting patient visits, while electronically connecting physicians, residents and support staff. The Electronic Health Record will allow Columbia’s physicians to access patient information anywhere at anytime and provide robust tools for documentation and orders. Additionally, the Electronic Health Record includes preloaded connections to a wide range of medical devices, seamless support for pay-for-performance and quality initiatives, and one of the most advanced clinical research support systems in the industry. And the Allscripts iHealth(TM) module provides an online personal health record service that Columbia patients will be able to use to schedule appointments, access treatment adherence programs, and arrange online consultations with their own clinician. Implementation of the system is scheduled to begin in 2008.
“We are extremely proud that Columbia University Medical Center, one of the most prestigious healthcare institutions in the world today, selected Allscripts as their electronic health information partner,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “This technology, through the real-time information and connectivity it provides, allows physicians to focus on patients, not paperwork, and deliver a seamless, high quality patient experience.”
“This is an important step to enhance the quality of patient care by facilitating access to clinical information for patients and their physicians,” said Richard U. Levine, M.D., President of Columbia’s physician group. “We, as is the case with major medical centers, have complex information sharing needs and this investment should allow our health care providers to interact in a flexible and coordinated way.”
Although Columbia is implementing the Electronic Health Record system principally for physician outpatient offices, Allscripts will interface to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital inpatient clinical information system. This will enable physicians and staff in Columbia’s faculty practice to have access to key clinical information on each patient including the medication history, problem list, allergies, hospital notes, etc. Plans also include integrating the Allscripts solution with other critical information systems across the medical center, in physician offices and in outpatient clinics.
Allscripts also will connect the Electronic Health Record with the IDX/GE Centricity practice management system used by Columbia’s faculty practice organization. Linking the clinical and financial information systems will help Columbia’s physicians and practice administrators to streamline billing and insurance reimbursement practices.
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company’s business units provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare. Allscripts award-winning software applications include Electronic Health Records, practice management, e-prescribing, document imaging, emergency department, and care management solutions, all offered through the Company’s Clinical Solutions units. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) unit, and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services unit. To learn more, visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com.
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts’ actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company’s 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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