Walla Walla Clinic Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Walla Walla Clinic will deploy an Electronic Health Record (EHR) from Allscripts to automate and connect its 44 providers.
CHICAGO and WALLA WALLA, Wash., (July 24, 2007) –
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Walla Walla Clinic will deploy an Electronic Health Record (EHR) from Allscripts to automate and connect its 44 providers.
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Walla Walla Clinic is a multi-specialty medical group with 35 primary care and specialty physicians and nine mid-level providers. Established in 1936, the clinic has four locations including a stand-alone ambulatory surgery center, physical therapy center, and plastic surgery clinic. Walla Walla Clinic has consistently been designated a “Better-Performing Practice for Profitability and Cost Management” by the Medical Group Management Association.
“We see the delivery of healthcare to our community as a privilege and we are committed to doing so with excellence,” said Duane Lucas-Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of Walla Walla Clinic. “This was a physician-led decision with strong support from our IT team and EHR working group. Our physicians are convinced that, with Allscripts technology, they can deliver on the promise of providing high quality care more efficiently and at lower cost.”
The web-based TouchWorks(TM) EHR speeds and automates everyday clinical tasks such as prescribing and refilling medications, ordering and viewing tests, and documenting care. The Allscripts solution is ranked No. 1 in its market category by the recently released KLAS Top 20: Mid-Year 2007 Report of product and service performance. The Electronic Health Record delivers instant access to patient information anywhere at anytime, whether providers are in the clinic, at the hospital or on-call at home. TouchWorks enables physicians to transform healthcare, with robust tools for documentation and orders, preloaded connections to a range of devices, seamless support for pay- for-performance and quality initiatives, and an advanced user experience that lets users easily configure the system to their own specific needs while protecting the discrete data needed for research and analytics.
“This product really deserves the title of an Electronic Health Record,” said Craig Dreher, the clinic’s IT Director. “It’s the first one that we saw that was complete; that represented great attention to design and integration without loss of focus on how a physician practices medicine. It’s clear that Allscripts truly understands the practice of medicine and the business management of medicine.”
Walla Walla Clinic will integrate TouchWorks with its Centricity Business (formerly IDX Groupcast) practice management system to directly link clinical and financial information across the network. The integration improves end- user productivity, increases patient satisfaction and enhances revenue cycle management by combining clinical and financial data into a common, easy-to- navigate architecture.
“We are proud that Walla Walla Clinic, already recognized as one of the most efficiently run medical practices in the country, has chosen Allscripts for their Electronic Health Record,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “Our goal is to provide the information and systems physicians can easily use, when and where they need it, to support safer, more effective care for patients.”
About Walla Walla Clinic
Established in 1936, Walla Walla Clinic is a multi-specialty medical group with four locations in Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater, Oregon, including a stand-alone ambulatory surgery center, physical therapy center, and plastic surgery clinic. Walla Walla Clinic has consistently been designated a “Better-Performing Practice for Profitability and Cost Management” by the Medical Group Management Association. For more information, visit http://www.wallawallaclinic.com.
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 http://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 http://www.sec.gov.
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