Eastern Connecticut Health Network Selects HealthMatics Emergency Department Information System; Hartford Area Hospital System Improves Efficiency, Safety by Sharing Information Between ED, Hospital and Community
Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) will implement the HealthMatics(R) Emergency Department Information System (EDIS
CHICAGO & MANCHESTER, Conn. (August 01, 2006) –
Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. (ECHN) will implement the HealthMatics(R) Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to automate its emergency services. Allscripts valued the contract at $1.5 million.
The solution, from Allscripts subsidiary A4 Health Systems, enhances patient safety, improves clinical documentation, and breaks down the information walls between the inpatient setting and the outpatient ED, providing ECHN caregivers access to vital patient information no matter where it resides. HealthMatics ED’s Remote Chart Access also allows community caregivers and hospital staff to securely access a patient’s chart remotely.
“With HealthMatics ED, ECHN will be able to provide a smoother delivery process for the more than 65,000 patients who walk through our doors annually,” said Charles F. Covin, Vice President and Chief Information Officer of ECHN, a not-for-profit system that includes Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 249-bed acute care facility in Manchester, and 102-bed Rockville General Hospital in Vernon, CT. “HealthMatics ED will electronically streamline processes for the entire Emergency Department including tracking, triage, nurse and physician charting, and reporting.”
Eastern Connecticut Health Network selected HealthMatics ED http://www.allscripts.com/slnsEmrgDept.aspx after a two-year search because of its robust functionality, which Covin said would enable the system to operate the Emergency Departments at its two hospitals in a nearly “paperless” fashion. Additionally, ECHN was impressed with HealthMatics ability to seamlessly integrate with the organization’s inpatient Computerized Patient Order Entry (CPOE) system by MEDITECH.
“Admissions from our two Emergency Departments account for more than 50 percent of all our hospital admissions,” said Robert Carroll, MD, Chair and Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine. “To ensure the safety of our patients, it was critical that elements of the ED record be extracted and imported as discreet data into our current in-patient electronic record.”
Allscripts Chief Executive Officer Glen Tullman commented: “Eastern Connecticut Health Network is a proven leader in heath information technology adoption and Allscripts is proud to partner with them to provide the residents and visitors of the greater Hartford area a more seamless patient experience. HealthMatics ED allows ECHN’s ED staff to work more efficiently by enabling better information flow within the ED, between the ED and the rest of the hospital, and with providers outside of the hospital.”
About Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc.
Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Inc. is a not-for-profit health system that consists of two acute care hospitals, a long term care and short-term rehabilitation facility (Woodlake at Tolland), two wellness centers, and a variety of other healthcare partners.
ECHN was formed in September 1995 when Manchester Memorial Hospital and Rockville General Hospital came together as partners. Today, a wide variety of health services exist under the ECHN umbrella. By joining together, ECHN is able to serve its communities better than ever before. They have pooled together their resources – physicians, staff members, equipment, services, and finances – to become a family of healthcare providers working for the health of eastern Connecticut communities.
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company’s business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group’s award-winning software applications include electronic health record, practice management, electronic prescribing, document imaging, emergency department and care management solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. 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 2005 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
CONTACT: Allscripts
Dan Michelson, 312-506-1217
dan.michelson@allscripts.com
or
Eastern Connecticut Health Network
Andrew A. Beck, 860-647-4751
abeck@echn.org
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