Springfield Clinic Selects Allscripts; Central Illinois’s Largest Physician Group to Lead Data-Driven Quality and Performance Initiatives with 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 Springfield Clinic has selected the TouchWorks(TM) Electronic Health Record, in a contract valued in excess of $2 million, to fu

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. & CHICAGO (February 07, 2006) –

Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Springfield Clinic has selected the TouchWorks(TM) Electronic Health Record, in a contract valued in excess of $2 million, to further enhance the quality of patient care provided by Springfield’s 213 physicians.

“Springfield Clinic is driven to provide the highest quality care of any clinic in the country, and we are excited to offer our patients the full value of the leading electronic health record,” said Michael Maynard, Chief Executive Officer of Springfield Clinic. “Our investment in Allscripts innovative technology is another example of our determination to continually improve the quality and efficiency of care that our physicians deliver.”

The Allscripts solution streamlines and improves the practice of medicine by simplifying the work of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Allscripts Web-based architecture shares information through a single clinical data repository, which will allow Springfield Clinic clinicians, across 22 locations, to instantly access patient records as well as the latest evidence-based knowledge when and where they need it – at the point of care.

Allscripts connectivity will also enable the physician-owned multi-specialty group to create a centralized call center which patients from across the region may contact with medical questions and prescription refill requests, said Jim Hewitt, Springfield Clinic’s Chief Information Officer. Hewitt said a key reason for selecting Allscripts was that its electronic health record will help Springfield clinic’s physicians adopt pay-for-performance programs that offer financial incentives for meeting care benchmarks such as improved outcomes for patients with diabetes and hypertension.

“There is no way we could participate in pay-for-performance without Allscripts,” said Hewitt. “It would take a small army to pull 2,000 paper charts and analyze them to determine how well we were doing on management of diabetes or immunizations. With Allscripts, we can do this instantly, and we can survey and proactively manage our entire patient population.”

Springfield Clinic will integrate Allscripts with its existing IDX(R) Flowcast(TM) practice management solution from IDX Systems Corporation. Allscripts and IDX, now apart of GE Healthcare, share a strategic relationship that will directly link clinical and financial information to support operational improvements at Springfield Clinic.

“Equipping physicians with critical information technology that is designed to meet their needs can produce transformational results in the healthcare of entire populations,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “Allscripts is proud to partner with Springfield Clinic to deliver enhanced patient care to the communities of Central Illinois.”

About Springfield Clinic

Springfield Clinic’s more than 200 physicians and surgeons serve the communities of Central Illinois by providing medical specialists from virtually every field of medicine in 22 locations. Our goal is to create a health system where evidence-based medicine and compassionate patient care are enhanced by innovation and technology. Springfield Clinic fervently believes this approach to medicine will create the greatest value for our patients, employers and health insurance carriers.

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 clinical software applications include Electronic Health Record, e-prescribing and document imaging solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medical 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 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 2004 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
Springfield Clinic
Jim Hewitt, 217-525-4503
jhewitt@springfieldclinic.com

SOURCE: Allscripts

Source: Allscripts