Greeley Medical Clinic Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 65 Providers
Northern Colorado’s Largest Multi-Specialty Physician Group Adopts EHR for Enhanced Patient Care and Efficiency
CHICAGO & GREELEY, Colo (September 14, 2006) –
Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, today announced that Greeley Medical Clinic has selected the TouchWorks(TM) Electronic Health Record to automate and connect its 65 providers across seven locations.
Greeley Medical Clinic is northern Colorado’s largest multi-specialty physician group, with 51 physicians and 14 mid-level providers in 14 medical specialties. The physician-owned group will implement the TouchWorks Electronic Health Record http://www.allscripts.com/prdTWEMR.aspx to enable instant, secure access to patient information whenever and wherever providers need it, whether in the clinic, at the hospital or remotely.
“The Electronic Health Record is fast becoming the standard of care for large, multi-specialty groups, including many of our colleagues in northern Colorado,” said Barbara A. Yosses, Chief Executive Officer of Greeley Medical Clinic. “To be competitive, patient focused and in order to recruit the best new physicians, who all use electronic records in medical school, we believe a world class EHR is not only nice to have, but a requirement. Our partnership with Allscripts will help us accomplish each of these objectives.”
The web-based TouchWorks Electronic Health Record automates many daily clinical tasks, such as prescribing medications and documenting clinical encounters, and connects physicians electronically to laboratories, insurers and all other key healthcare stakeholders. Eventually, the Clinic plans to implement TouchWorks advanced analytic functionality, which improves management of chronic disease and empowers practices to participate in valuable Pay for Performance initiatives. TouchWorks monitors key disease management outcomes and provides tools to review the details of clinical measures such as care planning statistics, health maintenance and provider productivity.
Greeley Medical Clinic selected Allscripts after a two-year search mainly for the Company’s “stellar track record of successful implementations,” said Chris Rogers, Greeley’s Chief Operating Officer. “We had extensive conversations with almost a dozen current Allscripts clients and visited several sites and they were very, very positive about their experience with TouchWorks,” Rogers said. “Allscripts implementation experience and the resources they put behind it convinced us we can achieve early and broad physician adoption without compromising productivity.”
TouchWorks will be integrated with the Clinic’s existing VitalWorks practice management system from Cerner, directly linking the clinical and financial information systems to support operational efficiency. The Electronic Health Record also will enable the Clinic to open its newest facility in west Greeley without a medical chart room, saving on staff and reserving space for patient care.
“Greeley Medical Clinic’s decision to implement our Electronic Health Record is another example of the Clinic’s long history of innovation on behalf of northern Colorado’s patients,” said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “As the Electronic Health Record becomes the standard of care for physician practices, forward-thinking practices like Greeley Medical Clinic will increasingly turn to Allscripts because our physician focus allows us to demonstrate more successful deployments with full physician utilization for practices of all sizes and specialties.”
About Greeley Medical Clinic
Greeley Medical Clinic is northern Colorado’s largest multi-specialty physician group, with 51 physicians and 14 mid-level providers in 14 medical specialties. Founded in 1933 by three family physicians, today the Clinic’s staff of 350 serves patients in northern and eastern Colorado, western Nebraska, and southeastern Wyoming. To learn more, visit www.GreeleyMedClinic.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 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
Greeley Medical Clinic
Chris Rogers, 970-350-2412
chris.rogers@greeleymedclinic.com
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