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May 22, 2012

Allscripts Quarterly Financial Results – OUCH

Allscripts (MDRX) announced their quarterly earnings last night and they were a disaster.   Forecast numbers are down across the board and expected earnings have been reduced by over 35%. The company also announced that both the Chief Financial Officer and the Chairman of the board are resigning. The stock closed yesterday, before the announcement, at [...]

Practice Fusion Physician Users Have Received an Estimated $22 Million in Incentive Payments

Practice Fusion has been ranked as a top 10 vendor for successful completions of the federal EMR incentive program by medical professionals, according to data released by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as of January 2012. As the highest ranked free Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution listed and one of the youngest [...]

KLAS Report Shows that EMR Functionality Gaps Present Challenges to Healthcare Organizations with Multiple Specialties

For the Ambulatory EMR by Specialty Study 2012: Finding the Fit report, KLAS interviewed over 700 medical professionals in order to fully understand how their EMR vendors tackle each of their varied specialties-both as an enterprise offering and by individual specialty. This report is designed not only to inform providers of the capability and performance of the [...]

University Health System in South Texas Selects Allscripts for Community Connectivity

University Health System, the lead trauma center for South Texas, will use Allscripts Community Record™, powered by dbMotion, to share patient data with its facilities and the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center San Antonio. The Allscripts solution will help provide a single patient record for the many physicians and patients who use both [...]

Concentra Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for 310 Urgent Care Concentra Medical Centers

Concentra, a subsidiary of Humana Inc., announced today it intends to implement a new Electronic Health Record system from Allscripts for more than 310 Concentra Urgent Care locations across the country. Through the rollout of the new EHR system from Allscripts, all patient and client data will be connected throughout Concentra’s national footprint of medical [...]

Australia’s SA Health Finalizes Allscripts Agreement

SA Health, the public health system of South Australia, announced in a press conference today in Adelaide that it signed the final agreement to deploy the Sunrise Enterprise™ suite of advanced clinical, access management and financial solutions from Allscripts across its network of metropolitan and rural hospitals. SA Health’s hospitals and health clinics serve a [...]

Tidewell Hospice Selects Allscripts Homecare and Financial Management Solutions

Allscripts has announced that Tidewell Hospice, one of the largest not-for-profit hospices in the U.S., selected the Allscripts Homecare™ and EPSi™ financial management solutions to help care for more than 8,000 patients and families annually. The solutions will automate key clinical and financial functions and improve connectivity with physicians, hospitals and other providers across the [...]

IDC Health Insights Expects Ambulatory EHR Adoption to hit 80% by 2016

IDC Health Insights has announced the availability of a new IDC MarketScape report designed to guide firms evaluating electronic medical record/electronic health record vendors. The new report, IDC MarketScape: U.S. Ambulatory EMR/EHR for Midsize and Large Practices 2011 Vendor Assessment provides an assessment of ten EMR/EHR products that target midsize and large practices and qualify [...]

Apixio Community Search Integrated With Allscripts Sunrise EHR

Apixio Inc., a provider of clinical integration and medically intelligent search solutions for private health data, announced that its Community Search product has been tested and approved by Allscripts and is now featured in the Allscripts Application Store and Exchange on the company’s ClientConnect website. Apixio is available today for users of Sunrise Clinical Manager [...]

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record for Employed and Affiliated Physicians

Allscripts has announced that DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, an international leader in pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, cardiology, orthopedic surgery, oncology, and diagnostic services, and ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best pediatric hospitals, will implement the state-of-the-art Allscripts Electronic Health Record for all ambulatory services. Children’s Hospital of Michigan, [...]