CHICAGO and BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb 12, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ —
CUMC Anticipates ‘Maximum Benefit with Minimal Disruption’ to Existing Workflow Practices
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX), the leading provider of
point-of-care decision support tools for physicians, and IDX Systems Corporation
(Nasdaq: IDXC) announced today that Central Utah Medical Clinic (CUMC) has
selected TouchWorks(TM) clinical applications and the IDX GPMS(TM) (Group
Practice Management System) for their physician practice.
CUMC will implement the GPMS application and the full suite of TouchWorks
solutions using a modular deployment strategy. The first phase, targeted for
completion in April, will include the full GPMS application as well as the
TouchWorks dictation, document management, and clinical result modules. CUMC
selected these three TouchWorks modules to quickly streamline their
transcription process, which they expect will facilitate physician adoption. In
summer of 2002, CUMC will add TouchWorks modules for e-prescribing, capturing
charges, and automated order entry.
“The simplicity of the IDX practice management system combined with the
Allscripts modular approach enables our physicians to gain maximum benefit with
minimal disruption,” stated Scott Barlow, Chief Executive Officer of Central
Utah Medical Clinic. “Since we’ve decided to implement GPMS simultaneously with
the TouchWorks suite of clinical solutions, the ability to choose which modules
to implement and when to implement them was an important factor for us.”
The integration of TouchWorks and GPMS drives operational improvements by more
directly linking clinical and financial activities. For example, using a
handheld device, doctors and nurses can enter patient encounter related
information at the point of care using TouchWorks Charge(TM) and then submit
this data wirelessly to the GPMS software — a more efficient process that
ensures accuracy and speeds reimbursement.
“By working together with IDX development teams, Allscripts links TouchWorks
technology to IDX practice management systems, providing a more seamless
integration than a standard interface,” noted Glen Tullman, Chief Executive
Officer of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. “This deep integration of TouchWorks
with GPMS makes a transition to an electronic medical record easy for physicians
to adopt.”
IDX GPMS streamlines patient flow and business processes including scheduling,
billing and accounts receivable, referral management, and relational reporting
functionality for the group practice marketplace. CUMC expects to improve claims
collection, ease compliance with proposed government coding regulations, and
create a seamless, patient-centric environment for its network of primary and
specialty care physicians.
“The GPMS and TouchWorks implementation will provide CUMC with more efficient
workflow and tighter integration of clinical, administrative and financial
processes which can drive improved patient satisfaction and enhanced financial
performance,” said Richard Tarrant, Chief Executive Officer of IDX. “This is a
great example of the continued strength of the partnership between Allscripts
and IDX and how together we continue providing a combined solution that can
drive real value in this marketplace.”
About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is the leading provider of point-of-care
decision support solutions for physicians. The Company’s TouchWorks software
products enhance physician productivity using a wireless handheld device or
desktop workstation to automate the most common physician activities including
prescribing, capturing charges, dictating, ordering labs and viewing results,
providing patient education, and taking clinical notes. Additionally, Allscripts
provides patient compliance and healthcare product education services for
physicians through its Physicians Interactive unit. Allscripts provides services
to over 20,000 physicians across the U.S.
Strategic partners include IDX Systems (Nasdaq: IDXC); IMS Health (NYSE: RX);
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT); Compaq (NYSE: CPQ); Express Scripts (Nasdaq: ESRX);
and Merck-Medco.
TouchWorks and TouchWorks Charge are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare
Solutions. 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 2000 Annual Report on
Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and
Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov .
About IDX Systems Corporation
Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides information technology
solutions to maximize value in the delivery of healthcare, improve the quality
of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the costs of care. IDX
supports these objectives with a broad range of complementary, functionally
rich, and highly integrated products installed at 2,600 client sites. Customers
include 120,000 physicians who utilize practice management systems to improve
patient care and other workflow processes. IDX Systems are installed at:
— 320 Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) representing more than 500
hospitals
— 260 large group practices with more than 100 physicians
— 500 small and mid-size group practices with less than 100 physicians
The IDX web strategy includes browser technology, e-commerce and web-based tools
— built using Internet architecture — that facilitates access for patients,
physicians and care providers to vital health information and data managed by
the IDX clinical, administrative, financial, and managed care products. EDiX
Corporation, an IDX subsidiary, offers medical transcription and clinical
documentation services to physicians groups and hospital customers. IDX has
approximately 4,500 full-time employees.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about IDX Systems
Corporation that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the
important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those indicated by such forward-looking statements are the current economic
uncertainty caused by terrorist activity, difficulties in implementing systems,
including GPMS and TouchWorks, possible deferral, delay or cancellation by
customers of computer system purchase decisions, possible failure of IDX to
realize the benefits of its strategic alliance with Allscripts Healthcare
Solutions, Inc., possible delay of system installations, development by
competitors of new or superior technologies, changing economic, political and
regulatory influences on the healthcare and Internet industries, changes in
product pricing policies, general economic conditions and regulatory
developments in the healthcare industry, and factors detailed from time to time
in IDX’s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, which important factors are incorporated herein by
reference. IDX undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to
reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or changes
in future operating results, financial condition or business over time.
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SOURCE Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
CONTACT: Dan Michelson, Vice President of Marketing of Allscripts
Healthcare Solutions, +1-847-680-3515, Ext. 4330,
dan.michelson@allscripts.com , or Margo Happer, Director, Investor Relations-
Corporate Communications of IDX Systems Corporation, +1-802-864-1758, Ext.
6169, margo_happer@idx.comURL: https://www.allscripts.com
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