CHICAGO & GREELEY, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 14, 2006–
Northern Colorado’s Largest Multi-Specialty Physician Group Adopts EHR
for Enhanced Patient Care and Efficiency
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
https://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
SOURCE: Allscripts