Physicians will use EHR to Enhance the Quality and Cost-Effectiveness of
Patient Care
CHICAGO and TOLEDO, Ohio, June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allscripts
(Nasdaq: MDRX) announced today that Heritage Valley Health System, a
progressive community-based health system in southwestern Pennsylvania, has
selected the Allscripts Enterprise(TM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) to
automate and enhance the care provided by 150 of its employed physicians.
The rapidly growing Heritage Valley Health System is a $450 million
integrated delivery network consisting of two hospital campuses, two surgery
centers, two cancer treatment centers, a number of community based diagnostic
& treatment facilities rehabilitation and behavioral health centers, with more
than 70 community based patient care locations. Heritage Valley Health
System’s selection of the Allscripts EHR will further the system’s efforts to
improve patient care and reduce costs through greater access to critical
information at the point of care.
“As an integrated delivery network, we’re relying on the Allscripts
solution to help us create a single electronic patient record that will drive
greater integration and improvement in care delivery, better coordination of
care, less duplication of effort, and better documentation,” said Norm Mitry,
President & CEO of Heritage Valley Health System. “Whether it’s the
government’s electronic prescribing mandate, quality based pay for performance
programs from insurers and government or the increasing demand from patients
for web-based access to information, it’s clear that physicians need an
electronic solution to provide state-of-the-art care today. It’s also
becoming a competitive necessity, because if you don’t give patients what they
want, they’ll go elsewhere.”
The Electronic Health Record builds upon Heritage Valley Health System’s
successful electronic prescribing program, which was developed in partnership
with Allscripts in 2006 and enables physicians to use their computer, smart
phone, or wireless handheld PDA to prescribe or renew medications and securely
transmit them to the patient’s pharmacy of choice. Today, 150 providers at
Heritage Valley use Allscripts e-prescribing every day to create more than
50,000 prescriptions every month.
In recognition of its success with e-prescribing, earlier this year
Heritage Valley Health System was awarded a $661,500 grant from the Highmark
Health Information Technology Grant Program, an affiliate of Highmark Blue
Cross Blue Shield. The Highmark grants are designed to help physicians
acquire electronic prescribing technology, part of the payer’s larger campaign
to encourage adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHR).
“Heritage Valley Health System is a model for healthcare organizations
across the country who want to leverage the power of real-time information to
transform the care process and improve their performance,” said Glen Tullman,
Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “Heritage Valley has developed a strong
record of success using technology to provide tools that their physicians can
use to deliver care and their successful e-prescribing program is proof that
payers will reward physician behaviors that improve care and quality. We are
excited that Heritage Valley has elected to build on their e-prescribing
success by implementing our comprehensive electronic health record for their
employed physicians.”
The Allscripts Electronic Health Record automates clinical workflow and
gives physicians instant access to critical data from hospitals, labs,
pharmacies, payers and patients. Healthcare providers can access the
Electronic Health Record at any time, whether they are in the clinic, at the
hospital or on-call at home. By automatically tracking key patient metrics and
providing automated decision support, the web-based solution helps physicians
evaluate and improve their practices and enables them to deliver more
effective disease management, preventive care, and long-range health
maintenance.
Heritage Valley Health System also uses Allscripts Care Management in its
two hospitals to streamline their case management workflow, manage insurance
claims, and to monitor each patient’s length of stay and health status.
About Heritage Valley Health System
Heritage Valley Health System provides comprehensive healthcare for
residents of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties, in Pennsylvania;
eastern Ohio; and the panhandle of West Virginia. In partnership with more
than 400 physicians, Heritage Valley offers a broad range of medical, surgical
and diagnostic services at its two hospitals, Heritage Valley Beaver and
Heritage Valley Sewickley; in physician offices; and community satellite
facilities. Additional information about Heritage Valley Health System is
available online at www.heritagevalley.org.
About Allscripts
Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More
than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and nearly 8,000 post-acute and
homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their
patients and their bottom line. The company’s award-winning solutions include
electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management,
practice management, document management, medication services, hospital care
management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation.
Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To
learn more, visit www.allscripts.com.
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SOURCE: Allscripts – 06/18/2009
CONTACT: Dan Michelson, Chief Marketing Officer, +1-312-506-1217,
dan.michelson@allscripts.com,
or Todd Stein, Senior Manager/Public Relations,
+1-312-506-1216, todd.stein@allscripts.com,
both of Allscripts; or Dan Murphy,
Vice President, Institutional Advancement of Heritage Valley Health System,
+1-412-749-7403, jdmurphy@hvhs.org
Web Site: https://www.allscripts.com
http://www.heritagevalley.org
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