Hospital also implementing program to link hospital records with physician
offices
CHICAGO and AURORA, Ill., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Allscripts, the
leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions
that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Rush-Copley
Medical Center has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and
Practice Management (PM) solution for the 45 physicians employed in the
Rush-Copley Medical Group.
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Rush-Copley, a 183-bed hospital, offers extensive inpatient and outpatient
care, a level II trauma center (ER), a comprehensive cancer center, a level
III (the highest possible) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and progressive
medical technology. Rush-Copley is a member of the Rush-System for Health.
“We’re convinced that Allscripts will help physicians and other providers
in our community treat patients more effectively by improving the
comprehensiveness and availability of the information we use to make care
decisions,” said Garrett Katula, O.D., Chair of the Medical Informatics
Committee at Rush-Copley. “Allscripts eliminates the inefficiencies of the
paper chart, and provides ‘best practice’ guidelines, automated safety alerts,
health management plans and other critical information where it’s needed most,
at the point of care.”
In addition to deploying Allscripts for its employed physician group,
Rush-Copley has partnered with Allscripts to enable the medical center’s
growing community of independent physicians to access patient visit
documentation and other hospital information electronically, in real-time from
their offices or remotely via the Internet. Physicians who are affiliated
with the medical center can leverage this agreement to acquire Allscripts
solutions for their practices, receive alerts when their patients visit the
Rush-Copley emergency room or are admitted to the hospital, and receive a
record of what happened to their patients while they are in the hospital.
“The Allscripts EHR is a mature product that is designed especially for
smaller practices, particularly family medicine, and the Allscripts deployment
process really takes the pain out of implementing, which is huge,” said Dennis
DeMasie, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Rush-Copley. “We
were originally looking at another ambulatory EHR from a traditional hospital
information system vendor, but we changed direction and went with Allscripts
because they understand our physicians’ business practices and their practice
model.”
Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, commented, “Virtually
everything we do in our daily lives requires access to the right information
at the right time, whether it’s online banking, investment due diligence, or
even traffic conditions. Yet in healthcare we expect physicians to make
critical decisions without access to all the information they need. This has
to change and we’re excited that Rush-Copley, in taking on a leadership role
in this critical area, has selected Allscripts to help make it happen.”
The easy-to-deploy, physician-centric Allscripts solution improves the
delivery of safe, cost-effective, high-quality care by automating common tasks
such as prescribing and refilling medications, ordering and viewing tests, and
documenting care. Allscripts delivers a robust Practice Management and
Electronic Health Record system built on one intelligent platform. The
seamless look and feel throughout the entire application provides practices
with an easy-to-use, yet comprehensive patient information management
solution, enabling a practice’s clinical and business operations to work
hand-in-hand for better communication and improved accuracy.
Aurora-area physicians who are interested in taking advantage of the
medical center’s offer can find out more by calling the Rush-Copley medical
staff services office.
About Rush-Copley Medical Center
Founded in 1886 as Aurora City Hospital, Rush-Copley Medical Center has a
rich history of providing healthcare services to the greater Aurora community.
Since moving to the far-east side of Aurora in 1995, Rush-Copley has continued
its tradition of caring and strengthening its service to the community. The
183-bed hospital offers extensive inpatient and outpatient care, a level II
trauma center (ER), a comprehensive cancer center, a level III (the highest
possible) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and progressive medical
technology. Rush-Copley is a member of the Rush-System for Health.
About Allscripts
Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) is the leading provider of clinical software,
connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve
healthcare. The company’s unique solutions inform, connect and transform
healthcare, delivering improved care at lower cost. More than 40,000
physicians and thousands of other healthcare professionals in clinics,
hospitals and extended care facilities nationwide utilize Allscripts to
automate everyday tasks such as writing prescriptions, documenting patient
care, managing billing and scheduling, and safely discharging patients, as
well as to connect with key information and stakeholders in the healthcare
system. To learn more, visit Allscripts at https://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 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site
maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov.
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Director of Marketing & Public Relations for Rush-Copley Medical Center,
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