CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2006--
Collaboration to Create Content for Electronic Health Records will
Enable Improved Clinical Interactions at the Point of Care
Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical
software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use
to improve healthcare, today announced a partnership with Wolters
Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of drug and medical
information services and content to physicians. This partnership joins
Wolters Kluwer Health’s industry-leading clinical content with
Allscripts penetration into the ambulatory physician market.
Physicians will gain enhanced, customizable content that will greatly
streamline their documentation process while enhancing the quality of
patient care they provide. The alliance will provide physicians using
Allscripts products access to pre-built templates for documenting
patient care, including the latest scientific and clinical information
about drug therapies, and evidence-based treatment guidelines to
support clinical decisions.
“Physicians have come to appreciate and rely upon the electronic
delivery of clinical information at the point of care,” said Jeff
McCaulley, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health. “Our
partnership with Allscripts extends our reach into this area and
cements our position in the eHealthcare space. Together we’ve created
an environment where physicians and patients both can benefit.”
Wolters Kluwer Health plans to develop customizable documentation
templates, order sets, care plans and best practices for use in the
TouchWorks(TM) and Healthmatics(R) Electronic Health Record solutions,
and other Allscripts applications. Physicians will be able to share in
a library of templates appropriate to their area of specialty;
pre-built templates for documenting patient care will include the
latest scientific and clinical information about drug therapies, and
evidence-based treatment guidelines to support clinical decisions.
“Integrating quality content that informs physicians and their
patients is the next stage in the development of the Electronic Health
Record, and this strategic agreement with Wolters Kluwer Health is all
about taking that step,” said Lee Shapiro, President of Allscripts.
“Our mission is to provide just right, just-in-time information at the
point of care to improve the quality of the clinical interactions that
physicians have. The combination of Wolters Kluwer Health’s clinical
content and global presence, with our strength in delivering
Electronic Health Record solutions to physicians will help support
physicians in improving patient care.”
This extension of the partnership between Wolters Kluwer Health
and Allscripts follows a July 2004 strategic alliance between the two
companies that gave physicians global access to the latest scientific
and clinical information about new medical products and drug
therapies.
About Wolters Kluwer Health
Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for
professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health,
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. Major brands include
traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and
textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts &
Comparisons; electronic information providers, such as Ovid
Technologies, Medi-Span and ProVation Medical; and pharmaceutical
information providers Adis International and Source(R). Wolters Kluwer
Health is a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading multi-national
publisher and information services company with annual revenues (2005)
of EUR 3.4 billion and approximately 18,400 employees worldwide.
Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its
depositary receipts of shares are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam
(WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. For more
information, see www.wolterskluwer.com or www.wkhealth.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, e-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
Wolters Kluwer
Connie Hofmann, 215-219-2943
connie.hofmann@wolterskluwer.com
or
Wolters Kluwer nv
Oya Yavuz (Investor Relations)
+ 31 (0)20 6070 407
ir@wolterskluwer.com
SOURCE: Allscripts