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November 15, 2005
Healthvision and Allscripts Partner to Launch New Solutions for Connecting Communities: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Healthvision and Allscripts Partner to Launch New Solutions for Connecting Communities
Tuesday November 15, 10:00 am ET
Under this new alliance, Healthvision will begin offering the Allscripts TouchWorks(TM) Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution as part of Healthvision's Interoperability Exchange. Providers will have the option to utilize the full electronic health record or start with a number of modules, including e-prescribing, and seamlessly add more features in the future. The new arrangement enables Healthvision to provide more robust EHR services to practices that participate in the Healthvision Interoperability Exchange for Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). It will also enable Allscripts to leverage Healthvision's experience in providing ASP web services to physicians resulting in a new ASP service model offering of its award-winning EHR and ePrescribing solutions.
This new functionality will be offered as part of the Healthvision Interoperability Exchange announced earlier this year. The Exchange is designed specifically to create an interconnected, comprehensive electronic health record of both inpatient and ambulatory data. That data is then accessible to the patient's care team either through their EMR or EHR applications or through Web-based viewers. Healthvision's architecture ensures private and secure data exchange while providing a patient-centric data repository from multiple sources.
Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Dr. David Brailer, M.D. PhD., the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, have highlighted the importance of interoperability as a "fundamental requirement for the health care system to derive the societal benefits promised by the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs)". Dr. Brailer stated, "Without interoperability, EMR adoption will further strengthen the information silos that exist in today's paper-based medical files, resulting in even greater proprietary control over health information."(1)
"We are excited to partner with Allscripts to provide a set of hosted clinical solutions and to include the TouchWorks EHR as our first hosted EHR connected to the Healthvision Interoperability Exchange," said Scott Decker, Chief Executive Officer and President of Healthvision. "Our combined solutions radically simplify the art, science and process of caring for patients."
Already benefiting from the new relationship between Healthvision and Allscripts is The Adirondack Regional Community Health Exchange (ARCHIE), a newly formed RHIO in upstate New York. ARCHIE will now have the ability to provide a shared medical record health information exchange so that physicians can view a patient's complete medical record.
ARCHIE's initial members include a 200-physician independent physician organization (IPA) and the Glens Falls Hospital, a 225-bed facility located in Glens Falls, New York. Glens Falls Hospital is the sole, comprehensive, acute care community hospital serving a 2,600-square-mile, predominantly rural region encompassing Warren, Washington, Hamilton, Essex and northern Saratoga counties of Upstate New York.
"The new Healthvision and Allscripts solution includes the best features of their collective product lines to provide an adaptive solution for physicians," said Patricia L Hale, M.D., PhD., FACP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Glen Falls Hospital, New York, a Healthvision customer. "The robust and scalable features of TouchWorks combined with the easy ASP implementation of Healthvision will deliver the best available choice for physicians who want anytime, anywhere access to clinical information."
Healthvison is committed to working with all EMR and EHR vendors to extend the value of interoperability to the entire provider team. EMR and EHR vendors are encouraged to join the exchange, which requires a certification process. For more information, go to www.healthvision.com.
"Through our partnership with Healthvision, we can now provide a platform for RHIOs and connect communities to build an environment of collaborative care," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "We also have the capability through Healthvision's ASP to offer a hosted EHR solution to our clients."
(1) Health Affairs, Health Tracking from the Field, January 19, 2005.
About Healthvision
Healthvision creates Connected Healthcare Communities by helping market leaders quickly and cost-effectively plan for and deliver patient-centric information via shared information exchanges. Healthvision's capabilities cover the spectrum of needs ranging from a suite of strategic consulting services to web-based infrastructure and applications -- all designed to enhance decision-making and effectiveness. The Healthvision e-Health Interoperability Platform and applications improve access to clinical information and enhance coordination and collaboration of care.
The company's Web-based infrastructure, e-healthSOURCE, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 8.5 million unique patient records. Additionally, more than 350 healthcare organizations use the company's solutions to make health care easier for their key audiences - a number that represents more than 30,000 clinicians (including 11,000 physicians), thousands of patients and millions of consumers. A privately held company, based in Irving, Texas, Healthvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com.
About Allscripts
Allscripts is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company provides unique solutions that inform, connect, and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group's award-winning clinical software applications include electronic health record, e-prescribing and document imaging solutions. Allscripts' Physicians Interactive Group provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients. The Company's Medication Services Group provides medication fulfillment services. 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 2004 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
Contact:
Healthvision Bevey Miner, 972-819-4207 bminer@healthvision.com or Allscripts Dan Michelson, 312-506-1217 dan.michelson@allscripts.com
Source: Allscripts
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