CHICAGO, Nov. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- MaineGeneral
Health (MaineGeneral), headquartered in Augusta, Maine, has announced a significant
renewal of its commitment to Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) and has
agreed to continue to leverage Allscripts Sunrise and Allscripts
TouchWorks electronic health records (EHR) through 2022.
MaineGeneral also announced it has selected Allscripts
FollowMyHealth™ as its patient engagement platform to support
population health management, improve patient communications and
deliver positive care outcomes.
"MaineGeneral has had a long and successful partnership with
Allscripts," said Daniel Burgess,
Vice President and CIO, MaineGeneral. "Allscripts recent strategic
acquisitions and rapid developmental improvements in functionality
have reaffirmed that this partnership would be the right choice for
us moving forward. The extension of our relationship will enable
MaineGeneral to maximize our existing IT investments by leveraging
the new and innovative solutions that Allscripts has to offer."
Building on Successful IT Investments
MaineGeneral
stated that the choice of Allscripts EHR solutions will help it
focus on delivering the highest value to its clinical community via
sound technology strategy and investment.
"Allscripts Sunrise and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR have been very
successful tools for MaineGeneral, and continuing with these
solutions will give us tight clinical interoperability. This IT
strategy, coupled with a robust community outreach effort, will
help position MaineGeneral as the clinical choice for the
communities we serve," Mr. Burgess added.
Allscripts Sunrise population-health enabled platform is an
advanced healthcare technology that integrates acute, ambulatory,
emergency, surgical, revenue cycle management and other areas on
one unified database. Used by many of the leading hospitals and
health systems in the world, Allscripts Sunrise offers
clinician-specific workflows that help drive adoption of clinical
decision support, which can lead to improved outcomes.
Allscripts TouchWorks EHR is a customizable solution with an
open architecture and workflows designed to help improve the
patient experience. Allscripts TouchWorks EHR offers automated
clinical decision support at the point-of-care, a configurable
clinical desktop, and nearly 800 peer-reviewed Care Guides.
Allscripts TouchWorks earned the 2014 Top Ambulatory EHR Vendor
ranking for Independent Practice Associations (IPAs) and
Multi-Specialty Practices category from Black Book Rankings.
The Right Solution to Engage Patients
MaineGeneral
also selected Allscripts FollowMyHealth as its patient engagement
solution. Allscripts FollowMyHealth provides patients with
convenient online access to health information, allowing users to
access needed forms, results, prescriptions and other critical
information. Likewise, it streamlines communications between the
patient and the care team to improve care management and outcomes.
In choosing Allscripts FollowMyHealth, MaineGeneral cited the
solution's features and functionality, ease of use,
interoperability with existing Allscripts solutions, and superior
Allscripts client support.
Mr. Burgess said, "FollowMyHealth is an exceptional platform for
patient engagement. It is very user friendly and will allow
patients to also experience on-demand access to information.
Because it is tightly integrated into our existing Allscripts
clinical platforms, our clinical staff will be able to focus on
patients rather than learning new IT systems."
"Allscripts is very proud of its long and productive
collaboration with MaineGeneral," said Paul
M. Black, President and Chief Executive Officer, Allscripts.
"We are pleased that MaineGeneral has renewed our strategic
partnership with this significant multi-year extension. We are
looking forward to continuing to support MaineGeneral's vision to
engage patients, connect their community and transform the quality
and safety of care in the Kennebec Valley Region."
About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader
in healthcare information technology solutions that advance
clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative
solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected
Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make
better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations.
To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It
Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.
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