Heritage Valley Health System Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record
June 18 2009 - 9:56AM
PR Newswire (US)
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
http://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 http://www.allscripts.com/.
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