Allscripts Clients Win Half of National 'E-Prescriber of the Year' Awards
June 24 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Three of the Six Physicians Honored by Surescripts Use Allscripts
Electronic Health Record and ePrescribing Solutions CHICAGO, June
24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) today
congratulated three of its clients who together accounted for half
of the "E-Prescriber of the Year" award winners announced Monday by
Surescripts as part of that organization's Fourth Annual
Safe-Rx(TM) Awards. Safe-Rx is an annual award that recognizes how
e-prescribing enhances patient safety by providing a more secure
and accurate prescribing process. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/AQM041LOGO) The three
Allscripts winners are Dr. Michael Brewer, M.D., a physician at
Wabash Medical Center in Springfield, IL who uses an Allscripts
Electronic Health Record to e-prescribe; Mark Earhart, M.D., a
Watkinsville, GA physician who also uses an Allscripts Electronic
Health Record to prescribe electronically; and Dr. Steven Green,
M.D., a physician in Lancaster, KY who uses a stand-alone
ePrescribing solution from Allscripts. All three winners were
identified independently by Surescripts through their use of
prescription routing, benefit and history services in 2008. This
includes managing prescription transactions electronically with
pharmacies and using patient formulary and history information -
that the physician receives electronically - in prescribing
decisions using their Allscripts solutions. "I want to personally
congratulate Drs. Brewer, Earhart and Green, who exemplify the
commitment of all our physician clients to using technology that
enhances their practice of medicine by enabling the delivery of
higher quality, safer patient care," said Glen Tullman, Chief
Executive Officer of Allscripts. "I'm especially gratified that the
Surescripts awards reflect the clear leadership position that
Allscripts has taken in providing this vitally important technology
to physicians across the nation." Earlier this year, Allscripts
announced, for the second consecutive year, that it routed more
electronic prescriptions over the Surescripts network than any
other e-prescribing or Electronic Health Record solution provider.
Allscripts also had more active prescribers connected to the
national network in 2008 than any other company. Surescripts, which
represents the nation's community pharmacies and payers, bestowed
the award on six prescribers for the outstanding leadership they
have shown through their own use of e-prescribing. Three users of
standalone e-prescribing software and three users of Electronic
Health Record received Safe-Rx Awards and were recognized as
E-Prescribers of the Year. The Surescripts network is used every
day by thousands of physicians, pharmacists and payers nationwide
to exchange health information and prescribe without paper.
Allscripts and Surescripts believe that exchanging prescription
information in this way reduces Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) and
medication errors that cause thousands of needless deaths in the
United States each year. "Through E-Prescribing, we've been able
reduce errors due to handwriting mistakes and track patients
prescriptions better," said Dr. Green. "I'm thrilled to be honored
as an E-Prescriber of the Year." "E-prescribing has helped me and
my staff to become much more efficient so that we can spend more
time with patients and less time on all the hassles that go along
with traditional prescribing methods," said Dr. Earhart.
"Allscripts has made it easier for us to do a high volume of
prescribing as our practice has grown." Dr. Brewer was traveling
outside of the country on Monday and was unavailable for comment.
Vermont Named Most-Improved State Allscripts also applauded the
efforts of its physician clients in Vermont, who contributed to
that state being honored by Surescripts with the Safe-Rx Award for
"Most Improved State." Between 2007 and 2008, the percentage of
Vermont's prescriptions routed electronically across the
Surescripts network more than quadrupled, from less than 1 percent
to nearly 5 percent, according to Surescripts. Users of Allscripts
solutions accounted for 44 percent of all prescriptions routed
electronically in Vermont in 2008. "E-prescribing is a fundamental
system improvement for ensuring accurate, timely health care
communication," said Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, in a prepared
statement. "Much of Vermont health care reform is about utilizing
the right tools to enhance our systemic approach to health care
reform and the evidence regarding the value of e-prescribing is
clear." Allscripts electronic prescribing, available as either a
stand-alone solution or a component of a full Electronic Health
Record, improves patient safety and quality of care by automating
the prescription process. The technology is far safer than the
current system of prescribing on paper. The Institute of Medicine
issued two studies concluding that universal electronic prescribing
would help prevent the 1.5 million injuries and 7,000 deaths that
arise each year from needless medication errors. 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
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