Integrated Medical Services Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Revenue Cycle Management
October 22 2009 - 10:34AM
PR Newswire (US)
Rapidly-Growing Multi-Site Physician Group to Consolidate Patient
Information for Better Coordinated Care CHICAGO and PHOENIX, Oct.
22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced
today that Integrated Medical Services (IMS) has selected the
Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management
solution, with Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, to enhance the
quality of the care delivered by its 100 physicians, improve
patient communications, and better manage the cost of care
delivery. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081013/AQM041LOGO) IMS is a
not-for-profit physician services organization that helps its
otherwise autonomous medical practices to better manage their
clinical and business functions. Currently with 45 locations across
Phoenix and Western Arizona, IMS has doubled its size in the last
two years based on strong demand for its services and anticipates
growing to 500 physicians by 2013. The agreement with Allscripts
enables IMS to provide its expanding base of physician practices a
single solution to automate and enhance back-office functions like
billing and scheduling while delivering the real-time information
its physicians need to provide coordinated patient care across the
IMS network. The deployment of the Web-hosted Allscripts solutions
replaces six legacy EHR systems and a number of practice management
systems that IMS has acquired as new physician groups joined its
team. "Our focus is on delivering high quality, truly coordinated
care for our patients, and to do that we need to give all of our
providers quick, easy access to the same patient information, not
handcuff them with disconnected software silos within their own
offices," said John Dover, M.D., President and Chief Executive
Officer of IMS. "Now that federal incentives for EHR use are in
place, we anticipate that a lot of Arizona physicians will go
looking for a safe, interconnected electronic health record
supported by a dependable network of like-minded professionals.
With Allscripts, we now have the capability to meet their needs."
Beginning in 2011, US physicians can qualify for between $44,000
and $64,000 in payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) for adopting and demonstrating "meaningful use" of
an Electronic Health Record. The incentives are expected to drive
significant numbers of physicians to adopt the technology. Hosted
Delivery Model IMS will provide Allscripts via the hosted
Application Service Provider (ASP) delivery model. Hosting
Allscripts remotely is a simple, affordable means of delivering the
technology that spares IMS the need to purchase servers or hire new
IT personnel. The ASP delivery model also speeds deployment and
ensures that the Allscripts solutions provide disaster protection
with redundant systems that are secure and accessible by authorized
caregivers anywhere in the world. "The hosted model is perfect for
a geographically disbursed organization like IMS and will let us
continue to grow while delivering the same great service for our
patients and physicians," explained Cindy Koelbl, Director of
Professional Services for IMS. "It also means we can very quickly
bring our physicians up live on the system without investing in
growing our IT infrastructure." Allscripts Differentiator IMS
conducted an exhaustive review of Electronic Health Record and
Practice Management products before selecting Allscripts, said
Koelbl. "We liked the fact that Allscripts has a proven and very
impressive product that's very innovative," she said. "But more
than that, the differentiator for us was the level of satisfaction
we found among Allscripts customers and the company's strong focus
on partnership. We could have chosen any vendor but we wanted a
partner and we know Allscripts will be there to grow with us and
develop with us as we grow." Allscripts Chief Executive Officer
Glen Tullman commented, "IMS has distinguished itself among
physician groups in Arizona by focusing on quality care and
service, as well as what will be required to deliver even better
coordinated care in the future. We're pleased that they have
selected Allscripts as their partner in providing their patients
with a fully integrated healthcare experience that is richer in
content, provides higher quality care, and is safer." Allscripts
EHR, PM and RCM The Allscripts Electronic Health Record automates
everyday clinical tasks such as prescribing medications and
documenting patient visits, and connects physicians to all major
healthcare stakeholders including labs, pharmacies, insurers and
patients. Physicians have instant access to patient information as
well as the latest best practices and clinical treatment guidelines
when and where they need it - in the clinic, at the hospital or
while on-call at home. The Allscripts Practice Management solution
with integrated Revenue Cycle Management combines billing and
scheduling with integrated claims, remittance and eligibility
capabilities in a single package. The Allscripts Revenue Cycle
Management solution is used by thousands of physician groups across
the U.S. to process more than 260 million claims annually and over
500 million revenue cycle management transactions. About Integrated
Medical Services Established in 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona, IMS is an
integrated team of healthcare professionals providing exceptional
patient-centered, comprehensive care. Physician-owned, led, and
driven, the IMS team is comprised of physicians, nurse
practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, medical assistants,
surgical techs, diagnostic staff and non-clinical staff which also
includes IMS Billing, Marketing, Credentialing, Contracting, Human
Resources, Finance, Information Technology, and IMS Properties
& Property Management. For more information visit
http://www.imsaz.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, hospital care management, emergency department
information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the
brand name of AllscriptsMisys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn
more, visit http://www.allscripts.com/. For more Allscripts news,
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