Iowa Health System Selects Allscripts for Wireless Prescribing and Dictation
Handheld Solution Key to Improving Patient Safety and Lowering Transcription Costs
Thursday, April 26, 2001 CHICAGO, IL–Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX), the leading provider of point-of-care decision support tools for physicians, announced today that Iowa Health System has selected Allscripts TouchWorks Prescribe and Dictate solutions. As the state’s largest and first integrated healthcare system, Iowa Health System includes 11 hospitals and nearly 450 physicians in 3 states. Iowa Health System completed a successful pilot project with Allscripts and will now proceed with a multi-year commitment for the rollout of Prescribe and Dictate to the balance of their physician base.
"As the largest healthcare provider and employer in Iowa, we strive to be leaders in our approach to the care we provide and the operation of our organization," said Jim Mormann, Chief Information Officer, Iowa Health System. "As an organization, we are open to new approaches on every front. By implementing the Allscripts wireless handheld prescribing and dictation tool, we are using technology to improve—from a quality and cost standpoint—two of our physicians’ most time-consuming processes. We are excited about the benefits we expect our physicians and patients to gain from the Allscripts solutions."
Iowa Health System’s technology platform includes solutions from IDX Systems Corporation. Allscripts has a strategic partnership with IDX to jointly market the Allscripts clinical solutions into the IDX practice management customer base. The Allscripts handheld technology is designed with connectivity required for an enterprise-wide medication management solution and includes the required interfaces.
"Iowa Health System is leading the way to better healthcare for their patients. By equipping their physicians with state-of-the-art tools that provide real-time information, Iowa Health System will help their physicians reduce the risk of medication errors and more efficiently deliver care," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "In selecting TouchWorks, Iowa Health System not only acquires world class electronic prescribing and dictation applications, but also a platform to access key practice management information at the point of care. With the incremental approach to deploying our solution, Iowa is well positioned to quickly and easily add more functionality as their physicians are ready for it."
About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is the leading provider of point-of-care decision support solutions for physicians. The Company’s TouchWorks software products are designed to enhance physician productivity and are accessed using wireless handheld or desktop workstation devices to automate the most common physician activities including prescribing, dictation, charge capture, lab orders and results, patient education, and clinical notes. The TouchWorks software runs on Microsoft’s PocketPC operating system. Allscripts provides its applications on the Compaq iPAQ™ and the Hewlett-Packard Jornada handheld wireless hardware. Allscripts also offers its e-prescribing clients the option of its FirstFill program, which allows physicians to provide patients with the first dosage of the most commonly prescribed medications directly from the office or clinic. Additionally, Allscripts provides patient compliance and healthcare product education services for physicians through its Physicians Interactive unit.
Strategic partners include IDX Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: IDXC), a provider of complete healthcare information solutions for physician group practices, management service organizations, academic medical centers, and integrated delivery networks; IMS Health (NYSE: RX), the world's leading supplier of information solutions to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX), the nation's largest independent full-service pharmacy benefit manager; Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) a leading global provider of technology and solutions; Merck-Medco, one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical benefits management companies; and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing.
Allscripts is headquartered in Illinois and provides services to over 15,000 physicians at more than 4,000 sites across the U.S. Visit Allscripts on the Web at Allscripts.com. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Allscripts, Allscripts FirstFill, ChannelHealth, Physicians Interactive, TouchScript, TouchWorks Enterprise, and TouchWorks Professional, are all trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions or its affiliates.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. These statements often contain words like will, believe, expect, anticipate, intend, contemplate, seek, plan, estimate or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. These statements are made under the protection afforded them by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 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 2000 Annual Report on Form 10-K. This document can be obtained through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.
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