Allscripts news and information

A coalition of five electronic health-record developers created a buzz and a controversy last month when they announced they were forming the CommonWell Health Alliance to promote health information exchange.
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Epic Systems Corp. has more physicians and other eligible professionals who have attested as meaningful users of complete electronic health-record systems in the ambulatory-care setting than any other vendor in a still-crowded and intensely competitive field, an analysis of federal data shows.
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Chicago-based Allscripts Healthcare Solutions has withdrawn from a civil lawsuit it filed late last year in a bidding dispute with the public hospital system run by the city of New York, the company has announced.
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Now that many office-based physicians and a majority of hospitals have used electronic health-records systems for a year or longer, the federal government will work on nudging providers to get better at sharing the contents.
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Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and healthcare information technology futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
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Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and health IT futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
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Chicago-based Allscripts has acquired dbMotion and Jardogs.
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Five major health IT companies announced plans for a shared, centralized platform.
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There has been rapid growth in physician implementation of electronic health records, but adoption has been uneven, and the pace will have to accelerate for most nonusers to avoid the penalties that will start being assessed in 2015, according to a
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Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is consolidating offices and laying off employees this year, a sign that, with new leadership at the helm, the Chicago-based company could once again be looking for a buyer.
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