Integrated Medical Services Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Revenue Cycle Management Solution

CHICAGO and PHOENIX, AZ – October 22, 2009 – 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. 

 

IMS is a multispecialty physician group that helps its medical practices to better manage their clinical and business functions. Currently with 40 locations across Arizona, IMS has doubled its size in the last two years. 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.

 

 

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 are disaster-proof with redundant systems that are secure and accessible by authorized caregivers anywhere in the world. 

 

“The hosted model is perfect for a geographically spread-out 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 Contracting and Project Management for IMS. “It also means we can very quickly bring our physicians up live on the system without investing in growing our IT infrastructure.”

 

 

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 gotten 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 helping to offer their patients a fully integrated healthcare experience that is richer in content, provides higher quality care, and is safer.”

 

 

The Allscripts Electronic Health Record enables physicians to instantly access patient information when and where they need it – in the clinic, at the hospital or while on-call at home -- and automates everyday clinical tasks such as prescribing medications, documenting patient visits and obtaining best-practice guidelines for care.

 

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 500 million revenue cycle management transactions.

 

Established in 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona, IMS is an integrated team of healthcare professionals providing exceptional patient-centered, comprehensive care. It is a growing organization dedicated to the communities it serves. Its employees serve in the military, volunteer as team physicians for professional teams and local high school sports, donate time and expertise to numerous non-profit organizations, serve as board and committee members at local hospitals, and actively support local small businesses. 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 including Billing, Patient Relations, Credentialing, Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Information Technology, and IMS Properties and Construction/Property Management. These healthcare professionals represent many medical specialties, including: Family     Medicine, Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology, Infectious Disease, Cardiology, Dermatology/Mohs Surgery, General Surgery, Hematology & Oncology, NeuroPsychology, Neurology & Sleep Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Pain Management, Physiatry, Radiation Oncology, Urology, and Clinical Research.

 

When a patient sees an IMS provider, he or she enjoys many benefits, including:  dedicated, compassionate, quality care; certainty and comfort in continuity of care between IMS providers; access to modern technology; in-network participation with most insurance carriers; convenient hours of operation and timely appointments; comprehensive health and wellness services in one location (Goodyear, Avondale, Paradise Valley, John C. Lincoln/North Mountain); participation in compensated clinical research through Dedicated Clinical Research (DCR); outreach, education, and patient care through the IMS Health Foundation.

 

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 www.allscripts.com.

 

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