May 10, 2013
Allscripts announced bookings totalling $178 million and operating cash flow of $39 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013. Analysts say the company's turnaround will likely take longer and be more costly than company executives expected.
April 28, 2013
At a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on April 3, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, MD, and other committee members took a hard look at the CommonWell Health Alliance, a new vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability.
April 15, 2013
Allscripts reported lower than expected financial results for Q4 2012. However, on March 5, just a couple of weeks after the Q4 earnings call, Allscripts President and CEO Paul Black offered what he characterized as good news for the ailing EHR vendor - the purchase of dbMotion, focused on community health technology, and Jardogs, dedicated to patient engagement.
April 15, 2013
With more electronic health record systems continuing to fall short of providers' expectations, a recent report by Black Book Rankings suggests that 2013 may indeed be the "year of the great EHR vendor switch."
April 15, 2013
There was no shortage of big news made - or announced - at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans last month. Also, to capture the imagination, was a star-studded slate of keynote speakers - not Hollywood celebrities, but healthcare IT luminaries - among them an eloquent former president, an innovation visionary, a newly minted CEO who led his New Orleans healthcare system, and the nation's health IT chief - each dispensing inspiration and hope for a bright healthcare future.
April 15, 2013
After McKesson, Cerner, Allscripts, Greenway and athenahealth made news at HIMSS13 this past month with the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance - putting aside their competitive instincts, for a moment, to pledge their common commitment to interoperability and data liquidity - Healthcare IT News spoke with McKesson CEO John Hammergren about the road ahead.
April 15, 2013
With policymakers getting impatient about the vexing issue of interoperability, does the news that five big vendors are joining forces for data exchange signal a significant step forward? Or is it just a marketing ploy that will make for more walls?
April 09, 2013
I've been hitting the road hard to learn from clients and teammates who are making a real difference in this industry. Their passion for health care is inspirational.
Allscripts continues to lead the charge toward our vision of an Open, Connected Community of Health.
April 04, 2013
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari and the federal Health IT Policy Committee on April 3 took a hard look at a new vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability, called the CommonWell Health Alliance.
March 14, 2013
After 15 years at the helm of Allscripts, the EHR vendor he helped steer through years of growth and change, Glen Tullman is poised to join the ranks of serial entrepreneurs. He and Allscripts colleague Lee Shapiro, who served as president, have set their sights on starting a new company -- or maybe multiple companies -- in the mobile healthcare arena.
March 12, 2013
After McKesson, Cerner, Allscripts, Greenway and athenahealth made news at HIMSS13 with the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance, Healthcare IT News spoke with McKesson CEO John Hammergren about the road ahead. Joining Hammergren in the discussion were David McCallie and Arien Malec.
March 06, 2013
(COMMENTARY) Almost 20 years ago close to 4,000 people from 200 companies gathered in San Diego for a conference to discuss the future of healthcare information technology. It was one of the first big conferences held by HIMSS. Glen Tullman, who was among the attendees, pauses to consider what has happened in the world of IT since then.
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March 05, 2013
(SPONSORED) Cliff Meltzer from Allscripts talks to Ed Heiland here at HIMSS13 in New Orleans.
March 04, 2013
Big news was made at HIMSS13 on March 4 when, in an unprecedented collaboration, some health IT heavy-hitters joined forces in an effort to push the needle on interoperability.
February 20, 2013
Allscripts President and CEO Paul Black condensed it all in one sentence: "Our fourth quarter and 2012 financial results did not meet our expectations." The company tallied a net loss of $24.3 million for the fourth quarter and a total net loss of $1.2 million for all of 2012. Fourth quarter revenue of $350.9 million was down 9.6 percent compared with the same quarter in 2011.
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February 19, 2013
When Medicomp chief executive officer David Lareau hears U.S. chief technology officer Todd Park talk about the need to find the right technology to set data free and make it usable, Lareau wants to tell him he has just the thing.
February 12, 2013
As preparation for ICD-10 intensifies, questions surrounding EMR vendor readiness and ICD-10-related technologies are surfacing. A new KLAS report shows how leading providers around the country are utilizing third-party consulting firms to help them overcome these and other ICD-10 challenges, including staff readiness, training and technology.
January 30, 2013
Board members at the St. Paul, Minn.-based HealthEast Care System have unanimously approved a five-year $135 million budget to build a new electronic health record (EHR) system.
January 30, 2013
Although a significant measure of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals are often deemed ill-fated and potentially hazardous to a company's health, a recent report reveals that healthcare IT M&A activity has seen considerable success in recent years (the much-cited Allscripts-Eclipsys merger aside, of course).
January 30, 2013
"Concerned, but not panicking," is how John Bosco, chief information officer (CIO) at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Allscripts' biggest customer, described his reaction to the electronic health record (EHR) vendor's Dec. 19 announcement that CEO Glen Tullman would be stepping down after 15 years at the helm - and that former Cerner executive Paul Black would now be steering the ship.
