The Jackson Clinic, which provides comprehensive care to residents across nine locations throughout West Tennessee, has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record, or “EHR,” solution for its 120 physicians and 10 mid-level providers who serve patients throughout West Tennessee.
Allscripts solution is expected to help the Jackson Clinic to further enhance the quality care by providing real time information to physicians at the point of care and improving communications with patients.
Officials with Allscripts said that the Jackson Clinic will integrate the EHR with its Allscripts Vision Practice Management solution, providing full-spectrum automation of all clinical and financial activities.
“We have been using an EHR system for over 10 years, so we understand how crucial it is to have instant access to the patient's medical history, which enables our physicians to make better decisions at the point of care,” said Keith Williams, MD, Medical Director of The Jackson Clinic, in a statement.
Williams said that the Allscripts EHR has the refined and efficient clinical workflows to help the clinic continue to deliver high quality care in the most effective manner possible.
The clinic, which previously used Misys EMR, selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record based on their successful experience with the Misys product and the company's reputation for strong client service and technology innovation.
“We wanted a long-term partner that could provide a seamless transition from our old system, and one that also had the commitment and resources to continue innovating EHR technology as well as enabling us to qualify for federal EHR incentive payments,” Williams added.
By upgrading to the Allscripts Electronic Health Record, The Jackson Clinic expects to qualify for more than $4 million from the federal EHR Stimulus program approved by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
“The Jackson Clinic is a leader in providing quality care,” said Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts.
Tullman said that they understand that technology offers their physicians an opportunity to provide even safer, higher quality patient care to the people of West Tennessee.
He said that they are also representative of the significant number of leading medical groups who have successfully used Misys practice management and EMR solutions for years and now are upgrading to the company’s latest electronic health record, both to take advantage of the meaningful use requirements of the federal stimulus program and to achieve their goal of delivering higher quality care more efficiently and at lower cost.
Allscripts uses technology to bring health to healthcare. The company says that 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.
Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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