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Memorial Hospital at Gulfport Selected Allscripts Electronic Health Record, Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management for 100 Physicians

Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX) announced that Memorial Hospital at Gulfport has selected the Company's Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution, with Allscripts Revenue Cycle Management, to enhance the quality of the care delivered by its 100 employed physicians, improve patient communications, and better manage the cost of care delivery.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport is the largest healthcare provider in the Gulfport , located 70 miles east of New Orleans, is one of the largest healthcare providers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Among the most comprehensive medical facilities in Mississippi, Memorial is a not-for-profit 445-bed facility with 30 owned physician clinics, a medical staff of 275 physicians and a long history of investing in technology. Memorial is rated a Stage 5 hospital on the HIMSS Adoption scale, placing it in the top 5 percent of US hospitals for the use of information technologies to maximize patient safety.

The Allscripts Electronic Health Record enables Memorial's 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.

Ferrans said he is excited at the prospect of connecting the Electronic Health Record with the Mississippi Coast Health Information Exchange (MSCHIE) a state program that is focused on enhancing healthcare infrastructure in Gulf Coast counties that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Memorial is a founding member of the HIE, which will enable the hospital's physicians to share and access secure, aggregated patient clinical information from IT systems in physician offices, hospitals and other care sites 24 hours a day.

"We believe it's critical to connect our community of physicians to the HIE, to enhance the overall continuity of care, reduce costs, and ensure that up-to-date information is securely available to share between all providers on the Coast," said Ferrans.

Within the Memorial community, the Allscripts Electronic Health Record will give Memorial's physicians a dashboard view of key clinical measures including alerts when lab results and other data indicate a health threat, either to an individual patient or across the entire patient population. "Allscripts will help us understand better the needs of our patients so we can better plan our resources and effective interventions to improve the quality of our care," said Ferrans.

Memorial will provide its physicians with Allscripts Practice Management and Revenue Cycle Management solutions, which are 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. 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.

Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, commented, "Memorial Hospital has set itself apart as a leader in the Gulf Coast by strategically using information technology to not only automate their own physicians and provide them with better information but also to connect them to the broader community of caregivers for improved health outcomes through the Mississippi Coast Health Information Exchange. By partnering with Allscripts, Memorial is encouraging more widespread and rapid adoption of technologies that will ultimately lead to better care for the Gulf Coast's patients and more productive and informed interactions for physicians."

Source: Allscripts

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