Hendrick Health System Selects Allscripts To Provide Single Patient Record, Billing And Database Solution

Health system signs strategic agreement to deploy suite of solutions including Allscripts Sunrise™ Ambulatory EHR, Sunrise™ Financial Manager, Sunrise™ Health Information Manager, FollowMyHealth® and Allscripts Patient Flow™.

CHICAGO, April 29, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hendrick Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare provider in Abilene, Texas, extended and expanded its relationship with Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) to create one single integrated clinical and financial patient record. With this expansion, the organization’s portfolio will now include the Sunrise™ suite of solutions, including Sunrise™ Ambulatory Care, Sunrise™ Financial Manager, Sunrise™ Health Information Manager, Sunrise™ Abstracting, Knowledge Based Charting, consumer/patient engagement platform FollowMyHealth®, Allscripts Identity Manager and Allscripts Patient Flow™ with Census Logic. The combined technology and single platform will help deliver the health system physicians’ patient information across the ambulatory care continuum.

Hendrick Health System serves a 24-county region in the Texas Midwest and houses more than 500 beds. It provides a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including a neuroscience center, rehabilitation center, cancer center, hospice center, NICU and other innovative services, with more than 3,500 team members on staff. The health system currently uses Allscripts solutions, such as Sunrise™ Enterprise Reg/Sched, Sunrise™ Clinical Manager, Allscripts® Clinical Performance Management, Sunrise™ Surgery and FollowMyHealth® Mobile platform.

Used by healthcare organizations across the globe, Allscripts Sunrise is an integrated electronic health record that connects all aspects of care, including ambulatory, surgical, radiology and laboratory services. Built to enable efficient and safe care, Sunrise is a physician-friendly, evidence-based single platform with integrated analytics that helps deliver true personalized medicine. Sunrise supports all core care venues across the enterprise by delivering a single patient record, and features patient-centric capabilities that increase access and convenience for the consumer.

FollowMyHealth offers a mobile, enterprise patient engagement platform for providers, hospitals and health systems to promote healthy patient populations and manage quality by creating an experience where patients can participate actively in their care on the devices. Its customizable platform helps organizations adapt to the evolving healthcare environment by redefining how healthcare professionals interact with their patients. FollowMyHealth’s technology enables timely and relevant conversations that make the patients an active part of their care, equipping them to deliver a patient experience that includes personalized content throughout the entire care journey – dramatically improving the quality of care, improving outcomes and increasing patient satisfaction.

“Our partnership with Allscripts will continue to enable our care providers to harness the power of an open IT infrastructure and true interoperability to deliver the care our community deserves,” said Brad Holland, Chief Executive Officer of Hendrick Health System. “The robust integration between Sunrise Ambulatory Care and Sunrise Clinical Manager will provide a single database and patient record. These are top priorities for the health system, and will lead to improved outcomes for our patients and our organization.”

“Our Sunrise platform is the best market option for clinician experience, which extends to the experience of patients in the care they receive,” said Paul M. Black, President and CEO of Allscripts. “It enables physicians and nurses to keep patients and their caregivers informed and offers a single billing experience that frees all involved to focus on care and healing. Hendrick Health System has been a great partner over the past 8 years and the expansion of solutions will help the organization improve performance, drive value and enable positive patient outcomes.”