Community Care Physicians Selects Allscripts for Electronic Health Rec

Community Care Physicians Selects Allscripts for Electronic Health Record

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    CHICAGO & ALBANY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2005--

Web-Based Solution To Provide Instant Access To 250,000 Patient Records For Fast-Growing Albany-Based Physicians Group
    Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Community Care Physicians, PC, the largest physician-directed multi-specialty medical practice in the Albany region, will implement the TouchWorks(TM) electronic health record (EHR) to connect the group's more than 180 clinicians and 35 practices.
    "There's tremendous enthusiasm in our organization for the EHR because medical decision-making is enhanced when timely information is at the fingertips of every clinician," said Tom Auer, President and Chief Operating Officer of Community Care Physicians. "We believe that TouchWorks provides the ability for us to transform our workflow, delivering a seamless connection across the entire continuum of care and providing us a platform to further enhance the care we provide as we continue our aggressive growth plans."
    Using the TouchWorks solution will enable physicians at all of the group's sites to instantly share records for the first time.
    "Our physician selection committee searched for an EHR that could support an organization of our size and be flexible enough to quickly bring new physicians live on the system," said Auer. "In the end, they concluded TouchWorks' Web-based architecture would be an advantage for our organization going forward."
    "The ability to connect physicians to patients and other key stakeholders is mission critical to healthcare," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "Community Care Physicians selection of Allscripts from among a host of other choices is further validation that TouchWorks has the flexibility and the horsepower to meet the needs of the fastest-growing physician groups in the country."
    Community Care Physicians will integrate TouchWorks with its existing Groupcast(TM) practice management solution from IDX Systems Corporation. The integration of TouchWorks and Groupcast will directly link clinical and financial activities and drive operational improvements.
    The TouchWorks EHR reduces or eliminates the need for paper records and enhances physician productivity by automating the most common physician activities, including prescribing medications, ordering lab tests, viewing test results, and documenting clinical encounters. The award-winning EHR also offers enhanced patient safety measures such as automated medical practice guidelines and alerts that warn physicians of potentially dangerous drug interactions.

    About Community Care Physicians

    Community Care Physicians, PC, is a physician owned, physician governed multi-specialty medical group with offices in 5 counties surrounding the Albany, New York's greater Capital District. Community Care Physicians services include Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, General Surgery, Urology, Dermatology, Physical Therapy, Audiology, Occupational Medicine, Urgent Care, Diabetic Education and Travel Medicine. For more information about Community Care Physicians contact Eileen Michaels, Director of Practice Development at (518) 782-3743 or by email at emichael@communitycare.com

    About Allscripts Healthcare Solutions

    Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Allscripts) is the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare. The Company's business groups provide unique solutions that inform, connect, and transform healthcare. The Clinical Solutions Group's award-winning clinical software applications include electronic health record (EHR), e-prescribing and document imaging solutions. Additionally, Allscripts provides clinical product education and connectivity solutions for physicians and patients through its Physicians Interactive(TM) Group and medication fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. Visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com.

    This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts Healthcare Solutions that involve risks and uncertainties. These statements are developed by combining currently available information with Allscripts beliefs and assumptions. Forward-looking statements do not guarantee future performance. Because Allscripts cannot predict all of the risks and uncertainties that may affect it, or control the ones it does predict, Allscripts' actual results may be materially different from the results expressed in its forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of the risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may affect Allscripts, see the Company's 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K, available through the Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

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CONTACT: Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Dan Michelsonn, 312-506-1317 dan.michelson@allscripts.com or Community Care Physicians Eileen Michaels, 518-782-3743 EMichaels@communitycare.com

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