Allscripts Selected to Participate in CCHIT Pilot Study; Company Continues Leadership Role in Driving National Initiatives.SAN DIEGO -- From the floor of the 2006 HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. ) Annual Conference and Exhibition, Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that the Company has been selected to participate in the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology's (CCHIT CCHIT Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology ) Pilot Study, designed to gauge the testability of CCHIT's certification criteria for the functionality, interoperability and security of ambulatory electronic health records (EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND ) and to demonstrate the effectiveness of its process. CCHIT's goal is to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable healthcare information technology throughout the United States by creating an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of healthcare IT products. Under its contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Noun 1. Department of Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Health and Human Services, HHS (HHS HHS Department of Health and Human Services. ), CCHIT is required to conduct and report back results of the Pilot Study. "We are pleased to have been selected by the Certification Commission to participate and provide our assistance and expertise in order to help advance the certification process," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "Allscripts has made a significant commitment to take a leadership role in many of the major national initiatives that are underway in order to help accelerate the use of electronic health records." The Company's executives have taken a leadership role in many initiatives related to standards development and interoperability including the e-Health Initiative, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Ambulatory EHR Committee, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology  This article reads like a news release, or is otherwise written in an overly promotional tone.Please help [ rewrite this article] from a to be less promotional, per Wikipedia . , the EHR Vendors Association and the EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards. Earlier this week, Allscripts also announced its participation in electronic prescribing and a laboratory interoperability standards initiative. Allscripts has been selected to participate with two research teams studying electronic prescribing standards through pilot tests funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. In addition, Allscripts client, Brown & Toland Medical Group, in California, has been awarded a grant by The California HealthCare Foundation to support efforts to accelerate the delivery of patients laboratory results via the TouchWorks(TM) Electronic Health Record. About Brown & Toland Medical Group Brown & Toland Medical Group is a comprehensive, multi-specialty independent practice association (IPA IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet ) serving the residents of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Our board certified board certified, adj the status of a dental specialist such as an orthodontist who has become a board diplomate by successfully completing the certification program of the recognized certification board in that area of practice. physicians practice in offices throughout the city of San Francisco
About Allscripts 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, 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 medical fulfillment services through its Medication Services Group. To learn more, visit Allscripts on the Web at www.allscripts.com. This announcement may contain forward-looking statements about Allscripts 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 2004 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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