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10-9-2012 3-18-02 PM

Bloomberg reports that Allscripts has received first-round bids for a leveraged buyout from PE firms Blackstone Group LP and Carlyle Group LP and expects additional offers within three to four weeks. Allscripts closed Tuesday at $13.57 per share.


Reader Comments

10-9-2012 8-35-23 AM

From Master Yoda: “Re: Cerner Health Conference. I doubt you will be able to make it to the conference, but if any of your readers are going, I’ll be the one in the guayabera with the hair that says ‘he really isn’t trying to impress anyone.’ I hope to see Farzad speak and I wonder how long it will take before I hear someone say ‘Epic’?” Cerner provides its own Day One Recap here.

From Innovator: “Re: Cerner conference. The vibe here is cautiously optimistic. Cerner has put a significant emphasis on mobility. PowerChart Touch (Cerner iPad app) and Cerner Careaware Connect (nurse iPhone app). Both are very impressive and the immediate reaction from the customer base seems very positive. However, you can sense a bit of hesitation, as if customers are cautious about getting too excited about new technology because they have been burned in the past.”

From Motown Nurse: “Re: HCA and Beaumont. A couple of my CRNA colleagues who work for Beaumont state that they were informed that HCA has purchased their health system. I had not read this as confirmed anywhere yet though I may have missed it.” The local Detroit business news mentioned a rumored sale last month but I could not find confirmation. Meanwhile Beaumont’s Physician Organization and United Physicians announce plans to combine operations by the end of the year.

From Future Perfect: “Re: Cerner. Have you heard about Cerner trying to sell a single patient accounting system for both hospitals and physician offices? Usually Cerner sells ProFit for hospital billing and Powerchart for physician billing but now they are trying to sell ProFit for both and compete head-to-head with Epic’s combined billing solution. Does it really work and is it tested?” Do any readers have an answer?

From Retired Barkeep:Inspiration by drink. I have a great single-serving margarita recipe for you.” Thanks for the recipe, which I am happy to share with interested readers. I am pretty sure I will need at least a double by the time Mr. H return at week’s end. Retired Barkeep was unable to offer cabana boy services to accompany the beverage(s) so I will continue to accept applications.

From Amarba: “Stan Opstad. Stan was the product SVP at Healthland but is no longer there.” Healthland confirmed that the company’s product management and development operations were consolidated under SVP Michael Karaman in 2011 and that Opstad left the company in August.


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

inga thumbMr. H has yet to check in with me, other than to report a typo, so I suspect he is in total relaxation mode. Feel free to send me your burning HIT news until he returns this weekend.


Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Orion Health’s managing director and majority owner says the company is “strongly considering” going public.

10-9-2012 7-03-35 AM

Health Tech Hatch, a crowd-funding site, launches to provide early funding and mentoring to HIT innovators that are developing new companies and products.

Volate secures $6 million in new funding from an unnamed HIT leader and a major healthcare system. The company plans to triple its staff to almost 150 over the next 18 months.


Sales

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary selects MedeAnalytics’ Clinical Performance Intelligence and Revenue Cycle Intelligence solutions to analyze physician utilization and quality metrics. MedeAnalytics also secures a five-year contract extension with West Tennessee Healthcare for its Compliance and Revenue Integrity and Revenue Cycle Intelligence solutions.


People

10-9-2012 8-16-36 AM

MediRevv appoints Patrick Tierney (above – University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics) managing director of consulting services and Matthew Reat and Diana Moore (CSC) senior consultants.

10-9-2012 6-31-18 AM

Medecision names Jerry Baker (Halfpenny Technologies) SVP and GM of its value-based healthcare solutions business for care delivery systems.

10-9-2012 8-12-10 AM

Consulting services firm SISU Medical Solutions names Scott Lee (Lee Advisory Services, KPMG) CEO.

10-9-2012 9-56-03 AM

RegisterPatient, which just raised $4.1 million in series A funding, hires Jana Skewes (Shared Health) as CEO.

10-9-2012 11-45-56 AM  10-9-2012 11-23-54 AM  10-9-2012 11-26-44 AM

CHIME elects Pamela Arora (Children’s Medical Center Dallas), Charles Christian (Good Samaritan Hospital), and George McCullock (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) to its board of trustees.


Announcements and Implementations

10-9-2012 4-24-47 PM

Awarepoint announces 226% deployment growth, including new activations at Kaiser Permanente, Yale New Haven Health System (CT), Monongahela Valley Hospital (PA) and Vidant Medical Center (NC).

The town of New Canaan, CT pilots a teleheath program that provides 10 seniors iwith Pad or Acer tablets to communicate with nurses two to three times per week. The participants, who range in age from 70 to 85, will also be provided medical equipment to monitor and report vital signs.

10-9-2012 4-26-32 PM

Hillcrest Medical Center (OK) goes live on Forerun’s FlexChart physician documentation in its ED.

AT&T and IBM will begin selling private cloud computing services next year over a mutually owned network.

10-9-2012 4-28-28 PM

Southern Tier HealthLink (NY) joins the New York eHealth Collaborative’s Health Information Network.

Allscripts announces its Open App Challenge, which offers $750,000 in rewards for developers that create and integrate applications that build upon Allscripts Open EHR platform.

10-8-2012 12-46-07 PM

Aprima reminds MyWay customers that the software is based on Aprima’s PRM 2008 version and offers a no-charge license migration, as long as practices sign up for maintenance and support. Aprima also says that MyWay resellers can join Aprima’s reseller network and offer their customers an upgrade option.


Innovation and Research

Physicians using EHR scored significantly higher on quality of care for four screening measures for diabetes, breast cancer, chlamydia, and colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.


Technology

10-9-2012 12-11-33 PM

Imprivata releases Cortext, a free HIPAA-compliant text messaging solution for iPhones and Android devices and Web-based chat solution for nurses without smartphone access.

Anesthesia Business Consultants and iMDsoft launch cloud-based myAnesthesia for the iPad.


Other

10-9-2012 1-15-25 PM

Providers need to work together to accelerate interoperability and electronic information sharing across care settings, according to a report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. The Center also recommends a national strategy to improve accuracy of patient matching; an extension of Stark Law exceptions and Anti-Kickback Statute for safe harbors for HIT donations; and improved clarity of federal privacy and security laws.

Doctors are generally healthier than other US workers according Gallup-Healthways report. A physical health index that considers such factors as obesity, colds, the flu, headaches, and sick days gives doctors a score of 86, nurses 80, and other employed adults 81.

The New York Times takes a look at the use of telemedicine on Nantucket Island, MA as a means to increase access to specialists and decrease costs. Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s CEO estimates that the island’s use of tele-dermatology is saving $29,000 per year and provides patients’ access to dermatologists six times a month instead of just four times a year.


Sponsor Updates

10-9-2012 7-46-23 AM

  • Three hundred Encore Health Resources’ employees build and deliver fifty wheelchairs to Houston-area veterans and the disabled during the company’s annual retreat.
  • Aspen Advisors’ Fran Turisco and Dan Coate deliver a presentation on patient monitoring technologies and accountable care at next week’s NY eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference.
  • NTT DATA will integrate Dart Chart Systems’ proactive analytics tools into its NetSolutions POC software.
  • A local Eden Prairie (MN) publication profiles Virtelligence, which was recently named as one of the country’s fastest-growing companies.
  • Wellcentive’s VP of product strategy Mason Beard discusses six pillars of population health management.
  • Mike Reppart, (Hendrick Medical Center TX), and Kelley Blair (Craneware) will speak at the 2012 AAHAM ANI Conference on RCM strategies and performance improvements.
  • IDC Health Insights recognizes Harris Corporation as a leader in the packaged HIE segment.
  • Beacon Partners offers two Webinars in October on risk management.
  • Infor releases its Workforce Management 6.0 solution and announces a private beta availability of its iPaaS stack on the IBM SmartCloud platform.
  • EBSCO Publishing and Elsevier will provide access to Elsevier’s Scopus database from within EBSCO’s Discovery Service.
  • Imprivata customer Dr Harald Eder joins a panel discussion on improving patient care with cloud-based desktops during VMworld 2012. Imprivata also announces the finalists for its inaugural Healthcare Innovation Awards.
  • Visage Imaging will participate at the second annual Imaging Informatics Summit this week in Washington, DC.
  • McKesson announces general availability of its Reimbursement Manager to assist with bundled payments and fee-for-service reimbursement models.
  • Surgical Information Systems offers integration with abeo’s MedSuite billing software.

Clarification from Allscripts

We asked Allscripts to answer a few additional questions about their MyWay to Professional Suite upgrade option. We appreciate their providing us with these responses.

Could you clarify “free upgrade?” Is that a free license, a free conversion, or both?

This upgrade includes software, implementation and training. It will start in January 2013 and end in September 2013. The implementation will be facilitated by enhanced tools that make data conversion and interface activation seamless. This, coupled with tailored simulation learning and a hands-on weekend learning event, will prepare clients to take advantage of their newly upgraded software.

Does the maintenance fee change for MyWay clients once they’re on Pro?

The maintenance fees will remain the same as what is defined in a MyWay client’s current agreement.

And when you say “converged platform,” how is it different than the current Pro product?

We are launching a converged platform and the first step is to move our MyWay clients to this platform. They will experience many enhancements including mobility with Wand, our native iPad mobility solution, additional content including more specialties, and real time point of care/clinical decision support. In addition, the converged platform will be able to process ICD-10 codes and is planned to be certified for Meaningful Use Stage 2.


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Currently there are "7 comments" on this Article:

  1. Wow — 6 whole months for the tens is thousand Myway providers to convert. Classic story of smart guys with spreadsheets obvious to the realities of how a physician and practice staff office think. Successful migration of 30% o these customers will take 3 years. Plus– the case study of the affects of the demolition of the Medical Manager VAR channel is right there for all to see. History is apparently doomed to repeat itself.

  2. In terms of the Cerner Healthcare Conference, I agree with Innovator in that all customers should be cautious–caveat emptor applies, especially in software.

    I’ve found the excitement around Cerner’s new documentation (Dynamic Documentation–create one’s documentation as a result of providing care as opposed to creating documentation *after* documenting the care provided) to be really strong, and those early adopters have some issues (doesn’t everything that is new?). If Cerner can pull this off in conjunction with PowerChart Touch (mobility) then this will be a major step forward for Cerner.

    And I did get to Farzad. He gave a compelling case for MU and made it personal, as is the theme for the CHC — “because it’s personal.”

  3. If Allscripts is shutting down the resellers for MyWay and the MyWay product for ICD-10 and meaningful use, one wonders what they will do for all of the products they acquired over the past few years that they have not been selling (maintenance mode)…I wonder what percentage of the base the bean counters anticipate keeping. It appears that Allscripts is providing stimulus to the other ambulatory emr/pm vendors out there.

  4. @printgeek: History suggests otherwise… Allscripts migrated tens of thousands of providers from Misys EMR to Pro in about the same time frame. They will leverage what they learned (and technical tools they created) to do it again. By all accounts, that migration wad very smooth. Most MyWay clients I have talked with are upbeat and excited to migrate.

  5. The perfect margarita:

    1.5 to 2oz freshly squeezed lime juice
    1 oz Cointreau
    2 oz white tequila (I like Herradurra)

    Shake and pour baby over ice into a salted glass and you’ll forget all about IT…

  6. The majority of Allscripts MyWay users I have talked with are leaning towards Aprima. And why wouldn’t they once you confirm what’s about to happen to them. The big win is of course NOT having to learned a fundamentally different EHR. It really is a no brainer!







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