Resurgens Orthopaedics Selects Allscripts for Electronic Health Record

Resurgens Orthopaedics Selects Allscripts for Electronic Health Record

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers/Healthcare Writers

    CHICAGO & ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2005--

One of the Nation's Largest Orthopaedic Groups to Provide Real-Time Access to Patient Data Across 20 Clinics
    Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq:MDRX), the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that Resurgens Orthopaedics, one of the largest orthopaedic medical groups in the nation, will implement the TouchWorks(TM) electronic health record (EHR) for use by more than 75 physicians and 85 other healthcare providers in 20 Atlanta area locations. TouchWorks will give Resurgens' physicians real-time access to clinical information.
    "In our extensive evaluation, we believe that TouchWorks is the best electronic health record in the market and felt that the Allscripts team was truly committed to the unique needs of orthopedic groups. This will enhance the quality and efficiency of the care we provide our growing base of patients," said Steven Wertheim, MD, Co-President of Resurgens Orthopaedics. "It will also dramatically improve our methods for managing clinical information and communicating between multiple sites spread over a broad region. Allscripts web-based architecture allows our providers to access all of a patient's medical information at the point of care, so we expect to see increases in accuracy and decreases in physician paperwork. Most importantly, physicians will have more time to care for patients."
    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. Resurgens will implement the TouchWorks solution across its entire organization.
    "Being chosen by one of the largest orthopaedic groups in the country demonstrates our focus on specialty groups," said Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "This is a unique opportunity as this is also a partnership. We will work with Resurgens to further enhance the functionality and content which is required to meet the needs of orthopaedic groups."
    Allscripts has signed a partnership agreement with Resurgens to help the medical group develop additional orthopaedic-specific clinical content for the electronic health record. Resurgens will also 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.

    About Resurgens Orthopaedics

    Resurgens Orthopaedics was founded in 1990 as a commitment to the metro Atlanta community to provide comprehensive non-surgical and surgical orthopaedic care. Through steady growth and a merger with six other groups in 1999, Resurgens has grown to 20 Atlanta-area locations with more than 75 physicians and 85 other health care providers, including board certified orthopaedic surgeons, non-operative orthopaedists, physician assistants, nurses and physical therapists.

    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 TouchWorks software is a modular Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that enhances physician productivity by automating the most common physician activities including prescribing, dictating, capturing charges, ordering labs and viewing results, providing patient education, and documenting clinical encounters. TouchWorks is available on the latest Tablet PCs, wireless handheld devices, desktop workstations and over the Internet. Allscripts also offers electronic document imaging and scanning solutions through its Advanced Imaging Concepts (AIC) subsidiary. Additionally, Allscripts provides healthcare product education and market research programs for physicians through its Physicians Interactive(TM) unit and medication fulfillment services through its Allscripts Direct(TM) unit. Visit AHS on the Web at www.allscripts.com.
    Strategic partners include IDX Systems, IMS Health, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Medco Health.

    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 Michelson, 847-680-3515 ext. 4330 dan.michelson@allscripts.com

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