Electronic Health Reporter

Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) Sunrise Ambulatory Care is now a fully-rated ambulatory solution as scored by providers and recorded by KLAS Research.   This achievement underscores the fully-integrated scope and power of the Allscripts Sunrise platform, open and built on Microsoft SQL.

According to KLAS’s August 2014 report, Ambulatory EMR Impact on Patient Care 2014, Allscripts Sunrise Ambulatory Care is the most highly-rated electronic health record across four categories, “Measuring and Managing Outcomes,” “Facilitating Physician-Patient Interaction,” “Longitudinal Care,” and [facilitating] “See[ing] Patients in a Timely Manner.” It also scored highest among its peers in the report’s “Side-by-Side Comparison Ambulatory EMR Vendor Performance.”

In this KLAS research, Allscripts Sunrise Ambulatory Care users provided candid statements* on the effectiveness of the Allscripts solutions, which are available in their entirety on www.klasresearch.com:

• “We have seamless integration between Sunrise Ambulatory Care and Sunrise Clinical Manager. They use a single database, and the information flows back and forth really well.”
• “Allscripts interoperability works well. There is one platform, and the inpatient and ambulatory sides work together…That functionality cuts out the need for people to enter information twice and keeps them from making mistakes.”
• “I feel Allscripts is a fantastic solution. It is super flexible. If we are smart about the way we build things, we can do just about anything in Allscripts.”

Allscripts Sunrise Ambulatory Care solution was developed natively on the Allscripts Sunrise Clinical platform. With greater features and improved performance, Allscripts Sunrise Ambulatory Care is a comprehensive solution for clinic and outpatient care, designed to help physician practices operate more efficiently through every stage of care and administration. Integrated inpatient and outpatient capabilities, unique to support the ambulatory setting—such as inpatient tracking, workflow and wellness management and e-prescribing—allow for more effective care management.

By design, Allscripts Sunrise is a flexible, Microsoft-based platform optimized for clinical decision support first, empowering the client to create the increasingly complex protocols and workflows to support improved patient and financial outcomes and deploy them across all care settings.

New Allscripts Sunrise commitments or expansions at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Saline Memorial Hospital, Wheeling Hospital and Children’s of Alabama, among others, evidence  that clients continue to look to Allscripts Sunrise solutions to assist with their transformation to accountable care.

“Allscripts is committed to developing and implementing solutions to help our clients achieve their financial, operational and care goals,” said Paul M. Black, President and CEO of Allscripts. “We believe Allscripts Sunrise is the most modern, innovative and up-to-date acute solution in our industry. Built on the Microsoft SQL platform, with an aggressive release schedule, an open architecture and innovative features such as decision support and mobility, we continue to strive to make Allscripts Sunrise the best market option for physician usability and experience. We believe Allscripts Sunrise is the go-to solution for improving performance, driving value and enabling positive patient outcomes.”

Allscripts was among the top three suppliers in the Large-Over 200 Beds Category, Acute Care EMR segment in the 2013 Best in KLAS Awards: Software and Services report. Black Book Rankings’ 2014 Survey also named Allscripts Sunrise “Top Inpatient Electronic Health Record Vendor” for hospitals over 300 beds.

*Commentaries may not represent the whole of provider sentiment related to this product or service. Visit KLASresearch.com for a complete view.

About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving supplier performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. Follow KLAS on Twitter at www.twitter.com/KLASresearch.