Black Book Market Research Names Allscripts Top Inpatient Electronic Health Record Vendor

CHICAGO, March 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A comprehensive study conducted by research company Black Book Rankings™ has named Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) Sunrise™ electronic health record (EHR) platform as the top overall inpatient EHR for large hospitals and academic medical centers. The survey, which took place from September 2013 to January 2014, investigated more than 600 EMR vendors, and included 168 provider participants from facilities with more than 300 beds. According to Black Book Rankings, Black Book has a research methodology which doesn't rely on vendor provided client lists as source data.

In addition to receiving top overall honors in the survey, Allscripts was named top vendor in the patient health data management and administrative processing, as well as the top vendor in the communications and connectivity categories. Allscripts received the top rank in several of the survey's categories including vendor overall preference/vertical industry recommendations for Meaningful Use Stage 1 and Stage 2, and best of breed technology and process improvement for Meaningful Use Stage 3.

"We are very proud of this recognition from Black Book Rankings, as it reaffirms all the positive outcomes Allscripts and our clients are accomplishing together," said Paul M. Black, President and Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. "The Black Book Rankings results are an indication of Allscripts commitment to population health management, with an open and integrated EHR at its heart. We remain dedicated to developing innovative solutions that improve health, to delivering on client obligations and ensuring our clients succeed through an Open and Interoperable approach to today's healthcare IT needs. We're very pleased to be acknowledged by Black Book Rankings for leading the industry and, on behalf of our clients who do the real work of healthcare delivery, we accept this important distinction."

Allscripts Sunrise EHR platform is an integrated suite of solutions for acute, post-acute, ambulatory, revenue cycle and emergency health care providers. Solutions include a single EHR for emergency, inpatient and ambulatory care settings, as well as a patient portal. Allscripts Sunrise also provides access to integrated patient information across care settings and community organizations to facilitate the Open, Connected Community of Health™. Used by many of the leading hospitals and health systems in the world, it offers clinician-specific workflows that help drive adoption of clinical decision support that can lead to improved outcomes.

This recognition is the latest in a series of honors the industry has bestowed upon Allscripts.  Most recently, Allscripts dbMotion was named the top health information exchange (HIE) solution by Black Book in the ambulatory and provider-centric segment¹. The Allscripts dbMotion population health management solution aggregates and harmonizes disparate data from diverse sources, supporting a healthcare organization's objectives to improve care and to drive operational efficiencies, and meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation. Delivering semantically organized clinical information to the point of care, Allscripts dbMotion earned highest scores in data use reliability, accuracy and continuity, customer service and support, and patient accessibility.

About Black Book Rankings
Black Book Rankings is a full-service market research and public opinion research company, founded in 2002. The company today serves a wide variety of prominent national and international clients. Black Book Rankings offers complete quantitative and qualitative research services, excelling in the design of customized surveys and research approaches to meet specific client needs.

(1)   State of the Enterprise/Private Health Information Exchange Industry. Black Book Rankings, January 2014.            

About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) delivers the insights that healthcare providers require to generate world-class outcomes. The company's Electronic Health Record, practice management and other clinical, revenue cycle, connectivity and information solutions create a Connected Community of Health™ for physicians, hospitals and post-acute organizations.  To learn more about Allscripts, please visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.

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