Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System chooses Allscripts EPSi to support critical decision-making processes

CHICAGO, April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (SCL Health System) located in Denver, Colo., has chosen Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) EPSi solution to unify and rationalize the healthcare organization's disparate financial management software systems, standardizing its financial decision support systems onto a single, connected and interoperable platform.

Allscripts EPSi is a fully integrated solution that can connect different functional areas and systems including clinical and financial to provide healthcare organizations with key insights to better manage their business. The solution features analytics, budgeting and knowledge-based decision support functionality that helps organizations facilitate financial management — strategic planning, product line budgeting, cost accounting, and operational and capital budgeting — to more effectively and accurately plan for and address the financial challenges facing healthcare organizations.

Allscripts EPSi will give SCL Health System leaders and managers a "single source of truth" for cost and financial performance management information across their enterprise. This coordinated decision support will help SCL Health System continue to manage the evolving financial demands of the healthcare industry's continually shifting business environment.

Allscripts EPSi is an integrated, Web-based solution that can aggregate data from any healthcare or business software or system. Allscripts EPSi was named Category Leader for Decision Support in the 2013 Best in KLAS report from industry analyst KLAS and holds "Peer Review" designation by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).

"Organizational efficiency is a priority for SCL Health System," said Laurie Westrope, Senior Director of Decision Support at SCL Health System. "Allscripts EPSi will help us deliver operational effectiveness by integrating our multiple systems, enabling us to continue with our highest possible standard of care for patients in all of our facilities."

SCL Health System is a nonprofit health care organization that operates eight hospitals, four safety net clinics, one children's mental health center and more than 190 ambulatory service centers in Colorado, Kansas, and Montana.

"Allscripts EPSi continues to demonstrate its value for healthcare organizations," said Martha Thorne, General Manager of Allscripts Performance & Care Logistics business unit. "The solution's interoperability allows organizations, like SCL Health System, to reduce costs associated with rip-and-replace of systems, to maximize their technology investments and to drive efficiencies that will lead to more positive patient outcomes."

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