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54 Healthcare IT News ■ February 2008 PAyERS www.HealthcareITNews.com Billing company to host EHRs to California physicians By molly mErrIll, Associate Editor – Billing company CHMB Solutions and Allscripts have entered into a partnership that will provide support to California physicians as they begin the change over to electronic health records. CHMB Solutions will offer Allscripts’ EHR and practice management solution to its nearly 500 clients and other California physiESCONDIDO, CA cian practices to provide them with vital patient information that will not require major investments in hardware or IT resources on their part. CHMB is one of the largest California-based providers of outsourced business services for physician practices, including billing, IT support and application service provider solutions such as practice management software. Janet Boos, president of CHMB Solutions, said choosing Allscripts as a partner will enable CHMB to help their clients improve patient care and practice management. “Our physician practices want the latest technology delivered quickly and affordably but with world-class implementation, training and support, and this agreement with Allscripts brings them solutions that are proven and that work,” Boos said. CHMB initially will provide application hosting, implementation, training and support of for 250 physicians. Over the next two to three years, the group expects to host Allscripts for 400 to 500 physicians. According to Bob Svendsen, chief executive officer of CHMB Solutions, fewer than 10 percent of the company’s clients have ConneCting CliniCians, patients and faCilities. tHat’s sage 360º. CLINICAL MANAGEMENT ANALYTICAL REPORTING ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT EDI TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT deployed an EHR. “The majority of our clients will be making an EHR decision over the next few years, and we think they’ll be impressed by our ability to provide a single-source solution that frees them from having to make capital investments or acquire additional technology resources,” he said. “By offering our solution via the ASP model with local and regional support and implementation, CHMB will help improve the quality of care that their physician clients deliver and ultimately lower the cost of running a medical practice,” said Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: HoSt 0208 ● Iowa Continued from page 53 When you think about interoperability between practices, patients and facilities, you should think Sage Software. Our products currently connect thousands of ambulatory care practices to laboratories, hospitals, pharmacies and more. And the Intergy Practice Portal enables secure, fully integrated messaging between practices and their patients*. Stop by HIMSS Booth #4001 or visit www.sagehealth.com/HITN to learn more about how Sage Software has enabled interoperability across the continuum of care for clients nationwide. *Requires use of the Intergy by Sage Suite sold and licensed separately. ©2008 Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. All rights reserved. Sage Software, Sage Software logos, and Intergy are registered trademarks or trademarks of Sage Software Healthcare, Inc. or its affiliated entities. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 1 VISIT US AT HIMSS BOOTH #4001 St. Luke’s Hospital in Grand Lakes will be the pilot site, where approximately 300 patients with heart failure will participate in the study. The Iowa Health System and Wellmark have agreed to a 60 percent compliance target for the reward program. The money generated by the program will be used by the physicians and nurses for equipment and education and training programs. The Iowa Health System will also track the order sets’ impact on length of stay, cost per case and readmission rates. “We hope to learn how to most effectively design and implement evidenced-based practice,” said Mary Ann Osborn, vice president and chief clinical officer at St. Luke’s. Adopting and using the practice provides a challenge, she noted. “This project provides us an opportunity to align incentives with payers, hospitals and physicians to ensure utilization,” Osborn said. “Second, we hope to capitalize on this experience and build an infrastructure for transparency and incentive alignment.” David Rhew, MD, vice president of content development for Zynx Health, noted, “An increasing number of payers are focusing on ways to align reimbursement with the achievement of high quality patient care.” At the same time, he pointed out, payers are increasingly recognizing that robust evidence-based decision support will drive population health improvement. 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