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46 Healthcare IT News ■ September 2007 vENdORS patients visits Butler’s emergency department. “Thanks to Allscripts, our physicians in the emergency department and in practices outside the hospital will have instant access to the same patient information, which means patients will receive higher-quality, safer care,” said Ken DeFurio, Butler Health System’s president and CEO. Allscripts also secured a contract with Novant Health of WinstonSalem, N.C., which is deploying the company’s practice management www.HealthcareITNews.com solution to some 794 physicians across 232 locations in North and South Carolina. This agreement follows an earlier contract in which Novant deployed Allscripts’ EHR. “It’s in our best interest to have a single, integrated workflow between the clinical and administrative sides of our medical group and clinics,” said A.J. Patefield, M.D., executive vice president of Novant and physician sponsor of the EHR. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: coNtractS 0907 CoNTraCTs Continued from page 43 deploying TouchWorks to 650 physicians; Northwest Hospital in Seattle, which is deploying TourchWorks to 50 physicians and plans to offer the solution to another 250 over the next few years; the Blessing Health System of Quincy, Ill., which is deploying TouchWorks to more than 60 employed and independent physicians; and the Southwestern Medical Clinic in Berrier County, Mich., which is deploying In addition – and just as TouchWorks to nearly 70 important, Tullman says healthcare providers. – Allscripts’ contract with “By offering both affiliButler calls for the instalated and non-affiliated lation of an emergency physicians the Allscripts department information electronic health record system (EDIS) at Butler Glen Tullman and practice management Memorial Hospital. solutions, we can provide a seam“This is a huge benefit for less connection to critical patient patients and physicians,” said information along the entire con- Tullman. Integrating an EDIS with tinuum of care,” said Jerry Jackson, and EHR, he said, allows the hospresident and CEO of Blessing pital to keep in better contact with Physician Services, in a press its outlying physicians by alertrelease. ing them whenever one of their ● CrouNsE Continued from page 43 Your patient records are too important to put on paper. ARIA oncology information system If you still maintain paper records because you haven’t found software comfortable enough to use and complete enough to trust, you should learn more about ARIA™. Its chemotherapy and radiation oncology management functions give you new levels of accuracy, completeness, and confidence. And ARIA is based on the HL7 interface, so it can work with almost any other software in your facility. New capabilities. Familiar procedures. Two more reasons to partner with Varian. To see how one facility upgraded from paper records, visit www.varian.com/ARIA. e ● Connect: VariaN 0907 Varian and Varian Medical Systems are registered trademarks and ARIA is a trademark of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. to come together,” says Crounse, whose rich and varied career in healthcare has included time spent as a family physician and a television network medical reporter. “What we want to focus on now is the concept of presence. We (want to) give the end user a tremendous amount of control.” The concept isn’t new to Microsoft, which has been quietly bolstering its healthcare business with the additions of new companies (Azyxxi and Medstory) and new contracts with hospitals and physician groups for its Office, Office Communicator and Office Live Meeting products. Crounse, who joined Microsoft five years ago, says the company “has spent a lot of time studying the market.” Now, he says, it’s time to act. “Joining a videoconference or a live meeting is now done by a click of the button,” he says of the technology that has advanced to a point that it’s now available in most homes. “A Web cam today is a $30 or $60 item. … Mobility is obviously a crucial factor in all of this.” ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: crouNSe 0907 ● praCTICEs Continued from page 43 Davenport, Misys’ executive vice president and general manager. He said the products, which will be announced in November, will complement Misys’ existing solutions, including its Vision, Tiger, EMR and Payerpath solutions, and will be targeted at a market that is currently underserved and has high growth potential. Misys on July 22 announced the sales of its diagnostic imaging and computerized patient records businesses. At the time, Davenport said the company would focus on the ambulatory market space, “which has tremendous growth ahead of it.” Among iMedica’s products is Patient Relationship Manager, a single-application EHR/PM solution that uses Microsoft’s .NET technology. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: PracticeS 0907 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7693 http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7694 http://www.varian.com/ARIA http://www.varian.com/ARIA http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=7695 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/eConnect.cms?id=7737

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