The following press release appeared a few days ago.
South Australia's Public Health System Selects Allscripts as Vendor of Choice for 80-Hospital Electronic Health Record Project
SA Health Cites Allscripts Success with International Healthcare Organizations
Sunrise™ Enterprise Implementation to Provide Foundation for Improved Quality, Efficiency of Care
CHICAGO and ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SA Health, the public health system of South Australia, today named Allscripts as the Vendor of Choice (VOC) for a strategic initiative to improve patient care, satisfaction and clinical workflow across its network of hospitals and health clinics. SA Health plans to deploy the Sunrise Enterprise™ 5.5 suite of advanced clinical, access management and financial solutions.
SA Health's 80 metropolitan and rural hospitals and numerous health clinics serve a population of 1.6 million in an area approximately 40 percent larger than Texas. The selection of Allscripts as VOC is part of the Government of South Australia's $300 million (AUD) initiative to implement an integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) that will improve patient safety and the health system's efficiency by providing a single, secure, electronic patient record across all SA Health facilities.
Allscripts has been selected to provide the project's central hub, called the Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS), which will give healthcare professionals timely, secure access to a patient's vital information wherever and whenever they need it.
"We selected Allscripts to implement the foundation for South Australia's e-health record system because of their excellent track record delivering health information solutions for organizations around the world, including the Asia Pacific region," said SA Health's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paddy Phillips. "Sunrise from Allscripts will help us improve clinical safety and efficiency by providing a single patient record across all of our facilities, as well as integrating all administrative, financial and clinical information for a standardized approach to care across all our health services."
Allscripts Chief Executive Officer Glen Tullman commented, "SA Health's decision to automate and connect over 80 hospitals demonstrates its commitment to provide world class health care to the people of South Australia. We look forward to finalizing this agreement, which will be one of Allscripts largest to date, and moving to rapid deployment."
An interdisciplinary team of SA Health physicians, nurses and senior management selected Allscripts as VOC after an exhaustive and highly competitive analysis of available health information technology solutions. The agreement between SA Health and Allscripts is subject to contract negotiations and final approval expected during the first half of 2011. Implementation is expected to begin in the second half of 2011.
The Sunrise Enterprise suite helps healthcare organizations save time, costs and lives by supporting best practices across the enterprise and the continuum of care on a single, integrated technology platform. As a result, the many individuals involved in a patient's care can share information seamlessly. Using integrated Sunrise solutions, information handoffs between providers, departments, shifts and facilities can be completed efficiently and accurately.
Along with the Sunrise Enterprise suite's advanced capabilities, SA Health also saw significant advantages in the Helios by Allscripts™ open architecture platform. Helios enables any healthcare organization to quickly and easily extend and integrate Allscripts solutions to communicate with other clinical, non-clinical and legacy information systems.
The Allscripts Sunrise Enterprise suite will replace more than 30 obsolete information systems and databases across SA Health.
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The news was also covered here:
Allscripts picked for Southern Australia
19 Nov 2010
Southern Australia Health has named Allscripts as the Vendor of Choice (VOC) for a major project to upgrade clinical IT systems across the huge sparsely populated state.
Southern Australia Health now plans to deploy the Sunrise Enterprise 5.5 suite of advanced clinical, access management and financial solutions to its 80 metropolitan and rural hospitals and health clinics, which serve a population of 1.6m in an area approximately 40% larger than Texas.
The Allscripts Sunrise Enterprise suite will replace more than 30 obsolete information systems and databases across SA Health.
E-Health Insider understands that US Allscripts for was picked for the e-health project ahead of Cerner, Australia’s iSoft, and Intersystems Trak.
Full article here:
http://www.ehealtheurope.net/news/6436/allscripts_picked_for_southern_australia
The software being purchased and implemented originates from a company that used to be known as Eclyipsys and which was an entity that, as I recall, had a major focus on medical billing.
See here for merger news:
In depth analysis Allscripts Eclipsys healthcare merger, Goodbye Misys
By Amarendra Bhushanclose
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Healthcare IT company Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions said Wednesday that it will buy Eclipsys Corp. in a $1.3 billion all-stock deal. In another news, British software company Misys said it would cut its 55 percent stake in Allscripts health-care information business to about 10 percent and return more than $1 billion to investors.
Shareholders of Eclipsys, based in Atlanta, will receive 1.2 Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions shares for each Eclipsys share as part of the merger, the companies said. Based on Allscripts’ share price yesterday, the transaction values Eclipsys at $22.10 a share, or about $1.3 billion
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The risks I see in all this are:
1. As far as I know there are no other installations of Sunrise Clinical Manager in Australia and as such there is major risk in getting the system to align to Australian information requirements and Australian work-practices.
I know from experience these are not easy issues to address as Cerner has already discovered! These are by no means trivial issues and require considerable effort to be got right.
2. The software being purchased has been under development for a decade and while that implies maturity one would want to be sure it is not already technologically obsolete. (I am told it is a mixture of .NET and Java code).
All we can do is wish them luck over there in SA and hope they don’t replicate the implementation approaches seen with HealthSmart and in NSW Health. The risks if the imposition of a ridged implementation model must be well understood by all by now!
David.
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