Organizations around the globe taking action to ensure effective care delivery
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) and its clients have taken significant actions to ensure effective care delivery in the communities they serve. With unwavering dedication to patient health, caregivers from both large hospital systems and independent physician practices around the world continue to excel in the face of the unprecedented crisis to help manage their patients and combat the spread of the virus.
New York State's largest health system and longtime Allscripts partner, Northwell Health, was at the epicenter of the outbreak in its initial stages. The system is powered by more than 72,000 clinicians and administrators, and many of its facilities use the Sunrise electronic health record to treat patients and analyze data to identify trends to help improve patient outcomes amidst the pandemic.
"COVID-19 is impacting patients in ways we have never seen before, and it's critical we study the vast amount of data we've collected to continue to refine our treatment plans," said Northwell Health Senior Vice President and Deputy Physician-in-Chief Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH. "With Allscripts as our trusted partner and its solutions in our arsenal, we're tackling the spread of the disease and learning how to better manage this crisis."
Working closely with its clients,, Allscripts has helped healthcare organizations rapidly implement telehealth capabilities to enable virtual patient visits at many organizations. Throughout the COVID-19 experience, more than 100 Allscripts clients have selected FollowMyHealth Telehealth, which creates engagement of patients in their homes and fosters increased communication between them and their healthcare providers.
Hackley Community Care Center—located in Muskegon Heights, Michigan—recently and very quickly enabled virtual patient visits using Allscripts Professional EHR Mobile and FollowMyHealth. The accomplishment meant its more than 50 caregivers in 14 locations seeing 300–350 patients a day could meet the COVID-19 pandemic head on while still serving all of its patients.
As the United Kingdom's Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust began preparing for the coronavirus outbreak, it decided to accelerate the deployment of the dbMotion Solution.
"Allscripts collaborated with the Trust to deploy the critical solution in only a matter of weeks, quickly helping position us to have access to the information we need to effectively meet the very high demand for acute patient care," said Adam Thomas, Dudley Group's Chief Information Officer.
In March in Australia, SA Health completed its Sunrise implementation at Royal Adelaide Hospital, the state's flagship hospital. The health system implemented several innovations to ensure that all COVID-19 cases were prioritized and effectively managed, leveraging Sunrise's full capabilities to successfully manage the influx of COVID-19 patients.
SA Health Chief Digital Health Officer Bret Morris said, "Sunrise EHR has been an important instrument in managing COVID-19 and the ability to adapt the solution at pace has enabled us to be nimble and powered excellent case traceability of patients as they moved through our system."
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