Two leading health care technology companies have announced they will
collaborate to develop integrated solutions for providers in an
increasingly interconnected health care environment.
Netsmart
and Allscripts
(NASDAQ: MDRX) will partner to help ensure integrated care is achieved
for all heath communities. This collaboration will focus on further
enhancing clinical workflows, optimizing outcomes and reducing costs.
Netsmart and Allscripts share clients that use the Allscripts Sunrise™
electronic health record (EHR) for physical health and the Netsmart
myAvatar™ CareRecord™ EHR for behavioral health.
One collaborative initiative will enable Allscripts Sunrise users to
view behavioral health records within an Allscripts Sunrise workflow,
and myAvatar users to view physical health records in a myAvatar
workflow. These capabilities will help lead to improved care, a
streamlined user experience for clinicians and reduced costs.
A second initiative will integrate Netsmart’s behavioral EHRs with
Allscripts ambulatory EHR platforms. This will allow for improved care
coordination for the 26 percent of the population who will have a mental
illness diagnosis this year.
“Health care providers need innovative, pragmatic technology partners
that can equip them to grow and thrive as they serve increasingly
diverse clients in complex settings,” said Michael Valentine, chief
executive officer, Netsmart. ”Allscripts and Netsmart are
well-positioned to equip providers with scalable solutions so they can
focus on their own core growth and serve their clients in a coordinated
care environment.”
Providing services and solutions to complement the communities each
organization represents is a starting point of this collaboration. In
addition, both Allscripts and Netsmart have made and will continue to
make investments to further their open systems strategies. This will
include optimizing cloud infrastructures to better coordinate care and
leverage efficiencies to make innovative technologies available for all.
“For more than 46 years, Netsmart has been committed to innovative
solutions that go beyond interoperability to integration, providing real
time contextual and relevant data for any point of view. This
partnership further underscores our commitment to open systems, driving
our collective communities to true person-centric care,” said Valentine.
Netsmart offers EHR, billing and care coordination solutions for
behavioral health, addiction treatment, child/family services and other
social service providers. Netsmart is also the knowledge and technology
partner for broader coordinated care initiatives, including behavioral
health-centered health homes and health information exchanges (HIEs).
Allscripts is a leading provider of enterprise systems for integrated
delivery networks, physician practice systems, interoperability and
population health management.
About Netsmart
Netsmart is committed to helping health and human services providers
deliver effective, outcomes-based care with Netsmart’s CareFabric™
solution, a tightly woven framework of innovative clinical and business
solutions and services that supports integrated, coordinated delivery of
health services across the spectrum of care.
More than 23,000 client organizations, including 450,000 care providers
and more than 40 state systems, use Netsmart solutions to help improve
the quality of life for more than 25 million people each day.
Netsmart is pleased to support the EveryDay Matters Foundation, which
was established for behavioral and public health organizations to learn
from each other and share their causes and stories. For more
information, visit www.everydaymatters.com
Learn more about how Netsmart and the CareFabric solution are changing
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