INTEGRIS Health Selects Allscripts Care Management for Its 13...( CHICAGO and OKLAHOMA CITY Jan. 6 ...),Health

CHICAGO and OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts announced today that INTEGRIS Health will extend their deployment of Allscripts Care Management from two hospitals to all 13 of their Oklahoma facilities, helping to streamline patient movement through the hospital, improve reimbursement, and enhance continuity of care across the INTEGRIS network.

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INTEGRIS Health is Oklahoma's largest locally-owned health care corporation and one of the state's largest private employers with hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities, fitness centers, and home health agencies throughout much of the state. In 2006, INTEGRIS implemented Allscripts Care Management in its two largest hospitals, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center and INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center, both in the Oklahoma City area. Two years earlier, INTEGRIS Physician Services implemented Allscripts Enterprise Electronic Health Record for their 74 physicians.

"Allscripts has proven to be an exceptional partner for INTEGRIS, delivering significant savings in the form of reduced claims denials and helping us to better manage our patients' length of stays with a care management application that's virtually trouble free," said Greg Meyers, INTEGRIS System Vice President. "Now we're expanding the Allscripts deployment to all our hospitals and adding discharge planning to allow our case managers to connect electronically with nursing homes and home care agencies so they can find the best match for discharged patients who need further care."

Allscripts Discharge Planning and Utilization Management are key elements of the company's Care Management solution, which is used by more than 700 hospitals nationwide. Allscripts Care Management is a
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