The Heart Center Selects Allscripts Electronic Health Record and Practice Management for 50 ...( Indiana Group Upgrades from Allsc...),Health

Indiana Group Upgrades from Allscripts Document Management; Expects

12-month Break-Even on Clinical & Financial Investment

CHICAGO and FORT WAYNE, Ind., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Allscripts, the leading provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions that physicians use to improve healthcare, announced today that The Heart Center Medical Group has selected the Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) solution to automate and connect clinical and administrative processes for its 50 physicians.

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The Heart Center is a physician-owned multi-specialty group practice operating out of a new state-of-the-art 82,000-square-foot facility and nine other locations across the Fort Wayne area.

"We're trying to lead a little healthcare revolution right here in Indiana and Allscripts is the right partner to help," said Joel R. Sauer, Chief Executive Officer of the Heart Center. "It's a great situation when you can provide better patient care with a tool that let's you do better financially, too."

In 2001, the Heart Center implemented the Impact.MD document management solution from Allscripts. Impact.MD improves chart access and practice workflow by electronically scanning and filing current documents and making them accessible to the entire staff, regardless of their location. The Heart Center decided to implement the Allscripts solution as a step towards adopting a full Electronic Health Record.

"It's the best thing we ever did," Sauer said of deploying Impact.MD. "We now have lower costs on a per physician basis than we could ever have achieved with paper records. And we believe the electronic health record will bring even better results."

Sauer said the practice expects to hit the break-even poi
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