Fort Collins, Colo.-based Poudre Valley Health System will offer discounted electronic health records and practice management software from Chicago-based Allscripts to area physicians. The two-hospital delivery system initially has purchased 200 licenses for the vendor's integrated applications for the donation program. Physicians or practices that choose to participate in the program can implement the combined systems or the EHR application alone. Poudre Valley also will offer to host the applications for participants. Additionally, Allscripts will integrate the systems with the delivery system's hospital information system, from Westwood, Mass.-based Medical Information Technology Inc., to enable physicians to access clinical data from the hospitals.
The project capitalizes on the recent changes in the Stark regulations that permit hospitals to donate certain software to physicians, as well as an Internal Revenue Service ruling saying that such a donation does not jeopardize a hospital’s not-for-profit status. For more information, go to allscripts.com.
NOV 7, 2007 4:09pm ET
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