News | August 6, 2010

Alpha II Furthers Application Integration Efforts With Allscripts

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Agreement calls for seamless integration between Alpha II’s claim scrubbing, code search and editing applications into three additional Allscripts products

Alpha II, a leader in healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement, announced recently a new integration contract with Allscripts, the leading provider of clinical software, information and connectivity solutions for physicians. Alpha II’s ClaimStaker software will soon be offered as an integrated solution to the Allscripts client base currently using MyWay, Tiger PM and Vision PM. Alpha II’s CodeWizard will also be integrated into the Allscripts MyWay application. Estimated date of completion for the integrations is Q1 2011 for MyWay and Tiger, and Q2 2011 for integration into Vision.

”Allscripts provides our physician practice customers with a broad range of industry leading E H R and Revenue Cycle solutions,” said John Beck, vice president – Business Solutions Portfolio for Allscripts. “For years, our partnership with Alpha II and the integrated workflow we’ve created has allowed us not only to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace, but also to deliver practical, tangible clinical and financial results to our customers. Together, we’re now working on enhancing the MyWay, Tiger PM and Vision PM applications leveraging the same successful approaches we used in our Professional and Enterprise solutions… the results will be compelling.”

This agreement builds on the existing decade-long relationship between the two organizations. Currently, Alpha II’s ClaimStaker and CodeWizard applications are integrated with Allscripts Professional PM, Enterprise PM and Professional EHR. The integration of these Alpha II products helps Allscripts to ensure that physicians and specialty practices capture accurate history, exam and medical decision-making determinations, in addition to verifying professional and institutional claim validity.

“In an era so focused on regulatory compliance, it is crucial that Allscripts’ provider customers have access to industry-leading claim scrubbing, coding and claims editing,” said Stuart Newsome, vice president, business development of Unicor Medical, one of the software developers behind the Alpha II cobranded solution. “We’ve been proud to call the Allscripts organization our partner for ten years now, and this integration of Alpha II applications into Allscripts’ additional products further strengthens claim validity and clinical defensibility for its customers.”

About Alpha II
The Alpha II technology solutions support coding, compliance, claims editing and revenue analysis for more than 60,000 healthcare professionals at medical practices, hospitals and health systems, clinics, billing services, outpatient facilities and other healthcare organizations, both commercial and governmental. More than 30 developer partners trust Alpha II solutions to enhance their practice management, electronic medical record (EMR) and other healthcare information systems. Alpha II is a cobranded solution suite developed jointly by Tallahassee, Fla.-based, MEGAS Corporation and Montgomery, Ala.-based Unicor Medical. For more information, visit www.alphaII.com.

About Allscripts
Allscripts uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 160,000 physicians, 800 hospitals and nearly 10,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. For more information, visit www.allscripts.com.

SOURCE: Alpha II