Allscripts, Northwell Health to Co-Develop ‘Next-Generation EHR’

EHR vendor Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) announced it is working with New York-based Northwell Health to create what it describes as the next-generation EHR, which will be cloud-based, voice-enabled, and artificial intelligence-based. The EHR will be designed and tested using input from Northwell clinicians, information technology experts and administrators with the goal of ultimately deploying it systemwide, Allscripts said.

Increasingly, health systems and health IT vendors are looking for ways to work more closely together on technology innovations. Northwell Health is New York State’s largest healthcare provider and private employer, with more than 13,600 affiliated physicians. It has been using Allscripts’ EHR since 2009.

Chicago-based Allscripts will provide the development and systems integration expertise. Allscripts and Northwell will jointly develop and pilot the new EHR while continuing to support and enhance Allscripts Sunrise, the EHR platform currently in use at the 19 Northwell hospitals and Allscripts Touchworks, currently in use at more than 750 outpatient practices that Northwell owns and operates throughout the New York area.

 “We are excited about the possibilities that this alliance with Allscripts will generate,” said Michael J. Dowling, Northwell Health’s president and chief executive officer, in a statement. “Coupling Allscripts’ technology expertise with Northwell’s clinical and operational strengths will enable us to create a dynamic, patient-facing tool that will arm clinicians with knowledge to provide exceptional care to our patients.”