CHICAGO and ORANGE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
St. Joseph Health System
(SJHS), a $4.6 billion not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system
based in Orange, CA that provides a broad range of medical services
in California, West Texas and Eastern New Mexico, has selected Care
Management™ and Homecare™ solutions from Allscripts (Nasdaq:
MDRX) to streamline patient movement through their 14 hospitals
and enhance patient care following discharge.  

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The Allscripts
Care Management solution will help ensure continuity of care by
automating and consolidating everyday tasks for SJHS’s hospital
case managers including utilization management, discharge planning,
documentation integrity, audit management and quality management.
 The fully-integrated, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
application also will streamline the referral of patients requiring
long-term care to SJHS’s network of post-acute organizations as
well as the Allscripts proprietary network of 110,000 post-acute
providers.

“Allscripts will standardize case management processes across
the organization while improving transitions of care for all of our
patients,” said Clyde E. Wesp, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer and
Chief Medical Information Officer of SJHS.  “A key benefit is
the automation of the discharge process, which lets us quickly and
easily connect with our own and other long-term care organizations
to find the best fit for patients who need further care, and helps
patients make a faster, more informed choice.”

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