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Strategic Acquisitions for Allscripts

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post on the current trends in […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post on the current trends in the EHR industry. I mentioned that users of Allscripts products have increasingly been switching away from Allscripts to other vendors. Either Paul Black at Allscripts is following this blog, or he looked at the Allscripts client list because he is looking to reverse that trend. On March 6th, Allscripts announced its acquisition of two companies dbMotion and Jardogs in an attempt to improve both their Allscripts product lines and to continue to enhance to the Allscripts community’s ability to share information openly. For those of you who may be worrying about Allscripts’s commitment to its own products, don’t fret! Concurrent with this acquisition, Allscripts has pledged over $500 million to improve its own product offerings. However, some of you may have never heard of either of these newly acquired companies, so I thought I would provide a brief overview of each acquisition.

dbMotion Sold for $235 Million 

dbMotion was founded as an independent company in 2004 in Israel with a significant investment from the University of Pittsburgh which hoped that dbMotion could help solve some of its data interoperability needs. dbMotion lets healthcare companies take data from many different electronic records systems and normalize it to a common data structure That data normalization helps hospitals with business and clinical intelligence, and it lets patients access all their health data in one central location. Allscripts likely bought dbMotion because data analytics and open sharing of information is where the value and growth will be in healthcare now that most hospitals and physician groups have a core electronic record system in place.

 

Jardogs Sold for Undisclosed Amount

Jardogsis a Springfield, IL based company that has seen use of its FollowMyHealth online health record grow to about 13,000 hospitals and other health-care providers nationwide. The cloud based FollowMyHealth solution, which Jardogs launched in January 2011, gives patients access to a single online portal in order to send and receive information to and from their doctors, hospitals and other health-care organizations. This means that patients can have immediate access to their medical records, including test results and doctors’ notes.  As a founding member of the CommonWell Health Alliance, Allscripts sees the Jardogs product line, specifically FollowMyHealth , as a promising opportunity for increased patient engagement which aligns with the Allscripts Open platform strategy.

 

 


Christopher Libby, MPH

Christopher holds an M.P.H. in Healthcare Policy and Management and works as a consultant with Galen Healthcare Solutions. He specializes in reporting, analytics, integrations, and custom programming for physician networks and hospital systems. He also has a particular focus on ACOs and PCMHs and has worked on ACO and HIE development projects throughout the country.

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