News Feature | May 5, 2014

Integration Delivers Operational Effectiveness

Griffin Frawley

By Griffin Frawley

Operational Effectiveness With Integration Health IT

SCL Health Systems selects Allscripts EPSi software to facilitate financial management

Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System (SCL Health Systems), located in Denver, has chosen Allscripts EPSi solution to unify and rationalize the healthcare organization's disparate financial management software systems, standardizing its financial decision support systems onto a single, connected, and interoperable platform.

Allscripts EPSi is an integrated, Web-based solution that can aggregate data from any healthcare or business software or system, connecting healthcare organizations’ different functional areas to provide key insights for better business management. Featuring analytics, strategic planning, product line budgeting, cost accounting, and operational and capital budgeting functionalities, Allscripts EPSi will provide a “single source of truth” for SCL Health System managers to more effectively address the financial challenges facing their organization.

"Organizational efficiency is a priority for SCL Health System," said Laurie Westrope, Senior Director of Decision Support at SCL Health System. "Allscripts EPSi will help us deliver operational effectiveness by integrating our multiple systems, enabling us to continue with our highest possible standard of care for patients in all of our facilities."

"Allscripts EPSi continues to demonstrate its value for healthcare organizations," said Martha Thorne, General Manager of Allscripts Performance & Care Logistics business unit. "The solution's interoperability allows organizations, like SCL Health System, to reduce costs associated with rip-and-replace of systems, to maximize their technology investments and to drive efficiencies that will lead to more positive patient outcomes."

SCL Health System is a nonprofit healthcare organization that operates eight hospitals, four safety net clinics, one children's mental health center, and more than 190 ambulatory service centers in Colorado, Kansas, and Montana. Today, SCL Health ranks in the “Top Quintile” of U.S. health systems by Truven Health Analytics, an organization that ranks hospital performance.

Allscripts EPSi was named Category Leader for Decision Support in the 2013 Best in KLAS report from industry analyst KLAS and holds "Peer Review" designation by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).

Source: PR Newswire