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Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, who joined the company 1997 and recently appeared to emerge victorious after a boardroom brouhaha, has stepped down. Company president Lee Shapiro will also step down. Tullman and Shapiro will be replaced by Paul Black, who assumes both positions. Shapiro will serve as a consultant to Black for up to six […]
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys) is on the right track with its vision of interconnected applications from different vendors, based on the Helios […]
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys) is on the right track with its vision of interconnected applications from different vendors, based on the Helios […]
Despite significant popularity in the marketplace, Glen Tullman thinks Epic — and the CIOs who have chosen it — are making the wrong decision. Not surprisingly, he says the new Allscripts (a combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys) is on the right track with its vision of interconnected applications from different vendors, based on the Helios […]
“From a technology point of view, how difficult will it be to truly integrate the Allscripts ambulatory product/s with the Eclipsys inpatient product/s. How long might it take?” Good question, and complicated answer: If you define “integrated” as systems running the same programming language, operating system, data base, and hardware platform, then AllScripts will never truly integrate all of their products with Eclipsys’. True integration would mean re-writing every product from both firms to be on the same database, OS, servers, etc., something that even Eclipsys didn’t do with the many (fine) products they bought over the years to build their Sunrise suite, to whit:
