PITIFULL - Nice purchase Harris ..... From 2017 to 2022, Epic was by far the most successful EHR vendor and the only one to gain hospital beds, according to KLAS Research. Here are the EHR vendors that picked up — or lost — the most acute care... — read more
MP Talks to the Media
Did know that Mad Magazine qualifies as the media: From Linkedin Check out what Altera President, Marcus Perez, had to say when he sat down with members of the media during #HIMSS23: https://example.com/3BSMyX5
Altera Pitiful State of Affairs
Per Beckers - Epic continued to pull away from the competition in 2022, adding dozens of hospitals and thousands of hospital beds to its EHR market share, a May 23 KLAS Research report found. The second-place acute care EHR vendor, Oracle Cerner... — read more
Shawshank Veradigm
From HISTALK From Vera Dime-a-Dozen: “Re: MDRX, formerly Allscripts and now Veradigm. Were supposed to restate their 10K on May 8, but it has been postponed to mid-June as the internal audit continues to identify issues.” The company says in a recent... — read more
2022 Q4 Earnings Release Still Not Out
RP must be buried trying to quantify all the bogus bookings and revenue recognitions that go back years. Once that is finalized and released, the stock will be back down in single digits and the board will have no choice but to perform and en--a on... — read more
MDRX Stock Cratering
A year ago the stock price was $22 per share which obviously artificially high because of the games played at the top. Stock is now $12 per share with plenty of room to go down once they finally release the 2022 Q4 release which will have to disclose... — read more
This is How Pitiful Things are for Altera
Posting the following news on HISTALK about a 120 hospital extending their Paragon contract is really sad... Bergen New Bridge Medical Center extends its use of Altera Digital Health’s Paragon for another five years and will implement its ambulatory... — read more
Pretty quiet...
For all of the hand wringing and threats, I haven't heard of any Altera layoffs. What's their secret?
Northwell Interview About Moving to Epic
Why Northwell switched to Epic Systems: Q&A with CIO Sophy Lu As New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health seeks to transform patient, clinician and team member experience using technology, the health system chose to move to Epic as the vendor could... — read more
New Beckers Article on Major EHR Vendors
Altera doesn't qualify as a major EHR Vendor - Top success factors for each major EHR vendor Clinicians who are highly satisfied with their EHRs tend to like their personalized tools and have taken the initiative to learn the systems, a March 24... — read more
Northwell - It's Official
Northwell picks Epic in EHR switch New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is moving from Allscripts to Epic Systems. Northwell said it will rollout the new Epic EHR system in phases, with the first go-live to occur in 2025, according to a... — read more
Interoperability - Beckers
Notice the reference to Altera and no reference to Veradigm: The letter grades EHR vendors get for interoperability Interoperability has long been a goal of many in the healthcare industry, with EHR vendors playing a big role in how well providers... — read more
Veradigm Practice Management Ranks First in Practice Management Solutions from Black Book™ Research
With most of APM team wiped out by Veradigm, can they retain this position for coming years? Does anyone at the Veradigm leadership team think that this would have been possible without the efforts of people who were left high and dry over a teams... — read more
Beckers Article
The sad thing is that 6 of these hospitals used to run Sunrise.... What EHR vendor the highest-rated hospitals, health systems are using Epic Systems, the EHR vendor that controls nearly a third of the U.S. hospital market share, is one of the most... — read more
Northwell Job Board
No Sunrise Jobs Out There - BO-M !!!! Product Services & Management Analyst - EPIC 84668Information Technology and Services Lake Success, NY 3/1/2023 Lead Product Services & Management Analyst, Epic Implementation 84995Future Opportunities Lake... — read more
Epic vs Veradigm
Per HISTALK - Epic will add 1,700 employees to its current headcount of 11,600 in the next 12 months, housing them in two new office buildings that it will build within its Harry Potter-themed Wizards Academy complex. Word is that since Veradigm has... — read more
SEC Can Have a Field Day
Hopefully, the SEC will stick a microscope up the a-s of Allscripts going back a good 7 or 8 years. Imagine PB and RP in stripes sharing a cell in Tsing Tsing. They would be so popular in the showers. That would make so many people happy !!!
Here We Go
INVESTOR ALERT: Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces Investigation of Veradigm Inc. (MDRX) on Behalf of Investors 8:00 AM ET 3/1/23 | BusinessWire BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 01, 2023-- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an... — read more
Latest on APM
So what is the latest word on the future of APM now that Allscripts has obliterated development and support ? What are all the PRO EHR customers saying ? And what are the poor Altera TouchWorks customers saying ?
Sunrise in HISTALK
From Another NY SR IT Leader: “Re: Sunrise. In addition to Northwell moving to Epic, Altera has Memorial Sloan Kettering, St. Barnabas Bronx, and Brooklyn Hospital all implementing Epic. NYC was once a stronghold for the former Eclipsys Sunrise.”
Wants to resign
Hi all, I work in dev team in Altera. I wants to change company but not able to do so because of daily office work and filthy politics. Shall I resign without any offer? And then search the job? I am not ble to concentrate in studies due to daily... — read more
Northwell
From HISTALK: From NY CIO: “Re: Northwell Health. Word is it will announce its move to Epic and that it will bring a large number of their Allscripts-outsourced employees back in-house. I’ve been watching the Northwell job site, which lists a handful... — read more
Insanley
Can’t make this up. MP presents slide deck on All Hands call. Wants us to be insanely great. But his slide deck has insanely spelled ‘insanley’.
Leave before this place drains all your energy
I hesitated for a long time whether to leave or stay here for a while longer, but now I see that leaving was the best thing I could have done for myself. What you need to know is that after you leave this misery of a place and come to a better... — read more
Tone Deaf
Another spectacularly tone deaf email from MP. Does he want us all to quit? SMH
Altera Falling Apart
This week RP basically ripped the heart out if APM which impacts Altera’s TouchWorks customers. Altera’s best sales VP quit as his region is bolting for Epic. NorthWell, Sloan Kettering and Brooklyn hospital are all implementing Epic. Whoever did... — read more
APM Blow Up Impacts Altera
Not only did RP sc--w all his PRO customers by bagging the majority of the APM team, he bent over MP and gave it to him high and dry. All of Altera’s TW customers who also have APM are screwed also.
Veradigm (Allscripts rebranded) is at it again
RP just let 150 people go, random acts of idiocy given where they hit. On the one hand leadership is looking for and expecting 20% growth, then they cut the Achilles tendon to keep it from happening. Seems like they think we aren't growing and are... — read more
Veradigm/Allscripts APM Layoffs
75% of APM team, gone today...
New KLAS Rankings
Sunrise and Paragon missing again. I guess they don't publish negative scores.... Epic was named the top overall health IT software suite for the 13th year in a row Feb. 8 in the 2023 Best in KLAS Awards. Here are the rankings for that top award... — read more
Comical
This is what happens when due diligence s____cks. Constellation Software delays posting its Q4 and annual reports, blaming the complexity of its May 2022 acquisition of the hospital and large physician practice business of Allscripts, which is now... — read more
Big Loss in Sales
An announcement went out a couple of weeks ago that the VP of Sales in the East is leaving. He has been a mainstay with those customers for years. Will be a big challenge for the guy taking on that territory. New York City is not like dealing with... — read more
Meditech reports 9 new Q4 clients
That's more than all new Sunrise client in the last 5 years..... EHR vendor Meditech reported that its subscription-based Expanse Meditech-as-a-Service platform gained nine new clients in the fourth quarter. The fourth-quarter results match the... — read more
The last ones standing…..
I’ve spent way more time than necessary reading all these posts about the new misery that is Altera. Post after post of complaints. If you dont like it. Leave. Many stay in unhealthy relationships because they feel no self worth. too lazy to... — read more
Perez Call 1/13/23
Wonder how many Altera users will be looking elsewhere for employment after Perez’s brutal call today./
Lipstick On A Pig
Allscripts announced they are officially changing their name to 'Veradigm". They must be hoping that the broader HIT community is stupid enough to think the company will be different. NEW FLASH - There will be no difference !!!!
Allscripts/Altera from bad to worse
Is anyone going to comment on the end-of-year performance review NEWS we are getting hit with? NO increases, we are now responsible for utilization and training/mentoring our Global friends. How are we all still signing on clients -- if we are not... — read more
AMB EHR KLAS Report
No mention of PRO or TW - whether the name is Allscripts or Altera !!! A KLAS report on practice management systems for mid-sized and large practices finds Athenahealth and Epic topping the list for large practices — although Meditech Expanse was... — read more
ACE - Allscripts Client Experience
Word is that Allscripts is following the lead of Cerner below and moving ACE: The event that was formerly known as the Cerner Health Conference will move to Las Vegas next year as part of the Oracle CloudWorld Conference. ACE will be moved to a... — read more
3 health systems opting for Epic EHRs
These 3 all have something in common - leaving Altera for Epic Below are three health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since Nov. 9. Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital went live with a new Epic EHR Dec. 3. The... — read more