On Wednesday, Laptop Applications and Programs, Inc. (CPSI) offered American HealthTech — its subsidiary that gives an EHR platform for the post-acute care market — to post-acute well being IT vendor PointClickCare Applied sciences. The phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
PointClickCare will now assume American HealthTech’s buyer base. These clients “could have the total advantage of leveraging the complete PointClickCare portfolio and its choices throughout care settings,” declared PointClickCare CEO Dave Wessinger.
His firm was based 25 years in the past to deal with the siloed nature of healthcare within the senior care business.
“Throughout the healthcare continuum, there stay operational inefficiencies and obstacles for suppliers to evolve when it comes to care supply as affected person wants grow to be extra complicated,” Wessinger stated. “PointClickCare’s mission is to deal with important gaps in healthcare which are attributable to a few of these components and higher serve high-needs populations by way of an increasing care collaboration community.”
PointClickCare’s EHR platform and different expertise options are aimed toward bettering each the supplier and affected person expertise for accountable care organizations, hospitals, well being programs, ambulatory clinics, long-term care amenities and post-acute care suppliers. The corporate’s cloud-based platform delivers real-time insights on the level of care to facilitate extra environment friendly transitions and improved post-discharge outcomes, Wessinger defined.
At its core, PointClickCare seeks to allow value-based care supply and entry to actual‐time insights at each stage of seniors’ healthcare journeys, he added. By buying American HealthTech and taking on its buyer base, PointClickCare can proceed to satisfy this mission by increasing the variety of suppliers it serves, Wessinger stated.
He famous that PointClickCare will work intently with American HealthTech’s clients to make sure they’re arrange efficiently on their new platform and are absolutely assured of their migration course of. He declined to say what number of clients American HealthTech had, however he shared that the subsidiary served “numerous” group hospitals, clinics and post-acute care amenities.
“Whereas [American HealthTech] clients are free to discover the market, our platform is actually unmatched within the business, and we’re conscious about the wants, alternatives, and challenges for senior care suppliers,” Wessinger said. “We’re assured in our skill emigrate clients successfully and determine the very best options to allow them to proceed servicing their amenities, residents and sufferers with the identical degree of effectivity and care.”
John Pulliam, govt director of the Fountainview Heart for Alzheimer’s Illness in Georgia, is a former American HealthTech buyer who has already made the shift to PointClickCare’s platform. His group’s transition went fairly easily, in keeping with an announcement from the press launch that introduced the acquisition.
“We’re excited to have such a confirmed associate on our facet so we are able to proceed offering the care our residents have come to count on from us, whereas additionally getting ready for the long run with a extra built-in, cloud-based answer. I imagine transitioning to PointClickCare has additionally caused a way of unity with our workers, and seeing our scientific workforce working collectively to assist each other as they study has been inspiring,” Pulliam remarked.
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