MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) announced today its acquisition of Core Medical Solutions, a recognised healthcare IT software leader with a strong presence in both Victoria and Western Australia. This acquisition significantly increases Allscripts global offerings, and builds upon its commitment to delivering the most advanced solutions in Australia, which support proactive care management for clinicians and consumers of care alike. Allscripts now provides solutions to more than 85 hospitals in the country.

Core Medical Solutions' strong national reputation has been built from a deep understanding of the Australian hospital environment and the development of BOSSnet, a robust clinical information system.

'Our acquisition by Allscripts empowers us to continue to provide Australian hospitals with the solutions they need to enhance their healthcare delivery and responsiveness. Australian hospitals will be able to deliver improved clinical care as we integrate with Allscripts' innovative products, including Sunrise PAS and EMR module, as well as EMR-agnostic population health solutions including dbMotion™,' said Rohan Ward, Co-Founder of Core Medical Solutions.

Allscripts builds open, connected communities of health. Its solutions enable smarter care, delivered with greater precision, for healthier patients, communities and populations. Allscripts offers a breadth of solutions for hospitals and health systems in Australia, including Sunrise™. Sunrise is an integrated platform for acute care, ambulatory care and revenue cycle that is highly configurable and built on an open platform. It enables enhanced care coordination, workflows, connecting documentation, orders, patient issues and care-planning events through its number-one-rated, highly intuitive user interface.

'Core Medical Solutions has outstanding market presence, reputation, clients and extensive technical and practical knowledge of the Australian market, and is a great fit to the Allscripts family,' said David Chambers, Allscripts Managing Director.

Core Medical Solutions will continue to be based in Adelaide, South Australia, and will operate as an Allscripts subsidiary. This transaction is not currently material to Allscripts financial results.

About Core Medical Solutions
Core Medical Solutions (CMS) is an Adelaide-based company founded in 2001 to deliver industry leading electronic medical record (EMR) solutions throughout Australia. Our strong reputation has been built from a deep understanding of the Australian hospital environment and its collective goal of transitioning from paper-based medical records to electronic medical records. We support Australian hospitals in their journey towards effective EMR solutions.

Our flagship system, BOSSnet is a comprehensive, customisable, robust and affordable suite of software applications, providing an innovative, flexible and powerful EMR solution. BOSSnet is also an intuitive and adaptive EMR which makes daily clinical practice easier by enabling greater speed and quality in capturing and distributing health information. To learn more visit: http://www.coremedicalsolutions.com

About Allscripts
Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTubeandIt Takes A Community: The Allscripts Blog.

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