Technology Magazine July 2017 | Page 178

ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
exercising or achieving the goals that we have agreed upon in the care plan , which is also viewable on the citizen portal , and that they may even be missing follow-up appointments .
“ With our solutions , we can proactively contact somebody in the care team to reach out to that patient and intervene , preventing a potential decline and them having to come into the emergency room or the hospital . “ It changes the paradigm , from waiting to deal with the concerns and issues of the patient in a reactive way , to proactively identifying individuals who need earlier intervention to ensure a better health outcome .”
In order to do that , there has to be a strong infrastructure in place and the backbone of Allscripts offering is the Sunrise platform . MacGregor describes this as the company ’ s “ flagship solution ” and also revealed that it was invented here in Canada .
She adds : “ Sunrise was actually developed in British Columbia and the first market it was used in was Canada . It came out of a
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