athenahealth partners with medical center for inpatient EHR

Beth Walsh | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR

athenahealth and University of Toledo Medical Center are partnering to develop the vendor's EHR for deployment in the hospital, which will be the largest acute care hospital to use athenahealth's EHR, according to a Fortune report.

athenahealth has been a leader in the ambulatory EHR market but made its plans to expand into the hospital EHR market clear last year with the acquisition of RazorInsights, a cloud-based EHR and financial solutions provider for rural, critical access and community hospitals. That was followed up by the purchase of the EHR platform built by Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

At the University of Toledo Medical Center, athenahealth plans to develop its EHR for providers in both ambulatory and hospital care settings. The organization has been an athenahealth client since 2014, according to the report.

"Working with athenahealth…is an excellent opportunity to position our providers already using athenaNet to impact transitions of care across UTMC's ecosystem," said David Morlock, CEO of University of Toledo Medical Center. "We are embracing this opportunity to fully implement the cloud across our inpatient and outpatient environments."

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Editor Beth earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in health communication. She has worked in hospital, academic and publishing settings over the past 20 years. Beth joined TriMed in 2005, as editor of CMIO and Clinical Innovation + Technology. When not covering all things related to health IT, she spends time with her husband and three children.

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