On Wednesday, Laptop Applications and Methods, Inc. (CPSI) has offered American HealthTech – its subsidiary that gives an EHR platform for the post-acute care market – to post-acute healthcare IT vendor PointClickCare Applied sciences. Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.

PointClickCare will now purchase American HealthTech's buyer base. These prospects “may have the complete advantage of leveraging the whole PointClickCare portfolio and its choices throughout healthcare settings,” stated Dave Wessinger, CEO of PointClickCare.

His firm was based 25 years in the past to deal with the siled nature of healthcare in aged care.

“Throughout the care continuum, operational inefficiencies and boundaries stay for suppliers to evolve by way of care supply as sufferers' wants turn into extra complicated,” Wessinger stated. “PointClickCare's mission is to deal with vital healthcare gaps attributable to a few of these components and to higher serve high-needs populations by means of a rising healthcare collaboration community.”

PointClickCare's EHR platform and different know-how options goal to enhance each the supplier and affected person experiences for accountable care organizations, hospitals, healthcare techniques, outpatient clinics, long-term care services and post-acute care suppliers. The corporate's cloud-based platform delivers real-time insights on the level of care to allow extra environment friendly transitions and higher post-discharge outcomes, Wessinger explains.

At its core, PointClickCare strives to allow value-based care supply and entry to real-time insights at each stage of a senior's care journey, he added. By buying American HealthTech and its buyer base, PointClickCare can proceed to meet this mission by increasing the variety of suppliers it serves, Wessinger stated.

He famous that PointClickCare will work carefully with American HealthTech's prospects to make sure they’re efficiently put in on their new platform and have full confidence of their migration course of. He declined to say what number of prospects American HealthTech had, however stated the subsidiary served “a number of” group hospitals, clinics and post-acute care services.

“Whereas [American HealthTech] prospects are free to discover the market, our platform is really unequalled within the business and we’re aware of the wants, alternatives and challenges for senior care suppliers,” stated Wessinger. “We’re assured in our potential to successfully migrate prospects and establish the most effective options to allow them to proceed to serve their services, residents and sufferers with the identical stage of effectivity and care.”

John Pulliam, government director of the Fountainview Middle for Alzheimer's Illness in Georgia, is a former US HealthTech buyer who has already made the swap to the PointClickCare platform. The transition of his group went fairly easily, in accordance with a press release from the press launch asserting the acquisition.

“We’re happy to have such a confirmed accomplice at our facet so we are able to proceed to supply the care our residents anticipate from us, whereas additionally getting ready for the longer term with a extra built-in, cloud-based answer. I consider the transfer to PointClickCare has additionally created a way of unity with our employees, and it’s inspiring to see how our medical group works collectively to assist one another as they be taught,” stated Pulliam.

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