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Service: Emergency department information system.
Winning Vendor: A4 Health Systems (acquired by Allscripts during selection).
First Runner-up: Picis.
Selection Team: A multidisciplinary group of about a dozen staff, led by Cori Armstead, nurse manager.
Healthcare Issue Addressed: Functionality of prior system.
Contract Signed: November 2005, after 18-month search.
Number Vendors Considered: Seven, including Cerner, Emergisoft, MedHost, Picis and Wellsoft.
Range of Bids: $225,000 to $1.3 million
Winnowing Out: Eliminated vendors MedHost (documentation modules), WellSoft (interfaces), and Cerner (functions).
Evaluation Tools: Ranked all vendors with scorecard; site visits to two finalists.
Why Allscripts Won: Superior reporting tools of aggregate clinical data and ease of setting up customized order sets, says Lawrence Wilson, M.D., medical director.
—Gary Baldwin
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