Chicago-based Allscripts, a perpetual newsmaker in healthcare IT, made a splash once again when it announced a merger with Eclipsys on June 9. This timeline recounts some of the EHR vendor's other memorable headlines over the past five years.

Allscripts results reflect ARRA stimulus
January 11, 2010 | Jack Beaudoin, VP, Content
Recession? What recession? Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions reported its second quarter financial results at the start of 2010, showing significant improvements in both revenue and income over the same period a year before. For the quarter ending Nov. 30, 2009, the Chicago-based EHR vendor recorded revenues of nearly $170 million, a 30-percent hike over the $128.6 million in revenues for the same period the year prior.

KLAS evaluates Allscripts-Misys merger, one year later
November 18, 2009 | Molly Merrill, Associate Editor
A reported dip in customer satisfaction and service after the 2008 merger between Chicago-based Allscripts and UK-based Misys is unlikely to dampen future sales of the company's electronic medical record solutions, according to research firm KLAS.

Allscripts shareholders file class action suit
August 05, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor
Allscripts shareholders filed a lawsuit alleging the company broke federal securities laws when it went live with the newest version of its EHR clinical software, TouchWorks. Allscripts officers said the suit was without merit.

Allscripts, Cardinal Health announce partnership to sell EHRs to physicians
May 07, 2009 | Eric Wicklund, Managing Editor

One of the nation’s largest electronic health record vendors teamed up with a major healthcare distributor in an effort to convince solo and small-practice physicians to adopt healthcare IT.

Allscripts to sell Medication Services business, announces $150M stock buyback
February 11, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions announced plans to sell its Medication Services business in 2009. In a separate announcement, the company's board of directors approved a $150 million (about 15 million shares) stock repurchase program.

Allscripts-Misys merger means short-term pain, long-term gain
March 31, 2008 | Richard Pizzi, Contributing Editor
The official word from executives at Misys and Allscripts after the two companies announced a proposed merger in March 2008 was resoundingly positive. Misys CEO Mike Lawrie called Allscripts the "perfect partner" and said the two healthcare IT firms share "highly compatible cultures." But as details of the deal emerged, were financial analysts as sanguine in their assessment of the new company's potential?

Allscripts buys ECIN for $90M
January 02, 2008 | Eric Wicklund, Managing Editor
Allscripts, long known for its clinical software and information systems for physicians, took aim at hospitals with the purchase of the Extended Care Information Network, a Chicago-based provider of hospital care management and discharge planning software.

Allscripts unveils itself as CCHIT tester
February 15, 2006 | Jack Beaudoin, VP, Content
In early 2006, Allscripts revealed it was one of six vendors currently being used to beta test the proposed certification process for electronic medical records.

Allscripts-A4: Not a sign of what's to come
January 20, 2006 | Jack Beaudoin, VP, Content
Allscripts's acquisition of A4 Health will boost its presence in the physician practice market, but according to comapny officials, the acquisition was not – by itself – an example of the mega-consolidation some industry watchers predicted for 2006.

Allscripts-Sharp deal could pay dividends for years to come
February 09, 2005 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions's 2005 deal to deploy its electronic medical records technology at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare could be a major triumph for the vendor, analysts said at the time. Announced in January, the project called for implementing Allscripts's TouchWorks to 300-plus physicians at Sharp's Rees-Stealy Medical Group.