Becker's Hospital Review

62 HEALTH IT 11 Most Innovative Companies, According to the C-suite By Akanksha Jayanthi I nnovation is the driving point for all organizations, regardless of industry. Companies in one industry often look to examples in other industries for ideas on how to be disruptive and push the status quo to achieve new, better and more efficient results. A recent survey from research firm peer60 asked C-suiters from across the healthcare industry to name the most innovative organi- zations, and respondents named healthcare companies alongside tech giants not specific to healthcare. Here are the most innovative organizations from the peer60 survey, broken down by categories of innovation. Walgreens Selects Epic EHR for Healthcare Clinics By Akanksha Jayanthi R etail healthcare giant Walgreens plans to transition to Epic's EHR platform in its more than 400 healthcare clinics across the country. Patrick Carroll, MD, CMO of Walgreens' Healthcare Clinics said they hope the switch to Epic will support greater care coordination, communica- tion and interoperability with other health systems and local providers. "As our clinics play an increasingly important role in healthcare, supporting the healthcare system, provider practices and patients' medical homes, care coordination can be critical," Dr. Carroll said. "is will benefit our patients, clinic providers and part- ners, and serves as an instrumental part of our stra- tegic growth plan." Currently, Walgreens uses its proprietary EHR.n Allscripts Posts 17% Profit Growth By Akanksha Jayanthi C hicago-based Allscripts released its finan- cial information for the third quarter of 2015, posting slight gains in revenue and profit from the same quarter the previous year. For the three months ended Sept. 30, Allscripts reported $354.5 million in revenue, up just 2.6 percent from $345.4 million from the same quarter last year. The company's profit grew 16.7 percent, from $131.4 million in the third quarter of 2014 to $153.4 million in the third quarter of 2015. However, the company did report record third quarter bookings of $272 million, a 22 percent increase from the previous year's quarter of $223 million. In October, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom selected Allscripts' EHR. Other recent Allscripts contracts include the Heart and Vascular Center of Lake County in Gurnee, Ill., and Pensaco- la, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care.n Most cutting edge technology Apple: 53 percent Google: 20 percent GE: 13 percent Cerner: 7 percent athenahealth: 7 percent Elite leadership Intermountain Healthcare: 30 percent Cerner: 20 percent Mayo Clinic: 20 percent Kaiser Permanente: 10 percent athenahealth: 10 percent Cleveland Clinic: 10 percent Highly adaptable Cerner: 31 percent Hospital Corporation of America: 23 percent GE: 15 percent Epic: 8 percent Intermountain Healthcare: 8 percent Kaiser Permanente: 8 percent Mayo Clinic: 8 percent Committed to disruption eranos: 40 percent athenahealth: 20 percent Cerner: 20 percent HCA: 20 percent Most intuitive models and solutions Kaiser Permanente: 24 percent Epic: 19 percent Geisinger: 11 percent GE: 8 percent Intermountain Healthcare: 8 percent athenahealth: 8 percent Pushing the boundaries of quality of care Mayo Clinic: 33 percent Cleveland Clinic: 27 percent eranos: 13 percent Geisinger: 7 percent Intermountain Healthcare: 7 percent Kaiser Permanente: 7 percent Google: 7 percent Most visionary Geisinger: 30 percent Cerner: 20 percent Cleveland Clinic: 10 percent Epic: 10 percent GE: 10 percent Google: 10 percent HCA: 10 percent n

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