CHICAGO & NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AllianceChicago (AC) and Wellsheet have formed a partnership to improve physician productivity. AC, a health center-controlled network and practice-based research network, will partner with Wellsheet to deploy an integrated offering of their predictive workflow productivity platform with athenahealth’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) to community health centers around the country. AC is offering Wellsheet with athenaOne, athenahealth’s cloud-based suite of EHR, revenue cycle management and patient engagement products, to support Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) seeking to deliver better quality, efficiency, experience, and care outcomes.

“Community health centers provide health care for approximately 28 million people throughout the United States. Our mission at AllianceChicago is to improve personal, community, and public health through innovative collaboration,” said Dr. Fred Rachman, CEO of AllianceChicago. “We see Wellsheet as a strategic partner and an innovator in improving a clinician’s engagement with the EHR. We plan to leverage Wellsheet’s leading-edge technology for all our athenaOne users to reduce time in the EHR, improve clinician efficiency and to provide well-informed clinical decision support to improve outcomes.”

“We are bringing Wellsheet to athenahealth EHR customers and partnering with AllianceChicago to reach a large volume of community health centers to empower primary care clinicians at the point of care, reducing their time in the EHR which reduces burnout,” added Craig Limoli, CEO and founder of Wellsheet. Wellsheet is an important part of AC’s new athenaOne offering and will provide an easy-to-use interface to deliver streamlined, customized and intuitive clinical decision support to primary care clinicians within ambulatory care settings. There are now more than 1,250 Federally Qualified Health Centers that receive funding through HHS and more than 8,000 service delivery sites.* This offering will enable them to provide more efficient and higher quality care and reduce the time clinicians spend in the EHR.”
Federally funded health centers employ 255,000 people, including health professionals, administration and faculty and support staff. In total, these staff provide over 114 million patient visits annually. Health centers create $63.4 billion in total economic activity each year within America's most underserved communities.*
*NACHC

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