LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare IT company Allscripts plans to buy rival Eclipsys in a $1.3 billion all-stock deal to capitalize on a huge influx of U.S. government funding for electronic ...

Allscripts, makers of electronic health records for physician practices will buy healthcare information technology company Eclipsys, which provides technology for hospitals and clinicians. The ...

"With the opportunity to qualify for ARRA funding just months away, we expect that more hospitals and physicians will look to Allscripts as the Electronic Health Record company best able to connect ...

Hospitals and doctors are slowly -- but finally! -- getting the idea that they need to work more closely together to improve quality and cut costs. Unsurprisingly, healthcare IT -- especially ...

Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts, will be the Chief Executive Officer of the combined company. Phil Pead, President and Chief Executive Officer of Eclipsys will become Chairman of ...

"Any time a business decision is client-driven, it's much more likely to be successful," says Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman. And so, Tullman says, he has high hopes for his company's $1.3 billion dollar ...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX) today announced that Canada’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is continuing its partnership with Allscripts by implementing ...

Allscripts has announced the merger of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions with Eclipsys Corporation, which will create the new entity Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, according to an Allscripts ...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Healthcare IT company Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions said Wednesday that it will buy Eclipsys Corp. in a $1.3 billion all-stock deal as it seeks to take advantage of a ...

Misys Plc said it would sell its majority stake in the Allscripts health-care information business for about $1.3 billion, facilitating an all-stock merger between the unit and Eclipsys Corp. Misys ...

High-tech entrepreneur Glen Tullman is fighting to salvage the biggest deal of his career. Two years after the CEO of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. struck a deal to acquire hospital IT firm ...