Altera Digital Health

Altera Digital Health (which was formed when the massive healthcare IT company Allscripts rebranded its hospital and large practice divisions after selling off some assets) remains a major, foundational player in the EHR ecosystem. It provides robust, highly integrated solutions designed for mid-sized hospitals, large physician networks, and complex ambulatory care environments. Altera is uniquely positioned by offering different core platforms tailored to specific environments, notably Sunrise (for hospitals) and TouchWorks (for large ambulatory practices). The Sunrise EHR platform is a highly robust, enterprise-grade hospital information system. It is uniquely built on an "open architecture" philosophy. While competitors often create highly closed, walled-garden ecosystems, Sunrise is designed using open APIs, allowing hospitals to easily integrate specialized third-party clinical applications, custom-built algorithms, and unique departmental systems directly into the core EHR workflow. This makes it highly attractive to research institutions and progressive hospitals that want to aggressively innovate their clinical pathways rather than being locked into a vendor's roadmap. For large physician groups, the TouchWorks EHR provides deep clinical capabilities with a heavy emphasis on workflow efficiency and chronic disease management. It features highly advanced clinical decision support, alerting doctors in real-time to potential drug interactions, missing lab results, or opportunities to close gaps in care based on the patient's specific diagnosis. With robust population health analytics and deep revenue cycle integrations, Altera provides a highly scalable, flexible infrastructure for complex healthcare organizations.