Eclipsys co-founder Terrence Macaleer has joined Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions as vice president of sales for the company's Enterprise Solutions Group.
Macaleer will focus on delivering Allscripts' Electronic Health Record and ePrescribing solutions to help foster collaboration between hospitals, health systems and community medical groups.
"As more hospitals take advantage of changes in the law that let them subsidize the cost of electronic health records and electronic prescribing technology to physicians in their communities, Terry Macaleer will help Allscripts grow revenue opportunities in this increasingly important market," said Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts-Misys. "We are confident that Terry's broad knowledge of the acute care market will help us reach the total hospital base, especially community hospitals, where our products connect to more touchpoints than ever before."
Macaleer was with Shared Medical Systems Corporation (SMS) for 23 years. In his role of senior vice president of U.S. Operations, he helped grow the company from a start-up to one with nearly $1 billion in annual revenues. In 1996, he and SMS co-founder Harvey J. Wilson founded Eclipsys.
As senior vice president of the Atlanta-based company, Macaleer played a central role in growing the company, including recruiting and training the first sales force and leading all sales duties for the company with annual bookings of more than $300 million.
Macaleer also founded and served as chairman and chief executive officer of Carefx, based in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"I look forward to this new challenge and to working with the dynamic leadership team at Allscripts to deliver on the company's vision of providing solutions that effectively connect physicians to one another, to hospitals in their communities and across the entire healthcare system," said Macaleer.
On October 13, company officials formally announced the merger of Allscripts with Misys Healthcare, the Raleigh, N.C.-based healthcare arm of British banking giant Misys. Company officials say the key to the merger's survival is continued innovation and growth.