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Healthcare Watch: 27 Million Share Allscripts Offering Priced

August 18, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Go to http://www.financialwire.net/?s=ftrdnwswnd for all of today’s featured news.) — Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX), a provider of clinical software, information and connectivity solutions for physicians, said that certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Misys plc, Allscripts' majority stockholder, have priced an underwritten public offering of 27 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $17.05 per share.

Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS), Barclays Capital (NYSE: BCS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and UBS Investment Bank (NYSE: UBS) are acting as joint book-running managers.

The total includes 2 million more shares than previously reported. The offering includes an option for the underwriters to purchase up to 4.05 million additional shares from the selling stockholders to cover over-allotments, if any.

Allscripts did not sell any shares in the offering and will not receive any proceeds from the offering.

Illinois-based Allscripts solutions are used by physicians, hospitals and post-acute and homecare organizations. The company's solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation.

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