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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 

EASTERN DIVISION 

BRISTOL COUNTY RETIREMENT 

SYSTEM, Individually and on Behalf of All 

Others Similarly Situated, 

Plaintiff, 

vs. 

ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, 

INC., GLEN E. TULLMAN, WILLIAM J. 

DAVIS AND LEE SHAPIRO, 

Defendants. 

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No. 1:12-cv-03297 

CLASS ACTION

Judge James F. Holderman 

DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

LEAD PLAINTIFFS’ COMPLAINT FOR VIOLATION OF 

THE FEDERAL SECURITIES LAWS 

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INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1 

JURISDICTION AND VENUE ....................................................................................................10 

PARTIES .......................................................................................................................................10 

CONFIDENTIAL WITNESS ACCOUNTS .................................................................................11 

Inability to Integrate Products, Customer Defections and Dissatisfaction ........................12 

Sharp Division Among Allscripts and Eclipsys Key Personnel ........................................24 

Unobtainable 2012 Financial Guidance.............................................................................26 

MATERIALLY FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS AND OMISSIONS 

MADE DURING THE CLASS PERIOD .....................................................................................28 

Materially False and Misleading Statements Concerning Product Integration .................28 

Reasons Why Defendants’ Statements Concerning Product Integration Were 

Materially False And Misleading.......................................................................................38 

Materially False and Misleading Statements Regarding Merger Integration ....................43 

Reasons Why Defendants’ Statements Regarding Merger Integration Were 

Materially False And Misleading.......................................................................................45 

Defendants’ False 2012 Financial Guidance .....................................................................47 

Reasons Why Allscripts’ 2012 Financial Guidance Was False.........................................48 

THE RELEVANT TRUTH IS REVEALED.................................................................................50 

ADDITIONAL SCIENTER ALLEGATIONS..............................................................................64 

Defendants Were Directly Responsible for Allscripts’ Product and Merger 

Integration as Well as its Financial Guidance....................................................................65 

Defendants’ Insider Sales Further Support a Strong Inference of Scienter.......................70 

The Individual Defendants’ Compensation and “Retention Plan” Bonuses Also 

Support a Strong Inference of Scienter..............................................................................72 

The Federal Stimulus and Suspicious Exodus of Executives and Directors Adds to 

Scienter ..............................................................................................................................73 

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LOSS CAUSATION/ECONOMIC LOSS ....................................................................................74 

NO SAFE HARBOR .....................................................................................................................77 

APPLICABILITY OF PRESUMPTION OF RELIANCE: FRAUD ON THE MARKET..........79 

CLASS ACTION ALLEGATIONS ..............................................................................................81 

PRAYER FOR RELIEF ................................................................................................................86 

JURY DEMAND...........................................................................................................................87 

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By and through its undersigned counsel, Lead Plaintiffs, The Government of Bermuda 

Contributory and Public Service Superannuation Pension Plans and the International Brotherhood of 

Electrical Workers Local Union 38 Pension Fund (“Plaintiffs”), allege the following against 

Defendants Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“Allscripts” or the “Company”), its former Chief 

Executive Officer (“CEO”) Glen E. Tullman (“Tullman”), its former Chief Financial Officer 

(“CFO”) William J. Davis (“Davis”) and its former President Lee Shapiro (“Shapiro”) (collectively, 

“Defendants”), upon personal knowledge as to those allegations concerning Plaintiffs and, as to all 

other matters, upon investigation of counsel, which included, without limitation: review and analysis 

of public filings made by Allscripts with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”); review and 

analysis of press releases and other public communications by Defendants and other non-parties; 

review of news articles and shareholder communications; review of other publicly available 

information concerning Allscripts such as analyst reports, lawsuits, websites, and marketing or other 

videos; and interviews conducted by an investigator with former employees of Allscripts. 

INTRODUCTION 

1. This securities fraud class action is brought on behalf of all persons who purchased 

the common stock of Allscripts (the “Class”) between the time of Defendants’ November 8, 2010 

statements and April 26, 2012, inclusive (the “Class Period”) and were damaged thereby. This 

complaint alleges violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(“Exchange Act”) (15 U.S.C. §§78j(b) and 78t(a)) and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder (17 

C.F.R. §240.10b-5) by Defendants Allscripts, Tullman, Davis and Shapiro. It also alleges a 

violation of §20A of the Exchange Act against Shapiro for insider trading (15 U.S.C. §78t-1). 

2. Allscripts is a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ, trading under the symbol 

MDRX. Allscripts sells healthcare information technology software and services to hospitals and 

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physicians. Its products are intended to implement the transition from paper to electronic health 

records (“EHR”) as well as facilitate billing and revenue cycle management. 

3. On June 9, 2010, Allscripts announced the $1.3 billion acquisition of Eclipsys 

Corporation (“Eclipsys”), which then closed on August 24, 2010 (the “Merger”). The fraud 

alleged herein stems from the false promises Defendants made to investors related to the Merger, 

the resulting product offerings and the financial success assured as a result. 

4. Prior to the Merger, Allscripts’ competitive strengths were in selling EHR products 

to physician practices (ambulatory offerings) and settings like rehabilitation centers (post-acute). 

Allscripts’ leading products included “Enterprise,” “Professional,” and “MyWay” which targeted 

different sized physician practices from large to small. In contrast, Eclipsys primarily sold EHR 

products to hospitals (acute offerings). Eclipsys’ leading products included “Sunrise Clinical 

Manager.” 

5. As healthcare providers transitioned to EHR over the last decade by purchasing 

software from various vendors, they became increasingly focused on being able to seamlessly 

transmit patient data. The Merger was intended to capitalize on healthcare providers’ desire for 

integrated EHR products that would enable access to a single patient record across the continuum 

of the patient’s care – for example, data from hospitals, physician practices, rehabilitation centers, 

pharmacies, etc. 

6. The Merger also occurred during a window of opportunity for Allscripts that was 

rapidly closing. In order to encourage the transition to EHR, the federal government provided 

billions of dollars in stimulus funding to healthcare providers which would only be available until 

2016. According to Tullman in a February 2011 interview: “the federal government is injecting 

$30 billion into an industry that is roughly $3 to $4 billion, so there’s a 10x stimulus injected, 

70% of those dollars need to be spent in the next three years.” Thus, Allscripts was under 

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pressure to keep existing and acquire new customers, not simply as part of everyday competition, 

but in order to gain the lion’s share of the federal funds. 

7. Leading up to the close of the $1.3 billion Merger, Defendants set investor 

expectations as to its substantial benefits. Specifically, Defendants assured investors that the 

Merger would allow integrated product offerings from day one, product integration was “easy,” 

and the two companies were closely aligned. For example, on June 9, 2010, Allscripts and 

Eclipsys issued a joint press release entitled “Allscripts and Eclipsys to Merge, Creating New 

Healthcare Information Technology Leader.” The press release touted Allscripts’ post-merger 

ability to offer the most comprehensive set of products stating that the Merger “will create a clear 

leader in healthcare information technology, with the most comprehensive solution offering for 

healthcare organizations of every size and setting.” 

8. On a conference call later that day, Defendant Tullman told investors that the 

integration of the two companies – and their products – would provide for the seamless 

transmission of data, telling them product integration would occur quickly given the companies’ 

common Microsoft platform: 

Because at the end of the day, this is about a patient. And what does the patient 

want? They want a seamless experience. They want a single patient record. No 

one has really been able to deliver that, because no one could cross the transom 

between hospitals and extended care and physician offices, and now we’re in a 

position to do that. 

* * * 

This is about as crisp and clean a merger as you are ever going to see from 

a product perspective. And as Phil mentioned, with Microsoft’s help we will 

actually put these together very, very quickly. We have a lot of people who will 

focus on doing just that. 

9. Defendants’ statements on the June 9, 2010, call were further illustrated via an 

accompanying powerpoint presentation, entitled “Two Leaders Become One: One Network. One 

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Platform. One Patient.” (attached hereto as Exhibit 1), which Tullman used to highlight the fit 

between Allscripts’ and Eclipsys’ product offerings, stating: “So we can connect the ambulatory, 

the acute and the postacute.” 

10. The powerpoint illustrated Defendants’ promise of “A true end-to-end, integrated 

solution for the entire community of care” by the blending of the two companies’ product 

offerings, and touted management’s “strong track record of integrating mergers” as well as its 

“proven ability to realize synergies.” 

11. Shortly after the announcement of the Merger, Defendant Tullman gave an 

interview with Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain. During the interview, Tullman 

claimed that the Allscripts and Eclipsys products were already working together, integration had 

been achieved rather than being something that had to be started, and an integrated product would 

be available at the close of the Merger. Tullman stated: 

You know, what is interesting, is because both applications are based on microsoft.net and 

other Microsoft technologies it’s very easy to integrate these together. And while there’s 

always more to do, we made very substantial progress so the physicians are able to share 

information between the Eclipsys hospital system and the Allscripts ambulatory system. 

12. When Monegain asked: 

Okay, well, when you’ve touched a couple of times already on integration 

and was hoping that you could talk a little bit – from a practical point of view – how 

that process will begin. I know you sort of mentioned that it’s already begun, but 

could you talk a little bit about which products you need to integrate and how that 

will work? 

Tullman responded: 

So the products are working. Yeah, the products are working in an 

integrated fashion today at certain of our sites. So I think this is really about 

enhancing and extending the integration as opposed to beginning a process. 

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But that’s happening at a number of companies, our integration with Eclipsys will of 

course be much deeper and much richer than it is with some of those other 

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companies. But, nonetheless, you know, that process has been underway, it will 

accelerate now, and you know, we will have um, one application which will be the 

market leader when that’s done. And that will – but it’s not a, you know essentially, 

you just keep integrating, keep building these applications. But the primary 

functionality, much of that will be available literally when we close the transaction. 

13. When asked what would distinguish the post-Merger Allscripts from its competitors, 

Tullman again highlighted the integration of products stating: 

And, so, first what distinguishes us is we have usable products. Second, is we have 

a base of 180,000, almost half the physicians in this country, 180,000 physicians 

using Allscripts software. And over 40,000 practices to connect to. And, last but not 

least, we have over 10,000 post-acute care facilities. So, again, if you’re looking at 

managing the cost, you have somebody with Alzheimer’s in the hospital, now you 

need to get him out of the hospital to reduce the cost and move him to an extended 

care facility. Well, you know the beauty is that in our system that’s all connected. 

Somebody else’s system, they might spend a few extra days trying to find the right 

spot for them. So, it’s about quality of care, it’s about reducing the cost, it’s about 

eliminating errors, and we have this connected system of health as opposed to other 

people who have hospital systems that are disconnected to the rest of the 

healthcare equation. 

14. In addition to discussing the ease of product integration and the level of integration 

already existing, Tullman acknowledged in the 2010 interview the importance to the Merger of 

these entities with different customers of having management aligned and Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead 

(“Pead”) remain at the post-Merger entity stating: 

And you know I think it’s very important to understand that Phil Pead has agreed to 

stay on. Not just as chairman of the board but to partner with me – focused on some 

key areas of the business – to help accelerate and grow the business because, you 

know Philip spent the last year getting to know their clients, and the last thing that 

I wanted, or that anyone wanted, was to lose his expertise, his experience in all that 

new client knowledge, and so his willingness to stay and his excitement about 

staying was very material to me in this transaction and really demonstrates the – the 

fact that we’re merging these businesses and working together on behalf of the client. 

Because that’s what the clients want. 

15. On June 15, 2010, Pead and Defendant Tullman also gave an interview with an 

industry blog entitled “HIStalk” about the merger. Pead reinforced the statements about product 

integration claiming that as far as clients were concerned integration was already done and met 

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their needs, all Allscripts had to do was deepen it from a technical standpoint beyond what the 

user could see: 

We already have mutual clients that have merged or integrated [the legacy 

Allscripts and Eclipsys products], where we can believe that there’s a level of 

integration between our software. 

The reason I say, ‘believe it’ is because at their level[,] what the user sees, 

what a physician uses at Columbia and that’s integrated with Sunrise, is very real to 

them. That level of integration has already occurred. You could talk to them 

tomorrow and they’ll tell you absolutely, I get whatever I need and I’m done. But 

that level of integration is at that first phase. We’ve made it usable, data transfers, 

and as far as they’re concerned, they’re done. We’d like to do it at a much deeper 

level, but it’s transparent to the user. That’s the first thing. 

The second thing is we’re both Microsoft.NET and SQL Server. That makes 

the level of integration far less complex as a result of the platforms being the 

same . . . . Allscripts has an architecture called UAI and we have Helios. The 

similarities are quite amazing . . . both of us have abilities to actually integrate levels 

of applications at a speed that would be very difficult if they were Oracle, Linux, 

MUMPS. 

16. In recognition of how critical product integration was to Allscripts’ business, when 

asked how the success of the Merger should be graded in two years Pead said “If I was a client, I 

would grade you by the integration between the product solutions to make this a great 

experience for their hospital and ambulatory environments so that the two came together.” 

Tullman agreed: “There is nothing I can add to that, which is rare for me, but I think that 

summarizes it perfectly.” 

17. In the June 15, 2010 HIStalk interview, Tullman further highlighted the recent 

upgrades to each of the key products. For example, Tullman referred to Sunrise 5.5, an acute 

legacy Eclipsys (hospital) product, saying “It’s been a year longer than anyone else – year in QA 

and QC to make sure that this product, when it hits, is perfect, or as close to perfect as software 

can be.” He added that Allscripts Professional, a legacy Allscripts ambulatory product came out 

“without any issues, and it has the least number of defects, I think of any product in the industry.” 

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18. Pead also claimed during the June 15, 2010 interview that “every single one of those 

products will connect back to the hospital at whatever level of integration the hospital desires and 

the physician desires.” Tullman closed by noting that the Merger provided an “opportunity to 

provide a connected system of health that really gives an integrated, end-to-end solution, which is 

what everyone has been . . . that’s been the Holy Grail of healthcare, and it is within 

reach.”(alterations in original). 

19. By the beginning of the Class Period, November 8, 2010, as set forth above, 

Defendants had made it clear that the $1.3 billion that they invested in Eclipsys would result in 

integrated products that would meet client expectations and that the Merger would be a success. 

During the Class Period, Defendants misled investors by: (i) overstating Allscripts’ product 

integration and concealing the substantial work that remained to achieve product integration; and 

(ii) omitting that as a result of failed product integration that did not meet their needs, customers 

delayed purchases or fled to competitors. 

20. Defendants falsely claimed during the Class Period, inter alia, that: (i) “the 

integration of the technology of the companies [was] very easy to do”; (ii) Allscripts was in a 

“unique position as the only company that can deliver one connected network on one common, 

open platform providing one patient record to clinicians and patients across the care continuum” 

because “no other company can match the functionality of our full, integrated solution set”; (iii) 

“The bottom line is that the integration work is on track”; (iv) “with regard to integration . . . 

being able to pass natively data from acute to ambulatory is something that’s working with both 

Sunrise and Enterprise”; and (iv) that their products “allow[] information to be seamlessly 

shared.” In truth, product integration was far from easy and was never accomplished during the 

Class Period, leading to customer defections, disappointing financial results, and the eventual 

abandonment of products. 

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21. Further, Defendants falsely stated that “this is as smooth as an integration effort that 

you’ll ever see in terms of realizing synergies, in terms of very little overlap between the two 

organizations and between – in terms of the fit” and that “the teams couldn’t be more aligned and 

working very closely together.” In truth, the key management teams could not have been less 

aligned as they fought over the direction of the Company and product integration, as evidenced by 

firings and departures among the most senior leaders including the head of sales, the Chief 

Technology Officer (“CTO”), the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), Chairman of the Board, three 

directors, and the CFO. When all of those people were gone, many pushed out by Tullman, 

Allscripts’ Board of Directors (“Board”) eventually ousted Tullman and his President, Defendant 

Shapiro, followed. 

22. Finally, on February 16, 2012, just as the product integration and executive 

disagreements were coming to a peak, Defendants issued false financial guidance for 2012 of 

Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings per share (“EPS”) of $1.06 to $1.10 and Non-GAAP revenues of 

$1.62 to $1.65 billion. This guidance had no reasonable basis in fact. For example, it depended 

on tripling the sales of Sunrise Clinical Manager applications from an average of eight to nine a 

year – an impossible task given existing customer dissatisfaction with version 5.5 of Sunrise 

Clinical Manager and the fact that customers were switching vendors or delaying purchases until 

Allscripts could demonstrate product integration. 

23. As a result of Defendants’ false and misleading statements, Allscripts’ stock price 

traded above $20 and even reached a Class Period closing price as high as $22.71 per share on 

April 5, 2011. Defendants Tullman, Shapiro and Davis (herein referred to collectively as 

“Individual Defendants”) took advantage of the artificial inflation in Allscripts’ stock as a result 

of their false statements, selling 675,000 Allscripts shares for proceeds of nearly $14 million 

during the Class Period. 

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24. Two months after Defendants issued false 2012 financial guidance and Defendant 

Shapiro sold stock for proceeds of more than $1.9 million, Allscripts revealed, in an April 26, 

2012 press release and subsequent conference call, disappointing first quarter financial results. 

Allscripts dramatically lowered 2012 non-GAAP EPS guidance from $1.06-$1.10 to $0.74-$0.80, 

a 27% decline, and 2012 non-GAAP revenue guidance from $1.62-$1.65 billion to $1.48-$1.52 

billion, a nearly 9% decline. 

25. Further, Defendants admitted on April 26, 2012 that contrary to the Class Period 

statements about the ease with which Allscripts had integrated its product offerings, the 

disappointing financial results were due to declining sales as clients were waiting on “more 

progress with our product integration.” In addition, it was disclosed that Chairman Pead was 

fired, three directors were leaving Allscripts’ Board in protest, and CFO Davis was also departing. 

As revealed by this drastic change in senior officers and directors, the Merger had not, as 

Defendants previously represented been going as “smooth[ly]” as represented and the teams were 

not “aligned” but were sharply divided. 

26. In reaction to this news, over the course of the next trading day on April 27, 2012, 

Allscripts’ stock plummeted by $5.72 per share, or 35.70%, to close at $10.30 per share on 

extraordinarily heavy trading volume, a loss of more than $1 billion in market capitalization in a 

single day. 

27. In recognition of the misleading information that had been given to investors by 

Defendants during the Class Period, and in response to these disclosures and the disclosure that 

Allscripts was allocating $190 million in 2012 to “accelerate integration,” an analyst with 

Jefferies perfectly summed up the situation by reporting on April 27, 2012: “[Allscripts] is 

reacting belatedly to integration issues that it previously said were in the rearview mirror.” 

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28. Several months after these disclosures, analysts discussed Allscripts going private to 

conceal its product struggles from public view. Disgruntled clients also filed a class action 

lawsuit against Allscripts when it admitted it could not integrate its MyWay EHR product and 

abandoned the product altogether. Soon thereafter Defendant Tullman was fired and Defendant 

Shapiro left with him. 

JURISDICTION AND VENUE 

29. The claims asserted herein arise under and pursuant to §§10(b), 20(a) and 20A of the 

Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. §§78j(b), 78t(a) and 78t-1(a)) and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder 

by the SEC (17 C.F.R. §240.10b-5). 

30. This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action pursuant to §27 of 

the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. §78a(a)), and 28 U.S.C. §1331. 

31. Venue is proper in this District pursuant to §27 of the Exchange Act, 28 U.S.C. 

§1391(b). Many of the acts and practices complained of herein occurred in substantial part in this 

District, and Allscripts maintained its principal place of business in Chicago, Illinois. 

32. In connection with the acts and conduct alleged in this complaint, Defendants, 

directly or indirectly, used the means and instrumentalities of interstate commerce, including, but 

not limited to, the mails and interstate wire and telephone communications. 

PARTIES 

33. Lead Plaintiffs The Government of Bermuda Contributory and Public Service 

Superannuation Pension Plans purchased Allscripts’ common stock during the Class Period and 

was damaged thereby, as set forth in the attached Certification. 

34. Lead Plaintiffs International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 38 

Pension Fund purchased Allscripts’ common stock during the Class Period and was damaged 

thereby, as set forth in the attached Certification. 

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35. Defendant Allscripts develops and sells information technology services to the 

healthcare industry. 

36. Defendant Glen E. Tullman was the CEO of Allscripts from 1997 until his abrupt 

departure on December 19, 2012. As CEO, Tullman was charged with management of the 

Company’s day-to-day operations, as well as overseeing the direction of the Company and the 

realization of Allscripts’ short- and long-term goals. During the Class Period, he signed SEC 

forms 10-Q and 10-K, as well as proxies, prospectuses and registration statements on behalf of 

Allscripts. He also participated in analyst conferences and earnings calls during the Class Period 

as alleged herein. 

37. Defendant William J. Davis was the CFO of Allscripts from 2002 until May 18, 

2012. As CFO, he was responsible for all of Allscripts’ financial operations, including, among 

other things, budget management, financial forecasting, and supervising fiscal reporting activities. 

He was also the chief financial spokesperson for the Company. During the Class Period, he 

signed SEC forms 10-Q and 10-K on behalf of Allscripts. He also participated in analyst 

conferences and earnings calls during the Class Period as alleged herein. 

38. Defendant Lee Shapiro was Allscripts’ President from 2001 until December 19, 

2012. As President, Shapiro was tasked with overseeing the Company’s strategy, corporate 

marketing, government relations, mergers and acquisitions, international operations, information 

systems, hosting services, business development and partnerships, health plan initiatives and 

business activities in the areas of analytics, information and transaction services. He also 

participated in an analyst conference during the Class Period as alleged herein. 

CONFIDENTIAL WITNESS ACCOUNTS 

39. As revealed by public information, interviews with multiple former employees, 

subsequent events, and Defendants’ post-Class Period admissions, Allscripts failed to achieve 

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product integration as represented causing customers and prospects to delay purchases or defect to 

competitors. During the Class Period, Allscripts had to completely rework its integration tool, 

ADX 1.0, and never achieved product integration for its key products including MyWay, which it 

abandoned in Fall 2012. In addition, the product integration efforts were hindered by sharp 

disagreements between legacy management at Eclipsys and Allscripts. Key Eclipsys management 

felt ignored by legacy Allscripts management, leading to frustration, terminations and departures of 

key personnel. 

Inability to Integrate Products, Customer Defections and Dissatisfaction 

40. Confidential Witness No. 1 (“CW1”) worked for Eclipsys from 2001 to 2005 and 

returned in July 2010 before the Merger closed and left Allscripts in September 2012. Upon return, 

he1

 worked as a Solutions Architect with Eclipsys, and later Allscripts. In that role, he supported 

the new sales or pre-sales teams with answering client technical questions regarding hardware, 

software, and product interface, and provided technical assistance during product demonstrations 

with clients. CW1’s supervisor was CW3, and later others when CW3 left. 

41. CW1 explained the different interface integration systems as native integration, 

disparate integration, and High Level 7 “HL7” interface. The goal of native integration was to have 

the ability to update patient information throughout the Allscripts’ software offerings. This would 

allow Allscripts’ Sunrise products to seamlessly integrate with Allscripts’ Enterprise, Professional 

and MyWay products and allow the products to update patient health records without the use of 

industry standardized codes. Allscripts branded its native software as ADX.2

 CW1 described 

 

1

 All CWs are referred to in the masculine gender. 

2

 CW1 described the HL7 interface as using industry standardized codes or language to allow users of 

disparate software systems to update patients electronic health records. 

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disparate integration as allowing Allscripts software to interface with non-Allscripts software 

which he described as a Health Information Exchange (“HIE”) software that allowed data to be 

read and updated from different software vendors. 

42. CW1 said ADX 1.0 was designed to pull and update patient electronic health records 

automatically and was Allscripts’ native integration software. In approximately July 2011, he 

learned that Allscripts began a complete reworking of ADX 1.0 because customers were 

complaining about the lack of functionality and integration, and that it did not allow the user to 

review and approve changes made in other healthcare settings before being accepted by the hospital 

or physician practice systems. The upgrade was going to be known as ADX 1.5 and was 

supposedly going to allow integration of PAMI (problems, allergies, medications, and 

immunizations) which was not possible under ADX 1.0, as ADX 1.0 only allowed the integration 

of the patient electronic health record for allergies and immunizations. ADX 1.0 was being beta 

tested3

 at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois and another place he could not recall, but it was 

suspended in approximately the middle of 2011 because it failed to perform to expectations. 

43. CW2 was hired in November 2008 as a Community Solutions Sales Executive with 

Eclipsys. In this position he assisted the sales staff by acting as a subject matter expert relating to 

third party company software to interface Eclipsys clients to communicate between various 

software systems within the healthcare system. Around March 2011, CW2 was offered a position 

as a senior account manager where he remained until leaving the company in February 2012. 

44. Prior to the merger Eclipsys was using Medicity as the third party vendor for the 

interface. After the merger with Allscripts, Allscripts canceled its contracts with Medicity in favor 

 

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intended user population tries the product out, in order to see how the product works in real-world conditions. 

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of its relationship with DB Motion. CW2 and another Community Solutions Sales Executive 

(“CSSE 2”) received training regarding DB Motion around October 2010. CW2 learned from 

observations and discussions with Allscripts employees that the DB Motion product was inferior to 

Medicity and doubted whether it worked because he never witnessed a live demonstration. CSSE 2 

left Allscripts and went to work for Medicity as he was dissatisfied with DB Motion. CW2 

expressed his concern to Steve Lalonde, the executive VP of sales. 

45. CW2 also described communication issues between what John Gomez (“Gomez”) 

promised clients and what Defendant Tullman would later tell the client with regard to Sunrise 

Clinical Manager 5.5. Gomez would promise clients certain interface capabilities and dates of 

availability and Tullman would later inform the client that the dates could not be met. The product 

issues related to Sunrise Clinical Manager 5.5 and 6.0 and an interface of DB Motion and an 

Allscripts product known as Helios. Clients were increasingly becoming frustrated as products 

were not working as promised and Sunrise Clinical Manager 5.5 was eventually halted and the 

Helios product was never released. 

46. CW2 identified the University Hospital of Cleveland, New York Presbyterian, and 

Jefferson Regional of Pine Bluff, Arkansas as clients having issues with Sunrise 5.5. He said the 

product integration or interface never occurred as planned. He described Sunrise Clinical 

Manger 5.5 as an “empty shell” software meaning the upgrade from Sunrise 5.0 was meaningless. 

He heard this from clients and other Allscripts employees. 

47. CW3 was a Vice President of Community Strategy and Industry Compliance at 

Eclipsys starting in August 2008, and continuing after the Allscripts-Eclipsys merger, until 

approximately September 2010. CW3’s role was to determine the market and client needs and 

involved both a product development and sales role. CW3 was responsible for clients using the 

health information exchange software Medicity (which Eclipsys branded Peak Performance). CW3 

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reported to Jay Deady until Deady left shortly after the Merger and then began reporting to Gomez 

and Barbara Fox. 

48. According to CW3, and consistent with CW2, after the merger, Allscripts terminated 

the reseller agreement with Medicity in favor of DB Motion. Allscripts had a two-part strategy 

relating to the interface which used DB Motion and Helios. After the merger, CW3 was also tasked 

with creating a team to explain to clients the benefit of Allscripts’ approach to software interface 

and he remained in that position until he left the company in April 2011 to work for Medicity. He 

felt conflicted because he believed that DB Motion was inferior to Medicity and expressed his 

opinion to Gomez and Pead. 

49. CW3 said that Medicity used a loosely coupled interface which required the end 

users, such as the hospital, physician or lab to approve an update before it would take effect. 

Allscripts’ plan for Helios was to use a tightly coupled philosophy which meant data stored would 

be updated immediately at the hospital, physician, or lab when entries were made within the 

system. In his discussions with clients, most said they wanted to review and approve updates 

before it was brought into their system and did not want to take responsibility for errors made by 

other users. 

50. Consistent with CW2, CW3 said the Helios system was never taken to production 

while he worked at Allscripts. After he left to join Medicity he had heard that Allscripts delivered 

a Helios type product for beta testing in the fall of 2011 at the New York Presbyterian Hospitals 

and it did not go well and that the beta testing of the Helios product at the North Shore Long Island 

Jewish Community Hospital was scratched prior to implementation. 

51. While working at Allscripts, CW3 said he attended meetings where Gomez reported 

that Allscripts acute care and ambulatory software products were on track for seamless integration, 

which was the ability to seamlessly update electronic patient records by the Sunrise Clinical 

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Manager software used by hospitals and the Allscripts Enterprise, Professional, and MyWay 

software used by physician practices. He recalled a presentation given by Gomez and attended by 

Tullman in approximately October 2010 to show seamless integration of patient records between 

legacy Allscripts and Eclipsys products. Based on this demonstration, in CW3’s view, upper 

management probably believed what they were telling investors at one point because Tullman and 

others may have felt the statements made by Gomez regarding seamless native integration of the 

software products were accurate. But CW3 said that Tullman and other executives were aware by 

late 2010/early 2011 that the Allscripts integration software was not operating as demonstrated in 

October 2010. CW3 explained that as early as November 2010, the delay of product purchases by 

current and prospective customers due to integration issues was being discussed at the various 

monthly management meetings that CW3 attended. These meetings were conducted via telephone 

on the first Monday of each month and run by Executive VP Steve Lalonde who reported directly 

to executive management including Tullman. CW3 said Tullman and Shapiro also participated on 

occasion. 

52. CW3 also said that Tullman and the entire sales organization was present at a 

meeting in January 2011 in Las Vegas, where the sales managers discussed customer delays due to 

native integration issues. The response to these issues was to show a demonstration of Helios 

providing native integration between Sunrise Clinical Manager and Allscripts Professional as proof 

that Helios was the answer to native integration.4

 

4

 CW11 described Helios as an initiative to create open source software architecture to allow for the 

updating or review of patient health records between an acute care and ambulatory healthcare provider 

whether or not using an Allscripts application or another vendor’s application. Helios does not use a single 

database, but was designed to give the appearance that the information was stored in a single database. 

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53. CW3 also said that sales managers used salesforce.com to forecast and record sales 

progress, and that Lalonde monitored these reports and knew when Allscripts was not meeting its 

sales targets. At each of the monthly sales meetings they discussed customers delaying product 

purchases due to the native integration issues. 

54. CW3 believed that the integration of products discussed at the time of the Merger 

was never on track and never delivered. He said that clients such as New York Presbyterian 

Hospitals, Orlando Health, and Long Island Jewish were increasingly frustrated over issues with 

software updates and failure to implement the interface they wanted. The clients were upset as 

Gomez would make statements on what software Allscripts was going to deliver and the benefits of 

the new release but the releases failed to meet the functionality promised. Sunrise Clinical 

Manger 5.5 was one of the products that failed to meet client expectations and promises. 

Sunrise 5.5 was released just prior to the Merger and version 6.0 was not released before he left but 

was to contain the integration software that would allow native integration between the legacy 

Eclipsys and Allscripts products. 

55. CW3 recalled customers switching to competitor products in Spring of 2011 due to 

integration problems clients were having with Allscripts products. He identified University of 

Texas, Hoag Hospital, and Methodist Hospital as customers who switched to competitor products 

because of integration issues with Allscripts’ products. He recalled that clients would become 

upset as Gomez would make statements concerning the software Allscripts would deliver and its 

benefits, but the product releases failed to meet the functionality promised. 

56. CW3 said that the software integration solution used by Columbia Presbyterian was 

not the native integration software that Allscripts was developing. The integration software being 

used was what he described as XDS standard integration software that was engineered using 

Allscripts software engineers and internal Columbia Presbyterian employees and was unique to the 

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hardware and software used within Columbia.5 It was a custom developed software integration 

project. 

57. CW3 also said that the monthly sales meetings by conference call were attended by 

Tullman and Lee Shapiro on occasion. During these calls, they discussed that Allscripts customers 

were delaying purchases of Sunrise Clinical Manager, EHR Enterprise, Professional, or MyWay 

software because of lack of native integration. CW3 identified Hoag Hospital, University Hospital 

San Antonio, Northside in Atlanta, New York Presby[terian], Hospital for Special Surgery New 

York, and Orlando Health as examples. CW3 said that the response during these calls from 

Lalonde or other Senior VPs was that Helios will solve the problem and be available shortly, 

meaning the next quarter, or will be demonstrated at the Allscripts User Network meeting.6

 

Tullman was aware of this and was sending the message that Helios was the magic bullet for native 

integration. Tullman responded to the revelation that customers were delaying product purchases 

due to the lack of native integration in these meetings that he wanted to personally engage with any 

customers who were delaying purchases for any reason. 

58. CW4 was a Regional Sales Manager for Allscripts from July 2000 through 

November 2011. CW4 primarily sold the Allscripts Professional and Practice Management7

software focusing on physician or ambulatory practices from four to forty physicians. CW4 did not 

sell the Eclipsys products. 

 

5

 Tullman referenced Columbia Presbyterian as an example of integration. ¶92. 

6

 The “Allscripts User Network” meeting refers to the Allscripts Client Experience (“ACE”) which was 

held August 29-31, 2011 in Nashville. 

7

 Practice Management is also an ambulatory application, however, whereas Enterprise and 

Professional refer to the EHR software, Practice Management also includes administrative and billing 

functions. 

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59. CW4 said he left Allscripts because of poor customer service/support and product 

development. He said client surveys and client contacts complained about moving customer 

service and support to India around the time of the merger.8 According to CW4, the clients also 

complained that the interface between Allscripts Professional and Practice Management software 

was not at the level the client wanted and could get with Allscripts’ competitors. Clients 

complained that they wanted a single database and Allscripts’ products had separate databases. 

Allscripts and the CW4 were losing sales to competitors like Epic, Cerner, and other ambulatory 

software providers. 

60. CW5 was a Regional Sales Manager at Allscripts in 2006, and again in 2008, until 

leaving the Company in June 2012. He mainly sold Allscripts Professional. He understood that the 

Allscripts vision was to integrate Allscripts products so a client could communicate and update 

throughout the hospital, physician, lab, and pharmacy network, but he never actually saw this 

integration accomplished. Client feedback became increasingly negative up to the time he left 

Allscripts. 

61. CW5 had access to KLAS industry research and reviewed what clients were saying 

about Allscripts’ products and they were becoming increasingly dissatisfied. CW5 said that after 

the Merger, Allscripts products were receiving significant bad reviews from clients relating to 

moving customer support to India and that was hurting his future sales.9

 

8

 In a June 15, 2010 HIStalk interview, Pead, Eclipsys’ CEO, noted “[w]e have substantial resources in 

India for development, for product support, for back office financial functions, Allscripts can take advantage 

of these.” 

9

 A March 29, 2012, analyst report by Gene Mannheimer at Auriga USA disclosed that “As recently as 

January’s [2012] KLAS rankings of vendor performance, [Allscripts] rated the lowest among major 

ambulatory vendors with the worst scores for ‘Keeps Promises’ and ‘Would You Buy Again.’” 

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62. CW5 recalled a live presentation by Gomez at a sales meeting in approximately 

January or February 2011 regarding integration between Allscripts Enterprise EHR software with 

Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager software. His impression was that the presentation was “all 

smoke and mirrors” meaning that he did not believe the Allscripts and Eclipsys software was 

integrating but the presentation gave the impression that it was. He never saw integration of the 

products actually work at a client site. 

63. CW5 said that in December 2010 or January 2011, he sold Allscripts Professional 

software to Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, Michigan for its affiliated physician practices. 

At the same time the hospital was implementing Sunrise Clinical Manager. The products were not 

fully implemented to allow them to interface by the time he left in June 2012. He also said that the 

hospital was considering purchasing the Allscripts Enterprise EHR products but the reviews from 

the industry KLAS reports indicated significant disgruntled reports by end-users for the Enterprise 

product. 

64. CW6 was an Allscripts employee beginning in 2006 when the company he was 

working for, A4 Health Systems, was acquired by Allscripts. CW6 held various technical 

positions, and from 2009 until he left in August 2011 he worked as a Senior Consultant. His role 

was to teach clients how to optimize the Allscripts Professional EHR product. 

65. According to CW6, none of the products offered by Allscripts after the merger were 

what he would consider integrated. Each product had its own database. Allscripts offered an 

interface in an attempt to allow an entry in the Allscripts Practice Management software to 

automatically update information stored in Allscripts’ Professional and Enterprise software for a 

given patient without having to enter the information three separate times. The problem was the 

interface did not work or update the other platforms if it was entered first into the Professional or 

Enterprise software. 

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66. CW7 was an Account Executive at Eclipsys starting in 1997, and became a Senior 

Account Executive at Allscripts following the Merger. He remained in that position until April 

2012 when he decided to leave rather than agree to a performance improvement plan. He sold 

software updates, add-on applications, and professional services to clients in the acute-care setting, 

and was assigned to a particular geographic area. 

67. CW7 said that Allscripts did not have the ability to seamlessly transfer and update 

patient information between the acute care and ambulatory software systems. He was aware that 

they were developing an integration or interface software branded as Helios which Gomez began 

developing at Eclipsys before the Merger. He recalled complaints from West Penn regarding the 

inability to seamlessly pass patient information between the acute care and ambulatory applications 

and recalled that Gomez met with them regarding the complaint around July 2011.10 He also sold 

Sunrise Clinical Manager Versions 5.0 and 5.5. Version 5.5 was released around the first quarter of 

2011 and Version 6.0 was not released before he left. Sunrise 5.5 was not natively integrated with 

the Allscripts ambulatory software applications. 

68. CW8 was a Regional Sales Executive at Allscripts from Summer 2010 through 

January 2012. In this role, CW8 sold the Allscripts’ Enterprise and Professional software 

applications to clients in the ambulatory setting, in an assigned geographical area. 

69. CW8 recalled attending a sales meeting after the Merger in which seamless 

integration of the acute care and ambulatory software applications was discussed as something 

Allscripts was working to achieve. He could not recall the location of the meeting. By the time he 

 

10 Note that according to public information Gomez departed in May 2011 but was kept as a consultant 

for several months thereafter. 

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left in January 2012, such integration had not been accomplished and the Allscripts Enterprise and 

Professional software applications were not integrated with the Allscripts acute care applications. 

70. CW9 was a regional sales manger for a company purchased by Eclipsys in February 

2008. He was promoted from Sales Director to Regional Vice President while working at Eclipsys 

and became VP, Performance Management Sales after the Merger. Allscripts Performance 

Management software was a standalone software application and not part of Sunrise Clinical 

Manager software application. Allscripts Performance Management software could integrate using 

an interface with Sunrise, but was not natively integrated. CW9 said the customers wanted the 

legacy Eclipsys acute care and legacy Allscripts ambulatory applications to be natively integrated. 

Based on conversations with Allscripts employees, customers, and information from blog sites he 

understood that those applications were never natively integrated. 

71. CW10 was a Sales Executive at Allscripts from January 2008 through February 

2011, when CW10’s title changed to Regional Vice President of Connected Communities. CW10’s 

role as a Sales Executive was to sell primarily Allscripts Professional EHR software to physician 

practices with 50 or fewer physicians within a designated geographical area. 

72. CW10 met his sales goals in his first year but by 2010 his sales prospects began to 

dry up as hospitals were buying up physician practices and making the software purchasing 

decisions for the physician practice. He received a poor review and offered to quit but was offered 

a position as a Regional Vice President of Connected Communities. In this role, he offered for sale 

discounted EHR products to physician groups affiliated with hospitals that had deployed or were in 

the process of deploying Sunrise Clinical Manager. The integration application would allow the 

physician and hospital to view and update the patient record. After the product users went live, the 

plan was to integrate the products with what he referred to as Allscripts exchange platform. CW10 

said that none of the Allscripts exchange platforms that he was involved in deploying was ever 

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fully implemented or went live before he was fired in September 2011 (for what he was told was 

insufficient progress since his last evaluation). 

73. CW11 worked as a sales executive for Eclipsys beginning in April 2001. At the 

time of the Merger he was the Area Vice President for the Western region responsible for two sales 

teams. In January 2012, as part of a sales reorganization, he was promoted to Vice President of 

Sales for the western region and picked up an additional business sales team. He remained in that 

position until he quit in August 2012. 

74. CW11 said that Allscripts and Eclipsys had both grown by acquisitions and 

acquiring product portfolios over time. These products had different software architecture and 

required significant product development to natively integrate.11 In contrast, Epic was a privately 

held company that grew by developing and creating its own software applications internally which 

made integration simpler. CW11 defined native integration as the ability to seamlessly review and 

update a patient electronic health record in real time between an acute care and ambulatory 

healthcare provider without the use of an interface. 

75. CW11 said that at the time of the Merger, Eclipsys had some level of native 

integration components built into Sunrise Clinical Manger but it was not a real-time nor seamless 

exchange of information. After the Merger they were working to natively integrate the legacy 

Eclipsys acute care and Allscripts ambulatory applications. Because these were complex software 

application systems the time frame and effort to achieve native integration were significant. 

76. CW11 said that Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois was beta testing ADX 1.0 in 

2011. Consistent with CW1, CW11 said he was told that the testing was stopped around July 2011 

 

11 During a June 15, 2010 interview with HIStalk, Phil Pead said that while Eclipsys and Allscripts were 

“both Microsoft.NET and SQL Server” that “Allscripts has an architecture called UAI and we have Helios.” 

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because the product was not working properly and Allscripts deployed a product development team 

to Blessing Hospital to develop a workflow which lead to ADX 1.5. Blessing Hospital was the first 

to go live using ADX 1.5 in July 2012 which allowed the integration of patient information 

seamlessly between Sunrise and Enterprise applications. Components of Helios went into 

ADX 1.5. ADX 1.5 allowed for integration of patient data relating to PAMI (problems, allergies, 

medications, and immunizations) but competitor products allow for significantly more types of data 

to be seamlessly exchanged and Allscripts was working to increase the types of data that could be 

seamlessly exchanged between acute care and ambulatory applications. 

77. According to CW11, the native integration used by Columbia Presbyterian Hospitals 

between its acute care and ambulatory health care application was an integration package built by 

the information technology people at Columbia Presbyterian. CW11 learned from an Allscripts 

sales executive that this was not a native integration application developed by Allscripts. 

Sharp Division Among Allscripts and Eclipsys Key Personnel 

78. Compounding the inability to integrate the products, were sharp disagreements and 

divisions among the legacy Allscripts and Eclipsys personnel. Not only did they disagree on which 

products to move forward with, for example Medicity or DB Motion, but Tullman was running 

over the Eclipsys key personnel and Allscripts was calling all the shots. This led to defections of 

key Allscripts and Eclipsys personnel and eventually an attempted coup to oust Tullman. Among 

the factors CW3 attributed to the inability to integrate products was high turnover and the inability 

to listen to concerns being raised by staff. 

79. Shortly after the Merger the head of sales, Jeff Surges, quit. In a deposition in an 

unrelated case, Steve Lalonde, Allscripts’ Executive Vice President of Sales, was asked about the 

departure and testified that Surges left shortly after the Merger, and that relations between Surges 

and Allscripts had become “strained” prior to his departure. Within a few months, two additional 

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top-level sales executives, Steve Martin and Steve Brewer, departed Allscripts and in fact joined 

Surges at his new employer. 

80. Less than a year after the Merger, Gomez, Allscripts’ CTO, the executive tasked 

with overseeing product integration, left for undisclosed reasons. CW2 said he learned from 

discussions with other Allscripts employees that Gomez was fired after a heated Board meeting. 

CW2 said he heard rumors that Pead teamed-up with Gomez in an attempt to remove Tullman. 

CW3 said that he learned from conversations he had with Allscripts employees that Gomez was 

asked to resign and said he believes that Tullman discovered the issues with Helios which lead to 

Gomez leaving Allscripts. 

81. CW11 said Gomez told him that Tullman and Gomez butted heads on the direction 

to take on integration and they had differing opinions on how best to consolidate the integration. 

CW11 added that Gomez felt micromanaged by Tullman and when Tullman failed to provide 

Gomez the ability to make decisions on direction Gomez decided to resign. CW11 said that he 

heard Pead was asking for Tullman’s resignation at the April 2012 Board meeting and that Pead 

and Tullman had competing priorities on where to take Allscripts. 

82. CW3 said that several key Eclipsys product development and sales employees left 

Allscripts at or around the Fall of 2010 to the Spring of 2011. He said there was friction between 

the key legacy Eclipsys and Allscripts employees relating to promises Allscripts executives made 

to legacy Eclipsys Sunrise software clients at or around the time of the Merger regarding 

integration capabilities of the Sunrise and Allscripts software products and the timing of when 

integration would be available. The friction also included Allscripts key executives making 

decisions relating to product direction and focus and ignoring input from legacy Eclipsys 

executives. CW3 said that he learned from conversations that Tullman was ignoring Pead’s input. 

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CW3 observed that Eclipsys employees who did not follow the direction of legacy Allscripts 

executives were being fired or demoted causing some of them to leave. 

83. CW12 was a Sales Executive at Allscripts from 2009 until the time of the Merger; 

thereafter, CW12’s title was Area Vice President of the Health Systems Group. CW12 reported 

directly to the Executive Vice President of Sales, which was either Stephen Shute, Stephen Lalonde 

or Jeff Surges, depending on the time frame. CW12 left Allscripts in June 2012. CW12 said he 

heard from other employees and observed significant infighting and jockeying for “boss” positions 

among the legacy Allscripts and Eclipsys management teams. 

84. CW9 was aware of several senior Eclipsys executives that left between September 

2010 and February 2012. It was common knowledge that the legacy Allscripts employees were 

taking over key decision making positions and many of the Eclipsys executives were being fired or 

marginalized. 

Unobtainable 2012 Financial Guidance 

85. Despite the increasing customer defections, customer dissatisfaction, product 

integration failures, and management tensions, Allscripts issued 2012 financial guidance that 

forecasted 2012 non-GAAP revenues of $1.62 - $1.65 billion and non-GAAP diluted earnings per 

share of $1.06 - $1.10, projecting significant growth over 2011. 

86. CW3 said that sales managers used salesforce.com to forecast and record customer 

prospects and their progress to contract software. The sales managers would discuss the forecast 

and progress at monthly management meetings with Lalonde. The salesforce.com reports were 

available to Allscripts executives and he knew based on conversations at the meetings that 

Allscripts executives were aware of and closely monitoring the progress of sales and if forecasts 

were met. According to CW3, Lalonde and sales managers would know by mid-quarter if they 

would meet forecast. 

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87. CW9 attended the sales meeting in Orlando in January 2012 and received his sales 

quota from Steve Lalonde. There were VPs and above at this meeting. CW9 believed the sales 

goals were unrealistic and told his supervisor Martha Thorne and Steve Lalonde. In response he 

was told to meet his quota. As he recalled, the sales quota for Sunrise Clinical Manager was 26. 

This was much higher than the eight or nine deals a year he knew the sales executives were 

averaging. To his knowledge there weren’t 26 such deals closed in a year by all EHR providers. 

88. CW9 also explained that he participated in a weekly conference call with Steve 

Lalonde and Ted Hall the VP of Sales Operations and that a detailed sales spreadsheet tracked sales 

progress to forecasts and was tied into the salesforce.com software Allscripts used to monitor sales. 

Steve Shute was Executive VP and participated in weekly calls. According to CW9, it was clear 

from the weekly calls that Allscripts was not meeting the sales quotas on a variety of products 

including Sunrise Clinical Manager. He was not surprised that Allscripts’ actual sales were below 

forecast and in his view management should not have been either. 

89. CW11 said that he attended the meeting in Orlando, Florida around the third week 

of January 2012 with all sales executives VP and above. Steve Lalonde distributed the sales 

forecasts or quota for 2012. He and the other sales executives learned that the sales quota increased 

significantly. His hospital group forecast increased by 27% to $245 million. He recalled the 

forecast included 28 net new business sales of the Sunrise Clinical Manager applications even 

though the most Allscripts or Eclipsys sold in a year was nine or ten. He and other Area Vice 

Presidents and Vice Presidents pushed back and provided feedback on what was more attainable. 

The sales executives felt a more attainable number was around 14.12 The response they received 

 

12 During the April 26, 2012 conference call, Defendants said they netted three new Sunrise deals in the 

quarter, one in the UK and two in the US. 

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was management felt they had good support for the significant increase in forecasts and each sales 

executive needed to find a way to make their quota. CW11 learned many deals were lost because 

of the integration issues. 

90. CW11 said that during the first quarter of 2012 Allscripts was in the running for 

several proposals for its Sunrise Clinical Manager application but was not chosen in almost every 

instance. In the feedback, Allscripts learned that the reason for not being chosen was due to lack of 

native integration. According to CW11, due to these findings and after the earnings announcement, 

Allscripts significantly increased its funding for product development to complete seamless 

integration of its acute care and ambulatory applications. CW11’s account was corroborated by 

Defendant Tullman’s April 26, 2012 statement that Allscripts was allocating $190 million in 2012 

to “improve performance and accelerate integration and innovation.” 

MATERIALLY FALSE AND MISLEADING 

STATEMENTS AND OMISSIONS MADE DURING THE CLASS PERIOD 

Materially False and Misleading Statements Concerning Product Integration 

91. On November 8, 2010, Allscripts held a conference call with analysts, after the close 

of the market, to discuss its third quarter 2010 (“3Q10”) financial results. Defendants Davis and 

Tullman were present on the call. During the call, CEO Tullman materially misled investors as to 

the current status of Allscripts’ product integration: 

On a product front, as we told conference attendees, we are on plan to 

deliver integration between Sunrise and all of the Allscripts electronic health 

records by the end of the first quarter. In fact, during the conference keynote, we 

demonstrated native round-trip integration between our professional electronic 

health record and Sunrise. Just over one month post-merger. 13 Clearly, 

integration is and will continue to be a key focus for our clients and for us. 

 

13 The emphasis added in the section entitled “Materially False and Misleading Statements Made During 

the Class Period” highlights the specifically alleged false and misleading portions of statements made (and 

relevant context) by the specific Defendants on the specific dates identified herein. 

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92. During the November 8, 2010 call, Gene Mannheimer, an analyst with Auriga USA, 

asked Tullman: 

Can you offer, Glen, what level of integration currently exists between Sunrise and 

Touchworks, certainly realizing its early post merger? And what’s planned for 

2011? Can we get to a single database, a single-instance type of integration, or will it 

continue to be one of interfacing? 

Tullman again misled investors by falsely responding: 

 The integration levels will vary by the three different electronic health 

records and also by the client. As we mentioned when we announced the merger, 

there are clients like Columbia Doctors, Columbian Presbyterian in New York 

City, where they are already moving back and forth seamlessly between the Sunrise 

application and our Enterprise application. And they’ve done that at an object 

level, at a high level. But from a physician standpoint, they see that as providing 

their needs. 

 Second, we talked about the fact that at the Eclipsys user conference, we 

already demonstrated round-trip functional integration between Sunrise Clinical 

Manager and a professional product. 

 But the real issue here is people want a single patient record. They’re less 

concerned – you won’t hear doctors talking about single database or the technology 

or functional integration or object level. They simply say, “I want one view of the 

patient. I want a single patient record.” 

 And the way we do that at the new Allscripts is inside we have a fully 

integrated application. And outside the four walls of the organization, we use 

semantic interoperability. And we bring that all together in one single patient 

record. And that’s what is unique about the offering.

93. Tullman closed the call positively, falsely emphasizing the status of the integration: 

 And whether you’re looking for an integrated offering inside the four walls of 

the hospital or looking for an offering that closes the gap and connects, the 

healthcare equation to create this connected community of health, that we think is the 

future, either way, Allscripts is the answer. And we’re seeing that in terms of our 

sales results. 

 Again, the time is now. We’re less than 60 days away from the measurement 

period here people start to measure to get their dollars from the Federal Government, 

the first payment. . . . [W]e couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity, how 

the integration is going, and again, a lot of kudos to our folks who are making it 

happen.

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94. Three weeks later, on November 30, 2010, CFO Davis spoke at a conference for 

analysts covering the healthcare industry sponsored by Piper Jaffray. Sean Weiland, the analyst 

hosting the event, asked Davis: 

Give me two or three things that have come in ahead of your expectations relative to 

the acquisition and give me two or three things that were the curveball? 

Defendant Davis materially mislead the market as to Allscripts’ integration of its product offerings 

with the following response: 

 In terms of – the third thing that I would highlight on the positive is the 

product integration itself. Literally four weeks post the closing of the transaction, 

the Eclipsys User Conference took place in San Diego. John Gomez was actually in 

front of several thousand individuals beginning to present real code in terms of the 

integration work that is being done on the product front itself. 

95. On January 10, 2011, Defendants Tullman and Davis participated in a JP Morgan 

Healthcare Conference for analysts. Tullman not only reassured analysts that integration was 

achieved but falsely told analysts at the event, “[W]e are a big Microsoft player. Fortunately, 

Eclipsys was as well. That’s made the integration of the technology of the two companies very 

easy to do. And we are in great shape from that standpoint.” 

96. On February 15, 2011, Allscripts held a conference call with analysts after the close 

of the market, to discuss its 4Q10 financial results. Defendants Davis and Tullman were present on 

the call. During this call, CEO Tullman misleadingly told analysts: 

We are now able to show, in realtime, how information flows seamlessly between 

the hospital and the physician’s office to enable a single patient record. These are 

realtime record updates, without the use of add on interfaces. So, while there is 

more work to be done, today, we are well positioned to deliver on our vision.

97. During the February 15, 2011 earnings call, Defendant Tullman continued to 

materially misrepresent the status of the integration of Allscripts’ products: 

When we announced the merger with Eclipsys, there were four fundamental 

questions. . . . 

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. . . [L]ast, but not least, can we integrate our products?

 One month after our merger at the Eclipsys user conference, we 

demonstrated native integration between Sunrise Clinical Manager and our 

[P]rofessional electronic health record. In one week, at HIMSS, we’ll demonstrate 

additional integration between our [E]nterprise EHR, and Sunrise. 

98. Later, during the February 15, 2011 call, Jeremy Lopez, an analyst with William 

Blair & Co., asked: 

 My question, I’m glad I’m recognizing the success you guys are seeing on the 

cross-selling front and wonder, you kind of alluded to this, can you characterize the 

pipeline in terms of net new deals that combine the inpatient and the ambulatory 

offering? I’m assuming you guys have some of those. What are you guys telling 

them, in terms of availability in terms of a natively integrated offering? 

Tullman continued to mislead the market by responding as follows: 

 Well, as I mentioned, we expect to demonstrate that at HIMSS. So, anyone 

who is buying the combined solution would be installing a solution that natively 

exchanged information between both the ambulatory and the acute. But, I think 

importantly, we’ve got to throw into there post acute, as well as community.

* * * 

 Similarly, when people talk about connectivity, increasingly, they are saying 

not only how do you get acute to talk to our ambulatory, that’s almost a given now. 

99. Mr. Lopez at William Blair & Co. followed up on his initial question on the 

February 15, 2011 conference call asking: 

 But do you have an actual time horizon for when you can actually install a net 

new inpatient-outpatient, that is the new natively integrated Eclipsys Allscripts 

offering? 

To which Tullman misleadingly responded: 

 Yes, we’ll have a live code shipping at the end of the first quarter, is what 

we’ve said to the market, and we’re on schedule, and we’ll show that live code next 

week at HIMSS. For all those folks who are concerned about it, that concern goes 

away. 

100. Not satisfied with Tullman’s response, Mr. Lopez asked: 

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 Do you have maybe another way to get at this. Is there a line of existing 

clients that have raised their hand and say I’m willing to do it as soon as you have it 

available? 

Tullman continued his misleading answers as follows: 

 Absolutely. Absolutely. And those are believe me, they are willing, anxious, 

all anxious to get the first code. They’ll get that before the end of the first quarter.

101. On February 21, 2011, Allscripts issued a press release entitled, “Allscripts 

Demonstrates Native Integration of Acute and Ambulatory Electronic Health Records at HIMSS,” 

which stated: 

 “The native integration of our acute care and ambulatory solutions without 

the need for third-party software brings to life the Allscripts vision of a Connected 

Community of Health, and is well within the time frame we set out when we 

announced our merger with Eclipsys last summer,” said Glen Tullman, Chief 

Executive Officer of Allscripts. . . . “Allscripts is now in a unique position as the 

only company that can deliver one connected network on one common, open 

platform providing one patient record to clinicians and patients across the care 

continuum – while at the same time being open to alternate solutions, should the 

client desire.” 

102. The same day, Defendant Tullman was interviewed by Steve Aylward of Microsoft 

at the HIMSS conference which began on February 21, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Tullman was 

asked about the merger and misleadingly referred to how “easy” it was to combine the companies 

and achieve native integration stating: 

[W]hen we combined Allscripts with Eclipsys, one of the things that made the 

merger make sense was we’re bringing together both an acute hospital base platform 

with an ambulatory base platform and any time you do a merger there’s a lot of 

questions about can you execute on the merger. We had the advantage of both being 

based on our foundational platform was .net and so that allowed us to pull together 

the two applications in a record format. In fact, today, as we show the applications 

exchanging information on a native level, what you see is that, you know, we can 

make patients have more access to their information and really deliver more 

patient safety based applications because of .net, because of our foundational 

Microsoft basis. So, so that really drove part of what made it easy to combine the 

companies.

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103. At a March 1, 2011 conference for analysts covering the healthcare industry hosted 

by Citi Global, Defendant Davis falsely emphasized the status of Allscripts’ product integration 

stating: 

 One notable thing that we profiled last week was actually the integration that 

we have done between the acute offering of Eclipsys with our ambulatory of legacy 

Allscripts. We profiled that to not only prospecting customers but also the 

investment community as well. Again we’re very proud of the progress that we’ve 

made to date. We’re actually slightly ahead of schedule in terms of where we 

expected to be at this juncture and again very well received by all that had an 

opportunity to see that. 

104. Also on March 1, 2011, Allscripts filed a Form 10-KT with the SEC, describing the 

Company’s financial results for the transitional, post-merger period June 1, 2010 to December 31, 

2010. The Form 10-KT, signed by Defendants Tullman and Davis, falsely represented: 

Combining the companies respective solution sets has created one of the most 

comprehensive solution offerings for healthcare organizations of every size and 

setting. By combining physician-office and post-acute care solutions from 

Allscripts with Eclipsys enterprise solutions for hospitals and health systems, the 

combined company is able to offer a single platform of clinical, financial, 

connectivity and information solutions. 

 Due to the Eclipsys Merger, given the unique breadth of solutions and 

customer types, the company is uniquely positioned to connect physicians, other 

care providers and patients across all health care provider settings including 

hospitals, small or large physician practices, extended care facilities, or in a home 

care setting. The combined company has significantly enhanced its ability to 

compete for opportunities among large hospital and health systems that increasingly 

are looking to one information technology vendor to provide a single, end-to-end 

solution across all points of care. 

105. In a “Dear Shareholder” letter which accompanied the March 1, 2011 Form 10-KT, 

Defendant Tullman wrote: 

 By the end of 2010, just four months after closing the merger, we delivered

exceptionally strong results in our first full quarter as a combined company; direct 

integration of data between our hospital and physician clinical solutions without 

third-party software; merger-related cost synergies in line with our stated 

expectations; and significant cross-sales of our solutions into our combined client 

base, with total sales of over $288 million during the fourth quarter of 2010. 

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* * * 

 We have demonstrated native integration of our own solutions to create one 

platform of ambulatory, acute, and post-acute solutions without the need for thirdparty software. We believe that no other company can match the functionality of 

our full, integrated solution set, nor its ability to drive utilization by providers.

Some large health systems are spending $250 million or more and taking five years 

to do what many of our clients will be doing with Allscripts within the year, at a fifth 

of the cost. The difference between the old, monolithic, single-system approach and 

the Allscripts open, horizontal architecture is significant. 

106. The following week, on March 7, 2011, at an Institutional Investor Conference 

hosted by Raymond James, Defendant Davis falsely emphasized Allscripts’ product offering postMerger: 

Yet, with the two businesses coming together as evidenced here, we have a complete 

suite of products that enable us to provide a true end to end solution when you 

think about again starting in the physician setting all the way through the hospital 

and extending beyond the four walls of the hospital into post-acute and community 

solutions.

107. During the March 7, 2011 conference, Defendant Davis also stated: 

What I have been really intrigued by in virtue of this merger is a clear delineation 

between those who have the integrated capability and those that do not. And I have 

mentioned to many investors that I sincerely believe that this is a market that is 

converging on a three-headed horse race if you will. And that three-headed horse 

race is really between us, another public company that I think is here today, Cerner, 

has that capability, and then another private company out of Wisconsin called Epic. 

108. On March 15, 2011, Defendant Tullman would go on to tell analysts gathered at 

Barclays Capital’s Global Healthcare Conference that: 

 Now, at the time we did the merger, we basically said that there’s four ways 

to evaluate the success of the merger. 

* * * 

 And last but not least, could you integrate the various products? And at the 

recent HIMSS Show, we demonstrated live integration at a native level. 

* * * 

 So what’s our competitive differentiation across the entire continuum? One 

network, the largest connected network in the nation and in your community. One 

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platform; it’s an open platform, Microsoft .NET. It’s a platform designed to connect 

in one patient, which is one view of the patient independent of whether you’re using 

our technology or even any of our competitors’ technology, our ability to provide 

one view of the patient for a physician. 

109. On May 5, 2011, Allscripts hosted an analyst conference call after the close of the 

market to discuss its 1Q11 financial results. Defendants Tullman and Davis were present on the 

call. Wherein Defendant Tullman materially misrepresented Allscripts’ integration success: 

We have delivered on the commitments we made. . . . We said we would 

demonstrate success integrating our product portfolio, and we have. 

* * * 

 Before I turn the call over to Bill, I want to make a point on the integration of 

our products and provide you with an observation from a recent client visit. Many 

who attended the HIMSS conference in March commented positively on our 

demonstration of live integration between Sunrise and our ambulatory electronic 

health records at that event. We plan to have clients running this native integration 

in production in time for ACE, our annual user conference, which takes place in 

August. The bottom line is that the integration work is on track. Clients are 

actively participating, and we look forward to the completion of these installed, and 

the enhanced work flow it will provide for our clients. 

110. Also during the May 5, 2011 earnings call, Larry Marsh, a Barclays Capital analyst, 

asked Tullman about the departure of CTO Gomez: 

We’ve gotten some feedback already with the announced departure of John Gomez 

from customers communicating the support of the direction of the Company and not 

really that much of an overall concern. I was just curious if you could share any 

additional feedback you’ve gotten from customers as that’s been communicated, and 

do you have a time line in mind, Glen, when you would like to is somebody else in 

that slot? 

Defendant Tullman mislead the market by responding as follows: 

Relative to John, again, I think people were – John had been around the 

Eclipsys side of the equation for a period of time, was well regarded by those folks, 

and John had a big part of helping to set our vision. I think most of those clients 

would tell you today that they’re very focused on execution. When John and I 

talked, I wanted to make sure that five, five [i.e. Sunrise 5.5] was exactly what we 

wanted it to be, that the integration work was where we wanted it to be, and that, of 

course, meaningful use was achieved and that all of those objectives were met. 

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There couldn’t have been a better time if John was going to be departing, that he 

depart. 

111. Defendant Davis further misled the market by adding: 

I’ll just reiterate, Glen touched on it and I did in my prepared remarks, one of the 

most significant positive surprises of this merger having now operated two full 

quarters, is the success we are having from a cross-sell perspective, which to me is 

true evidence of the success of bringing these businesses together and the value of 

bringing the portfolios together, and we’re starting to see that extend out into net new 

opportunities. So, the product integration and the power of the existing 

relationships, I think, again, things that are delivering real value to the business.

112. Three months later, on August 2, 2011, Allscripts hosted an analyst conference call 

after the close of the market to discuss its 2Q11 financial results. Defendants Tullman and Davis 

were present during the call wherein Defendant Tullman again misled the market as to integration: 

The first thing was, as we looked at the merger, people said, well, can they work 

together? Continue to deliver? Then can they cross-sell, then can they sell in both 

directions, and then the final question was, does the software work together well? 

Each one of those we’ve knocked off quarter by quarter as we continue to educate 

the sales force, as we continue to educate our clients, and they see what we can 

deliver. 

* * * 

So I don’t think that we need anything more than we have today. We just to have 

get out there and tell the new story. 

113. On August 29, 2011, Allscripts issued a press release entitled, “Allscripts User 

Conference Draws Over 4,700 Attendees,” which stated: 

 This demonstration of the live integration between the Company’s 

ambulatory and acute care EHRs [Allscripts Enterprise (TM) Electronic Health 

Record (EHR) in a physician practice, and Sunrise Clinical Manager (TM) in the 

hospital] comes on the first anniversary of the merger of Allscripts and Eclipsys. 

114. During a September 8, 2011 conference which Defendant Shapiro attended, Steve 

Halper, the Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst hosting the event, asked Defendant Shapiro: 

So, why don’t we dig down a little bit deeper in terms of Eclipsys and what 

have you done relative to product strategies, as well as some operational synergies 

that you’ve accomplished. 

Defendant Shapiro mislead the market when he responded as follows: 

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Well, when we announced the transaction we promised the market four things. 

We had said that we would achieve a product integration. And within a month 

after the close of the transaction, we demonstrated at [sic] had been previously 

scheduled as a user conference the beginnings of that integration.

 And I’m pleased to say that we’ve continued to make good product 

integration progress. Last week we held our users’ conference. We had over 4,000 

people attending our users’ conference. It was the first combined user conference 

that we held. It’s probably the second largest event in our industry. 

 And at that conference, we had a client who is live with the integration, 

Jefferson Regional Medical Center, that’s using our acute and ambulatory 

platforms and having seamless transfer of information between their acute care 

and ambulatory systems that provide for integrated care.

115. Mr. Halper of Stifel Nicolaus & Co. continued on the September 8, 2011 call to ask 

about integration between the legacy Eclipsys and Allscripts products: 

So, is there any integration that goes on between Sunrise and the – well, let’s take – 

like, let’s take a step back. Why don’t you break down the physician marketplace for 

us in terms of the core ambulatory systems and the three segments that you focus on 

and what products you have in that – in each of those markets. 

116. Defendant Shapiro falsely responded as follows: 

 Just very quickly with regard to integration, our meaningful use versions of 

our products in terms of Sunrise integration, being able to pass natively data from 

acute to ambulatory is something that’s working with both Sunrise and Enterprise, 

Sunrise and Professional, and soon with regard to the MyWay product.

117. When Mr. Halper asked Defendant Shapiro to confirm that “the integration is 

planned for or being accomplished within all three” of Allscripts’ ambulatory platforms 

(Enterprise, Professional and MyWay), Defendant Shapiro misleadingly responded: “That’s 

correct.” 

118. Two months later on November 3, 2011, Defendants Tullman and Davis participated 

in a conference call to discuss Allscripts’ 3Q11 financial results. On the call, Defendant Tullman 

falsely represented that: 

What physicians want is one comprehensive patient view. Not one database, 

because they realize you can’t do that. . . . What you do want is one patient view, 

and that is what we offer through our Community products. 

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 I think last but not least, in terms of those folks who do want to go with an 

approach that mimics that, we have that approach and that is, Sunrise allows you 

to have an acute and an ambulatory product all in one database. And that we have 

today. 

119. Several days later, on November 9, 2011, Defendant Davis kept up the façade, 

falsely telling analysts gathered at the Credit Suisse Group Healthcare Conference: 

Again, we believe that we are uniquely positioned of being one of very few that has 

a comprehensive product portfolio that enables us to meet the needs of the hospital 

environment, the physician office environment, post-acute environment, as well as 

the integrated market environment which effectively brings these solutions 

together and allows information to be seamlessly shared.

120. Subsequently, on February 16, 2012, Defendants Tullman and Davis participated in 

an earnings conference to discuss Allscripts’ 4Q11 results. During the call, Defendant Tullman 

falsely represented the status of Allscripts’ product integration stating: 

[O]ur comprehensive Sunrise solution continues to win head-to-head competition 

for hospitals and health systems who want an open yet fully integrated clinical 

system, as well as those who want a single database. 

* * * 

 So our folks are chomping at the bit now that they are really fluent in the 

whole language of Sunrise and SEM and how it all works together and fits into not 

just products but in integrated solutions. So that [is] really where we are. 

Reasons Why Defendants’ Statements Concerning Product Integration Were Materially 

False And Misleading 

121. The highlighted statements in ¶¶91-114, 116-118 above were materially false and 

misleading when made because Allscripts did not achieve product integration during the Class 

Period and Defendants failed to reveal the true facts which were known or recklessly disregarded 

by Defendants, based on the allegations pled herein, including, inter alia, the following: 

(a) Defendants repeatedly touted that they had demonstrated and achieved 

product integration, and that they had a competitive advantage as a result, when in truth the products 

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were not integrated and they would not achieve product integration until July 2012 and even by 

December 2012 only one client site was live on a beta version of the product. E.g., ¶¶76, 170, 175; 

(b) Defendants failed to disclose the true facts that product integration was not 

easy, they were months or years away from achieving product integration, product integration 

required substantial investment of time and resources, and customers were not satisfied with initial 

product integration efforts. All of which was belatedly disclosed when Defendants revealed on April 

26, 2012, among other things, that ADX 1.0 required a complete rework, they needed to invest $190 

million in 2012 to “accelerate integration,” and customers were still “waiting” on product integration 

and delaying purchases for new released. ¶¶139, 141-144; 

(c) the Merger was premised on the promise that it would be “easy” to deliver an 

integrated product solution that offered patients and clients a seamless experience, a single patient 

record between hospitals, physician offices and extended care, and that, as far as customers were 

concerned integration was “done” and they could get all they need. ¶15. By November 2010, more 

than two months after the close of the Merger, Defendants knew that they could not deliver the 

product integration desired by customers (and which Allscripts claimed to have) which was the key 

to Allscripts’ growth and success; 

(d) As CW11 explained, these were complex software application systems which 

required a significant time frame and effort to achieve native integration. ¶75. He further stated that 

the legacy products of Allscripts and Eclipsys had different software architecture and required 

significant product development to natively integrate. ¶74. Every inference is that Defendants knew 

of and deliberately ignored these facts; 

(e) As the promised integration was key to Allscripts’ success, Defendants as 

Allscripts executives were focused on and privy to the difficulties encountered with integration. As 

such, they knew there was no viable integrated product throughout the Class Period. For example, 

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according to CW11, the failure of ADX 1.0 (Allscripts’ integration tool) to work properly at its beta 

testing site led to it being scrapped altogether by mid-2011. ¶76. Similarly, CW8 (who left in 

January 2012), CW2 (who left in February 2012), CW7 (who left in April 2012), CW9 (who left in 

May 2012), and CW5 (who left in June 2012), all give accounts that indicate that the seamless 

integration Defendants promised and in fact said was achieved was not accomplished by November 

2010 or even by the time they departed from the Company. ¶¶43-45, 60-63, 66-70; 

(f) The Confidential Witness accounts are corroborated by Defendants’ own 

admissions, including Defendant Davis’ May 8, 2012 admission that Allscripts’ initial release of its 

“integrated capability . . . was launched [in the] middle of last year [i.e. mid-2011]” and that “its 

ultimate functionality was short of where the market would like to see it be.” ¶158; 

(g) Defendant Tullman also belatedly admitted on April 26, 2012 that ADX 1.0 

“didn’t work for [a] set of customers” focused on integration. In doing so, he also conceded that 

Allscripts “reorganized and put our sales and services together” based on client focus and a lot of 

work. As described in ¶73, CW11 noted, and later corroborated by Tullman on an August 8, 2012 

earnings call, that the reorganization was completed at the beginning of 2012. Thus, at a minimum, 

Defendants knew Allscripts did not offer a viable integrated product weeks, if not months, before the 

sales reorganization in January 2012 rendering their statements in late 2011 and 2012 materially 

false; 

(h) As of November 2010, it was discussed by management that customers were 

delaying purchase because of dissatisfaction with the product integration. According to CW3, as 

early as November 2010, the issue of customers delaying purchase because of dissatisfaction with 

the product integration was being discussed at monthly management meetings run by Tullman’s 

direct report, Steve Lalonde; meetings that Tullman and Shapiro occasionally attended. ¶¶51-53, 57. 

The same issue was raised at a meeting for Allscripts’ entire sales organization in January 2011, 

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attended by Tullman. ¶52. CW3 further indicated that customer frustration increased and customers 

began switching from Allscripts to competitors’ products. ¶54. According to CW11, even as late as 

2Q12 Allscripts was losing competitive bids as a result of their failure to develop a truly integrated 

offering. ¶90; 

(i) In addition to the witness accounts, Defendants admitted at the end of the 

Class Period that customers delayed purchases as a result of the lack of integration. ¶139. Further, 

Defendants finally admitted on April 26, 2012 that they had already decided “to make significant 

investments in improving client experience and accelerating product development.” Id. Allscripts 

planned to invest $190 million in 2012 to “improve performance and accelerate integration and 

innovation,” admitting that new releases were “critical” due to delays by clients and a “major driver 

of future business.” Id.; 

(j) Until his departure, Gomez, Allscripts’ CTO had responsibilities for product 

integration. It was subsequently revealed in a May 14, 2012 analyst report by Cowen and Company 

that Chief Information Officers (“CIOs”) had “communicated that John’s [Gomez] methodology 

involved putting out new products even if it had glitches and then going back to fix the problems.” 

If the CIOs knew of Gomez’s practice, the inference is that Defendants did as well. This inference is 

bolstered by the fact that Tullman was known to have a hands-on management style. ¶178. Further, 

Defendants often highlighted close relationships with clients, including those who gave negative 

feedback. ¶¶14, 92, 100, 109, 110, 141-142, 148, 179; 

(k) With regard to the purported demonstration of native integration between 

legacy Allscripts and legacy Eclipsys products in ¶¶91, 94, 97-99, 108, 113 above, CW5 stated his 

impression after watching such a demonstration in January/February 2011 was that it was “smoke 

and mirrors.” ¶62. He never saw product integration working at any client sites. Id.; 

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(l) With regard to Defendants’ misleading use of Columbia Presbyterian as an 

example of a site where their integrated products were fully functional as set forth in ¶92 above, the 

applications used at Columbia Presbyterian were custom-tailored and not generally available to other 

Allscripts clients. ¶¶56, 77. CW11 stated that the native integration package used by Columbia 

Presbyterian between its acute care and ambulatory health care application was an integration 

package built by Columbia Presbyterian’s own information technology people. ¶77. CW3’s account 

corroborates that of CW11. CW3 indicated that the integration software being used at Columbia 

Presbyterian was engineered using Allscripts software engineers and internal Columbia Presbyterian 

employees and was unique to the hardware and software used within Columbia. ¶56; 

(m) With regard to Defendant Tullman misleadingly stating that product 

integration was “where [he] wanted it to be” as was Sunrise 5.5 (“five, five”) as set forth in ¶110 

above, the 5.5 upgrade did not offer any meaningful improvement over 5.0. Defendants 

acknowledged this fact in post-Class Period statements, the product failed to satisfy clients who 

deferred purchases waiting for Sunrise 6.0. ¶¶138, 143-144, 158. CW2 described the upgrade from 

Sunrise 5.0 to 5.5 as an “empty shell.” ¶46; 

(n) With respect to Tullman’s November 8, 2010 statement that Allscripts was 

“on plan to deliver integration between Sunrise and all of the Allscripts electronic health records by 

the end of the first quarter” 2011, Allscripts was nowhere near achieving such integration and did not 

achieve integration of Sunrise and one Allscripts EHR software, Enterprise, until July 2012 after 

extensive work with Blessing Hospital and never achieved such integration for MyWay which it 

abandoned in October 2012. ¶¶168-171; and 

(o) With respect to MyWay, Tullman’s November 8, 2010 statement that it was 

“on plan” to deliver integration for “all” EHR products with Sunrise by the first quarter of 2011 and 

Shapiro’s September 8, 2011 misleading statement that MyWay was close to meaningful use which 

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would be achieved “soon” as set forth in ¶¶116-117, it was never integrated and Allscripts eventually 

abandoned the product in 2012. ¶¶168-169. As a result, a class action lawsuit was filed by 

physicians who purchased the product based on false and misleading statements like Shapiro’s 

above. 

122. For all of the reasons in ¶121 above, investors were deceived. Defendants 

materially misled investors when they claimed that they had “demonstrate[d] success integrating 

our product portfolio” and that product integration was already “delivering real value to the 

business.” Allscripts was not “having seamless transfer of information between their acute care 

and ambulatory systems that provide for integrated care.” Nor was Tullman’s statement that he 

didn’t “think that we need anything more than we have today. We just to have get out there and tell 

the new story” truthful. Likewise, there was no “true end-to-end solution,” “integrated solution 

set” and the integration was not “on schedule.” There was a lot more work to be done on product 

integration and Defendants knew it. Some two years after the Merger, Allscripts would still only 

have a lone customer live on a beta version of ADX 1.5. ¶¶76, 175. 

Materially False and Misleading Statements Regarding Merger Integration 

123. Given that the Merger took place during a period of time when a window of 

opportunity to benefit from federal stimulus funding was closing, it was important for Allscripts to 

assure investors that the Merger was going smoothly and was not interfering with the ability to 

maximize its sales to the customers of the now-combined businesses. As a result, Defendants 

repeatedly reassured investors during the Class Period that the Merger was going smoothly and the 

key talent at each company was working together effectively. In fact, there was a deep divide 

between the two companies’ management. 

124. During the November 30, 2010 Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference attended by 

Defendant Davis, Sean Weiland, the analyst hosting the event, asked CFO Davis: 

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Give me two or three things that have come in ahead of your expectations relative to 

the acquisition and give me two or three things that were the curveball? 

Defendant Davis mislead the market with the following response: 

So I am very encouraged by where the business is at from an integration 

perspective. 

125. Some five months later, during a May 5, 2011 earnings call attended by Defendants 

Tullman and Davis, a William Blair & Co. analyst asked: 

I’m just curious, you have several months of Eclipsys under your belt. I’m curious as 

you look at that business strategically, if you have made changes or see any changes 

from a go to market standpoint, whether it be in terms of how Eclipsys contracts. 

Tullman misleadingly responded: 

One, strategically, this is probably, given where the market is today and the need to 

operate across ambulatory, acute and post acute. This was as well timed a merger as 

you’ll ever see. From an execution standpoint, we’ve now done a few of them. This 

is as smooth as an integration effort that you’ll ever see in terms of realizing 

synergies, in terms of very little overlap between the two organizations and between 

– in terms of the fit. 

126. Also during the May 5, 2011 earnings call, Larry Marsh, a Barclays Capital analyst, 

asked Tullman about the departure of Gomez, Allscripts’ CTO: 

We’ve gotten some feedback already with the announced departure of John Gomez 

from customers communicating the support of the direction of the Company and not 

really that much of an overall concern. I was just curious if you could share any 

additional feedback you’ve gotten from customers as that’s been communicated, and 

do you have a time line in mind, Glen, when you would like to is somebody else in 

that slot? 

Defendant Tullman mislead the market by responding as follows: 

Relative to John, again, I think people were – John had been around the 

Eclipsys side of the equation for a period of time, was well regarded by those folks, 

and John had a big part of helping to set our vision. I think most of those clients 

would tell you today that they’re very focused on execution. When John and I 

talked, I wanted to make sure that five, five [Sunrise 5.5] was exactly what we 

wanted it to be, that the integration work was where we wanted it to be, and that, of 

course, meaningful use was achieved and that all of those objectives were met. 

There couldn’t have been a better time if John was going to be departing, that he 

depart. 

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127. At the same May 5, 2011 earnings call, Defendant Davis reaffirmed the success of 

the Merger when he highlighted “the success we are having from a cross-sell perspective, which to 

me is true evidence of the success of bringing these businesses together and the value of bringing 

the portfolios together, and we’re starting to see that extend out into net new opportunities.” 

128. Three months later on an August 2, 2011 earnings call that was attended by 

Defendants Tullman and Davis, Defendant Tullman misled investors by reporting that: 

The first thing was, as we looked at the merger, people said, well, can they work 

together? Continue to deliver? Then can they cross-sell, then can they sell in both 

directions, and then the final question was, does the software work together well? 

Each one of those we’ve knocked off quarter by quarter as we continue to educate 

the sales force, as we continue to educate our clients, and they see what we can 

deliver. 

129. On September 8, 2011, Defendant Shapiro participated in a conference for analysts 

covering the healthcare industry, hosted by Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. During this conference, Shapiro 

falsely represented: 

We just celebrated the one-year anniversary of the merger with Eclipsys and 

we’ve been quite pleased with the performance since the time that the transaction 

closed. 

One of the things we knew going in was that there was a great team in place 

and a great culture that existed, and that has been, frankly, a pleasure in terms of our 

ability to work with the team that was there. Sometimes you find yourselves in terms 

of thinking that there’s a great strategic rationale for going forward with another 

organization, but the fit might not be right from a people standpoint and that creates 

dissonance in terms of having a solid integration. But from our perspective, the 

teams couldn’t be more aligned and working very closely together in the market. 

Reasons Why Defendants’ Statements Regarding Merger Integration Were Materially 

False And Misleading 

130. The highlighted statements above in ¶¶124-129 regarding the “smooth” integration 

and “fit” of Eclipsys and Allscripts as merged companies were materially false and misleading 

because they failed to reveal the true facts, which were known or recklessly disregarded by 

Defendants, which include, inter alia, the facts below: 

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(a) Tullman belatedly admitting by implication, on April 26, 2012 that Allscripts 

and Eclipsys, from the beginning of the Merger, had a “different view[s] of the future and of the 

direction that the organization should go and who should take the organization in that direction” 

which led to the termination of former Eclipsys CEO Pead as Chairman of the Allscripts Board and, 

in turn, resignation of three other Allscripts Board members. ¶147; 

(b) Consistent with Tullman’s admission, CW3 describing conversations he had 

in the Fall of 2010 and Spring of 2011 regarding what he called “friction” between legacy Eclipsys 

and Allscripts executives and employees. ¶82. The conversations related to Allscripts’ executives 

making promises to clients regarding integration capabilities of the two companies’ products that 

could not be delivered on, and ignoring input from legacy Eclipsys personnel when making decisions 

about product direction and focus. Id.; 

(c) Pead and Tullman having “competing priorities,” especially with regard to the 

direction of product integration according to CW11. Gomez felt micromanaged and that Tullman 

did not provide Gomez the ability to make decisions on integration. ¶81; 

(d) Legacy Eclipsys management feeling they were being ignored by Tullman and 

wanted to oust Tullman. In turn, there was a growing and irreparable rift between Tullman and the 

legacy Eclipsys management including Gomez, Pead and the legacy Eclipsys directors, as revealed 

by Gomez being pushed out, Pead’s eventual firing, and the departure of two legacy Eclipsys 

directors. ¶¶81-82; 

(e) After the revelations on April 26, 2012 with respect to the termination of Pead 

and two other legacy Eclipsys Board members, a Barclays Capital analyst adeptly observed that “it 

would suggest to some that the business [Allscripts] acquired in 2010 may be meaningfully different 

in value”; and 

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(f) Specifically with respect to Tullman’s misleading response to the analysts’ 

questions that Gomez had helped “set our vision” and that there “couldn’t have been a better time” 

for his departure, Tullman deliberately concealed that Gomez was forced out due to his substantial 

disagreements with Tullman on product integration. ¶¶80-81. Further, that the timing of his 

departure was not ideal. It only increased the complications Allscripts was having in developing an 

integrated product to satisfy increasing customer concerns, leading to ADX 1.0 being scrapped and 

ADX 1.5 being developed as a complete rework. ¶¶42, 76, 141, 189. Thus, investors were left with 

the false impression that Gomez’s departure was in the normal course of business and not because of 

the failure to integrate the visions of Allscripts and Eclipsys. 

Defendants’ False 2012 Financial Guidance 

131. On February 16, 2012, in a press release reporting the Company’s 4Q11 and FY11 

financial results, Defendants provided the following financial guidance for 2012: 

Calendar Year 2012 Guidance Range(7) 

Non-GAAP Revenue $1,620.0 to $1,650.0 million 

Non-GAAP Operating Income $345.0 to $355.0 million 

Non-GAAP Operating Margin 21.0 to 22.0 percent 

Non-GAAP Net Income $207.0 to $215.0 million 

Non-GAAP Diluted Earnings Per Share $1.06 to $1.10 

Diluted Shares 195.0 million 

132. In a conference call after the close of the market on the same day that Defendants 

Tullman and Davis participated in, CFO Davis also told analysts: 

Now I would like to provide our 2012 guidance. We anticipate 2012 nonGAAP revenue of between $1.62 billion and $1.65 billion. 

* * * 

This equates to non-GAAP net income between $207 million and $215 million or a 

growth of between 15% to 20% over 2011. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share 

are expected to be in the range of between $1.06 and $1.10, based on weighted 

average diluted shares outstanding of approximately 195 million shares. 

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133. The 2012 guidance projected significant improvement over 2011 non-GAAP 

revenues of $1.47 billion, non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.93, non-GAAP operating margin of 20.4% 

and non-GAAP net income of $178 million. Defendant Tullman assured the market that Allscripts 

had “some very strong momentum to support our growth in 2012.” 

Reasons Why Allscripts’ 2012 Financial Guidance Was False 

134. The highlighted 2012 guidance in ¶¶131-132 above was materially false because 

Defendants lacked a reasonable basis for the guidance that was issued (and Defendants knew it) for 

the following reasons, among others: 

(a) Sales of an integrated product solution was a key focus for the Defendants 

after the $1.3 billion Merger. The Merger was intended to drive sales and growth vis-a-vis the 

ability to offer an integrated seamless product across the continuum of care. ¶¶7, 10, 13, 16, 19. 

Yet, Defendants knew as described in ¶¶87-89 that Allscripts could not deliver on the promised 

product. In turn, Allscripts’ 2012 financial guidance, which depended on the ability to sell an 

integrated product offering, lacked any reasonable basis when it was issued; 

(b) Defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that the projected growth over 

2011 was unattainable in light of the failed product integration, customer complaints and purchasing 

delays, disruption from turnover of key personnel in sales and product development (e.g., ¶¶51-53, 

81-82, 139, 141-144, 158), and need to invest in hiring new employees and achieving product 

integration as revealed by Defendant’s admissions after the Class Period that they needed to hire 400 

additional employees and invest $190 million in integration efforts. ¶139; 

(c) Defendants have admitted that the lack of integration (which they knew of 

when they issued 2012 guidance) negatively impacted Allscripts’ ability to achieve financial results. 

Defendants admitted on April 26, 2012 that Allscripts’ “overall results were primarily affected by 

lower than expected sales and an unfavorable sales mix, which directly impacted revenue and 

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profit.” Defendants also explained that “a number of our clients and prospects delayed 

commitments as they wait for us to introduce new releases and demonstrate more robust 

integration”; 

(d) A significant portion of Allscripts’ business was reoccurring. For example, on 

April 26, 2012, Allscripts admitted that its 1Q12 reoccurring revenue was 69%. Thus, new sales and 

sales to new clients were key to achieving the robust guidance issued by Defendants on February 16, 

2012 for 2012. These sales depended on offering an integrated product – Allscripts purported 

competitive advantage in a highly-competitive industry; 

(e) The guidance was given six weeks into the quarter, in a business that, as 

Defendant Davis himself has acknowledged, had a “significant level of visibility” on revenue 

sources and cash flow. Allscripts reportedly had as much as 80% revenue visibility at the start of 

any given year, according to an Accretive Capital LLC article issued on February 16, 2011 

discussing a note issued by Citi Investment Research. Further, according to Citi “[i]t would take 

unusual customer churn or a change in the market of sales trends to cause a big miss at the revenue 

line.” Yet, unbeknownst to investors this was exactly the situation heading into 2012 as a result of 

Allscripts’ lack of a desired integrated product; 

(f) According to CW 11 and CW9, the above guidance was based on sales quotas 

of 26 to 28 new Sunrise deals in the year, nearly triple the sales in an average year. ¶¶87, 89. CW9 

reported the sales goals were unrealistic. According to CW9, there were not even 26 electronic 

medical record deals closed in a year for all the companies that sold the electronic medical records 

combined. ¶87. Likewise, CW11 explained that he and other Area Vice Presidents and Vice 

Presidents pushed back on the forecast they received in January 2012, explaining that a more 

attainable number was half of what the forecast called for. ¶89. Further, CW11 indicated that many 

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deals were lost because of integration issues. ¶¶89-90. In fact, only 3 new customers purchased 

Sunrise in 1Q12, as revealed during Defendants’ April 26, 2012 conference call; 

(g) Consistent with Allscripts’ revenue visibility, CW3 indicated that based on 

discussions held on weekly conference calls, “it was apparent” Davis and Tullman were closely 

monitoring the progress on sales. ¶86. Further, CW9 explained that he was not surprised, and 

management most certainly should not have been surprised, to know that Allscripts’ actual sales 

were well under forecast, based on the discussions at weekly sales conference calls and the data 

entered into salesforce.com. ¶88; and 

(h) The unreasonableness of Defendants’ guidance is further demonstrated by the 

fact that at the end of the Class Period, just two short months after Defendants issued 2012 financial 

guidance, they were forced to revise guidance by unprecedented amounts including: (i) slashing 

2012 non-GAAP EPS targets by nearly a third from $1.06-1.10 to $0.74-0.80; (ii) drastically 

reducing non-GAAP revenue guidance from $1.6 -$1.65 billion to $1.48-$1.52 billion; (iii) cutting 

non-GAAP operating margin guidance from 21-22% to 16-17%; and (iv) reducing non-GAAP 

operating income guidance by more than $100 million from $345-$355 million to $241-$259 

million. In comparison Allscripts reported non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.93 and nonGAAP operating margins of more than 20% in 2011, and non-GAAP revenue of $1.47 billion. By 

November 2012, Allscripts’ problems with product integration contributed to its withdrawal of 2012 

guidance altogether. 

THE RELEVANT TRUTH IS REVEALED 

135. On April 26, 2012, Allscripts issued a press release on PR Newswire after 4:00 p.m. 

EST announcing alarming financial results for 1Q12 and lowering their 2012 financial guidance 

issued just two months earlier. Defendants reported disappointing trends, below guidance, and 

below 2011 in bookings, revenues, income, and earnings-per-share. Specifically, they reported: 

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First Quarter Results: 

 Bookings of approximately $194.6 million. This compares to bookings of 

$212.4 million in the first quarter of 2011. 

 GAAP revenue of $364.7 million and non-GAAP revenue of $365.5 million. 

This compares to GAAP and non-GAAP revenue of $335.3 and $346.1 

million, respectively, in the first quarter of 2011. 

 GAAP operating income of $13.0 million; non-GAAP operating income of 

$40.9. This compares to $24.5 million and $72.1 million, respectively, in the 

first quarter of 2011. 

 GAAP net income(1) of $5.8 million; diluted earnings per share of $0.03. 

This compares to $12.6 million and $0.07, respectively, in the first quarter of 

2011. 

 Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.12, compared to $0.21 in the 

first quarter of 2011. 

136. In the same press release Defendants lowered their 2012 financial guidance: (i) 

“2012 Revised Guidance” with “Non-GAAP Revenue” decreased from previously guided $1.62-

$1.65 billion to $1.48-$1.52 billion; (ii) “Non-GAAP Operating Margin” decreased from 21-22% 

to 16-17%; (iii) “Non-GAAP Diluted EPS” decreased from $1.06-$1.10 to $0.74-$0.80. 

137. In a conference call with investors, Dave Morgan, Allscripts’ SVP of Finance, 

added that the revised 2012 financial guidance decreased “non-GAAP operating income” from 

$345-$355 million to $241-$259 million. Thus, rather than improvement over 2011, the revised 

guidance provided essentially flat revenues and substantially lower profitability as reflected in 

revised non-GAAP EPS guidance well below the $0.93 reported in 2011. 

138. The April 26, 2012 press release attributed these disappointing financial results to 

failed product integration and announced key executive firings and departures stating: 

“Our overall results were primarily affected by lower than expected sales 

and an unfavorable sales mix, which directly impacted revenue and profit,” said 

Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts. “In addition, our investments 

in improving client experience and accelerating product development, as well as 

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higher than expected software development expense, also put pressure on our 

bottom line. 

“While Allscripts continued to win important new clients, including three 

new Sunrise Clinical Manager contracts in the quarter, a number of our clients and 

prospects delayed commitments as they wait for us to introduce new releases and 

demonstrate more robust integration. This dynamic, combined with the recent 

reorganization of our sales and service teams, were the primary factors that caused 

sales to be lower than our expectations. 

“We believe our revised full-year guidance for the remainder of 2012 gives us 

flexibility to further invest as necessary to improve client experience and focus on 

key product requirements and innovation, which will be our highest priority.” 

* * * 

Allscripts also announced that Bill Davis, Chief Financial Officer, has 

decided to leave the Company, effective May 18, 2012, to pursue another 

opportunity with a private company outside of the healthcare industry. 

* * * 

The Company also announced that Phil Pead’s service as Chairman of the 

Board, director and officer of the Company terminated yesterday. Prior to this 

action, the Board engaged in extensive deliberations regarding the leadership of the 

Company. Following the deliberations, those who concurred with the consensus 

regarding such leadership expressed their intention to continue as directors, and those 

who did not concur (Catherine M. Burzik, Eugene V. Fife and Edward A. Kangas)

informed the Company that they have resigned as directors. 

139. After the market closed on April 26, 2012, Allscripts held an unscheduled 

conference call, in which it made additional disclosures about the dismal 1Q12 results as a result of 

Allscripts’ failed product integration, stating: 

[Tullman:] Our overall results were primarily driven by lower than expected 

sales and an unfavorable sales mix. This directly impacted both revenue and 

profit. We also experienced pressure on the bottom line due to our decision to 

make significant investments in improving client experience and accelerating 

product development as well as lower-than-expected software capitalization. A 

number of our clients and prospects delayed commitment as they waited for us to 

introduce new releases and demonstrate more robust integration. This dynamic, 

combined with the first quarter reorganization of our sales and service teams under 

one leader, were the primary factors that caused our lower than expected sales. 

* * * 

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[Davis:] First-quarter bookings of $194.6 million declined 8% over the 

prior year. As Glen touched on, the majority of the bookings shortfall resulted 

from two primary factors – a delay in certain transactions that we expected to close 

among our existing client base as well as lower-than-expected sales to new clients. 

Both our acute care and our ambulatory businesses did not perform up to our 

expectations with regard to both new and existing client sales.

* * * 

Our performance closing transactions towards the end of the quarter, more 

specifically, was significantly lower than it has been historically. In some cases, 

clients and prospects are delaying as they await upcoming product enhancements 

as well as more progress with our product integration. Most of these opportunities, 

in fact, remain in our pipeline. 

* * * 

Now let me briefly run through our income statement. Non-GAAP revenue 

grew 6%, and totaled $366 million. The $800,000 of deferred revenue included in 

non-GAAP revenue is allocated $400,000 each to professional services and 

transaction revenue. Relative to our expectations, the revenue shortfall is entirely 

attributable to the bookings result I discussed earlier. 

Approximately 69% of revenue was reoccurring in nature this quarter. Firstquarter gross margin performance reflects a much lower than anticipated mix of 

software revenue and a higher mix of third-party systems sales, which carry lower 

gross margin. 

* * * 

[Tullman:] The first pillar is product delivery. We are investing over $190 

million this year to improve performance and accelerate integration and innovation. 

Under the direction of Cliff Meltzer, whose experience at Apple, Cisco and IBM 

gives him the right perspective and experience to drive our operation, the rollout of 

major new releases and improvements is something we view as a major driver of 

future business. These releases are critical, as a number of our clients have delayed 

their purchasing until some of these updates come out. These solutions will 

dramatically increase the quality of our client experience, and I believe they will 

also spur new client sales. 

* * * 

The second pillar of our plan is client experience. A big part of our focus 

over the last year has been upgrading our client base to help them achieve 

Meaningful Use. To put this in perspective, we have the largest client base in the 

industry and no competitor has had to touch as many clients in such short order as we 

have. 

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Given that many of our clients are smaller practices, the challenges have not 

just been about upgrading software, but also include hardware upgrades, connectivity 

issues and work flow. For some, this is the first upgrade or change in years. While 

we have added staff to manage through this, there have been challenges, and 

candidly, there is more work to do relative to improving the client experience. On 

that note, we have added more than 400 front line support personnel to our team, 

many of whom are just now becoming productive. 

* * * 

[Dave Morgan:] With that said, we now anticipate 2012 non-GAAP revenue 

of between $1.48 billion and $1.52 billion. We anticipate non-GAAP operating 

income of between $241 million and $259 million, which equates to an adjusted 

operating income margin of between 16% and 17%. The revised operating profit 

outlook afflicts lower revenue combined with the increased investments to support 

the four-point plan Glen discussed earlier. 

140. In addition, on the same conference call, Defendant Tullman spoke to the 

unprecedented departures of Allscripts’ CFO Davis, and three Board members as well as the abrupt 

termination of its Chairman of the Board Pead as described in the above press release. 

141. Analysts had many questions on the April 26, 2012 conference call following these 

dramatic announcements. In response to analysts’ questions Defendant Tullman further explained 

Allscripts’ product integration failures: 

We, I think, during the comments, mentioned that we were not satisfied with our 

performance this quarter. That said, the fact is that we are selling and we are making 

progress. We, in a number of areas, as I mentioned, in integration, we hope that 

1.0, ADX 1.0 would address the issue. It did not, so a number of clients are waiting 

for ADX 1.5. We change the process of development there to involve the clients 

very directly, and those clients are giving us very good feedback about ADX 1.5, and 

it’s coming out soon. So we think that will address the problem. 

Similarly, in a number of areas, we have made progress. But unfortunately, that 

progress isn’t as fast as we or the market would like it. 

142. Analysts at Barclays Capital openly questioned the value of the Eclipsys Merger as a 

result of the termination of Pead and the resignation of three other Board members: 

[I]t looks like all the Eclipsys legacy board members either were terminated or quit. 

So it would suggest to some that the business you acquired in 2010 may be 

meaningfully different in value than what you thought. Can you comment on that? 

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And can you give us any sense of how you’re going to be able to run this Company 

and convince your clients of your leadership if a third of the Board just resigned? 

Tullman responded that his focus was on the client perspective: 

I think from a client perspective, the way that clients evaluate most companies is 

based on their products and the performance of those products. I’m not sure that 

many of our clients could name any of our Board members. Maybe they could have 

named one. And I think, going forward, the way they will judge us is based on the 

way the products work. And I think there’s a lot of loyalty in the client base relative 

to those products. 

That said, I think we’ve been very straightforward in saying that there are 

areas that they are waiting for, whether it be integration, whether it be or some 

additional product functionality, performance and the like. And we are highly 

focused on delivering that. One of the things that we’ve done is, as mentioned, 

we’ve changed our development methodology to be more client responsive and faster 

to market, going from Waterfall to Agile. And in addition, we are actually pumping 

more dollars and we’ve done more of the hiring up front than we had initially 

planned, based on our view that we had to address some of those gaps, and we will. 

143. Rightfully, an analyst at UBS wanted to know what exactly customers were waiting 

for: 

Okay, and then if I can sneak in a follow-up here related to the close rate and 

customers waiting for product enhancement. What specifically are they looking for? 

I understand your comments around the integration and the ADX upgrade. But what 

else are they waiting for, from Allscripts? 

144. Tullman’s response – integration: “I think it’s – the customers that we were 

specifically referring to, some of those customers are waiting for that integration. Some are 

waiting for some better third-party integration of products. And then, in terms of the 

performance, I think on Enterprise we’ve had some folks who are waiting for newer versions of 

Enterprise.” 

145. Goldman Sachs analyst Sebastian Paquette followed up on the April 26, 2012 

conference call with a request for clarification on the $50 million bookings miss: 

Just on the $50 million miss in bookings, I was interested in – could you just parse 

out what portion of that was due to existing customers using Allscripts and 

Eclipsys products that were waiting to upgrade, versus customers in your late stage 

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pipeline that you are expecting to close into bookings but are waiting for next stage 

and iteration of products?

To which Defendant Davis responded: 

Let me attempt to – I’ll answer your question this way. Just under half of the 

miss, I would say, was expected to be derived from existing clients. . . . And then the 

other, just over a half would be effectively, effectively from new prospects. And 

again, it’s just important to note that we did not, from a pipeline perspective, see 

much of that go away permanently. It was very much a function of the belief that 

they wanted to see more from the Company in terms of the stability and the 

incremental integration that Glen outlined. 

146. With regard to the Board departures, an analyst with Piper Jaffray & Co asked on 

the same conference call: 

With four Board members up and resigning, and I’ve never seen that kind of board 

turnover because of a sloppy bookings quarter. So I guess my question is, what else? 

What else is going on here that would cause that kind of turnover on the Board? 

147. Defendant Tullman’s response was in stark contrast to the Class Period statements 

of how the entities could not have been more aligned and that it was as “smooth” a merger as any in 

history, admitting that the separate entities had not been aligned from the very beginning stating: 

That said, I think if you look at the history of mergers, sometimes you start 

off with two companies. Sometimes those two companies have a different view of 

the future and of the direction that the organization should go and who should take 

the organization in that direction. So without saying a whole lot more, I think you 

can look at the statement that was made and the disclosures that have been made. 

148. Given the false and misleading Class Period statements and the market’s stunned 

response to the revelations that product integration failures were causing reduced earnings and 

major disruptions at the highest levels of the Company, it was no surprise that analysts highlighted 

Defendants’ lack of credibility. During the April 26, 2012 earnings call, an analyst for Cowen and 

Company asked Defendant Tullman about a prior misstatement: 

You know, Glen, at HIMSS this year, which was only about a month and a 

half ago, you talked at length about sort of where you thought things were going. 

You had new managers out there, and you were discussing in response to a question 

about integration and concerns that you were kind of saying that it is important but 

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it is not the deciding factor. Yet, here you’re telling us now that you have prospects 

delaying their commitments, they are not happy with the initial integration, 

integrated offering here. Is it for us to believe that integration actually is very 

important, and is it a differentiating factor? Because it does seem to be bared out 

here in these results. 

Defendant Tullman, responded by admitting that: 

I think – and again, I stand by what I said, and that is that integration 

absolutely matters to a segment, and that segment was focused on 1.0. It worked 

technically; it didn’t work for those – that set of customers. That was one of the 

elements. The complication here was there were multiple elements that came 

together in a negative way at the same time. So, based on a lot of work we did and 

based on client focus, we reorganized and put our sales and services together. I think 

Bill referenced the point that in terms of what we expect to close, that rate was lower 

this quarter than it had been in, I don’t know, eight quarters, 10 quarters, maybe ever. 

And so we converted less at the end of the quarter. We think that was a sales 

execution issue. That alone wouldn’t have been the issue.

Second, we had some big clients recent we are going to wait until you deliver on 

1.5. So that was the second issue. 

149. Additionally, George Hill, an analyst at Citigroup, commented on the April 26, 2012 

earnings call that “investors are going to have a tough time here with management credibility.” He 

also questioned whether Defendants were being fully truthful even now stating: “On this call, you 

said to us that you continue to think that the Company is best positioned to maintain and win share. 

The market statistics and the channel checks that I think myself and everybody else does, does not 

bear that out remotely.” 

150. Sandy Draper, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates, echoed the concerns 

with management’s truthfulness reporting: “As many other questions have come, there’s going to 

be serious credibility [concerns] for a while.” 

151. The fallout from Allscripts’ revelations continued on the next day. On April 27, 

2012, a Jefferies analyst report noted that: “We recently interviewed hospital CIOs to get their 

views of the various software vendors” and “[n]early all expressed the view that integration is 

highly important.” The report also reported the market had been mislead stating Allscripts stock “is 

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reacting belatedly to integration issues that [Allscripts] previously said were in the rearview 

mirror.” 

152. The same day, an analyst report by Caris & Company reported that “management 

credibility has diminished considerably” adding “senior management has lost credibility with 

investors and the Street.” It continued, “Since CEO Glenn Tullman retains his post, MDRX senior 

management credibility will remain in question. To regain investor trust, MDRX Board of 

Directors should have installed new leadership.” 

153. In addition to noting management’s lack of credibility, analysts also reported that 

the disappointing results were the result of failed integration. On April 27, 2012, Credit Suisse 

reported that “the failure to successfully integrate the ambulatory and acute offerings puts 

[Allscripts] at a significant disadvantage when selling into a very competitive marketplace. 

While the specifics of why the integration has been such a challenge are not completely clear, we 

note this process has been going of for almost two years.” 

154. Likewise, analysts at Oppenheimer downgraded Allscripts’ stock on April 27, 2012 

noting: 

Allscripts pre-released disastrous 1Q12 results, missing across the board in 

terms of bookings, revenue, and EPS. Aside from whiffing the quarter, the company 

also announced the departure of its CEO and a failed power play, which resulted in 

four of nine board members resigning. Completing the trifesta, it also slashed 2012 

guidance by ~30% to account for a challenging sales environment. The shares 

traded off ~40% in the after market and we do not expect them to recover until there 

are signs the new software releases correct existing deficiencies. 

155. Analysts at Sterne Agee answered the question “Why?” Allscripts’ stock showed 

substantial weakness in their April 27, 2012 report: 

Why? MDRX is struggling with its current acute offering, Sunrise v5.5, as 

customers and prospective clients are unimpressed by the interoperable-capabilities 

between the inpatient-to-inpatient and inpatient- to-outpatient settings. While 

mgmt had projected to offer the “fixed” version, Sunrise 6.0, in June, it has been 

delayed to 4Q12. Many health systems/hospitals are reassessing their current acute 

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offering, looking for fully integrated inpatient-outpatient clinical and financial IT 

systems. Besides MDRX, it appears that only two other vendors, Cerner (CERN, 

Buy, $73.82) and Epic (private), can truly offer such systems. 

The fact is that MDRX’s brand has been negatively impacted within the 

healthcare community, largely driven by shortfalls in their acute software. 

Assuming sunrise v6.0 is the panacea for MDRX’s woes, we must assume that it will 

take the company some time to make current customers happy and, given the highly 

referential nature of this business, get prospective clients confident enough to choose 

MDRX over Cerner and Epic. We would have to think this is a 2013/2014 event. 

156. Analysts with Auriga USA commented that the “main driver of the miss this quarter 

was system sales, which were $25 million shy of our estimate” adding that “[w]e find it interesting 

timing that outgoing CFO Bill Davis takes a new job just as the Company generates one of its worst 

quarters in recent history.” 

157. An analyst report by William Blair & Co. summed up the market’s collective 

disappointment stating “the fundamental business performance and near-term outlook appear much 

worse than we could have imagined.” 

158. A week and half later, during a May 8, 2012 conference call, Defendant Davis 

admitted that while “initial indications” were that the shortfall was “attributed to that sales and 

service reorganization,” it was truly the result of customers delaying purchases due to product 

dissatisfaction: 

[W]hat we came to recognize is that many of our clients and prospects, quite frankly, 

were looking for more progress from the Company in terms of some key product 

deliverables that are expected to come out this year. 

And I’ll cite four specifically for you. The first is, on the hospital side, we’re 

expected to deliver Sunrise 6.0. That is slated for beta release the middle of this year 

and general release at the end of the year. Second is our enterprise, which is our 

EHR on the physician side, our flagship product for the high end. Its version is 11.4, 

which is also slated in the second half of the year. We got a lot of feedback most 

notably from our clients that use both our hospital and ambulatory solution, but also 

prospects that are looking for an integrated solution, that our initial release of our 

integrated capability, which was launched middle of last year, while it technically 

delivered on the key functionality, its usability and its ultimate functionality was 

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short of where the market would like to see it to be. So there’s added emphasis on 

what will be 1.5 of our Allscripts Data Exchange [ADX]. 

159. On May 14, 2012, analysts at Cowen and Company indicated that they had reached 

out to CIOs from Allscripts facilities and noted that: 

For Allscripts to effectively compete for new clients against some of it peers like 

Cerner and Epic, the CIOs we spoke with highlighted a number of changes that need 

to be implemented. Most importantly, the company needs to deliver a solid and 

reliable integration engine (ADX 1.5) in the near-term, which we believe will help 

the company satisfy the integration needs of its current clients and prospects that 

have integration requirements, and Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) 6.0 this fall, 

which should help with pursuing new opportunities. 

* * * 

In our view, the significant bookings shortfall in 1Q12 is partly attributable 

to the fact that Allscripts still doesn’t have an integrated offering. As background, 

Allscripts reported $194.6 million in total bookings, well below consensus of $245 

million for 1Q12. The company commented during the earnings call that a number 

of clients delayed their commitments to sign on with Allscripts because they 

weren’t satisfied with what the company was offering on the integration front. 

With the transition to the ACO model now in full swing, a number of providers, 

particularly those belonging to large health systems, are seeking to employ EHR 

vendors with integrated solutions. 

We believe the lack of integrated offering could be a deal breaker for some 

hospitals . . . . 

160. Moreover, the Cowen report publicly disclosed information that was consistent with 

what the Confidential Witnesses described as occurring during the Class Period. Specifically, the 

May 14, 2012 Cowen report stated that “A number of CIOs noted that there has been tension 

building between Glen [Tullman] and Phil [Pead] for quite some time” adding that “[q]uite a few of 

the CIOs we spoke with were legacy Eclipsys clients and a number of them expressed concerns 

that Allscripts doesn’t have a good understanding of the inpatient business.” Finally, it reported 

that “some CIOs communicated that John’s [Gomez] methodology involved putting out new 

products even if it had glitches and then going back to fix the problems.” 

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161. On May 15, 2012, Defendant Tullman was interviewed by Bernie Monegain of 

Healthcare IT News. She reported that “It’s the difficulties with integration that seem to have led 

to the EHR company’s recent troubles – at least it’s what Allscripts customers and analysts 

mention most often.” When asked for his vision on how to make Allscripts thrive again, Tullman 

responded by stating “We are investing $190 million in 2012 in improving performance, integration 

and innovation with a number of major releases and improvements in motion. Relative to 

improving product performance, we have established test labs to eliminate past integration 

challenges, especially third-party products and the new apps being built for our open platform.” 

When asked what he viewed as the “greatest challenge to recovery,” Defendant Tullman stated,

“From a client perspective, we have to deliver on robust integration and focus on our client 

experience with our offerings given the number of upgrades and new installs we have.” 

162. In stark contrast to his prior bullish statements about product integration during the 

Class Period, when asked what he wished he “had done differently,” Defendant Tullman admitted 

in the interview that “we could have executed more effectively, especially along the lines of 

software development as it relates to product integration. This is a critical area where we need 

additional traction and it is now heading in the right direction . . . .” 

163. A May 21, 2012 article on HIStalk reported on a “79 member HIS talk Advisory 

Panel” which “is a group of hospital CIOs, hospital CMIOs [Chief Medical Informatics Officers], 

practicing physicians, and a few vendor executives who have volunteered to provide their thoughts 

on topical industry issues.” The panel was asked what advice they would give to Allscripts “after 

the company’s recent earnings disappointment and board shakeup.” Among the reported responses 

were: 

They need to focus on clean integration of productions they are selling as 

integrated. The last few times we purchased ‘integrated’ solutions from Allscripts, 

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we had to take over the integration because we were getting nowhere with the 

company. 

164. Analysts at Wells Fargo Securities summarized the market reaction on May 29, 

2012 writing: “Poor-quality software releases and disruptions in the company’s sales/support 

organization drove a material March quarter miss.” 

165. Allscripts was sued by major investor HealthCor Partners Management, L.P. 

(“HealthCor”), which, according to news reports, had called for Tullman’s resignation. As reported 

by analysts with Caris & Company on June 4, 2012, the lawsuit was settled through an agreement 

allowing HealthCor to appoint three Board members. The analysts reported: 

Facing rising legal pressure, we believe MDRX management decided to settle the 

litigation. In the past week, HealthCor’s attorneys were conducting discovery and 

deposing key current and former executives. Fearing potential revelations regarding 

the recent Board fight and 1Q12 earnings results, MDRX opted to settle the case and 

put under seal whatever was discovered. 

166. The fallout continued. On August 8, 2012 Allscripts reported its 2Q12 results. 

Analysts at Jefferies noted that “every 2Q metric missed published consensus” and that while 

Allscripts slightly increased 2012 EPS guidance from $0.74-0.80 to $0.77-0.83, it was driven by 

“lower expected share count.” 

167. Later, analysts at Jefferies noted on October 1, 2012 that Allscripts was in the 

process of exploring the possibility of going private, writing Allscripts appears to be “seeking 

shelter from public market scrutiny while it slogs through a critical product release” and it 

“continues to climb a steep product integration hill that would be more comfortable out of the 

public eye.” 

168. In October 2012, Allscripts also announced that it would no longer support its 

MyWay product as meaningful use was never achieved. This lead to its competitor, Aprima, 

offering an “Aprima Rescue Plan” to allow Allscripts customers to upgrade to their products. 

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Aprima’s CEO stated with regard to the former Allscripts customers who were rushing to Aprima 

to obtain the product Allscripts had promised and never delivered that “we knew we had a very 

frustrated and outraged set of new customers coming on board.” 

169. Soon thereafter a class action was filed against Allscripts based upon MyWay’s 

“shortcoming and inherent defects” that prevented it from obtaining meaningful use status even by 

late 2012, despite the numerous Class Period statements about product integration including 

Shapiro’s materially false and misleading statement in September 2011 that it would be available 

“soon.” According to the class action complaint about 5,000 small group physicians were sold 

MyWay from 2009 to 2012, but Allscripts never achieved meaningful use which would have 

qualified providers for bonus payments from the federal government stimulus plan. 

170. An October 2012 report sponsored by Allscripts and entitled “Bridging Inpatient and 

Ambulatory Care at Blessing Health System”(“Quincy Report”), reported that the hospital system 

in Quincy, Illinois only achieved product integration between Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care EHR 

and Allscripts Enterprise EHR through an Allscripts ADX integration bridge in the middle of 2012, 

well after the end of the Class Period. The Quincy Report corroborated CW11 that the “go-live” 

date was July 2012. The report said that before this integration, patient records could only be 

accessed by making “numerous phone calls, and requests for information would be passed back and 

forth” and said just “now” integration was available to allow the seamless exchange of information 

between the Allscripts EHR products. 

171. As noted in the December 20, 2012 Oppenheimer Report, ADX 1.5 was only live at 

one beta site. ¶175. 

172. On November 8, 2012, Allscripts was forced to withdraw its 2012 guidance and 

confirmed that the Company was pursuing strategic alternatives. The Company reported adjusted 

revenue of $361 million, “well below the $367.7 million consensus forecast primarily because of 

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weaker-than-expected system sales” according to analysts at William Blair & Co. in their 

November 8, 2012 analyst report. They further reported that 3Q12 bookings of $161.9 million, was 

down 39.3% year-over-year noting “[m]anagement commented that the bookings weakness in the 

quarter was due in large part to customer delays resulting from the recent takeout rumors as well as 

delays from customers waiting for product updates.” 

173. On November 27, 2012 analysts at JMP Securities echoed the recurring theme 

“integrating ambulatory and acute offerings remains a challenge for MDRX and in our view, 

has negatively impacted the company’s competitive positioning.” 

174. A few weeks later, on December 19, 2012 Defendant Tullman was ousted by 

Allscripts’ new Board with Paul M. Black (“Black”) announced as Allscripts’ new CEO. CEO 

Black held an executive conference with analysts the following day. Although he did not refer to 

the Defendants’ false and misleading statements which overstated the functionality and integration 

of Allscripts’ products during the Class Period, Black nevertheless acknowledged the problem by 

telling analysts that “I don’t think right now that all of our clients are happy. We’ve got a lot of 

work to do in that space . . . .” He later added “So I don’t – we don’t have that situation right now, 

and that’s what I would consider to be a happy installed base.” 

175. The same day, December 20, 2012, analysts at Oppenheimer would note “we did not 

gain much clarity on the call about whether the product integration plan will need to be altered, 

resulting in a complete re-write of the Sunrise and ambulatory platforms onto one database.” They 

went on to observe that “ADX 1.5 [was] still only live at [a] lone beta site.” 

ADDITIONAL SCIENTER ALLEGATIONS 

176. As alleged herein, Defendants had actual knowledge of the falsity of the statements 

they made, or acted in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of those statements. In doing so, 

Defendants participated in a scheme to defraud and committed acts, practices and participated in a 

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course of business that operated as a fraud or deceit on purchasers of Allscripts stock during the 

Class Period. 

Defendants Were Directly Responsible for Allscripts’ Product and Merger Integration as 

Well as its Financial Guidance 

177. The Individual Defendants were the long-time CEO, CFO, and President of 

Allscripts. They were hands-on managers who were responsible for, and remained well informed 

of, critical business issues including product integration, merger integration, and financial guidance 

alleged to be falsely represented herein. Allscripts’ proxy statements filed with the SEC on 

November 4, 2010, May 20, 2011 and June 15, 2012 all confirm that it was the Defendants, “senior 

management,” who knew of and were responsible for keeping abreast of Allscripts’ “financial and 

business risks.”

178. Defendant Tullman became CEO of Allscripts in 1997, a Board member in 1999 and 

led Allscripts’ initial public offering as well as the $1.3 billion Merger of Allscripts and Eclipsys. 

He was ousted from Allscripts on December 19, 2012. Defendant Tullman’s hands-on 

management style was well known within and outside of Allscripts. Tullman was fully immersed 

in the details. For example, after Tullman was fired in December 2012, John Bosco the CIO at 

North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, which was reported to be Allscripts’ largest client, 

said with regard to Tullman’s departure that “the CEO is not the person that you want having his 

hands very deep in the day-to-day operations of the company, Glen [Tullman] maintained that 

control – and I think that was a problem. I think that he would have fared a lot better if he hired a 

very strong COO and was willing to step back a little bit.” Further, CW11 reported Gomez left 

Allscripts because he felt Tullman micromanaged him. ¶81. 

179. Tullman subsequently admitted in an interview with Healthcare IT News that he had 

“learned that the best way to build long-term value is to deliver for our clients – they have always 

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been and will always be my primary focus. I am incredibly close with many of our clients and 

spend most of my time with them, so their support is very much appreciated.” 

180. Defendant Davis served as Allscripts’ CFO from October 2002 to May 2012. As 

CFO of Allscripts, he was responsible for its financial operations. He has considerable experience 

in accounting and business, having served previously as the Corporate Controller, and later, CFO of 

Lante Corporation from 1999 to 2002, and as a Senior Manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP 

from 1991 to 1999. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Masters of Business 

Administration from Northwestern University. 

181. Defendant Shapiro joined Allscripts in 2001 and, according to his Company bio, 

“overs[aw] the company’s strategy, corporate marketing, government relations, mergers and 

acquisitions, internal operations, information systems, hosting services, business development and 

partnerships, health plan initiatives and business activities in the areas of analytics, information and 

transaction services.” Shapiro is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and was the 

COO of Douglas Elliman-Beitler prior to joining Allscripts. Shapiro left his position on December 

19, 2012, the same day as Tullman was fired. 

182. Defendants’ experience, responsibilities and focus informed them that their 

statements during the Class Period, that Allscripts offered an integrated seamless solution for the 

entire community of care, were materially false. Their experience was touted by CFO Davis during 

a November 18, 2010 Maxim Group LLC Growth Conference analyst conference as follows: 

We have a very high degree of confidence in terms of our ability to execute, not 

only on the integration but the broader market opportunity that we have before us. 

And as you can see, it is represented by a significant amount of experience both 

within running large software companies, but also large software companies that 

are oriented towards the healthcare IT market. 

183. As revealed by the Confidential Witnesses, Defendants were intimately involved in 

product integration, customers, and monitoring the financial results. ¶¶51-52, 57, 78, 81, 84, 86, 

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89. In fact, according to CW3, Tullman stated he wanted to personally engage with any customer 

delaying purchase for any reason. ¶57. In addition, Defendants, Allscripts senior executives, can 

be presumed to have knowledge of adverse facts impacting the Company’s core business, in 

particular, given that product integration was a primary factor driving the success of the Merger. A 

seamless integrated customer experience – the ability to see and access patient information across 

the continuum of care – was key to Allscripts’ success and as such, a key focus of the Defendants. 

184. In addition to their roles in the Company and the CW and customer accounts of their 

hands-on-management and frequent customer contacts, Defendants said they would be directly 

involved in monitoring product integration after the $1.3 billion Merger. During Allscripts’ 3Q10 

earnings call on November 8, 2010, for example, when talking about the merger Defendant 

Tullman admitted that “[c]learly, integration is and will continue to be a key focus for our clients 

and for us.” 

185. As part of that key focus, Defendants commissioned a study conducted by 

McKinsey going back into 2009 that informed them that they needed an “integrated solution” to 

effectively compete in the marketplace as reflected by CFO Davis’ comments during a November 

9, 2011 conference call: 

 And so what this study told us was not only was the standalone ambulatory 

market still a very robust market, but what was emerging and parallel with it was an 

integrated market where increasingly certain decision makers were interested in an 

integrated solution in terms of hospital and physician office capability. And it was 

this slide that we spent a fair amount of time deliberating with our board of 

directors that led us to the decision to merge with Eclipsys Healthcare a year ago 

in terms of bringing hospital and ambulatory capabilities together. So the good 

news is that by virtue of our solutions set today, we truly are one of only three 

players that legitimately can effectively compete in all three of these substantial 

segments of the market. 

¶138. 

186. Further, Tullman, in a June 15, 2010 HIStalk interview, agreed with Pead that his 

performance would be graded “by the integration between the product solutions to make this a 

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great experience for their hospital and ambulatory environments so that the two [come] together,” if 

he was to be graded two years out. The market understood the intended message – integration was 

Allscripts senior management’s top priority. 

187. Shortly before the end of 1Q11 – the target date by which Defendants had promised 

the market they would deliver an integrated EHR product – Glenn Garmont of Think Equity LLC 

observed: 

 Full technological integration of the Eclipsys and Allscripts solutions 

remains a key deliverable for the company, one that Allscripts management is 

targeting for completion by the end of the first quarter. We believe this is an 

aggressive time line, but to realize the full potential of the combination, the various 

solutions must be fully integrated, not simply interfaced, and should provide for a 

similar look and feel regardless of where a physician might happen to be accessing 

the system. There is no doubt in our minds that this is Priority #1 for the Allscripts 

senior management team, and for now, we are willing to give them the benefit of the 

doubt that integration activities are progressing according to plan. 

* * * 

But the combination of Allscripts and Eclipsys should deliver to the market what 

only Epic has thus-far been able to do: offer a single, integration solution that is 

strong in both the inpatient and ambulatory environments. Eclipsys has a very 

strong core CPOE engine, while Allscripts is a leader on the ambulatory side. We 

believe bringing the two companies together makes solid strategic sense, although 

full product integration is key for the combination to realize its full potential. 

188. Defendants’ repeated statements to the investing public regarding their focus and 

time spent on the integration of Allscripts and Eclipsys demonstrates knowledge on the topics 

which they spoke during the Class Period. For example: 

(i) On a June 9, 2010 call to discuss the announced Allscripts-Eclipsys Merger, 

Defendant Davis admitted: “[W]e have spent a lot of time over the last few months really 

evaluating every function of the combined business . . . [a]nd in keeping with what we 

demonstrated on Misys, I really see minimal risk in terms of our ability to deliver on these; and 

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(ii) On a September 16, 2010 call Defendant Davis admitted to analysts gathered at the 

Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Conference: “[W]e put a lot of care into the development of our 

integration plan. And in both instances, we were able to exceed the expectations that we had set 

for ourselves and, in turn, had set for the marketplace, both in terms of time required for its 

integration, but also it’s resultant benefit . . . .” 

189. Defendants have also admitted direct knowledge that they were not integrating 

according to plan. For example, Defendant Tullman admitted during a Healthcare IT News

interview on May 15, 2012 that “ADX 1.0 [software that integrates Allscripts’ acute and 

ambulatory technologies] was released some time ago and met the technical requirements, but it 

didn’t meet our clients’ needs. So we worked side by side with our clients to rebuild the product 

using Agile rapid prototyping techniques to ensure it was what our clients wanted and needed.”

190. Further, the nature of Allscripts’ business was “one that has a significant amount of 

visibility” according to CFO Davis at a June 15, 2011 William Blair & Company LLC Growth 

Stock Conference. Earlier that year, on February 16, 2011, Accretive Capital LLC discussed a note 

Citi Investment Research had issued: 

“It would take unusual customer churn or a change in the market of sales trends to 

cause a big miss at the revenue line, and we believe management could likely 

respond to a change in time to achieve earnings targets. Allscripts’ backlog coverage 

on revenue is now almost two years, excluding longer duration maintenance 

contracts. More than 2/3 of Allscripts revenue is recurring and the company has 

more than 80% revenue visibility at the start of any given year.” 

191. Having visibility, Defendants knew Allscripts’ 2012 guidance was false when 

issued. Defendants missed analysts’ 1Q12 EPS expectations by 50%. For example, analysts at 

Caris & Company issued a report on April 27, 2012 that Allscripts had missed 1Q12 analyst 

consensus of $0.24 when it reported $0.12. Further, at the end of the Class Period Allscripts 

revised its 2012 guidance dramatically downward, cutting non-GAAP EPS estimates by $0.30 per 

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share and reducing revenue outlook significantly. Defendants were later forced to withdraw 2012 

guidance altogether as a result, at least in part, of the failed integration they concealed from 

investors during the Class Period. 

Defendants’ Insider Sales Further Support a Strong Inference of Scienter 

192. Defendants were further motivated to engage in their fraudulent scheme in order to 

allow Individual Defendants Tullman, Davis, and Shapiro to collectively sell 675,000 shares of 

their personally-held Allscripts’ common stock for proceeds of nearly $14 million. Other Allscripts 

insiders also traded during the Class Period, raking in an additional $8.8 million after disposing of 

anywhere from 8% to 80% of their holdings. The Allscripts insiders’ trading and proceeds are set 

forth in detail in the attached Exhibit 2. 

193. Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro sold significant amounts of their 

personally-held Allscripts’ common stock during the Class Period and while in possession of 

material, non-public information about Allscripts. As set forth above, Tullman, Davis and Shapiro 

knew, and failed to disclose, that: (i) the efforts to integrate legacy Allscripts and Eclipsys products 

were failing miserably; (ii) customers were delaying purchase of Allscripts EHR products due to 

the failure to integrate; (iii) as a result of dwindling sales and a lack of an integrated product, 

Allscripts would not be able to deliver on its 2012 financial guidance; and (iv) there was significant 

tension between the legacy Allscripts and legacy Eclipsys management, further hampering the 

process of integrating the two companies. 

194. Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro traded in amounts that were suspicious in 

scope, and provide additional indicia of scienter. These trades occurred while Allscripts’ stock 

price was artificially inflated as a result of Defendants’ false and misleading statements and 

material omissions: 

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(a) During the Class Period, Defendant Tullman sold 300,000 shares, or 30% of 

his holdings, on February 18, 2011. Tullman’s proceeds from the sale amounted to more than $6.2 

million – approximately eight times his 2010 annual salary of $750,000. In comparison, in 2010, 

Tullman sold Allscripts stock for proceeds of only $1 million; 

(b) During the Class Period, Defendant Davis sold 150,000 shares, or 29% of his 

holdings. Davis reaped proceeds of $3.1 million from these sales, approximately seven times the 

amount of his annual salary of $425,000. His proceeds exceeded his prior year stock sales by more 

than $2.4 million; and 

(c) During the Class Period, Defendant Shapiro sold 225,000 shares, or 30% of 

his holdings. Shapiro’s proceeds from these transactions was over $4.5 million, more than seven 

times his annual salary of $600,000. In comparison, in 2010, Shapiro sold his Allscripts stock for 

$3.5 million. 

195. The timing of the Individual Defendants’ insider sales was also highly suspicious as 

they were calculated to take maximum advantage of the artificial price inflation caused by 

Defendants’ misrepresentations and while Allscripts stock was trading at or near Class Period 

highs. Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro all sold shares on February 18, 2011 – unloading a 

combined total of 575,000 shares for proceeds of $11.9 million – just days after hosting the 4Q10 

earnings call in which Tullman assured the market that the product integration was “on schedule” 

and that “the company has never really been better positioned than it is today.” 

196. On February 22, 2012, Defendant Shapiro sold an additional 100,000 shares, in 

another suspiciously-timed sale – in the midst of an important healthcare IT industry conference at 

which Allscripts was purportedly demonstrating its integrated product. Later, on April 27, 2012, 

analysts at Auriga USA would note that “[i]n hindsight, investors would have been wise to take the 

cue from President Shapiro as he unloaded 100,000 shares in February (during HIMSS no less).” 

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197. Additionally, the Individual Defendants’ Class Period stock sales must be evaluated 

in light of the fact that they were required, under penalty of termination, to maintain minimum 

levels of stock ownership. Allscripts maintained stock ownership requirements of its senior 

executives according to its 2010 Proxy filed on May 20, 2011 with the SEC. Shapiro and Davis 

were required to own stock with a fair market value of “100% of their respective base salaries on 

October 10, 2008 from October 10, 2008 through October 9, 2009; (ii) 66% of their respective base 

salaries on October 10, 2008 from October 10, 2009 through October 9, 2010; and (iii) 33% of their 

respective base salaries on October 10, 2009 from October 10, 2010 through October 9, 2011.” 

Tullman’s “minimum ownership level is measured as of the same periods noted above for Messrs. 

Shapiro and Davis.” According to the Company’s June 15, 2012 Proxy, Tullman’s salary was 

$800,000, Davis’ $500,000 and Shapiro’s $600,000. 

The Individual Defendants’ Compensation and “Retention Plan” Bonuses Also Support a 

Strong Inference of Scienter 

198. Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro’s bonus compensation provides a further 

indicia of their scienter. During the Class Period, the Individual Defendants’ compensation was 

heavily dependent on meeting Allscripts’ strategic priorities related to the Allscripts and Eclipsys 

Merger. In connection with the Allscripts-Eclipsys Merger, the Allscripts Compensation 

Committee developed a “Retention Plan,” aiming to “retain certain highly qualified individuals in 

the employment of Allscripts, provide incentive and reward to such individuals to diligently and 

successfully complete the merger with Eclipsys, and to mitigate distractions to such individuals 

resulting from the transaction.” 

199. Pursuant to the Retention Plan, Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro were each 

eligible for a bonus equal to 250% of their annual base salary, consisting of 50% cash and 50% 

restricted shares, for meeting certain performance metrics, including: “Performance Shares [to] vest 

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up to 50% in each of the years following the closing of the merger based on the achievement of 

certain cost synergies and the booking of new integrated deals as established by the board of 

directors.” According to Allscripts’ Proxy filed June 15, 2012, it was designed to “reward . . . 

individuals to diligently and successfully complete the merger with Eclipsys.” 

200. The “Potential Target Award Value Subject to Vesting and Performance Criteria” 

amounts for each Individual Defendant were as follows: 

Defendant Tullman $1,875,000 

Defendant Shapiro $1,500,000 

Defendant Davis $1,062,500 

201. In 2011, Tullman received a cash bonus of nearly $469,000 as a result of the 

Retention Plan. He also received $5.9 million in stock awards, 162% more then he received in 

2010. Davis received $312,500 and Defendant Shapiro $375,000 under the Retention Plan. 

The Federal Stimulus and Suspicious Exodus of Executives and Directors Adds to Scienter 

202. As Defendant Tullman noted, the federal stimulus was injecting $30 billion into a $3 

billion industry. The stimulus was injected at the same time that the industry was increasingly 

demanding integrated products. In order to compete for the massive injection of federal funds into 

the industry before the expiration in 2016, it was critical that Defendants convince investors and 

customers that they had the integrated products that would drive customers’ decisions in the 

market. This provided a motive for Defendants to overstate the true state of progress and 

functionality of product integration. 

203. Additionally, numerous executive resignations are indicative of scienter. Shortly 

after the close of the merger, Jeff Surges, Allscripts’ top sales executive, left the Company, 

followed by two additional sales executives in February 2011. On April 6, 2011, six months into 

the Allscripts-Eclipsys Merger, the Company’s CTO Gomez resigned effective at the end of May 

2011. According to a Forbes, April 15, 2011 article, Gomez was previously the CTO of Eclipsys 

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and was “widely respected.” He left “in the middle of a critical phase—that of overseeing 

integration of disparate electronic health records.” He had the “task of tying Allscripts’ electronic 

health records with Eclipsys products.” On this news, which analysts at Auriga USA described as a 

“red flag,” Allscripts stock plummeted from a close of $22.49 on April 6, 2011 to $20.29 on April 

12, 2011, a drop of more than 9%. Three months later, on July 13, 2011, Allscripts announced its 

COO Eileen McPartland had resigned effective virtually immediately. She had been responsible 

for the operations of Allscripts’ development, service, support and associated teams. 

204. On April 26, 2012, it was announced by Allscripts that Pead, the former CEO and 

President of Eclipsys and Allscripts’ Chairman of the Board, had been terminated (i.e., fired) the 

day before after “extensive deliberations regarding the leadership of the company.” Three other 

Board members resigned in protest – Catherine M. Burzik, Eugene V. Fife (former Eclipsys board 

chairman), and Edward A. Kangas (former Eclipsys board member). On the same day, it was also 

announced that CFO Davis had resigned after nearly ten years with Allscripts. Tullman was ousted 

and Defendant Shapiro followed in December 2012, after Allscripts’ withdrawal of its 2012 

guidance. 

LOSS CAUSATION/ECONOMIC LOSS 

205. During the Class Period, as detailed above, Defendants misrepresented to investors 

Allscripts’ guidance, operations, financial and business conditions by failing to disclose that 

Allscripts could not deliver a seamless customer experience and concealing known problems with 

the interface of Allscripts’ legacy products with Eclipsys’ products. Defendants’ materially false 

representations and omissions artificially inflated Allscripts’ stock price and operated as a fraud or 

deceit on Class-Period purchasers of Allscripts’ common stock. When the material flaws with 

Allscripts’ product offering and the resulting financial impact began to be disclosed, Allscripts’ 

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stock price declined and the artificial inflation came out of the Company’s stock price. As a result, 

class members who purchased Allscripts stock during the Class Period suffered economic loss. 

206. Defendants’ false statements and material omissions pled herein in ¶¶91-114, 116-

120, 124-129, and 131-132, had the intended effect and caused Allscripts stock to trade at 

artificially inflated levels during the Class Period as reflected in the chart below: 

207. Defendants failed to disclose that (i) Allscripts products were not integrated as 

promised; (ii) customers were delaying purchase of Allscripts EHR products due to the lack of 

integration; (iii) as a result of the lack of Allscripts’ product integration, Allscripts 2012 financial 

guidance lacked a reasonable basis; and (iv) there was significant tension between the legacy 

Allscripts and legacy Eclipsys management, further hampering the process of integrating the two 

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companies. As a direct result, Defendants gave the investing public a materially false and 

misleading impression of Allscripts business and prospects. Defendants’ omissions and material 

misstatements of fact caused Allscripts stock to trade at artificially inflated levels throughout the 

Class Period. 

208. As a direct result of the April 26, 2012 disclosures described in ¶¶135-149 in detail 

including that: (i) Allscripts’ 1Q12 financial results were far below analyst expectations and drastic 

reduction of prior 2012 finance guidance; (ii) Chairman of the Board Pead had been terminated and 

that three additional directors had resigned in protest over Pead’s departure; (iii) Defendant Davis, 

Allscripts’ CFO, was resigning, effective May 12, 2012; and (iv) the poor financial results and 

financial guidance was a symptom of the lack of promised product integration causing many 

prospective clients to delay purchase of Allscripts’ products until functionality improved, Allscripts 

stock price fell sharply over the course of the next trading day from a closing price of $16.02 on 

April 26, 2012 to close at $10.30 on April 27, 2012, a more than 35% decline. Trading volume 

increased tremendously to more than 87,000,000 shares – nearly ten times the previous day’s 

volume – a company-specific stock decline that damaged Class Period purchasers. Thus, in a 

single day over $1 billion in Allscripts’ market capitalization was eliminated and investors suffered 

economic losses. This drop removed the artificial inflation from Allscripts’ stock price, causing 

real economic loss to investors who purchased Allscripts’ common stock during the Class Period. 

209. As one analyst during the April 26, 2012 earnings call accurately predicted, 

Allscripts’ stock got “pummeled” when the market opened the following morning. Several analysts 

downgraded the stock and slashed price targets in response to the news of Allscripts’ failure to 

integrate its product offerings as well as its leadership. 

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210. Analysts targeted the failed integration as the reason for Allscripts’ poor financial 

performance, and expressed skepticism about the Company’s ability to improve its earnings, as 

described in ¶¶153-157 and shown in the sample excerpts below: 

 David Windley, Jefferies: “[Allscripts] is reacting belatedly to integration issues that 

it previously said were in the rearview mirror.” 

 Glen Santangelo, Credit Suisse: “We believe the failure to successfully integrate the 

ambulatory and acute offerings puts [Allscripts] at a significant disadvantage when 

selling into a very competitive marketplace.” 

211. Likewise, Comtex News issued an article on April 27, 2012 describing the market 

and analyst reactions to the April 26, 2012 disclosures: 

It is clear the integration between Allscripts and Eclipsys has run into 

complications, and it will require time and significant resources to address the 

problem. We believe the required resources to address the issues will result in 

negative earnings leverage, and the CFO & Board departures will further complicate 

the turnaround efforts. . . . We believe the failure to successfully integrate the 

ambulatory and acute offerings puts [Allscripts] at a significant disadvantage when 

selling into a very competitive marketplace. 

212. Similarly, on May 14, 2012, analysts at Cowen and Company exclaimed that: “In 

our view, the significant bookings shortfall 1Q12 is partly attributable to the fact that Allscripts still 

doesn’t have an integrated offering.” 

213. The timing and magnitude of Allscripts’ stock price decline negates any inference 

that the loss suffered by Plaintiffs and other Class members was caused by changed market 

conditions, macroeconomic or industry factors. Nor was the decline caused by Company-specific 

facts unrelated to Defendants’ fraud. 

NO SAFE HARBOR 

214. The statutory safe harbor provided for forward-looking statements in certain 

circumstances does not apply to any of the allegedly false statements pleaded in this complaint. 

Many of the statements were misleading in light of omissions of material facts concerning the true 

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status of product integration, customer dissatisfaction, and the sharp divisions among legacy 

Allscripts and Eclipsys management, and the failure to make a statement cannot be considered 

forward-looking. The specific false statements pleaded herein were either not forward-looking or 

were not identified as “forward-looking statements” when made. 

215. For example, the following statements, among others, identified as false or 

misleading are statements of past or present fact and are not forward-looking: (i) “we are on plan to 

deliver integration between Sunrise and all of the Allscripts electronic health records by the end of 

the first quarter” (¶91); (ii) “We are a big Microsoft player. Fortunately, Eclipsys was as well. 

That’s made the integration of the technology of the two companies very easy to do. And we are in 

great shape from that standpoint.” ¶95; (iii) “Yes, we’ll have a live code shipping at the end of the 

first quarter, is what we’ve said to the market, and we’re on schedule . . . .” ¶99; (iv) “the only 

company that can deliver one connected network on one common, open platform providing one 

patient record to clinicians and patients across the care continuum” (¶101); (v) “We’re actually 

slightly ahead of schedule in terms of where we expected to be at this juncture and again very well 

received by all that had an opportunity to see that.” ¶103; (vi) “able to offer a single platform of 

clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions” (¶104); (vii) “we have a complete suite 

of products that enable us to provide a true end to end solution” (¶106); (viii) “We said we would 

demonstrate success integrating our product portfolio, and we have” (¶109); (ix) “[t]he bottom line 

is that the integration work is on track” (id.); (x) “being one of very few that has a comprehensive 

product portfolio that enables us to meet the needs of the hospital environment, the physician office 

environment, post-acute environment” (¶119); and (xi) “[t]his is as smooth as an integration effort 

that you’ll ever see” (¶125). 

216. To the extent any of the statements were identified as forward-looking statements 

they do not fall within the protections of the Safe Harbor because they were not accompanied by 

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specific, meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual 

results to differ materially from those in the purportedly forward-looking statements. The Safe 

Harbor warnings in Allscripts’ SEC filings and releases as well as those made at the start of 

Allscripts conference calls were boilerplate and did not materially change during the Class Period, 

even though the economic and business conditions in which Allscripts operated and the risks facing 

its business did. Moreover, the warnings were insufficient because they warned only of generalized 

risks that could happen rather than of the specific risks which were materializing. 

217. For example, Defendants’ generic warning in the Company’s 2010 Form 10-K that a 

potential risk factor was “integrating complex technologies, solutions and products from different 

companies in a manner that is seamless to customers” was not meaningful because Defendants had 

said such integration had already occurred and the warning was itself materially misleading for the 

same reasons as described in ¶121. Further, it did not meaningfully caution investors that this risk 

had already come to fruition. 

218. Defendants are also liable for any false or misleading forward-looking statements 

pled herein because, at the time each forward-looking statement was made, the particular speaker 

knew that the particular forward-looking statements was false or misleading, and/or the forwardlooking statement was authorized and/or approved by an executive officer of Allscripts who knew 

that the statement was false when made. 

APPLICABILITY OF PRESUMPTION OF 

RELIANCE: FRAUD ON THE MARKET 

219. Plaintiffs will rely upon the presumption of reliance established by the fraud-on-themarket doctrine in that, among other things: 

(a) Defendants made public misrepresentations or failed to disclose material facts 

during the Class Period; 

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(b) The omissions and misrepresentations were material; 

(c) The Company’s stock traded in an efficient market; 

(d) The misrepresentations alleged would tend to induce a reasonable investor to 

misjudge the value of the Company’s stock; and 

(e) Plaintiffs and other members of the Class purchased Allscripts’ common stock 

between the time Defendants misrepresented or failed to disclose material facts and the time the true 

facts were disclosed, without knowledge of the misrepresented or omitted facts. 

220. At all relevant times, the market for Allscripts’ common stock was an efficient 

market, entitling Plaintiffs to rely upon the presumption of reliance established by the fraud-on-themarket doctrine, for the following reasons, among others: 

(a) Allscripts’ common stock met the requirements for listing, and was listed and 

actively traded on the NASDAQ; 

(b) As a regulated issuer, Allscripts filed periodic public reports with the SEC; 

(c) Allscripts regularly communicated with the investing public via established 

market communication mechanisms, including through regular disseminations of press releases on 

the national circuits of major news wire services and through other wide-ranging public disclosures, 

such as communications with the financial press and other similar reporting services; and 

(d) Allscripts was followed by numerous securities analysts employed by major 

brokerage firms who wrote reports when were distributed to the sales force and certain customers of 

their respective brokerage firms. Each of these reports was publicly available and entered the public 

marketplace. 

221. As a result of the foregoing, the market for Allscripts’ publicly-traded securities 

promptly digested current information regarding Allscripts from publicly available sources and 

reflected such information in Allscripts’ stock price. Without knowledge of the misrepresented and 

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omitted material facts alleged herein, Plaintiffs and other Class members purchased Allscripts’ 

common stock during the Class Period between the time Defendants misrepresented or failed to 

disclose material facts and the time the true facts were revealed and suffered similar injury. Thus, 

the Class is entitled to the presumption of reliance. 

CLASS ACTION ALLEGATIONS 

222. Plaintiffs bring this action as a class action pursuant to Rule 23 of the Federal Rules 

of Civil Procedure on behalf of the Class consisting of purchasers of Allscripts’ common stock 

during the Class Period who were damaged thereby. Excluded from the Class are Defendants, the 

officers and directors of Allscripts, and their families and affiliates. 

223. The members of the Class are so numerous that joinder of all members is 

impracticable. The disposition of their claims in a class action will provide substantial benefits to 

the parties and the Court. Throughout the Class Period, Allscripts’ common stock was actively 

traded on the NASDAQ and had more than 190 million shares of stock outstanding as of April 24, 

2012 according to Allscripts’ June 15, 2012 Proxy. While the exact number of Class members in 

unknown, Plaintiffs believe that there are thousands of members in the proposed Class. Members 

of the Class may be identified from records maintained by Allscripts or its transfer agent. 

224. Plaintiffs’ claims are typical of the claims of the Class members because Plaintiffs 

and the Class sustained damages from Defendants’ wrongful conduct in violation of the federal 

securities laws that is complained of herein. 

225. There is a well-defined community of interest in the questions of law and fact 

involved in this case. Questions of law and fact common to the members of the Class which 

predominate over questions which may affect individual class members include: 

(a) Whether the Exchange Act was violated by Defendants; 

(b) Whether Defendants omitted and/or misrepresented material facts; 

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(c) Whether Defendants’ statements omitted material facts necessary in order to 

make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not 

misleading; 

(d) Whether Defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that their statements were 

false and misleading; 

(e) Whether Defendant Shapiro violated §20A of the Exchange Act; 

(f) Whether the prices of Allscripts securities were artificially inflated; and 

(g) The extent of damage sustained by class members and the appropriate 

measure of damages. 

226. Plaintiffs will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the Class and have 

retained counsel competent and experienced in class and securities litigation. Plaintiffs have no 

interests that are in conflict with those of the Class. 

227. A class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient 

adjudication of this controversy. 

COUNT I 

For Violations of Section 10(b) of the 

Exchange Act and Rule l0b-5 Against All Defendants

228. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege each and every allegation contained above as if fully 

set forth herein. 

229. During the Class Period, Defendants disseminated or approved the false statements 

specified above, which they knew to be or recklessly disregarded whether they were misleading, in 

that they contained misrepresentations and failed to disclose material facts necessary in order to 

make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not 

misleading. 

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230. Defendants violated Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 in that they: 

(a) employed devices, schemes, and artifices to defraud; 

(b) made untrue statements of material facts or omitted to state material facts 

necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were 

made, not misleading; or 

(c) engaged in acts, practices, and a course of business that operated as a fraud or 

deceit upon Plaintiffs and others similarly situated in connection with their purchases of Allscripts’ 

common stock during the Class Period. 

231. Defendants, individually and in concert, directly and indirectly, by the use, means or 

instrumentalities of interstate commerce and/or of the mails, engaged and participated in a 

continuous course of conduct to conceal adverse material information about the business, 

operations and future prospects of Allscripts as specified herein. 

232. Plaintiffs and Class members were damaged in that, in reliance on the integrity of the 

market, they paid artificially inflated prices for Allscripts’ common stock. Plaintiffs and the Class 

would not have purchased Allscripts’ common stock at the prices they paid, or at all, if they had 

been aware that the market prices had been artificially and falsely inflated by Defendants’ 

misleading statements. 

233. As a direct and proximate cause of Defendants’ wrongful conduct, Plaintiffs and the 

other Class members suffered damages in connection with their purchase of Allscripts’ common 

stock during the Class Period. 

234. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ wrongful conduct, Plaintiffs and the 

other members of the Class suffered damages in connection with their purchases of Allscripts’ 

common stock during the Class Period. 

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COUNT II 

For Violations of Section 20(a) of the 

Exchange Act Against All Defendants

235. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege each and every allegation contained above as if fully 

set forth herein. 

236. Each of the Individual Defendants acted as a control person of the Company within 

the meaning of §20(a) of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. §78t(a)), as alleged herein. By virtue of 

their stock ownership, high-level positions, and participation in and/or awareness of the Company’s 

operations and finances, each individual defendant had the power to influence and control and did 

influence and control, directly or indirectly, the decision-making of the Company, including the 

content and dissemination of the various statements that Plaintiffs contend are false and misleading. 

Each Individual Defendant was provided with or had unlimited access to copies of the Company’s 

reports, press releases, public filings and other statements alleged by Plaintiffs to be misleading 

prior to and/or shortly after these statements were issued and had the ability to prevent the issuance 

of the statements or cause the statements to be corrected. 

237. Each Individual Defendant had direct and supervisory involvement in the day-to-day 

operations of the Company and, therefore, had the power to control the public statements about 

Allscripts giving rise to the securities violations as alleged herein, and exercised the same. 

Defendants Tullman, Davis and Shapiro had the power and ability to control (and did influence and 

control, directly or indirectly) the actions of Allscripts and its employees, including the content of 

Pfizer’s financial statements, releases and conference call statements. Allscripts controlled the 

Individual Defendants and all of Allscripts’ employees and directors. 

238. By reason of such wrongful conduct, Allscripts and the Individual Defendants are 

liable pursuant to §20(a) of the Exchange Act. As a direct and proximate result of the wrongful 

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conduct, Plaintiffs and other members of the Class suffered damages in connection with their 

purchases of the Company’s stock during the Class Period. 

COUNT III 

For Violation of Section 20A of the Exchange Act 

Against Individual Defendant Shapiro

239. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege each and every allegation contained above as if fully 

set forth herein. 

240. During the Class Period, each Individual Defendant, including Defendant Shapiro, 

occupied a position that made him privy to non-public information about Allscripts’ business and 

financial operations. Because of this access, Shapiro knew that the adverse facts specified herein 

were being concealed and that Defendants’ statements were false and misleading. In violation of 

his duty to refrain from trading in Allscripts stock while in possession of material, non-public 

information about the Company, Shapiro sold his personally-held Allscripts’ common stock, and 

profited therefrom, while Plaintiffs purchased contemporaneously. 

241. While Allscripts stock was trading at an artificially inflated price, Defendant Shapiro 

sold 100,000 shares of Allscripts stock on February 22, 2012 at $19.17 per share while in 

possession of adverse material non-public information about Allscripts, for which Shapiro reaped 

proceeds of $1,917,000 in illegal insider trading proceeds. Plaintiffs contemporaneously purchased 

a combined total of 171,860 shares as reflected in the certifications attached hereto. Specifically, 

the Government of Bermuda Contributory and Public Superannuation Pension Plans purchased 

155,500 shares of Allscripts’ stock at $19.52 per share on February 27, 2012 and the International 

Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union Pension Fund purchased 16,360 shares of 

Allscripts’ stock at $19.49 per share on February 23, 2012. 

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242. The Plaintiffs and all other members of the Class who purchased Allscripts 

contemporaneously with the sales on February 22, 2012 by Shapiro: 

(a) have suffered substantial damages in that they paid artificially inflated prices 

for Allscripts stock as a result of violations of §10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 herein 

described; and 

(b) would not have purchased Allscripts stock at the prices they paid, or at all, if 

they had been aware that the market prices had been artificially inflated by Defendants’ false and 

misleading statements. 

243. As a result of the wrongful conduct alleged herein, Plaintiffs and other members of 

the Class have suffered damages. 

244. By the reason of the foregoing, Defendant Shapiro violated §20A of the 1934 Act 

and is liable to the Plaintiffs and other members of the Class for the substantial damages they 

suffered in connection with their purchase of Allscripts stock. 

PRAYER FOR RELIEF 

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and the Class, pray for judgment as 

follows: 

A. Declaring this action to be a class action properly maintained pursuant to Rule 23 of 

the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 

B. Awarding Plaintiffs and other members of the Class damages together with interest 

thereon; 

C. Awarding Plaintiffs and other members of the Class costs and expenses of this 

litigation, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees and experts’ fees and other costs 

and disbursements; and 

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D. Awarding Plaintiffs and other members of the Class such equitable/injunctive or other 

and further relief as may be just and proper under the circumstances. 

JURY DEMAND 

Plaintiffs demand a trial by jury on all issues. 

DATED: January 10, 2013 ROBBINS GELLER RUDMAN 

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JAMES E. BARZ (IL Bar # 6255605) 

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JAMES E. BARZ 

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I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the 

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