Altera Digital Health
The former Allscripts hospital business, now under Harris.
A note from public sources, read on 4 November 2026. Nothing here was verified by using the product. Vendor claims are claims. This is not a product review, and "not found" means only that the sources read did not say.
What it is
Altera is a business unit of Harris Healthcare, which bought the Allscripts hospitals and large physician practices business in 2022. Products include Sunrise, Paragon and TouchWorks. Its markets include the US, UK NHS acute trusts and Canada.
Care settings
Acute care is the core of Sunrise in NHS trusts. TouchWorks is an ambulatory product. Other settings were not established from the sources read.
Comparison
| Area | Altera Digital Health | This project today |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Hospital EHR (Sunrise), ambulatory (TouchWorks), small hospital (Paragon) | Scaffold: identity, consent, allergies, observations, referrals, audit |
| Interoperability | FHIR R4 claimed by a review site; network partnerships | FHIR R4 and R5 reads for three resources; HL7 v2 ADT inbound |
| Mobile and patient access | Not found in the sources read | Mobile layout and patient portal not built |
Implications for this project
Comparable breadth has taken suppliers decades, so scope should stay narrow. AI-drafted notes should be treated as a clinical-risk feature, with hazard-log entries and a distinct provenance state.