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Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (St. Johnsbury, Vermont) MEDITECH customers advancing to 6.0 Home Care solution: Augusta Home Health and Hospice of the Shenandoah (Fishersville, Virginia) Source: http://meditech.com/aboutmeditech/pages/60migrations4thq11.htm Spending New Year’s Eve supporting a Meditech go-live is not exactly how most people define fun, but it is how many at our hospital spent transitioning from 2011 to 2012. I heard someone state, “Wow, this go-live is just like Y2K; a non-event.” What most CIOs will tell you is that the main reason Y2K was such a “non-event” is that the amount of work behind the scenes was like a Cecil B. DeMille production — comprising a cast of thousands that put in long hard hours making it a non-event. The same is true for our 6.6 go-live. The cast was not made up of thousands, but definitely hundreds put in countless hours and made it a major success. In the opinion of our Meditech representative, it was a 9 out of 10, and their best to date. Two health authorities share the benefits of MEDITECH’s 6.1 business platform. An aging patient population. A shrinking healthcare workforce. The untapped potential of technology. These are the shared concerns that brought the Northern and Interior health authorities together last year, to explore options for consolidating their I.T. systems and resources, as mandated by the government. Today, they share a single MEDITECH’s 6.1 business platform–enabling each to benefit from increased system functionality, at a substantially lower cost. The Northern and Interior health authorities are now using one supply chain management database with multiple purchasing facilities, allowing them to leverage costs across the vast province. This business system consolidation has also created the largest payroll system running on the MEDITECH solution, with more than 28,000 active employees between the two authorities. Is your hospital considering moving to ORM from another surgery system? Are you newly responsible for supporting ORM? If either answer is “yes” then this presentation will fill in the blanks for you! During this webcast Carole Weinstein will provide an overview of the components of the ORM module, including information flow between the components, tips on dictionary design, available interfaces, integrations with MM and PHA, etc. The module overview will be demonstrated in Magic 5.64, but comparisons and screens from Client Server and 6.0 will also be discussed. Presenter: Carole Weinstein is a project specialist in information systems at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Jan 27, 2012, Cost: $100 Canton-Potsdam Hospital will begin installation Jan. 1 of the first phase of electronic medical record (EMR) software called MEDITECH 6.0, designed to improve safety and quality of patient treatment at the hospital. MEDITECH is one of the leading providers of EMR software. The installation follows months of preparation by cross-functional teams drawn from all areas of the hospital’s clinical and support operations. “This significant investment of capital and human resources is much more than a simple upgrade to our software: it’s about changing the way we deliver care,” said Deanna L. Page, Vice President of Clinical Services at Canton-Potsdam Hospital, who has been leading the process redesign teams. Read more at North Country Now. “4 days to go live” — those words can instill fear into even the most seasoned CIO if the comfort level that everything is ready to go is not there. Luckily for me, I have a great team and, while there are still minor concerns, we are where we need to be for a successful go live. More importantly, we have sat down and reviewed all the critical failure points and attempted to establish fallback and contingency plans should the worst happen. In the last 4 weeks, we have been at a mad scramble. Meditech recommended moving out the go-live to post next AUG (the next available opening). Needless to say, we reviewed the open tasks and determined we were not far off where we needed to be. Our team then put in a heroic effort to bring things up to par, leaving everyone with the proper comfort level. Additionally, we brought back some external consultants to work remaining tasks that just needed more bodies thrown at them, such as recreating NPI reports. Read the rest of this post at healthsystemCIO.com. MEDITECH is hosting an education and networking event in January for 6.0 customers. Registration is open for MEDITECH’s 6.0 Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange on January 10-11 at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida. The goal of the event is building a sharing and information exchange with 6.0 health care organizations and MEDITECH. Opportunities include networking with peers, learning about new software developments, and sharing personal experiences. For more information about this event, check out the online agenda. Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Whitby, ON) recently received national recognition for their success in using MEDITECH’s 6.0 platform to improve patient care delivery. The facility was honored with three industry awards for health informatics excellence and leadership, at the 7th Annual Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala. Read more at meditech.com. On Wednesday, November 9, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) and Healthtech Consultants (Healthtech) received two awards from the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) Health: Project Implementation Team of the Year and Project Patient Care Innovation Team of the Year. These prestigious awards recognize a not-for-profit healthcare team and a for-profit healthcare ICT Company that have successfully implemented an IT-health solution within a healthcare organization. Ontario Shores, together with Healthtech, were recognized on a national level for the implementation of our fully integrated electronic health record system. “We are truly honoured to be recognized as a leader in Information Technology and Health Informatics,” says Karim Mamdani, Chief Operating Officer. “Our success lies in the remarkable work of our people, who designed and built a specialized system to meet the unique needs of patients receiving mental health care. Their vision and expertise enabled Ontario Shores to participate in advancing the future of healthcare.”  Leave a comment  6.x Conversion, MEDITECH, Recent Items  Chief Operating Officer., Healthtech Consultants, Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) Health, Karim Mamdani, Ontario Shores, Project Implementation Team of the Year, Project Patient Care Innovation Team of the Year., r Advancing Technology in Mental Health Care HIStalk has a few interesting bits this morning – check them out: From THB: “Re: Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. Going Epic.”The 218-bed hospital gets board approval to replace McKesson Horizon with Epic in a $19 million deal, saying it will cost about $5 million over five years to implement Epic. It says Meaningful Use money will offset that amount, and after that, Epic will actually be cheaper that McKesson. Epic doesn’t usually sell to hospitals that small, so either CRMC is affiliated with a larger Epic customer or Epic is started to push down into Meditech territory. So – will Epic be cheaper than McKesson? And is CRMC pushing into MEDITECH territory? Let us know in the comments! From WSDiner: “Re: HCA. At a Credit Suisse Healthcare conference investor dinner Thursday night, HCA’s management said they piloted Meditech 6.0 this year and will pilot Epic next year. They said that no other vendors (i.e., Cerner) were under consideration.” The reader provided a Credit Suisse contact to confirm, but he didn’t respond to my e-mail. This will be interesting if it’s true – my read has always been that HCA just wants to scare Meditech into better pricing by bringing in competitors, but Epic doesn’t walk away without a contract in most cases. HCA is Meditech’s largest customer, contributing 8% of the company’s revenue in 2010. HCA is a large part of MEDITECH’s customer base – could they be moving to Epic? Please let us know your thoughts. We’d love to hear from you in the comments. |
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