MEDITECH: Take Your Pick

Customers can register today for the many education sessions we’re offering at this year’s Practice Management Forum.

August 15-16, 2013 at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott.

Please note that some sessions are offered more than once during the forum.

Session 1, Thursday, 11:00-12:15pm

  • Roadmap for Care Coordination with Health Maintenance & Disease Management (C/S and 6.x)
  • Stressed over ICD-10? Get Your IMO Prescription Today! (All Platforms)
  • Data Mining for Meaningful Use with Data Repository (All Platforms)
  • Charging Forward with the Charge Ticket Desktop (C/S and 6.x)
  • Uncover Big Benefits with Insurance Eligibility (All Platforms)

Session 2, Thursday, 1:30-2:45pm

  • Just What the Doctor Ordered: New Anti-Coagulation Dose Management & Prenatal Care Tools (C/S and 6.x)
  • Roadmap for Care Coordination with Health Maintenance & Disease Management (MAGIC)
  • Data Mining for Meaningful Use with Data Repository (All Platforms)
  • Digital Dollars: Electronic Remittance Simplified (C/S and 6.x)
  • Optimization through Integration (All Platforms)

Session 3, Friday, 9:00-10:15am

  • Roadmap for Care Coordination with Health Maintenance & Disease Management (C/S and 6.x)
  • Stressed over ICD-10? Get Your IMO Prescription Today! (All Platforms)
  • The Future is Now: Admin/Billing Enhancements (C/S and 6.x)
  • Raising the B/AR with Financial Integration (ESS, GL, AP) (All Platforms)
  • Using Speech Recognition Successfully in Documentation (All Platforms)

Read the complete descriptions & register at meditech.com.

John Halamka: A Bold New Vision for Meditech

I have no financial relationships with any EHR vendor, but feel a great affinity for the vendors in Massachusetts – eClinicalWorks, AthenaHealth and Meditech.

For the past few years, I’ve suggested to Meditech that cloud hosted, standards-based, web-centric and mobile enabled hospital information systems would be very welcome by the marketplace.

The industry has had a mixed reaction to Meditech version 6, a proprietary, non-standard, non-web, non-cloud, non-mobile, client/server application that requires complete hardware and software replacement when upgrading from version 5.

I spent last Monday afternoon at Meditech and can tell you that they have listened to industry feedback (and my obsessive focus on web-based applications).

The  Meditech senior team demonstrated version 6.1, a cloud hosted, standards-based, web-centric, mobile enabled, ambulatory and inpatient, analytics backed, personal health record enabled, and care managed focused application that will be shipping in 2014.

What did I see?

Read more at Life as a Healthcare CIO.

MUSE: 2013 TUESDAY TRAINING WORKSHOPS

MUSE is pleased to present an array of workshop topics for MUSE members
Tuesday May 28, 2013. Cost is $50 per half day workshop. 
If you select a morning AND afternoon workshop you have an option to purchse a box lunch for $20
 
Morning Workshops – 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
701 – The ARRA Project: Quest to Attest
702 – NPR Report Writing for the Beginner
703 – Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 101
704 – MAGIC and C/S Advanced Attributes
705 – Rules for PCS and OM in the 6.x M-AT Environment
706 – Top 10 Things You Hate about NPR Report Writer… and How to Love Them
707 – HL7 Training:  Understanding Data Transfer Between Disparate Systems
Afternoon Workshops – 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
801 – To Boldly Go Where No Rule Has Gone Before
802 – Roll Out the Welcome M-AT for MEDITECH 6.x and M-AT Report Writer!
803 – Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 102
804 – Report Designer 6.x Rules and Functions
805 – MAGIC Syntax for NPR Report Writers
806 -  Clinical Rules and NPR – 5.6 and Beyond …
807 – Developing a Successful Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy
 

MEDITECH: Greetings from the Aloha State

A Story of Meaningful Use and Stage 6 Achievement.

Hilo Medical Center’s (Hilo, HI) partnership with MEDITECH and commitment to providing quality care leads to Stage 6 and Meaningful Use recognition. 

A lot can happen in three years—just ask 6.x customer Hilo Medical Center (HMC) on the Big Island of Hawai’i, the 276-bed facility with the state’s second busiest emergency department.

In 2010, HMC became the first state-run hospital in the Hawai’i Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) to implement an Electronic Health Record (EHR), training over 800 employees and 100 physicians. In just a few short years, not only did the organization make the transition from all-paper documentation to MEDITECH’s integrated 6.x EHR, but also achieved Meaningful Use Stage 1 at HMC, Ka’u Hospital (a 21-bed critical access hospital), and Hale Ho’ola Hamakua (a 77-bed critical access hospital)—two other HHSC facilities in the East Hawaii Region.

Read more at meditech.com.

MEDITECH: EHR Certification

MEDITECH’s 6.0 Electronic Health Record v6.07 Receives ONC-ACB Certification by Drummond Group for 2014 Edition.

MEDITECH 6.0 Electronic Health Record Version 6.07 has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group’s Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program. This EHR software is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Drummond Group’s ONC-ACB certification program certifies that EHRs meet the meaningful use criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology. In turn, healthcare providers using the EHR systems of certified vendors are qualified to receive federal stimulus monies upon demonstrating meaningful use of the technology – a key component of the federal government’s push to improve clinical care delivery through the adoption and effective use of EHRs by U.S. health care providers.

Read more at meditech.com. 

healthsystemCIO.com: Randy McCleese, CIO, St. Claire Regional Medical Center, Chapter 2

To say that Randy McCleese believes in the power of education is an understatement. He holds four degrees, served as an adjust instructor for 10 years, and holds a CHCIO certification. “If you’re not learning something new, you and your organization have become stagnant,” he said in a recent interview, during which McCleese discussed St. Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. McCleese also talks about St. Claire’s telemedicine work, which includes school-based programs, why he carves out time for public policy activities, his involvement in CHIME, and how he went from a field geologist to a CIO.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

  • Kentucky HIE — “They’re doing a good job matching patient data”
  • Working with UK to connect schools with primary care clinics
  • Why telehealth is “sputtering”
  • Dividing & conquering MU
  • Meditech in the hospital & medical group
  • Partnering with Bon Secours on an ACO – “We’re just starting down that path.”

Read more or listen to the podcast at healthsystemCIO.com.

healthsystemCIO.com: Randy McCleese, CIO, St. Claire Regional Medical Center, Chapter 1

To say that Randy McCleese believes in the power of education is an understatement. He holds four degrees, served as an adjust instructor for 10 years, and holds a CHCIO certification. “If you’re not learning something new, you and your organization have become stagnant,” he said in a recent interview, during which McCleese discussed St. Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. McCleese also talks about St. Claire’s early telemedicine work with the University of Kentucky, which includes school-based programs, why he carves out time for public policy activities, his involvement in CHIME, and how he went from a field geologist to a CIO.

Chapter 1

  • About St. Claire’s
  • From best-of-breed to an integrated system
  • Meditech 6.0 – going live with CPOE & physician documentation
  • Building a base with financials
  • Using a multidisciplinary “team approach”
  • Selecting a system — “It was the troops that made the choice.”
  • Working with Northeast Kentucky RHIO & Kentucky HIE

Read more or listen to the podcast at healthsystemCIO.com.

MEDITECH: Inside Scoop

See what’s happening at MEDITECH this Spring in our April Magazine.

Here’s the overview – check out the articles at meditech.com.

Features


Lucky 13: Big Ambulatory Changes Ahead

An impressive array of enhancements is here for our Medical and Practice Management customers.

EHR Certification

MEDITECH 6.0 Health Care Information System (HCIS) v6.07 Receives ONC-ACB Certification by Drummond Group.

Got You Covered

From software to support, learn all you need to know with this ICD-10 update.

Reaching New Heights in Ireland

Galway Clinic reaches patient safety milestones with MEDITECH’s e-Prescribing solution.

Family Matters

Cooper County’s tight-knit home care team leads a successful implementation.

Happy 25th to Milford Regional!

The hospital marks a quarter-century of success with MEDITECH.

Promoting Patient Awareness

Educate patients about your Patient Portal by downloading MEDITECH’s free promotional materials.

MEDITECH Technology Lab

April 11-12, 2013 @ MEDITECH’s Canton Facility

Location: Outer perimeter of Atrium 
Thursday, April 11th: During Lunch & Cocktail Reception

Friday, April 12th: During Lunch

The past year has brought many changes to MEDITECH’s EHR. Many of our latest features have been influenced not only by initiatives such as ARRA and Meaningful Use, but also by the direct feedback we’ve received from you, our customers! Interested in seeing our new Revenue Cycle Management and Surgical Services solutions? Want to see the latest capabilities for mobilizing patient information? Want to find out how patients can interact with your healthcare network’s information system? If so, be sure to visit the CIO Technology Lab!

Come interact MEDITECH staff as they present our software strategies and provide demonstrations on these and other topics:

Physician Care Manager (6.x, C/S & MAGIC)

  • Patient lists
  • Evidence-based order sets
  • Electronic prescribing

Mobile Solutions

  • Physician rounding
  • Patient and Consumer Health Portal

Home Care

  • Process-driven tasks
  • Integrated financial and clinical workflow
  • Data exchange with the hospital

Medical and Practice Management

  • Ambulatory patient record
  • Practice schedule
  • Problem management

Revenue Cycle Management (6.1)

  • Capture, storage, and retrieval of patient charge Info
  • On-line account inquiries
  • Bills, statements, claim forms, and logs

Patient Care System (6.x, C/S & MAGIC)

  • Access real-time patient information
  • Mange and prioritize workload through customizable status boards
  • Perform Bedside Verification

Emergency Department Management  (6.x, C/S & MAGIC)

  • Integrated and interactive patient trackers
  • Complaint-driven care
  • Coordinated patient departure

Web-based Ambulatory Solution (6.x)

  • Web-based Ambulatory suite
  • Mobile devices using touch navigation
  • Problem-based patient record
  • Embedded content for specialties

Surgical Services (6.1)

  • Expedite OR scheduling
  • Track cases in real-time
  • Document peri-operative episode

Oncology Management

  • Comprehensive Chemotherapy Treatment Plan ordering with automated dose calculations and adjustments
  • Oncology-centric clinical flowsheets
  • Integrated and interactive patient trackers
  • Complaint-driven care
  • Coordinated patient departure

Register or click for more information.

MUSE: 2013 Hospital Site Visit

DOCTORS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PRESENTS:

Challenges and Triumphs in 6.x

May 28, 1 pm – 5 pm
Registration fee $40
Doctors Community Hospital has been a MEDITECH site since 1994, first on the Magic platform and, since December of 2011, using 6.05. Prior to the 6.0 conversion, the hospital had been running a third-party vendor’s’ EMR/CPOE in the Emergency Department and another in the OR. These applications went to MEDITECH with the 6.0 conversion.   With all the changes afoot within the healthcare information technology industry, as soon as the conversion was complete, the facility moved quickly through a number of other significant implementations and projects, including:
  • hospital-wide, mandatory electronic documentation for all physicians
  • successful “Meaningful Use” attestation
  • the new HR application
  • a new supply system
  • first-ever CPOE go-live on inpatient units
  • successful completion of first Joint Commission survey since converting to 6.0
This site visit describes in detail these projects, including breakout tracks and department/unit tours.

AGENDA

1:00 – 1:45 Welcome and Introduction
1:45 - 2:30 Brief Tour of Hospital
2:30 – 4:30 Breakout Tracks
4:30 – 5:00 Closing Session

Learn more.