by administrator on March 26, 2012, at 2:57 pm
Jack Walker: What do you think your percentage of utilization is now with your physicians?
Rob Rhodes: 99% I hear they’re all using it, but we still have the odd doc here or there who will say, “I don’t want to do it and I want the paper delivered to my office”. We normally work with those that are resistant and when they see we are interested in helping them best adopt the system, they usually get on board.
Here are some examples: Some physicians at the beginning of the project said, “I’m probably going to retire because of this.” One of those physicians has now said that he likes the system and has actually told the CEO that he likes using the system. We have another physician who was adamantly against electronic systems. He didn’t have electronic systems in his office and in fact he wanted all of his lab reports couriered to him in his office. He’s is now using it ….and has even put DSL in his office. Bottom line: The guys that people would put money on to be resistant have turned out to be some of the biggest winners in the whole thing because they’ve found out that it makes their lives better.
Read more at MEDITECH Connect.
by administrator on March 21, 2012, at 2:29 pm
We’re introducing a new CIO Sitdown series designed by maxIT’s MEDITECH Practice Director Jack Walker where hospital CIO’s are interviewed on real topics regarding their MEDITECH products. These days, there’s been a variety of negative press associated with Meditech’s 6.0 platform. In that respect, Jack figured it was only appropriate to ask questions to Rob Rhodes, CIO of Houston Healthcare, on his experiences with their recent implementation from Magic to 6.0. What’s the shocking truth about 6.0? It’s that counter to what’s been written, successful implementations are occurring, but as with any product, a large part of success hinges on how you approach it.
Read more at MEDITECH Connect.
by administrator on March 12, 2012, at 3:34 pm
Project Management 101 for Healthcare IT
This workshop will explore the key concepts and fundamentals behind PMI-based best practice management techniques.
Beginner NPR Report Writer
This workshop has been designed with the beginner in mind and will cover the basics of creating a report.
Beginner Report Designer Workshop
Learn how to create reports using the 6.0 Report Designer.
Magic Syntax for NPR Report Writers (C/S or Magic)
Join us for an introductory computer science class on the “Magic” programming language.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz – Wake Up Your NPR Reports With Z Programs
This workshop will provide a comprehensive review of MEDITECH’s Z programs.
Crossing Applications without using Fragments (C/S or Magic)
Advanced topics for NPR report writers.
Data Migration and Conversion – Programming Aspects of Moving Data from MEDITECH via NPR RW
This workshop will cover topics related to data issues using the NPR Report Writer.
Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 101
Join us for an introduction to the DR module in MEDITECH.
Soup to Nuts – Data Repository 102
More DR – learn report writing with Microsoft SQL Server.
PHA Clinical Rules and NPR – 5.6 and Beyond …
Learn Rules and NPR related to pharmacy topics.
Interoperability – Are You Ready?
Attend this workshop to delve into the world of HL7 standards.
The Missing Roles of Quality and Evidence Based Practice in EHR Design and Development
Join us to learn about an interactive, interoperable team model for EHR design and development.
MEDITECH 6.x is the Journey Forward, but What Do We Need to Pack to Get There?
We will discuss planning for the implementation of MEDITECH 6.x.
Migrating MEDITECH MAGIC to 6.x Requires More than Just Fairy Dust!
Attend this workshop that will dissect and analyze each phase of the migration to 6.x. \
6.0 Report Designer Training
Create customized Report Designer reports.
Report Designer Rules
This workshop will present the fundamentals of the Report Designer rules.
BPMN – The Advantages of Using this IT Industry Standard for Healthcare Process Redesign
Learn the fundamentals of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and their application to process redesign.
Revenue Cycle Performance Improvement: Efficiently Turning Medical Services into Cash
This session will highlight operational and system improvements within MEDITECH that will ensure your Revenue Cycle remains at peak efficiency.
A New CMS Hammer About to Drop: 30-Day Readmissions How to Not Only Avoid Penalties but Improve Patient Care
This session summarizes CMS’ 30-Day Readmission initiative and proposes a comprehensive program to avoid penalties and improve the quality of patient care.
Accessing Low Hanging Fruit Opportunities in Your Hospital to Achieve Dramatic Bottom Line Improvements
This class is designed to identify several significant opportunities for immediate hospital bottom line improvements.
Learn more.
by administrator on March 5, 2012, at 11:11 am
Are independent rural hospitals destined to go the way of the dinosaur (extinction)? No matter what state you look at, be it New York, Texas, or others, independent rural hospitals are merging or getting bought by larger entities or IDNs. While there are different drivers and benefits for this phenomenon, the core issue relates to the pressure faced by these rural entities.
It is no secret that rural entities have always been challenged in hiring physicians. Many physicians don’t wish to work in remote regions away from how they define quality of life services like theater, fine dining, high-end educational opportunities, or enticing shops. Also, most entities cannot compete from a salary perspective with the larger metropolitan areas. Add to that a lack of family practitioners, hospitalists, or other specialty providers, and you have providers who are forced to take more calls, work longer hours, and just deal with greater levels of stress. Without the provider basis to support independent rural entities, they are significantly under pressure to generate the referral revenue so badly needed.
Read more.
by administrator on February 29, 2012, at 9:15 am
So it has been 8 weeks since our go-live. It is always interesting for me to note the things that start to creep up post go-live that could, and should, have been caught during the pre-go-live build. The following is our experience, and will hopefully help you identify processes or items to address in your migration.
To start with, it came as a surprise to our super user community that with the NPR report changes, we also lost the ability to spool file functionality. For those that don’t remember, “Spooling” is basically transferring data or jobs to another, sometimes temporary, working area for another program to work with or execute. With this functionality gone, finance departments are hit hard as reports that used to be processed in the background of a server or other device now get processed on the user’s PC or main server, often taking up valuable memory resources or CPU cycles. In other words, it can really slow down a user’s PC.
Read more at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on February 20, 2012, at 1:57 pm
Working with partners key component
Campbellford Memorial Hospital has a long-term information technology strategic plan.
Quality of patient care, patient and staff education, improved access to information, increased efficiency and enhanced clinical decision support are among the key goals.
The future was revealed to the hospital’s board of directors recently as Healthtech IT consultant Bruce Pye presented the details of a phased-in plan to build up, improve and maintain the hospital’s high-tech information infrastructure.
“We went to the market place to get somebody to help us develop a tactical plan, and we selected Healthtech,” said hospital president and CEO Brad Hilker, calling the plan “a road map for us to follow.”
Pye said the time-frame for implementing the plan’s goals and objectives would be about five years. “Generally we’re talking about making what you have on paper electronic in a safe way that adds some clinical decision support to it as we go along,” he said.
Read more.
by administrator on February 16, 2012, at 12:41 pm
“MEDITECH’s 6.0 Peer-to-Peer Information Exchange provided a springboard for our implementation strategy. I’m also leaving here with a better plan for my involvement in our transition from MAGIC to 6.0,” said Brent Watson, MD, a hospitalist at Roane General Hospital (Spencer, WV).
Watson was describing his experience at our recent information exchange in Coral Gables, Florida. Representatives from customer sites throughout the U.S. and Canada attended the event, which is designed to facilitate sharing and networking among 6.0 organizations as well as MEDITECH leaders.
Read more at meditech.com.
by administrator on February 2, 2012, at 11:35 am
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital (St. Johnsbury, Vermont)
Wilson Memorial Hospital (Sidney, Ohio)
Wooster Community Hospital (Wooster, Ohio)
MEDITECH customers advancing to 6.0 Home Care solution:
Augusta Home Health and Hospice of the Shenandoah (Fishersville, Virginia)
Pardee Home Health (Hendersonville, North Carolina)
Wilson Home Health and Hospice (Sidney, Ohio)
Source: http://meditech.com/aboutmeditech/pages/60migrations4thq11.htm
by administrator on January 31, 2012, at 2:37 pm
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.
Read more at healthsystemCIO.com.
by administrator on January 20, 2012, at 12:07 pm
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.
Read more at meditech.com.
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