Collaborative Solutions
MEDITECH collaborates with leading vendors to create proven, value-adding, integrated health care solutions for customers. From identity management to core measures reporting, we have incorporated clinical, financial, technical, and operational solutions which provide the highest levels of security, efficiency, and safety for your organization.
ACS MediHealth
ACS MediHealth provides a technology foundation for our Home Care customers, supplying both well@home Telehealth devices as well as tablets and other devices. In addition to their expertise in the Home Care sector, ACS provides mobility solutions and equipment for MEDITECH customer hospitals, as well as a comprehensive array of evaluation and assessment services. ACS empowers its customers with the cost-effective quality products and supplies they need to improve their patient's health and well-being.Dell Services
Dell Services provides proven integrated technology solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of the MEDITECH community. In addition to offering a wide range of products and support for MEDITECH hospitals, Dell Services' strong partnerships with industry technology leaders such as EMC, HP, IBM, Stratus, and BridgeHead ensure comprehensive solutions to maximize the potential of the MEDITECH HCIS.
FileTek
FileTek supplies technologies which enable MEDITECH customers to comply with the National Health Service (NHS) strategy for Electronic Health Records (EHR). FileTek is a data storage and access systems provider which enables health care organizations within both the NHS and private sectors, in the United Kingdom and worldwide, to rapidly access ever-growing volumes of patient historical data.
Presidio
Presidio is a value-added solutions provider focused on the system, storage, and networking markets. Presidio offers MEDITECH's customers a managed VPN service for secure Internet access to MEDITECH hosted applications, and assists in the planning, design, implementation, and ongoing management of the VPN access router.
The MEDITECH system includes many standard clinical content options. Below are the vendors we collaborate with to augment our standard offerings.EBSCO Publishing
MEDITECH has collaborated with EBSCO Publishing to provide customers with patient discharge instructions to ensure ready access to evidence-based, medically accurate information. Discharge instructions from EBSCO's Patient Education Reference Center (PERC) product will be fully integrated into MEDITECH's departure process routines, making it easy for clinicians to provide patients with easy-to-understand information regarding every aspect of their care upon discharge.
First DataBank
First DataBank supplies MEDITECH customers with the dictionaries which define drug interactions and monograph information required for customers using MEDITECH's Pharmacy solution. First DataBank's drug monographs, available at the point of medication administration, provide our customers with valuable knowledge about medications, facilitating clinician learning and patient education. Medication orders are checked against the patients' active medication profile in MEDITECH, utilizing the First DataBank drug knowledge database.
Medi-Span
Medi-Span integrates easily with MEDITECH's Pharmacy and RXM solutions to provide our customers with a complete line of drug databases, including clinical decision support and disease suite modules. Medi-Span is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, and has provided comprehensive, accurate, and trusted drug information for more than 30 years to health care professionals worldwide.PatientEDU
PatientEDU provides evidence-based educational materials to promote patient involvement throughout the care process. PatientEDU's educational programs, which can be accessed directly from the MEDITECH HCIS, are interactive, video-based tutorials. Patient access and results are recorded and retained, providing benefits in continuity of care, improved outcomes, reduced costs, and reduced risk while meeting facility compliance and reporting requirements. MEDITECH's collaboration with PatientEDU allows clinicians to engage patients throughout the care process, using information technology to improve the way health care is delivered.
Thomson Reuters
Together with MEDITECH's Pharmacy solution, Thomson Reuters automatically monitors drug and allergy interactions, provides dose range checking, and provides access to drug monographs. Additionally, Thomson Reuters and MEDITECH have collaborated to provide patient education and patient discharge instructions through integration with CareNotes, helping hospitals to fully involve patients in their health care.Zynx Health
MEDITECH has collaborated with Zynx Health to offer our customers the ability to integrate over 950 evidence-based order sets, including order sets that are foundational to addressing the requirements in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), with MEDITECH's Physician Care Manager and Emergency Department Management suites. Zynx Health order sets help hospitals adopt evidence-based practices by presenting national quality measures and clinical evidence in a clinically actionable format. When evidence-based order sets are used in conjunction with MEDITECH's Provider Order Management solution, physicians are provided with the latest evidence, guidelines, reminders, and performance measures.
Our e-Prescribing (eRX) solution is part of a comprehensive, integrated approach to medication management, which also includes Medication Reconciliation and Interaction Checking functionality offered from MEDITECH.
DrFirst
MEDITECH's e-Prescribing functionality plays a critical role in our customers' medication management process by providing a single point of connectivity for a secure exchange of patient information between a wide range of providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers, and pharmacies. Our eRX initiatives have been co-developed with DrFirst, a proven leader in the eRX industry for a number of years.
The MEDITECH HCIS includes a full range of standard reporting tools, decision support capabilities, and a quality measure tracking system. In addition to our own offerings, we have collaborated with these vendors.
Institute for Health Metrics
MEDITECH and the Institute for Health Metrics (IHM) are working together to turn data from the MEDITECH HCIS into outcomes measurements and reports. IHM's products automate our customers' data extraction processes for organizational analysis, Joint Commission core measures reporting, and measuring the quality of care physicians are providing. IHM works exclusively with MEDITECH customers to study care patterns and practice protocols in order to improve the effectiveness, safety, and efficiency of health care.
Medisolv
Medisolv provides enterprise-wide reporting, business intelligence, and clinical decision support reporting solutions to MEDITECH customers. Medisolv integrates directly with MEDITECH's Data Repository, enabling our customers to maximize the effectiveness of their Data Repository solution. By using dashboards and balanced scorecards specifically designed for MEDITECH customers, Medisolv provides a valuable management tool to monitor select Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
MEDITECH is a leading vendor of Interoperability solutions.
Forward Advantage
As part of MEDITECHs comprehensive interoperability product strategy, we have collaborated with Forward Advantage to develop Data Express, a solution which enables our customers to deliver clinical data to physicians practices efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively. Data Express receives HL7 formatted messages from MEDITECH, and can deliver it to multiple destinations, in multiple formats, and in a variety of transport methods.
CAPTECH Funding Corporation
CAPTECH Funding Corporation offers MEDITECH customers flexible capital, operating, and tax-exempt municipal lease financing solutions which cover software, implementation, and training for MEDITECH and LSS Data Systems. Financing programs also include all hardware and services provided by Dell Perot Systems, EMC, HP, IBM, and IHM, including other third-party costs and services. CAPTECH specializes in structuring financing transactions which contain a significant portion of soft costs.
Computer Credit, Inc.
Computer Credit, Inc. (CCI), a collection agency specializing in health care collections, offers MEDITECH customers an integrated service to effectively collect self-pay receivables. Combined with MEDITECH, CCI offers our customers significant financial and operational value, especially when implemented after internal efforts are complete and before referral to bad debt occurs.
Forward Advantage
MEDITECH provides identity management solutions through its relationship with Forward Advantage. Through its im-One program, Forward Advantage provides end-to-end identity management solutions to MEDITECH customers by bringing together solutions from leading identity management providers, developing software for the unique challenges of the clinical environment, providing services to assist hospitals in every step of the process, and working with MEDITECH to integrate each of these elements.
Peter Cohen Associates
Peter Cohen Associates (PCA) works closely with MEDITECH customers to optimize the usage of transcription services provided by Dragon NaturallySpeaking. From implementation to go-LIVE, PCA helps MEDITECH customers transition from hand-written records to interfacing speech recognition into their MEDITECH HCIS.
Stedman's
Stedman's offers MEDITECH customers the industry's best known listing of medical terms and drug names. Stedman's Plus Spellchecker product is available for use with MEDITECH's MAGIC HCIS (4.71 release and higher), and keeps our customers on the cutting edge of medical and pharmaceutical terminology. Stedman's Plus Spellchecker can be used as a standalone product, or can be installed as part of our customers' MEDITECH HCIS.
Forward Advantage
MEDITECH works with Forward Advantage to provide the necessary conversion tool, components, and services to MEDITECH customers looking to convert their existing imaging and scanning system information to the MEDITECH Scanning and Archiving solution. We have developed an overview that outlines all the benefits, as well as an FAQ document that tells you how to get started.