Coordinating Care with Physician Practices


Whether you have existing practice management systems in place or are in the market for new systems, MEDITECH provides a variety of solutions for collaborating care across the hospital and physician practice settings. This close collaboration promotes more informed decision making and better management of patients' chronic conditions.

MEDITECH provides you with the option to use our partner, LSS Data Systems' integrated Medical and Practice Management solution, or to exchange information with another physician practice system of your choice through one of our interoperability solutions. Interoperability solutions include both our Continuity of Care Document Advantage's Data Express product. (CCD) Exchange suite and Forward

MEDITECH will work with your health care organization to determine the solution, or combination of solutions, to best address your unique data exchange requirements.


Medical and Practice Management Integration
If you are looking to implement a new practice management solution, Medical and Practice Management (MPM) provides a fully integrated solution developed by LSS Data Systems to serve the needs of clinicians and administrative staff in practices and clinics. The system includes a comprehensive set of tools designed to fully automate physician practices and clinics, including scheduling, registration, electronic records, open item billing (electronic claim submission and remittance), ambulatory order management, a physician's desktop, and statistical and reimbursement reporting.

Seamless integration with the MEDITECH enterprise HCIS is inherent in the MPM design. Executives in health care enterprises and other larger organizations can integrate physician practices and clinics within their organizations to provide a patient-centric approach to managing patients' health care across the continuum.

Components of Medical and Practice Management include:


Interoperability Suites

Continuity of Care Document Exchange Suite
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) Exchange Suite enables MEDITECH's HCIS to receive and display CCD or CCR (Continuity of Care Record) documents from non-MEDITECH systems and compile and send a CCD document as a response to requests from other vendor systems or Record Locator Services, all in accordance with current industry standards.

Forward Advantage: Data Express Product
The Data Express product, offered through
Forward Advantage, provides a one-to-many bi-directional interface suite between MEDITECH's HCIS and any number of other vendor physician practice systems. Information exchanged includes orders and clinical results for laboratory, radiology, and other departmental procedures.