MEDITECH 6.0 First Impressions

I had the occasion at the end of November of last year to attend a MUSE event at Doylestown Hospital where they discussed their conversion from Magic to MEDITECH’s Client/Server 6.0 (Focus). Doylestown uses our NetDelivery Application (they were customers in MAGIC and use it now in C/S and Focus).

The following were my observation and notes from their conversion that I thought I’d share with you:

MEDITECH currently has HIM, ED, OM, EMR, PCS and POM available in 6.0. The remainder of the conversion is to C/S 5.6.
Doylestown was 1st conversion site live with Focus, West Georgia was 1st new install.
Doylestown is 200 beds – went from 18 to 62 servers, fully redundant data sites connected via fiber.
Wayne Memorial, Beverly, and Woman’s are all conversions under way. White River is a new install under way.
Somewhere between 13 and 21 sites have signed for 6.0 at this time.
Apparently Interior health is negotiating to be beta for 6.1 conversion (add B/AR, ABS, ADM, ORM)
6.0 includes web-based PDA support (windows mobile and iPhone). (not POM, but esig and view)
Although live with some applications, ED is going live in 3rd qtr and POM in 1st qtr.
Printing (and printer) setup major setup problem (has spooler) – “all printing requires mouse click”
Mnemonics go away - they are there, but full names are displayed and primary lookups.
User and providers dictionaries merged into one dictionary
Scripting is issue – no calls to field, must move via keystrokes only. They have had some problems with scripting programs
No report writer for 6.0 at this time, but is promised by MT.
Problems with notifications – send to printer, not to device or individual.
Presenting/attending were people from MEDITECH (Ev Hazel and Lori Ebbs), several representatives from JJ/Perot (Fitz did a hardware overview), Representative from HP, Infologic (?), Consultant from Beacon.
Challenges identified: moving away from MOX (user training and what to do with files), printing, reports (NPR reports converted, but DPM’s may have changed).

Overall MEDITECH was very easy to work with and responded to their needs prior to signing and during process.

If you are converting to MEDITECH 6.0, post a comment on what you think of the new version and what your requirements are for new products and features that can support the new version. Also, if you have ideas for our existing products and their support of 6.0, let us know.

Posted on February 18th, 2009 in MEDITECH | Permalink | 7 Comments »
Tags: HCIS, hospital information system, meditech 6.0

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Trackback from Confluence: Professional Services Space
Time: February 19, 2009, 1:33 pm

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Comment from Kevin O’Reilly
Time: May 12, 2009, 1:41 pm

Any tips on moving away from MOX. How to most effectively convert documents to alternative technology

Comment from Kevin O’Reilly
Time: May 12, 2009, 1:43 pm

What tips would you have for a site wanting to move away from MOX for document storage and wishing to migrate / convert existing documents.

Comment from Arthur
Time: June 29, 2009, 7:48 pm

I did comment to you off-line. WE hope to be able to discuss option within the next couple of months.

Comment from jojo
Time: December 12, 2009, 1:47 am

I’ve also visited Doylestown and was not impressed. Meditech has touted Doylestown, but all I heard about were issues..big issues. We’re now opening up to other vendors.

Comment from Allen
Time: January 25, 2011, 2:43 pm

@Kevin O’Reilly: We moved from Magic to 6.0 in 5.10. To replace MOX we used a brand new package from Forward Advantage called Fox. Email and document storage are in separate applications. The email is dubious; I would actually suggest Mozilla Thunderbird with the calendar addin over Fox Mail. The document library is similar to MOX & actually an improvement. Interestingly, however, our users are confused over it.

–Allen

Comment from Oscar
Time: January 28, 2011, 6:05 pm

Allen,

We have a new product called MOXport that will take the MOX information and store it in a folder in so that it can be imported into Outlook. The files are stored by user name so that each user can access their information and import it into Outlook as needed. With MOXport, the users do not need to have another e-mail system in addition to Outlook which most users are already familiar with.

Contact me offline if you want more information.