Current health care information systems: Meditech

(Meditech)

                Meditech is one of the largest integrated health information systems on the market.  Meditech’s primary clients are medium sized health care organizations that need a system that is fully integrated but is flexible and affordable.  Meditech has been around for over thirty years and is in ten different countries and continues to be on the cutting edge of technology and systems integration.  The biggest customer satisfaction point is that Meditech is flexible and upgradeable.

                Flexibility is key in the world of health care information systems.  If a system is not capable or coded to perform certain functions, then being able to interface to other systems is a valuable commodity.  Meditech is one such system that may not perform every function out on the market, but often partners with systems that are can do what Meditech cannot.  One of these systems is an evidence based information system called Zynx.  Zynx is a system that can create order sets and nursing care plans and keep all of that information up to date with current medical standards and automatically import that date so it can be used in the Meditech system by clinicians (Zynx, 2010).  This flexibility to interface to smaller ancillary systems is what has made Meditech one of the better backbone systems on the market.

                Upgradeability is just as important a quality as flexibility.  A health care organization wants to be able to have a system that grows and matures as the technology in the industry does the same.  In recent years with the explosion of tablet computers and smart phones, health information management (HIM) systems have had to constantly adapt and provide access that is clinicians deemed necessary.  One such upgrade that Meditech has gone though was to the user interface (UI) with the roll out of Meditech Focus 6.0.   This upgrade made the Meditech systems much more user friendly and provided a smooth uniform transition for clinicians through the different systems in Meditech (Perot, 2009).  With emphasis on upgradeability and flexibility the Meditech system will continue to provide innovation and patient safety initiatives in a competitive health care market.

References:

Meditech. (2012). Meditech the ehr for new healthcare. Retrieved from https://www.meditech.com/home/

Perot systems corporation; doylestown hospital and perot systems successfully implement advanced MEDITECH 6.0 platform. (2009). Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, , 2967. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/207701982?accountid=32521

Zynx health; MEDITECH and zynx health team to ensure hospitals and eligible providers achieve meaningful use of EHRs. (2010). Health & Medicine Week, , 3591. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/207318311?accountid=32521