Breaking Up With Meditech
“It’s not you, Meditech, it’s me.” The words almost catch in your throat as you tentatively reach across the table, taking their hand in yours for what you know will be the last time. Your eyes search theirs for any signals of emotion, any glimmer into how they are taking the news, but they seem … Continue reading
Healthcare Isn’t Being Disrupted…Yet.
[dis-ruhpt] verb: 1. To cause disorder or turmoil in. 2. To destroy, usually temporarily, the normal continuance or unity of; to interrupt. 3. To break apart. I know a lot of us in the Healthcare IT industry are used to filtering out buzzwords to evaluate whether something actually has value or not. Take this buzzword heavy … Continue reading
Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Meditech, Take 2: Dealing with SQL.
How many of you have already achieved Stage 2 for Meaningful Use? Still working on it, huh? Shooting for 3rd or 4th quarter? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. Most sites I’ve talked to are relying on Iatric, Acmeware, and Medisolv to take care of all of the Meaningful Use reporting for them. That’s a shame really, … Continue reading
Achieving Meaningful Use Stage 2 With Meditech and LSS
Remember all that hard work you had to do in building those Clinical Reports for the Clinical Quality Measures in Stage 1? Yeah, you can throw all that work out the window. New for Stage 2 MU, Meditech and LSS have agreed that the “Best Practice” for sifting through all the data to report on the … Continue reading
Meditech Customers, Restart Your Servers
Recently, I was reading an article about how sleep may have similar effects on our brains as a restart does for a computer. In a sense, it cleans out the cache of junk that builds up throughout the day. If the theory holds true, it could explain why we can think more clearly after a … Continue reading
Conducting Time Studies In Physician Practices
A few weeks back I was listening in on a conversation that an EHR implementation team was having. They wanted to figure out what tasks or parts of the EHR a nurse was using throughout the day that were causing hangups for her. I promptly stepped in. Time Study! A time study is a log … Continue reading
Improving the LSS Data System Upgrade Experience
A couple weeks ago one of my clients upgraded their LSS Data Systems software from 6.07 to 6.08. I am happy to report that on Go Live day the code move went faster than expected (although the Meditech side of things had some hiccups which caused delay) and the issues resulting once users were back … Continue reading
Bidding The Hierarchical Database Adieu
Jeff Atwood over at the Stack Exchange recently posted his thoughts on the differences between Flat or Threaded style web discussion forums. To save you the trouble of clicking, a flat discussion thread would be one where the comments are linear, a threaded style would be where they are nested, or hierarchical. How is this … Continue reading
Achieving Meaningful Use With LSS and MEDITECH
A long while back I reported about how to potentially get all of the Meaningful Use objectives out of LSS before Stage 1 was final and before LSS had even taken its first stab at helping their customers out. Now that the criteria is set for Stage 1 and Stage 2, and LSS has come up with … Continue reading
Service Woes of EHR Vendors
One of my clients had their service representative notify them that they were leaving the company on Monday. Her last day would be that same day. Then she laughed maniacally. OK, she didn’t do the laugh, but there were some nervous giggles. Given the abruptness though, her supervisor was contacted, apologies were issues, and … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 