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
Meditech Makes Meaningful Use More Masochistic
If we’re being honest, and I know we all are because this is the internet, we all have come to terms with the fact that Meaningful Use is one big heavy sigh of frustration. Healthcare organizations are spending significantly more dollars than what the incentive amounts to and the only silver lining is that the … Continue reading
The 2014 KLAS Rankings Are In And Meditech Is…
The 2014 KLAS rankings are in and whether you put much stock in them or not, it seems to be the only measure people use when slicing out which EHR is better or worse than another. While Epic, Cerner, and Athenahealth all predictably have multiple mentions for various categories, Meditech did snag one spot on … Continue reading
An Open Letter To All Meditech NPR Consultants
Dearest Meditech NPR Consultants, Whether you come from the halls of consulting firms or Meditech interface vendors, you are my colleagues, my comrades. It is without question that you undertake some of the most grueling and unappreciated work in all of the Meditech consulting world. You have been given the most limited toolset and yet … 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
The End of Meditech?
Meditech has not been faring well in the news as of late. One of its larger clients that make up a good portion of Meditech’s HIMSS Stage 7 clients just announced they will be moving to Epic. LSS Data Systems, still fresh off its full acquisition by Meditech has been targeted in an inaccurate financial … 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
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
Calling All Meditech/LSS Resources
Are you an independent consultant specializing in the Medical and Practice Management Suite applications developed by LSS Data Systems and Meditech? Do you have the knowledge/skills and are thinking about getting into consulting? Please contact me. Drop me your digits. Send me your resume. Let me know how to get in contact with you. Why? … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 