From Implementation Decisions to Billing: Learn How to Maximize MEDITECH

Get ready for the MUSE Inspire Conference. In this blog, we provide a sneak peek into three presentations that will inspire you to explore these areas of MEDITECH to fueling efficiency and more.

MUSE Inspire Conference Sneak Peek: Revolutionizing ED Care Level Billing

Are you ready to dive into a groundbreaking case study that could transform how your facility approaches Emergency Department care level billing?  

At the 2025 MUSE Inspire Conference, attend the educational session Save Time and Increase Revenue: Automate ED Care Levels led by Devon Dow, RN, BSN. Drawing from her decade-long journey in healthcare and firsthand experience of implementing MEDITECH at over 40 hospitals, Devon will share a transformative case study that could revolutionize how your facility handles Emergency Department care level billing.

Dive deep into the rebuild of automated ED billing, specifically for those transitioning to the advanced MEDITECH Expanse 2.2 platform. This session goes beyond theoretical insights by incorporating real-life methodologies, automated processes, and essential criteria for maintaining revenue stability and compliance. 

Key highlights you don’t want to miss: 

• A step-by-step approach to simplifying build criteria to ensure all charting requirements are met. 
• Leveraging nursing documentation to embed criteria seamlessly within interventions, queries, and care orders. 
• Techniques to minimize missed charges, reduce coder workload, and increase revenue consistency—all without relying on nursing charge sheets. 
• Practical auditing tools and methods for ensuring ED levels are assigned accurately using standard workflow processes 
• Insights into maintaining a consistent bell curve for acuity levels while boosting documentation compliance and accuracy. 

Whether you're a clinical analyst, nurse, or administrator looking to refine or implement automated ED care level billing, this presentation will empower you with the tools to automate billing efficiently while mitigating risks and enhancing revenue outcomes.  

MUSE Inspire Conference Sneak Peek: Choosing the Right MEDITECH Expanse Implementation Model 

At the 2025 MUSE Inspire Conference, Grace Krause will be discussing a topic that is top-of-mind for many healthcare leaders: how to choose the right MEDITECH Expanse implementation model for your organization. Whether planning a go-live or navigating the exploratory phase of shopping for a new EHR, the decision between READY and Meditech-as-a-Service (MaaS) can shape your organization’s performance, scalability, and staff and provider satisfaction for years to come. 

Here’s a sneak peek of some of the insights to come in this session: 

This implementation decision is about more than IT architecture. It’s about aligning technology strategy with organizational identity. 

Each model has its strengths—and its trade-offs. The key is understanding how the implementation model aligns with an organization's goals, resources, and future vision. The missing piece to this conversation is alignment over assumptions. Too often, implementation model decisions are made based on assumptions like: 

• “Bigger means better.” 
• “Cloud must be cheaper.” 
• “MaaS is only for rural hospitals.” 

The truth is more nuanced. During the session, dive into real-world scenarios where hospitals made model decisions that unlocked strategic value. 

The session will also explore: 

• How to assess IT maturity and match it to the right model 
• What total cost of ownership really looks like across models 
• The long-term implications of vendor-managed vs. internally managed environments 
• What governance and change management look like under each model 

The goal of this session isn’t to prescribe a “correct” answer, but to give attendees the tools to make an informed, strategic decision for their organization. Choosing an implementation model is a long-game move. And the smartest decisions are the ones aligned with your organization's culture, capabilities, and vision. 

MUSE Inspire Conference Sneak Peek: A Clinical Architect Approach to a Dynamic Revenue Optimization Story 

During the 2025 MUSE Inspire Conference, Marie Kihm, RN MBA, will be discussing a compelling story of how one small healthcare organization went from silos and assumptions to MEDITECH Expanse best practice workflows and integration. Hear how the clinical it architect and consulting team implemented optimizations based on multiple hospital findings and helped the facility address patient care and revenue issues. 

This case study style session will explore the issues, strategies, assessment findings, and architect’s approach that led to notable documented successes and big returns on investment.  

Marie will review the approach you can use to assess your health system’s current workflows, the people aspects and not so unique situations, build statuses, and plans for best practice future state optimizations.  

Come hear the story and explore key points in the journey: 

• Their history of previous adventures and assumptions for pursuing optimizations 
• Using the vital assessment tools and review of findings, rankings and prioritizations 
• Communication struggles and the people aspects we encountered along the way 
• Insights into MEDITECH module usage and integrations review since their original implementation 
• Finding that rhythm and secret sauce to become well-oiled teams and departments 
• Reviewing the return on investment when the revenue comes in 
• How we monitored and shifted based on maturing aspects of the organization 
• Establishing effective monitoring and communication as optimizations went live 

Get a glimpse into where one health system was heading, what their coding, billing and revenue statuses looked like, addressing who was lacking necessary accountability and workflows, and how maturity and focus helped bring about significant change moving forward.  

Does it feel like your organization’s progress with your MEDITECH EHR has stalled? Need a fresh review of your EHR usage or help with optimization plans? Finding it difficult to use best practice methodologies or be regulatory compliant? Connect with us.  

It’s always a good time to review and discover where your organization compares to this success story, and how to move forward to improve team collaboration, system usage, and revenue outcomes.  

See what else our team will be up to at MUSE Inspire 2025 and visit us at booth #420.