This article and video interview were originally published on Healthcare IT Today “EMR Optimization is a Continuous Process”. North Country HealthCare is a highly rated clinical provider running...
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This article and video interview were originally published on Healthcare IT Today “EMR Optimization is a Continuous Process”.
Nurses have been the largest users of electronic health records for years and they are no strangers to system upgrades. When a nurse hears about a new upgrade coming many questions come up like: What...
Congratulations – if you’re considering EHR optimization, that likely means you have a recent go-live behind you and now you’re looking forward to what’s next. Modern EHRs are significant investments...
Every hospital EHR implementation has different requirements and considerations due to the uniqueness of the hospital services. Through implementing MEDITECH Expanse in over 40 hospitals, I have...
Article originally published onChief Healthcare Executive.
In the latest episode of our podcast, we talk with Lynn Falcone, the CEO of Cuero Health in Texas. She talks about moving to a new...
A Growth-Focused Managed Services IT Partnership
Helping healthcare providers find ways to use the EHR in the most effective, efficient manner not only helps providers and clinical teams feel less frustrated by the technology, but patients...
Article originally published on Digital Health Insights.
Despite the fact that nearly every hospital in the United States has an electronic health record (EHR) in place, the market for these systems...
Looking for a way to improve patient monitoring and outcomes with MEDITECH?
You came to the right place! Surveillance watchlists are an amazing, completely customizable tool that displays a list of...
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, efficiency is paramount. From patient care to administrative tasks, every aspect of the healthcare system benefits from streamlined processes. One critical area...
Participating in this MEDITECH certification program seeks to enhance the value of EHR platforms for healthcare organizations
CereCore provides comprehensive MEDITECH services that address all stages...
Large implementations can be overwhelming, and often organizations run out of steam. Modern EHR platforms are like living, breathing entities that require care and feeding to keep an organization...
Ismelda Garza, CIO for Cuero Regional Hospital, is a rural health IT leader with sage advice for hospitals and health systems preparing for or in the middle of an EHR replacement. In this interview...
Years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as consulting informatics pharmacist during multi-facility MEDITECH implementations, and ever since then I have been helping clinical teams navigate EHR...
Often healthcare IT leaders and teams find a chasm in expectations and understanding when it comes to implementing and optimizing technology for the physician community. In an interview on The...
Traditionally, a Hospital Information System (HIS) is geared toward creating a patient medical record, placing orders for patient care, and ultimately, capturing revenue to support coding and...
This Week in Pharmacy (#TWIRx) podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network featured Dr. Charles Bell and Andrea Corner, PharmD in a conversation about the collaboration needed among pharmacists and...
Meet Lynn Falcone, a rural healthcare CEO, with over 30 years of experience in healthcare operations, most of which was spent working in large urban settings. Today, she is the CEO of Cuero Regional...
The need to optimize is part of the EMR implementation process explains Cory Lane, director of operations at OakLeaf Surgical Hospital during a podcast interview with Phil Sobol, vice president of...
Sometimes you hear the word change and you’re not quite sure if that’s a good thing or not. MEDITECH Expanse Pharmacy introduces some changes that will alter how you implement or maintain the system,...
One could say that maintaining and preventing revenue leaks within a health system’s EHR is a similar exercise to preparing to sail.
My beloved sailboat is 43 years old now. You can imagine how a...
Matt Connor is the chief information officer (CIO) for Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, and they were the first NHS organisation in the UK to go-live on MEDITECH Expanse. Matt joined our...
CIOs report alternative staffing models such as contracting with a partner for partial IT outsourcing and hiring contractors for a specific, short-term project are among the best ideas for addressing...
OakLeaf Surgery Hospital Moves to MEDITECH Expanse
The Client
Surgery Partners is a leading operator of surgical hospitals and ancillary services with more than 180 locations nationwide. They have...
Automation tools are a must-have when it comes to implementing MEDITECH Expanse today. Recently, our team of automation developers and MEDITECH consultants worked with experts from a large health...
Anne Hargrave-Thomas, CEO of OakLeaf Surgical Hospital and vice president of operations at Surgery Partners, sees technology as a must-have for healthcare operations. A former nurse turned healthcare...
LONDON, Aug. 1, 2023 -- CereCore International today announced the company is a certified hardware integrator for MEDITECH in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is providing end-to-end healthcare IT...
The MEDITECH Rules Engine is one of the most powerful, underutilized, and misunderstood tools in your EMR. You can use rules to pull forward discrete data elements, reduce documentation redundancy,...
Liverpool Women's has become the first NHS Foundation Trust to go-live on MEDITECH Expanse, and CereCore International provided expertise during the planning stages, go-live support, and optimisation.
Samantha McInnis is a manager and consultant for MEDITECH professional services at CereCore where she advises and collaborates with care locations on their EHR projects which includes anything from a...
For the past 40 years, MEDITECH Magic has been a stable, cost-effective electronic health record solution for healthcare organizations. But, Magic is an aging technology that eventually will...
American Hospital Association reports showed hospitals and health systems will continue to operate under resource and economic pressures in 2023.
Healthcare NOW Radio recorded educational response...
A MEDITECH Staffing Story
Facility and Technology Renovation: Implementing at a Like New HospitalA Multi-Disciplinary MEDITECH Transformation
The Client
Texas’ second largest private employer, a...
Step into the shoes of L. Austin Fredrickson, MD, an internal medicine physician at Salem Regional Medical Center whose outpatient practice recently navigated an EMR transition to MEDITECH Expanse.
Automation in healthcare IT has taken processes and workflows in financial departments by storm and it continues to be an operational area ripe with opportunity. When I began my healthcare career as...
One of the first steps Memorial Healthcare in Owosso, MI took when they were deciding to unify their EHR with MEDITECH Expanse was to closely examine integrations, workflows, and day-to-day...
After wrapping up a recent MEDITECH Expanse project in which our team used automation tools and processes, we did some analysis on the overall cost savings —we saved the healthcare organization over...
EHR implementations are a huge investment. And for many healthcare IT teams, this type of project may be a once in a career type of experience. I have spent more than 30 years of my career helping...
Let’s face it, large scale EHR projects are resource intensive events. If properly staffed and planned, they reach deep into operational and IT areas for talent. Successfully structured projects...
When was the last time your facility reviewed the MEDITECH procedure build? Has it been since the original implementation or build? Is your operational philosophy, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,"...
We have definitely become a society that loves to have the latest and greatest. I can remember the Christmas my grandparents got us the newest video game — Atari. My brother, sisters and I would play...
Assuring that the correct provider charges are billed can be extremely challenging - despite last year’s updates to the Evaluation and Management coding criteria. Recent studies indicate that the...
MEDITECH Expanse gives sites the ability to take advantage of the new updated version of the Oncology application. This essentially new version further integrates the application with MEDITECH’s...
MEDITECH Expanse is packed with functionality to help your hospital improve its efficiency. You have likely heard that Expanse has new, improved features. Let’s explore several Expanse features that...
MEDITECH’s Expanse Ambulatory platform provides an opportunity for healthcare organizations to unite their ambulatory practices and the acute care system within a single electronic health record....
Making sure the right clinical staff receive test results on time, documenting medication information, taking advantage of alerts and alarms – here are just a few examples of communications...
Are you maximizing the arsenal of tools in the Patient Accounting Desktop (PAD) in MEDITECH Expanse? Does your staff print lists and follow up with aged accounts from hard copy reports? Are you...
“Spring Cleaning”— some of us love it, some of us hate it, but we all know that periodically taking the time to clean will benefit you and those around you in the future. The same applies to your...
CereCore continues its long-standing history as a MEDITECH READY-Certified implementation and 5-star hosting partner, a designation the company has held since January 2015 during the early days of...
Looking to streamline healthcare IT operations or costs? Need tried and true tactics to save time for clinicians and IT teams? As you develop strategic plans to support patient engagement, improve...
MEDITECH Expanse is the most recent version of the MEDITECH electronic health record system. The path to MEDITECH Expanse is a significant transition. So where should you begin? Let’s dive into...
CereCore is proud to be recognized by Securance Consulting as a Best Practice MEDITECH Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider for more than five years running.
MEDITECH Expanse is the current and most recent version of the MEDITECH electronic health record(EHR) or health information system (HIS). By far the most advanced,comprehensive suite of integrated...
Many health systems have one main EMR used as the source of truth for patient data. However, in today’s merger and acquisition environment, organizations must be prepared to combine data from...
Is your facility having issues pulling registration data from MEDITECH Expanse? Are registrars entering data incorrectly and you need more insight into the errors? Are bills being delayed,...
Tom Kurtz, Vice President of Information Services & CIO of Memorial Healthcare, sat down for a recent interview with Healthcare Innovation Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland to share his perspective on...
Microsoft’s PowerBI is quickly becoming a solution of choice for healthcare organizations to gain better insights into their data and a cost-effective alternative to 3rd party reporting platforms....
Innovative Partnership Paves The Way For A Singular, Modern MEDITECH Platform
Independent Health System Fuels Growth and Quality with MEDITECH Expanse
Memorial Healthcare moves from their aging Magic EHR and Allscripts Ambulatory systems to leverage a unified Expanse solution...
Swift MEDITECH Conversion Meets Meaningful Use Requirements, Adds New Functionality
The Patient and Consumer Health Portal (aka The Patient Portal, for short) is used in many MEDITECH facilities and was an important part of meeting MU Stage 2 and 3 (now Promoting Interoperability...
To respond to a fast-changing healthcare environment, MEDITECH Expanse updates are published quarterly. While some updates address necessary regulatory changes, others offer new and enhanced...
Originally published on 9/8/2020 on MEDITECH.
Addressing Compliance And Quality Measures As A Smaller Health System
The Client
There are distinct advantages to adding affiliated or independent clinics to your existing Ambulatory EHR solution. The provider can utilize the full functionality of the Ambulatory EHR system, with...
While coronavirus waivers include some exceptions around promoting interoperability, no changes have been announced to date for the Appropriate Use Criteria requirement. The January 2021 deadline...
MIS Provider build and maintenance can be an intimidating task without the knowledge of certain access settings and controls with MEDITECH Expanse. Because we’ve done this for multiple clients, we...
Continuing our conversation on what to consider when upgrading your MEDITECH 6.1x platform to Expanse, there are multiple enhancements across the product suite that you can leverage to make the most...
Recently, MEDITECH has been encouraging organizations on the 6.1x platform to consider upgrading to the Expanse platform. Reason being is there are multiple enhancements across the product suite that...
Supply chain plays an integral role in hospital operations. Since its impact spans the organization, it is important to take the time to identify current challenges and potential changes. We have...
Timely, consistent, and accurate charge reconciliation is an important process within a healthcare organization’s revenue cycle function. Charge reconciliation involves multiple steps across various...
MEDITECH is offering a variety of tools in their 6.1 platform that enable hospital administration to be more efficient with their time and information. Among those tools is the Scheduling module...
A significant amount of work and investment on behalf of providers has gone into attesting to the various stages of meaningful use over the past few years. The hope is to achieve better clinical...
