MEDITECH Expands EHR Subscription Offering Beyond Critical Access Hospitals

EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced MaaS (MEDITECH as a Service) is now available to community health systems. Offered initially to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), larger community health systems now have the opportunity to utilize MaaS and the many benefits that come with a cost-effective subscription to MEDITECH Expanse.

Meditech MaaS Subscription Overview

MaaS is a cloud-based EHR subscription that provides health systems with full access to Expanse, MEDITECH’s web-based platform. Specifically designed to reduce the complexity and cost of procuring, hosting, and maintaining a cutting-edge EHR system while improving efficiency and ensuring quality patient care, MaaS is an attractive option for organizations facing the many challenges within the current healthcare landscape.

MaaS Benefits for Providers

One of the most notable aspects of MaaS is a streamlined implementation. Using best practices, community health systems will be able to go LIVE with Expanse in an expedited time frame. MEDITECH’s hands-on approach accelerates end-user training and optimizes the software build phase, while a remotely-hosted data center significantly decreases any strain on the organization’s technical resources.

MaaS provides community health systems with an opportunity to strike the right balance between autonomy and maintainability. Expanse’s interoperability reduces the complexity of exchanging data with other systems and offers organizations more control than other hosted vendors. With MEDITECH maintaining the software and experienced cloud operations staff overseeing the data center, organizations can focus on caring for their community.

Montgomery General Hospital, a 25 bed, critical access facility, providing care to over 1,000 inpatients, 40,000 outpatients, and over 10,000 emergencies was the first CAH to implement MEDITECH’s MaaS model in late 2018.

“MaaS represents a meaningful step in driving EHR access and adoption for organizations of all sizes,” says Helen Waters, Executive Vice President at MEDITECH. “The cloud-based EHR subscription service equips organizations with the technology needed to improve organizational efficiency and ensure quality patient care.”