What You Should Know: - Fraser Health Authority, a healthcare organization in Canada, is set to become one of the first health systems worldwide to deploy generative AI for clinical documentation. - This innovative initiative utilizes Google Cloud's Vertex AI and large language models (LLMs) to automatically generate initial drafts of hospital course narratives at the time of discharge, significantly reducing the time burden on clinicians and improving the efficiency of discharge
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MEDITECH Expands Generative AI to Users with Suki Integration
What You Should Know: Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, and MEDITECH, a leading electronic health record vendor, announced today a partnership to bring the power of Suki’s ambient listening and generative AI to MEDITECH users.Suki will integrate its flagship product, Suki Assistant, into MEDITECH Expanse, the industry's first EHR designed for the native web. Suki Assistant combines ambient note generation along with dictation and commands in one
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Luma Health Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR
What You Should Know: Luma Health unveiled its integration and partnership with one of the healthcare industry’s top electronic health record providers, MEDITECH, which brings powerful new capabilities to the thousands of healthcare providers that use the MEDITECH Expanse EHR. As an initial member of the MEDITECH Alliance program and currently the only patient-facing vendor included in the program, Luma collaborated with MEDITECH to validate the integration of its Patient Success Platform™
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Tegria Acquires Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions
What You Should Know: Tegria, a leading healthcare consulting and technology services company, announced the acquisition of Sisu HealthcareIT Solutions, a highly regarded MEDITECH-certified hosting and services firm headquartered near Duluth, Minn. With the addition of Sisu’s team of experts, Tegria deepens its established hosting, technical solutions and managed services offerings to support MEDITECH clients. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Rimidi Announces Integration with MEDITECH Greenfield
What You Should Know: Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, today announced the company is now integrated with MEDITECH Greenfield.MEDITECH customers will now able to utilize Rimidi’s cloud-based software platform within their existing workflow, further enhancing efforts to support efficient models of care for chronic disease management through Fast Healthcare Interoperability
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KLAS: Ambulatory and Enterprise EMR Interoperability 2023
What You Should Know: Interoperability is a continued area of critical focus for the healthcare industry, according to a new report by KLAS.For its latest report, KLAS talked to vendor-identified deep adopters to take a holistic look at the current state of interoperability in ambulatory and enterprise EMRs and measure how close we are to an ideal state. The results reveal each vendor’s strengths and weaknesses within various areas of interoperability. Exploring Ambulatory and
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MEDITECH Taps IHM as Data Ally to Advance Health Equity
What You Should Know: - MEDITECH today announced they have recognized the Institute for Health Metrics (IHM) as their data collaborator to support and accelerate health equity at hospitals across the country. - Member hospitals will benefit from cleansed clinical data and data enhancement, including Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data, and receive curated information and insight, as well as grant funding for health equity initiatives.
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
What You Should Know: - Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST. - While many vendors offer viable clinical systems, there are significant differences across the customer experience with patient accounting that should not be overlooked
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Major Health Partners Reduces Home Medication Reconciliation Time by 30%
What You Should Know: Major Health Partners (Shelbyville, IN) announced that technicians saved on average three minutes of time per patient and realized a 30% improvement in the average time for overall home medication verification leveraging MEDITECH’s Expanse Patient Care solution. The solution was rolled out facility-wide, including in the ED, where medication reconciliation technicians saw immediate results. MHP has been able to build on this success by adopting the Expanse Patient
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CARE4 Project Delivers Single Patient Portal with MEDITECH Expanse
What You Should Know: - MEDITECH today announced the CARE4 project has delivered a single patient portal across acute and ambulatory settings with MEDITECH Expanse.- Since becoming the first Canadian MEDITECH customers to go LIVE with Expanse Ambulatory, the partnership’s goal has been to ensure that all patients associated with their facilities can easily see and manage their health information from a single place. And six months after implementing the portal, partner hospitals –
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