Massachusetts-based Lawrence General Hospital recently launched MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR system as part of an effort to improve clinical decision-making for providers and boost health data access.
MEDITECH currently dominates 60 percent of the acute care marketshare in Massachusetts. With this newest contract win, the health IT vendor furthers its reach in the state.
Lawrence General is also the first hospital in the state to go live with the health IT company’s Expanse point of care, ambulatory, emergency department, acute, and prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) integration.
“Partnering with Lawrence General is particularly meaningful, as we are helping our neighbor to achieve their goal of having a fully-integrated EHR across all care settings,” said Helen Waters, executive vice president of MEDITECH.
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“Expanse enables Lawrence General to streamline clinicians’ workflow and supports the provision of high-quality, personalized patient care,” Waters added.
Representatives from MEDITECH collaborated with Lawrence General physicians and staff throughout the implementation process and provided on-site consultation to ensure a smooth, seamless system launch.
“We are pleased to have this fully-integrated electronic health record supporting high quality care at Lawrence General,” said Lawrence General CFO Felix Mercado. “This go-live is the culmination of more than two years of planning, intensive education and testing prior to the actual conversion.”
“The successful launch is due to this highly collaborative planning process and strong technical support for our care teams provided by our Information Systems team and our vendor partners,” Mercado continued.
Lawrence General is a private, non-profit community hospital serving patients throughout the Merrimack Valley and southern New Hampshire. Clinicians at Lawrence General maintain a focus on patient-centered, compassionate, high-quality healthcare.
The community hospital serves almost 325,000 patients per year.
Other healthcare organizations throughout Massachusetts including Signature Healthcare, Berkshire Health System (BHS), the Massachusetts Health Collaborative (MHC), Harrington Healthcare, Holyoke Medical Center, and Heywood Healthcare have made the decision to switch the MEDITECH’s web-based EHR system in the past year.
BHS chose MEDITECH in December 2018 after a thorough EHR selection process and implemented the solution across its 225 physician practices. BHS is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization that has been part of the MEDITECH network since 2000.
“Having an EHR with the flexibility for our on-call physicians to easily access patient records from a variety of mobile and web-based platforms is vital to advancing BHS operational efficiencies,” said Medical Director of Informatics at BHS ambulatory physician practices Mark Snowise, MD.
MHC signed with MEDITECH in March 2019 to improve care coordination and enable better-informed clinical decision-making for its consortium of community hospitals.
“It’s an exciting time at MEDITECH and we are looking forward to continuing to build on this momentum throughout 2019,” said Waters. “Our recent signings clearly indicate that current and new customers are embracing Expanse as a solution to enhance the patient and clinician EHR experience.”
Outside Massachusetts, MEDITECH helped to connect Vermont’s Northwestern Medical Center to CommonWell interoperability services and signed an agreement with West Virginia’s Williamson Memorial to implement MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS).
“Williamson Memorial Hospital decided to partner with MEDITECH and use MaaS because it allows all of our hospital portals and systems to be stored in one central location,” said West Virginia Williamson Memorial CEO Charlie Hatfield.
“Every department at Williamson Memorial will have access to each patient and be able to look up the necessary files in any situation. With MaaS being operated by MEDITECH, it will take much of the stress off of our IT Department,” he added.
Date: July 15, 2019
Source: EHR Intelligence