The largest private healthcare network in the country will implement MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR at 18 of its medical sites.
MEDITECH and Steward Health Care System have announced an extension of its 20-year partnership and the implementation of MEDITECH’s Expanse EHR across 18 of its medical sites in Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Utah.
Steward Health Care, the largest private healthcare network in the country, extended the partnership with MEDITECH to take the next step toward its “One Platform” strategy, to bring all 35 of its hospitals under one interoperable EHR.
“We are thrilled to continue our dynamic relationship with MEDITECH, a trusted and long-time partner that has continued to innovate and evolve with us as we’ve grown nationally,” said Julie Berry, chief information officer at Steward Health Care.
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“MEDITECH’s integrated workflow tools and Revenue Cycle solutions will help Steward continue its efforts to transform care delivery and maximize operational efficiency across the organization.”
With the implementation of the Expanse EHR, the health system will now see interoperability across all facilities. This will ideally increase patient safety, improve communication, and improve patient care.
Steward Health Care Network employs roughly 42,000 health care professionals, 5,000 physicians, and cares for more than 12 million patients per year. The health system covers Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
“MEDITECH is honored to continue our collaborative partnership with Steward Health Care System. Steward’s decision to implement MEDITECH across its enterprise is a huge credit to the platform, and to the strong relationships we’ve created with our customers,” said Helen Waters, executive vice president at MEDITECH.
This is yet another example of MEDITECH’s recent surge of momentum in the health IT industry.
In 2019, the company announced EHR partnerships with several Massachusetts health systems, highlighted by Massachusetts Health Collaborative (MHC) and Berkshire Health System (BHS), along with two hospitals in Texas, and two more in Puerto Rico.
“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 Mark Snowise, MD, BHS medical director of Informatics Ambulatory Physician Practices.
This partnership was an important step forward for the Expanse product.
“It’s an exciting time at MEDITECH and we are looking forward to continuing to build on this momentum throughout 2019,” said Waters at the time of the 2019 BHS announcement. “Our recent signings clearly indicate that current and new customers are embracing Expanse as a solution to enhance the patient and clinician EHR experience.”
Although Expanse was one of the first web-based solutions and it is continuing to gain popularity, MEDITECH also recently partnered with Google Cloud to offer EHRs through the Google Cloud Platform. The two companies hope this partnership will deliver greater access to patient data, facilitate interoperability, and enhance scalability.
“This is the future of healthcare,” said MEDITECH CEO Howard Messing in October 2019.
“We’ve been retooling MEDITECH for the new healthcare paradigm, reshaping our company to meet the needs of today’s market and today’s customers,” continued Messing. “It began with Expanse, one of the first web-based solutions, released as one of the first full-scale platforms of the post-Meaningful Use era. Now, this collaboration with Google Cloud and our commitment to the public cloud further expands the productivity and agility of our customers.”
Google Cloud will provide additional options to pair with MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS) subscription model. This collaboration plans to advance cost-effective and easy implementation of innovative EHR technologies.
MaaS allows community health systems of all sizes to run on an innovative, web-based EHR. It is loaded with intuitive solutions for physicians and nurses, interoperability, patient access, revenue cycle management, and clinical decision support, the company explained in October.
Source: EHR Intelligence