Debbie, there are two great presentations on this topic at the 2007 International MUSE Conference - both sites are on your side of the continent (see below).
Alan Sherbinin MUSE Executive Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] 877-491-4703 Our MEDITECH Scanning & Archiving Implementation Presenter: Jennifer Mulholland Organization: Exeter Hospital, Exeter, New Hampshire Abstract: This session will cover our implementation of MEDITECH's Scanning & Archiving module. Each level of the project including hardware purchases (background job client, servers, image storage) will be reviewed. The scanners and user training will be discussed. Learn about our decision on where to begin scanning in the first phase of the implementation and where we are heading in future phases. Jennifer has more than ten years of MEDITECH experience, including Admissions, Medical Records, Abstracting, Community Wide Scheduling, and Imaging & Therapeutic Services applications. In her current role, she provides support for the MEDITECH ITS module, the hospital's PACS system and was most recently the Project Leader for the MEDITECH Scanning & Archiving implementation. Voyage to the Electronic Health Record - 10,000 Easy Steps Presenters: Rosemary Mulock and Alma Boyd Organization: Humber River Regional Hospital, Weston, Ontario Abstract: With the government approval to build a new facility, a new vision was advanced by the President and CEO of Humber River Regional Hospital (HRRH) relative to advancing technology. Given this mandate, we had to implement options that would take the existing patient record from a hybrid of paper and electronic documentation to a fully automated health record. The organization is a MEDITECH facility. The natural course was to determine what was available through MEDITECH to advance the vision. MEDITECH offered a suite of options. However, organizational imperatives dictated that we could not wait to do the due diligence of investigating individual modules nor look at other vendor solutions to start the long evaluative process; we had to start to move now. Once the decision was made to support an interim step, we purchased the MEDITECH Scanning and Archiving Module. This module, although new to the industry, would enable us to enhance the existing electronic data available in MEDITECH by scanning external paper documents. Thus began the journey and the first of the 10,000 easy steps! Our second step was very memorable - we undertook a massive forms review process across three sites within a six week period. This initiative provided us with the means of creating an electronic facility-wide inventory of forms (clinical and corporate) which is the backbone to implementation of an electronic health record. Tools created from this exercise were used to support the MEDITECH system requirements to launch the Scanning and Archiving module. Early in the process a decision was made to introduce bar coding technology. This decision and recommendations from the Forms Committee regarding standards and best practices resulted in a re-design of most of the 4,000+ forms. Our MEDITECH Information System Analyst lead the team in building the multiple tables and dictionaries required to implement the application ensuring the net result was an electronic record which met the access needs of all stakeholders and provided a legal electronic health record. Many steps later we redesigned workflows, job descriptions, training manuals and offered one-on-one training to staff in their newly designed workstations in Health Records. Additionally, communication plans and training sessions were provided to all hospital staff and physicians. It has been a few months since we went live and the lessons, tears and smiles will be described in this presentation. Alma Boyd, CCHRA (C) is a certified Health Information Manager with over 25 years of experience in health care. In addition, she has worked with the private sector and governments in the development of information systems, utilization reviews, data analysis, risk management, policy development and many other initiatives. She is currently the Director, Health Information Services which includes Clinical Data Collection, Health Records, Medical Word Processing and Patient Registration and Data Quality. Rosemary Mulock, CCHRA (C) is a certified Health Information Manager with over 25 years of experience in health care. She provided data analysis, computer programming services and in recent years has obtained an expertise in computerized health information. Additionally, she teaches health information management at a community college. She is currently the Information System Analyst supporting numerous MEDITECH and non-MEDITECH applications. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burke, Debbie Sent: March 30, 2007 5:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] MAGIC site - Meditech's Scanning and Archiving product Good morning We are (currently) a MAGIC 5.4 site, though we are scheduled to be live with 5.61 PP5 by the end of May, located in Cambridge, MA. We are also scheduled to implement Meditech's Scanning and Archiving product later this year. We are looking for someone in our area who is Live (or very close to Live) with Meditech's Scanning and Archive application, who would be willing to have some discussion and allow us to do a site visit. We are interested in the actual reality of hardware needs, implementation timeline, etc. Thank you in advance Debbie Youville Hospital System Support Analyst Direct: ext 5312 =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the MTUsers WikiPedia at MTUsers.NET/mwiki ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the MTUsers WikiPedia at MTUsers.NET/mwiki ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
