About 3 years ago we determined that we needed/wanted a system to provide workflow for our patient access areas. We discussed with Iatric and with the support of the strategic team agreed to have Iatric (Frank Fortner & Ed Bishop) come on site to review the specifications with us and design the best system we could. Iatric has made it available as a product (Visual Smart Board) and has done a lot of upgrades, not necessarily based on feedback from us, to the initial request. I would definitely enlist them in any thoughts that I had related to customizations. They have provided additional attribute customizations that are quite sophisticated for us too. They fully understand boundaries in Meditech that would prohibit you from utilizing maintenance/service contracts from Meditech (you need to be careful about touching Meditech's code so that you don't void those agreements with Meditech).
Recently, we started a website/portal strategy and have enlisted Iatric to do the interfacing utilizing Medseek (a website company) as our website front end tool. The most valuable lesson I learned from Medseek was writing what they call Use Cases (this is usually 3 Visio diagrams - functional user diagram (what the user expects to do and see), interface diagram, systems diagram (activity within the system that needs to occur) in addition to a minimum of a 4 page document that identifies in words what you expect to happen, your assumptions, any pre or post conditions and lastly actual screen mock-ups). Getting this defined and articulated to the end user/sponsor of the project has been invaluable, Medseek requires sign-off of the use case. I do want to say though, that there are quite a few terrific vendors out there, I would also trust X-O consulting to name another. I personally do not have much experience with other Meditech friendly vendors that provide customizations, but I rate Iatric as top notch! That's my plug for vendors. WOW, three in one email (a personal best), you'd think I work for all of them, which I don't! Iatric Website www.iatricsys.com <http://www.iatricsys.com/> X-O Consulting Website www.xo-consulting.com <http://www.xo-consulting.com/> Medseek Website www.medseek.com <http://www.medseek.com/> Good Luck! Dee Ramirez Systems Analyst Delnor Community Hospital (630)208-4251 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Meditech Programming Consultants Our CFO has asked us to post this: Could you please go out on your listserve of Meditech users & ask them the following question. "I have heard about consulting firms comprised of ex-Meditech folks who specialize in performing programming work that Meditech itself has refused to do for a client. Does anyone on the listserve engage a firm of this type...if so, 1) has this worked successfully for you; and 2) could you please provide me with contact information?" Francisco "Frank" Amor Financial Systems Coordinator, MIS Southwest Medical Center PO Box 1340 Liberal, KS 67905 (620) 629-6377 - Office (620) 629-6352 - Fax
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