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Over the last year and a half, many of you have followed our journey from Magic to 6.x with all its challenges and nuances. It has been a daunting experience and not without its frustrations. If hindsight is 20-20, then hopefully our experiences have helped you. In this article, I will attempt to summarize where […]
Well, we went live on CPOE on May 15. This was not a big bang but rather a trickle, starting with the hospitalists who volunteered to act as provider champions and were willing to work through the bugs and growing pains with us. It is now three weeks later and we are still with the […]
Many healthcare CIOs have argued for ages that Meditech’s large market-share has caused them to be a bit less than responsive to customer needs and somewhat rigid in their delivery of service, along with being more focused on their internal business drivers than their customer’s desires. I must admit to having been one of those […]
So it has been 8 weeks since our go-live. It is always interesting for me to note the things that start to creep up post go-live that could, and should, have been caught during the pre-go-live build. The following is our experience, and will hopefully help you identify processes or items to address in your […]
Spending New Year’s Eve supporting a Meditech go-live is not exactly how most people define fun, but it is how many at our hospital spent transitioning from 2011 to 2012. I heard someone state, “Wow, this go-live is just like Y2K; a non-event.” What most CIOs will tell you is that the main reason Y2K […]
“4 days to go live” — those words can instill fear into even the most seasoned CIO if the comfort level that everything is ready to go is not there. Luckily for me, I have a great team and, while there are still minor concerns, we are where we need to be for a successful […]
When I worked for the military we used to say that we train today so we don’t bleed tomorrow. The same is true in our journey to a Meditech 6.x go-live. Over the past months, I have written 14 articles about our journey to Meditech 6.x. Much of the material has focused on our experiences […]
As summer moves into fall, we progress from dictionary build to a greater testing focus. For 6.06 Service Release 1 (SR1), which Meditech loaded for us, there are over 8008 Meditech Development Tracking System test scenarios that need to be addressed. Many of these may not apply to your environment, as they may be Canadian […]
On Aug. 23 we received our Meditech 6.06 upgrade. The decision to do the upgrade was not an easy one, as the fact that Meditech stated it would require an additional 10 weeks of testing pushed our go live from Oct. 1 of this year to Jan. 1 of next. (but I will discuss that […]
As we get closer to the planned dual processing testing (scheduled for August), there seems to be no rest for the weary. As you can imagine, we find ourselves busier than ever and discovering minor challenges that need to be overcome. Add to this the implementation of ancillary systems and continued rollout of eCW (Boy, […]
