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“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 […]
After years of anticipation at the coming of Version 6.0, some Meditech clients are canceling go lives mid-implementation and trialing competing products, according to a new report from KLAS — MEDITECH V.6 2011: Expectations Meet Reality. Though Meditech v.6 is live at over 50 sites with another 150 contracted, the report points to a “premature […]
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 […]
