Q: Where would pharmacy staff create a new RXM access group?
A: Pharmacy staff can create a new RXM access group by copying a current access group and edit via the RXM ACCESS GROUP Dicationary
If pharmacy staff wanted to edit a RXM group (i.e. Nursing) to default lookup by “generic,” where would that edit be made?
The [...]

Q: How can my organization determine the most important factors that will lead to our project’s success?
A: There are many reasons why organizations take on new projects. Maybe the project is undertaken to meet a strategic goal, due to legislative changes, to meet a specific business need, or to improve or [...]

Q: Nursing Charges: Many of our nursing charges, such as PICC line, transfusion or Telemetry are currently on paper. Is it possible to handle these items electronically within MEDITECH?
A: One of the easiest ways to automate this type of charging is to build it into the Nursing Interventions as part of a CDS. [...]

Q: Can Patient Financial Services’ collection agency comments be streamlined to eliminate human intervention when posting to patient’s accounts?
A: MEDITECH can streamline posting collection agencies’ patient accounting comments with the setup of MIS inbox/outbox interfacing. Obtain specifications per MEDITECH’s requirements, and work diligently with collection agency to setup and streamline interfacing process. Once [...]

Q: How do we implement centralized scheduling?
A: One of the first decisions to make is: Will all departmental schedulers move into a central location? While for some facilities, this is an option, typically, space constraints prevent this. If the schedulers will stay in their home department, then they must all be utilizing [...]

Q: Why would my organization need to perform a
readiness assessment?
A: A structured readiness assessment before you implement your new Healthcare Information System (HIS) can make the difference between a successful implementation and a barely adequate one. The assessment will define your processes and procedures within your clinical and financial areas that will be [...]

Experience has shown that there are significant opportunities to improve financial performance throughout a healthcare organization’s operation. Not only are hospitals dealing with a variety of issues that can influence patient care, but also they are dealing with circumstances that can limit or lessen capital spending and halt revenue growth. It is extremely [...]

Does your facility have too many unused reports, report fragments and incomplete reports in your TEST system? Have you examined and compared reports written in test to your LIVE environment? Many facilities have not reviewed their NPR to determine if the junk in the test system has been cleaned out. MEDITECH systems [...]

Is your IT Help Desk a valued resource that maximizes the significance of your organization’s IT assets? Your Help Desk is an integral part of the IT Operation. It provides information and assistance to users throughout the organization as well as troubleshooting PC and Healthcare Information Systems issues.
A Help Desk has many responsibilities. [...]

The MEDITECH system is completely integrated; changes within one module can have an adverse affect in another module. When making a change within the MEDITECH modules it is important to understand both the short- and long-term effects that can result. Authorization should be required from all departments, even if the change needed does [...]