At Harmony Healthcare IT, we work with hospitals across every EHR platform — Epic, Oracle (Cerner), MEDITECH, and more — helping them successfully migrate and archive their data. Since each platform is different, we’re deeply familiar with the nuances and complexities associated with each one.
Through this cross-platform experience, we’ve learned that while all EHR systems present data challenges, MEDITECH requires a particularly specialized approach. That’s one of many reasons we recently brought Blue Elm into the Harmony Healthcare IT family. The industry’s leading provider of MEDITECH data solutions, Blue Elm helps streamline MEDITECH data conversions, enhance data integrity, and support real-time data access.
The Data Opportunity for MEDITECH Hospitals
Your organization has invested significantly in MEDITECH as your clinical system of record, and that platform is doing exactly what it’s designed to do — capturing comprehensive clinical, operational, and financial information across every department and workflow. Yet having MEDITECH data does not necessarily mean you are able to fully leverage it for advanced analytics and innovation.
Blue Elm recently released a report that outlines some of the unique complexities associated with leveraging MEDITECH data, including:
- Concerns about the timeliness and integrity of data within the Data Repository.
- Lack of access to real-time data in the MEDITECH transactional system for analytics, reporting, custom applications, and more.
- Difficulty extracting data for migration and archiving initiatives.
As one cloud architect interviewed for the report stated, “The data layer of the MEDITECH application requires specialized knowledge to access effectively. We’re dependent on the Data Repository, which serves most reporting needs well but isn’t always a complete, up-to-the-minute copy for every use case.”
MEDITECH Data Optimization Recommendations
The Blue Elm report explores several ways MEDITECH hospitals can address the unique complexities and challenges highlighted above. These include:
- Data Repository validation and latency monitoring tools.
- Solutions that can connect directly to your MEDITECH transactional system and deliver data in standard formats like SQL Server, XML, or Excel.
- Extraction services and solutions that can support migration and archiving projects.
Helpful Resources for MEDITECH Hospitals
In addition to the Blue Elm report, we have compiled several other helpful resources for hospitals leveraging MEDITECH EHRs. These include:
Is your organization leveraging a MEDITECH EHR and hoping to maximize the full potential of your MEDITECH data? Contact us to learn more about how we can help.
