February 2020

Thoughts From Our President

I was recently asked why I still attend the HIMSS conference. First and foremost, I go to see current and past clients. With over 125 active clients each year, I get to see only a few during my travels. HIMSS and the MEDITECH Physician/CIO Forum give me the opportunity to see many of you face to face. I especially look forward to MEDITECH’s Customer Appreciation event at HIMSS!

I also go to hear about MEDITECH’s current and planned software developments to experience firsthand our clients’ reactions. I look forward to the client presentations on behalf of MEDITECH as the organizations describe the impact and benefits from the newer products.

Lastly, I go to connect with colleagues and friends from other consulting firms to get a sense of the broader market beyond MEDITECH.

If you would like to meet with me while at HIMSS, email me at jhaffty@navinhaffty.com. I hope to see you there!

John Haffty, President
Navin, Haffty & Associates

MEDITECH Provides Decision Support and Guidance for Coronavirus Screening

MEDITECH has developed workflow documents to ensure your care teams have the proper procedures in place for effective coronavirus screening based on current guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization. Regardless of the arrival setting — inpatient, ED, or practice — site-defined queries can be presented wherever a patient is seen, prompting healthcare professionals to capture a patient’s symptoms and travel history. This documentation provides clinical decision support, which includes guidance on how to build and implement a series of queries, connect those queries to questionnaires, and create logic that can be used to alert and notify appropriate staff. These tools are available for each MEDITECH platform – MAGIC, C/S, 6.x and Expanse.  For more information and the links to your version, click here.

MEDITECH Awarded Best in KLAS

As a testament to the success of Expanse, industry research firm KLAS has recognized MEDITECH for the sixth consecutive year. The fully interoperable web-based EHR has been top ranked in two key categories by the 2020 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report: Acute Care EMR (Community Hospital) and Patient Accounting & Patient Management (Community Hospital) categories. Click here to read MEDITECH’s press release.

PI and MIPS: Changes for 2020

The exclusion sites were able to take to exempt themselves in 2019 from receiving and incorporating health information, i.e., receiving, reconciling and incorporating inbound CCDs, is no longer available for 2020. All sites should have this functionality and associated workflows in place for the 2020 90-day reporting period. As with transmitting CCDs on departure or discharge, receiving an inbound CCD is a performance measure you will need in order to calculate your compliance percentage to determine how many points out of 20 you will receive.

Requirements for attesting to PI and MIPS have changed over the last year and this is not an all-inclusive list. If you require assistance with determining what you need to do to be prepared, please contact us at info@navinhaffty.com.

Canadian Corner

• At this year’s HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, MEDITECH will be the sole sponsor of the Canadian Session Series that reinforces their footprint with C-level and international audiences.

Canadian Session Series
Tuesday, March 10 from 10:30 am-2:30 pm, Room W330A
Hear from and engage with your peers during three presentations highlighting Canada’s digital health approaches and solutions to local and universal challenges.
Moderator: Dr. Derek Garniss, CMIO, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

• HIMSS Ontario Chapter has announced their 2^nd Annual Ontario Health IT Conference will be held Thursday, October 1, 2020 at the Toronto Congress Centre. Click here to register. Details and agenda are yet to be announced.
• The Canada Health Infoway Partnership Conference will be held during Digital Health Week, November 17-18, 2020 at the JW Marriott Parq in Vancouver.
• We invite you to share our newsletter with your peers and encourage them to subscribe. We also welcome you to become a member of our social media community. Click here to join us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

HIMSS 2020

The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition is being held in Orlando from March 9-13. Michelle O’Connor, MEDITECH’s president, recently shared her recommendations on what to look for at the conference. Here are some other key highlights:

MEDITECH will be at booth #1428. Throughout the conference, they will be hosting demos on various topics such as:

• Care Across the Continuum
• Genomics
• Patient Experience
• Expanse Practice Management
• Expanse Revenue Cycle
• Expanse Population Health
• Expanse Labor and Delivery
• Expanse Patient Care

Registration for demos is available on their HIMSS event page.

MEDITECH will also be offering a unique opportunity to schedule a 30-minute meeting with a CMIO in their booth to discuss their Expanse experiences. Visit their website to sign up for CMIO Conversations and Connections.

MEDITECH Education Sessions (all times listed in Eastern)

Reduce LOS with Technology & Multidisciplinary Communication
Tuesday, March 10 at 4:15 pm, Room W330A
Dr. Ginny Kwong, Vice President and CMIO of Halifax Health will discuss how the organization utilized a multidisciplinary team-based communication structure to improve collaboration to reduce lengths of stay. She’ll focus on such features as a mobile voice activated system with secure texting and embedded best practice content in the EHR desktop.

Combining Clinical and Business Analytics for Efficiency
Thursday, March 12 at 2:30 pm, Room W304A
Dr. John Tollerson, CMIO of Kalispell Regional Medical Center will share how Kalispell Regional Healthcare used analytics to transform their approach and achieve clinical success. Dr. Tollerson will focus on the aggregation of clinical, financial, and operational data to attain positive outcomes, such as improving ER bounce backs and hospital admissions, reducing A1C patients, and highlighting RVUs for physicians.

MEDITECH Professional Services
Tuesday, March 10 at 1:45 pm, Debut Square
Janet Desroche, MEDITECH Associate Vice President, will discuss how your EHR can reach its fullest potential with MEDITECH’s Professional Services.

Interoperability Showcase
March 10-12, Booth #8300
MEDITECH’s will be demonstrating their Traverse interoperability solution alongside other CommonWell Health Alliance participants during the Interoperability Showcase throughout the conference.

MEDITECH in the Cloud
Wednesday, March 11 at 3:15 pm, Room 202A
MEDITECH Expanse is one of the first EHRs available through the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), delivering a new level of digital transformation in the public cloud setting. Hear more about MEDITECH’s leap into the public cloud setting from Advanced Technology Vice President Scott Radner.

MEDITECH CMIO Roundtable Discussion and Reception

Tech-Enabled Team-Based Care: Enhancing the Provider and Patient Experience
Tuesday, March 10 from 4:15-6:15 pm, Room 303A
In this session, key industry thought leaders will discuss existing and near-term solutions for improving communication and care coordination, including things like secure messaging and texting, multidisciplinary care plans, clinical dashboards, portals, apps, and more.

CMIO Roundtable Discussion: 4:15 pm
CMIO Networking Reception: 5:15 pm

MEDITECH Customer Appreciation Event
MEDITECH will hold its annual customer appreciation event at B.B. King’s Blues Club, Wednesday, March 11 from 7-10 pm. Click here to register for this popular event. NHA is proud to be a sponsor.

NHA Presence – Meeting Place 107
NHA will also have a strong presence at HIMSS20. If you are interested in meeting with one of our executives, contact David LaFontaine.

Client Testimonial

We are pleased to share the following testimonial from one of our Expanse clients:

“NHA played a pivotal role in supporting us through the design and build of the MEDITECH Expanse system. We benefited from the Expanse expertise, productive communication and professionalism the consulting team displayed throughout the project.”

Simon Shain, Executive Director
Northbrook Behavioral Health Hospital, Blackwood, NJ

NHA Client News

We are pleased to announce we have been selected by the following organizations for their upcoming projects:

• Anderson Regional Medical Center, Meridian, MS – Meaningful Use Advisory Support
• Catawba Valley Medical Center, Hickory, NC – Interim HIM Director
• Duncan Regional Hospital, Duncan, OK – Rural Health Clinic Revenue Cycle Analysis
• George Regional Health System, Lucedale, MS – Physician Documentation Analyst Training
• Grand River Hospital District, Rifle, CO – Priority Pack Assistance
• Major Health Partners Medical Center, Shelbyville, IN – Expanse Post-LIVE RCG Optimization
• Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College, PA – Ambulatory Optimization
• Oklahoma State University Medical Center, Tulsa, OK – eCQM 2019 Reporting
• The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ – OM/PCS Specialists
• Witham Health Services, Lebanon, IN – Mirth Interface / SQL Project

Quick Notes

• Steward Health Care System to deploy “One Platform” with MEDITECH across 35 hospitals. Click here to read the full story. NHA is proud to be Steward’s consulting partner on this exciting project.
• Significant progress has been made with CommonWell and interoperability. Here is a story about the success Valley Presbyterian Hospital has achieved.
• MEDITECH continues to build out EHR toolkits. Here is a prerecorded webinar on the successful implementation of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit at Newton Medical Center. Remember, MEDITECH Professional Services can help those hospitals that lack the resources to build and implement EHR toolkits.
• MEDITECH recently released its 2019 annual report, showing revenue increasing to $493.8 million.
• In the latest blog from Forward Advantage, learn about the 5 Key Takeaways from Gartner’s Identity & Access Management Summit to make sure your organization has the latest information on attacking your challenges.

Calendar of Events

Upcoming MEDITECH webinars (all times listed in EST):

Gain Mobility with MEDITECH’s Expanse Point of Care Solution
February 13, 2:00 PM | 30 min.
Learn how Expanse Point of Care puts medication administration, documentation, and chart review in the palm of your hand.

Take Control of Your Revenue Cycle with Expanse
February 25, 2:00 PM | 30 min.
See MEDITECH’s proven solution that drives revenue while improving the patient’s financial experience.

Introducing MEDITECH’s Labor and Delivery Solution
February 26, 2:00 PM | 60 min.
Find out how Expanse Labor and Delivery is designed for nurses to take on the unique responsibilities of caring for little ones, as well as their mothers.

Physician’s Experience: ED
February 27, 2:00 PM | 60 min.
This high-level demonstration will show you how MEDITECH’s Emergency Department solution helps ED physicians quickly manage and prioritize patient needs from one central tracker.

Upcoming Conference

2020 Home Care Symposium
March 24-25
Atlanta, GA
MEDITECH’s annual Home Care Symposium is filled with two days of education and networking designed to help you give patients a personalized experience from the comfort of home. A preliminary agenda has been released. Click here to register.

NHA is Hiring

If you are interested in consulting, consider joining us. NHA continues to need excellent MEDITECH specialists and, for the sixth year in a row, we have been named to the “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” list by Modern Healthcare magazine.

We are currently looking for strong MEDITECH Ambulatory lead consultants with experience in practice management clinical and billing software.

If you are interested, please contact us at recruiting@navinhaffty.com or call us at (855) 309-9334. See what positions are currently available by visiting the NHA Careers page.

Please note at this time we are only able to consider those able to travel up to 80% of the time. Employees of MEDITECH and our clients cannot be considered.

Client Job Board

NHA offers the client job board as a free service to the MEDITECH community.

Job Seekers: If you are interested in exploring positions at other organizations, visit the client job board section of our website often. Feel free to refer colleagues!

Recruiters: If you would like to include your organization’s listing on the client job board, please email the job description and candidate application instructions to Katie Kelly. No recruiting firms, please.