I recently attended the MEDITECH 2017 Physician and CIO Forum at MEDITECH's Foxborough campus.
It was truly an honor to be invited to attend the conference over the past couple years. The turnout for the forum was very good, over 400 MEDITECH users. This was the largest MEDITECH Physician and CIO Forum I've attended.
The past couple years I've had the opportunity to present at the forum as a subject matter expert on Clinical Quality Reporting including MACRA, MIPS, IQR and eCQMs. This year I took a break from presentations, allowing me more time to attend a number of great educational sessions.
Great keynote from Dave Williams MD, OC, OOnt, MSc, CM, FCFP, FRCP, LLD (Hon), DSc (Hon), Retired CEO and President, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Astronaut and Aquanaut. Dave is a former Astronaut who flew on missions Columbia and Endeavor. Dave is an incredibly accomplished individual. Dave has accomplished in one lifetime what many people need multiple lives to achieve.
Web Ambulatory integration with BCA
Clinicians will be able to view their quality measures from Web Ambulatory with a link from the web application.
Most MEDITECH facilities don't have a single consolidated EHR system in their network. To address this constraint, MEDITECH has partnered with Arcadia solutions. Arcadia Solutions has been selected as the data integration and aggregation partner for integration with 3rd party systems for claims and clinical documentation.
APIs and Phone Apps
API’s – getting at MEDITECH data and pulling this into 3rd party systems. Healthcare organization and developers will be able to utilize APIs to integrate mobile devices, patient portals, iPhone Apps and platforms that need access to data outside of the traditional HL7 ADT, orders and results methods.
The data elements are available under the MU Stage 3 certification development under Patient Health Data API. This will be limited to pulling data out of MEDITECH not pushing data to MEDITECH. For sending data to MEDITECH, the traditional method of HL7 will still be the only option.
FHIR Adoption
FHIR adoption was mentioned and MEDITECH is investing in research and development to support FHIR natively in their application. This first project to be available to clients will be FHIR based CCDs. MEDITECH highlight they will be the first EHR vendor with a FHIR based CCD. That is exciting news for MEDITECH. MEDITECH has embraced the industry as it moves toward FHIR.
This was a great MEDITECH conference and they have continued to increase turnout, year over year. The education sessions have meaningful content and keynote speakers are top of the line.
It's always a great time connecting with colleagues and past colleagues.
Can't wait until next year!
