Meditech Essay

Meditech

Yasmine Yancey

Devry University

Table of Contents

Introduction…………………………………………………………………..3

Meditech……………………………………………………………………..4

Advantages ………………….……………………………………………....4

Disadvantages……………………………………………………………….5

Implementation Process …………………………………………………….5

Solutions into EHR………………………………………………………...6

Conclusion………………………………………………………………….9

References…………………………………………………………………10

When it comes to EHR’s a patients medical record follows them wherever they go electronically, whether it be home based care, physicians office or a hospital. Access to medical records are easily accessed through smartphones, and computers depending on the EHR system that particular person or company is using. There are many EHR systems that different health facilities use but one in particular has stuck out to me because I constantly see or hear it being used in health facilities Ive personally been too. The particular EHR system I am talking about is Meditech, and it is one of the largest electronic health record softwares that many hospitals as well as small clinics and health facilities are using in order to transfer patient information, and provide detailed information about a person’s medical history such as their medical records electronically. But lately has Meditech been facing substantial issues with their software and why is Meditech the number one ranked EHR system that is being used still despite these complications? By the end of this paper I hope to have all your answers to these questions addressed and answered.

Meditech was created to offer software solutions that met the needs of health care or...

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... EHR’s would be training because without the proper training the EHR system would not function properly and cannot provide services that are intended from the beginning. The training process for Meditech can come in various ways such as going directly to Meditech to receive training from the software company itself. Others have an Meditech trainer come in and train there staff in a class setting or one on one training can be done. There are other ways to also become trained and knowledgable of Meditech such as online tutorials that allow you to be trained for a fee and it is downloadable to your home computer. It is very important to have the proper training for the job that you are working in or for a job that you plan to apply for because some employer’s look for people that they do not have to train and that are already knowlegable in the programs that they use.