MUSE Blog

As a non-profit health system serving nearly 1 million people in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, our pharmacists at Emanate Health need the right technology to quickly access important information. This can be difficult if pharmacists are solely reliant on IT staff to create dashboards showing metrics that are crucial to pharmacy operations. At Emanate Health, we’ve empowered pharmacists to leverage data visualization tools that have helped overcome previous workflow challenges. Real-time insights gained from analytics inform our decision making and increase efficiency within pharmacy ...

Having just completed an extremely complex deployment of Expanse 2.1 in September 2023, I was invited to speak at the MEDITECH User Network conference in Liverpool, UK. Being held only four weeks after our go-live, I was keen to share the innovative work we have been doing on our Patient Portal – Alder Hey @nywhere. I was honoured to be selected for the International Education Exchange (IEE) contest to attend the 2024 MUSE conference in Denver, Colorado. My first impressions were that I was delighted to meet so many like-minded and passionate individuals across North America, all with a shared ...

We're all familiar with the term agile project management. The Project Management Institute defines agile project management as project management with a sense of ownership, the ability to drive something forward, and ready ability to move with quick easy grace. It is also associated with easy changes of direction called for by today’s business environment. With all that said, probably very few of us are good at truly being agile. In today's organization and especially healthcare, we're used to standards, conformity, policies, and procedures. We are used to following directions and avoiding mistakes. ...

Regardless of the healthcare organization, patients are always the focus of the services and care that is provided. That’s what makes the healthcare industry special. Teamwork is necessary from organization to organization. You see it on the frontline every day. Hospitals often transfer patients out for a higher level of care or to rehabilitation providers. These transitions must be seamless for the benefit of the patient. That teamwork between different organizations is obvious, but what is not obvious is the teamwork I experienced between my organization, Ozarks Healthcare, and another healthcare ...

The ability to provide enhanced levels of care to the southwest Georgia community is a top priority at Phoebe Putney Health System. With this goal in mind, Phoebe broke ground on a new Trauma & Critical Care Tower at the downtown Albany campus of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in 2023. The construction expansion dovetailed with a comprehensive project reviewing clinical workflow and data capture in first steps toward a new trauma designation. To meet the regulatory milestones, Phoebe had to discover creative solutions with existing software platforms to capture key components within the electronic ...

Steve McDonald, MEDITECH Practice Lead, Nordic Global February 2024 Abstract As hospitals struggle to adapt to post-pandemic operating pressures, MEDITECH Expanse offers a compelling mix of tried-and-true functionality and versatility with forward-thinking innovation. MEDITECH has optionally made Expanse available as a cloud solution, thanks to its integration with Google Cloud, and its partnering with a number of other vendors to safely infuse the platform with powerful artificial intelligence tools that simplify complex clinical workflows and save you time and money at a time of chronic ...

As I sit down to prepare for this Thanksgiving time of year, I am able to reflect back on the many aspects and experiences of 2023 for which I am thankful and appreciative. I was able to spend time with friends and family, make meaningful impacts at work for patient care, and one of the year’s crowning jewels was presenting at the Medical Users Software Exchange (MUSE) 2023 meeting in Denver, Colorado. What makes this even more exciting was that our presentation, “Expansive Preparation for Go Live, A Colorful Meditech Expanse Pharmacy Journey”, was selected as the International Education ...