Meditech Electronic Health Records vs. Veradigm EHR

Meditech is well-suited to small, independent hospitals requiring a flexible, mostly full-featured EHR with good support. The Expanse upgrade was a significant step forward, and brought the system into the modern world of touch devices while reducing clinician documentation burden.

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Some of the key questions include functionality of the EHR in today's electronic marketplace. Also customer support ratings are important due to many ongoing difficulties previously experienced with older EHRs. Allscripts is well suited to the outpatient setting where many preformed templates provide a comprehensive overview of patients. Additionally, Allscripts' link with the imaging portal PACS is second to none.

• Clean interface, easy to see alerts
• Light footprint on computers, quick to load
• Good organization of clinical material on the toolbar

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• Intuitive with documenting office visits
• Easy to navigate around the screens when researching patient information
• Able to customize lots of things throughout the program to work with requested workflows

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• Poor reporting
• Difficult to view grid data, such as complete medication history
• A lot of interfacing with its own product due to code differences

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• Allscripts could use improvement with stability. Once in awhile, the software would freeze upon loading images saved from radiology or lab reports. It frequently had trouble with login credentials.
• Improve the clarity of scanned images in patient's EHR.
• Conversability with other platforms, like Cerner, Epic, and McKesson.
• Improve the way InterQual loads review platform as well as emailing hospital case manager feature.

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It was already in use when I was hired. I have mostly figured it out just messing around with it in my earlier spare time.

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• I was not a part of decision making, so I have no idea about this.

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