Mount Nittany Medical Center
Located in State College, Pennsylvania, Mount Nittany Medical Center is a 260-bed, acute-care facility offering medical, surgical, diagnostic and community services. Mount Nittany is one of the region’s top employers with 1400 healthcare professionals and support staff.
Issue
As a provider of EMR access to 200+ clinicians for 11 years, Mount Nittany needed a streamlined approach to maintaining access to the data in their document imaging systems. Their existing system was experiencing frequent problems and was not consistently providing access for every department throughout the medical center.
“We needed a new system to provide consistent access so
our clinicians could retrieve the necessary data for objectives
such as conducting cooperative studies, managing patient
records and providing good continuity of care,”
said Ken Bixel, CIO Mount Nittany.
Solution
Mount Nittany, a MEDITECH Client/Server HCIS user, chose to convert to the MEDITECH Scanning and Archiving (SCA) solution to streamline their processes and provide consistent access to their records. They also needed an effective strategy to migrate seven years worth of GI scanned data stored in their document imaging system. Acknowledging a long relationship with MEDITECH, Mount Nittany had the confidence to choose Forward Advantage, a MEDITECH endorsed service provider, for their Document Imaging and Scanning Conversion (DISC) solution to do just that. Forward Advantage, a provider of solid solutions for MEDITECH HCIS since 1993, had the extensive experience and customer-acclaimed support and service to offer the solution that would integrate seamlessly with MEDITECH.
[Forward Advantage] delivered what you promised and more. You didn’t
just do the work, [Forward Advantage] actually got in front…on our
behalf! I wish more vendors performed like Forward Advantage”.
Ken Bixel, CIO, Mount Nittany Medical Center
Executing the DISC tools and services provided Mount Nittany the ability to go live in March 2010 and convert existing imaging and scanning system information to the MEDITECH SCA System. Services included component installation, conversion tool configuration, execution of tools, post-run error checking and status calls. DISC cost-effectively streamlined the conversion process and saved on technical resources while maintaining access to their archived images.
“Forward Advantage was pleased to provide Mount Nittany Medical Center
the solution they needed to transition to MEDITECH SCA and efficiently
provide their clinicians access to the archived data they’ve come
to expect in a more reliable and efficient process,” said Mark Valutkevich,
Vice President of Product Management for Forward Advantage, “We’ve always been
pleased to provide our customers with a cost-effective solution that
streamlines their process and reduces resources.”
Benefits
Working with Forward Advantage, Mount Nittany Medical Center successfully implemented the necessary conversion tool, components and services to convert their existing imaging and scanning system information to the MEDITECH SCA System and achieved the following benefits:
- Efficient process for scanning with MEDITECH platform.
- Achieved 80-90% goal of a paperless system.
- Provided consistent access for all Mount Nittany Medical Center clinicians.
- Created a streamlined process to complete the job in as little as 1 month.
Furthermore, the minimal hospital resource involvement and timely migration of scanned images and archives presented a piece of mind that the implementation was efficiently streamlined and no data was left behind.
“Forward Advantage was very knowledgeable with regard to the migration and
the data validation process. They worked well with our staff as well as our
MEDITECH contacts which made the project run smoothly. I was impressed!”
Betsy Eisenbraun, project lead, Mount Nittany Medical Center
About Forward Advantage
Since 1993, Forward Advantage has provided solid solutions that integrate seamlessly with your MEDITECH HCIS, offering products developed in collaboration with MEDITECH specifically for MEDITECH customers – whether you’re looking for medical device integration, exchanging MEDITECH HL7 data with your physicians, implementing an enterprise-wide report delivery solution, improving your identity and access management, implementing data migration and management or updating MEDITECH’s Bed Board with immediate bed status information. Serving over 1000 MEDITECH hospitals, Forward Advantage is in the leader in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions for MEDITECH customers.
For more information about DISC, please contact a Forward Advantage customer representative at 877-636-7927.
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