Hospitals Value Summit’s Proven Tools and MEDITECH Expertise for Migration to 6.0 and to Help Them Prepare for Challenges Ahead
Braintree, Mass., March 9, 2010 — Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced five new agreements signed with hospitals in the second half of 2009. Facilities including Beaufort, South Carolina’s Beaufort Memorial Hospital; Valhalla, New York’s Blythedale Children’s Hospital; Boulder, Colorado’s Boulder Community Hospital; Ithaca, New York’s Cayuga Medical Center; and Plymouth, Massachusetts’ Jordan Hospital have all chosen Summit Healthcare as their sole integration partner as they migrate from their current Meditech platforms to Meditech 6.0. Summit Healthcare will provide these organizations with its expertise for interface management, data migration and dictionary maintenance to ensure successful, streamlined and secure migrations.
All of the organizations will be implementing various solutions from the Summit Apex product suite to help meet their unique needs during the 6.0 migration and for future initiatives. Blythedale will implement Summit Express Connect to consolidate its interfaces and leverage its feeds for integrating Meditech with other vendor systems, and will eventually use Summit’s interface engine to integrate with its physician offices. Beaufort Memorial has entered into an integration outsourcing agreement with the Summit Healthcare Professional Services division to handle all integration management efforts for its migration project.
“As we began working with Summit, we quickly realized that there is more to our migration plan than simply application implementation and hardware/infrastructure requirements,” said Ed Ricks, chief information officer at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. “It’s important that we understand our interface landscape and how to successfully integrate systems — including our physician offices — without getting tangled in a web of hundreds of point to point and custom interfaces across multiple vendors. Summit’s experience with complex integrations coupled with its successful track record made partnering an easy decision.”
Both Jordan Hospital and Cayuga Medical Center will be implementing the Summit Scripting Toolkit and Summit InSync products to streamline their data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts. Jordan will also be using the Summit Downtime Reporting System to ensure consistent access to critical data in the event of a Meditech or network downtime. Boulder Community hospital is implementing Summit’s products with an eye toward the future.
“The Summit products we are implementing will have a substantial impact on saving the hospital money in the short term,” remarked Linda Minghella, chief information officer at Boulder Community Hospital. “However, this partnership will continue to address our future needs as well as we will begin to implement interfaces faster and with fewer resources.”
“I believe our value lies not only in our experience, but in the robust software technology we offer,” said Ted Rossi, president and CEO, Summit Healthcare. “Our integration engine and scripting tools not only meet the challenges of the 6.0 migration, but also give our customers the foundation they need to face new integration innovation challenges such as HIE connectivity, meaningful use and beyond. Clients see us as a partner that can continue to provide integration and automation solutions well into the future.”
About Summit Apex
The Summit Apex integrated product suite provides the MEDITECH industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs and has quickly become the standard for streamlining MEDITECH 6.0 migration efforts. From interface management to data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
- Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used for both hospital and physician office EMR integration with 3rd party vendor systems.
- Summit Scripting Toolkit — a full-featured workflow and task automation tool that also provides the means to extract and parse data, and is often used when conventional (HL7) methods to deliver data are not available.
- Summit InSync — the market leading solution for dictionary maintenance accomplished through a powerful extraction, analysis and update process that ensures dictionaries are synchronized from test to live and across multiple facilities or platforms.
- Summit Downtime Reporting System — ensures continuous access to critical patient data for clinicians at all times, to ensure quality of care and operational continuity in the event of MEDITECH or network downtime.
For our healthcare clients that do not have the resources to develop and manage interfaces internally, Summit Healthcare offers Integration Outsourcing Services as part of a complete integration package.
About Summit Healthcare
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their MEDITECH healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complimentary tailored services and solutions. Summit Healthcare continues to grow and has over 1,000 customers in the healthcare market, including close partnerships with complementary technology partners, major system integrators, and value-added resellers. For more information, visit http://www.summit-healthcare.com or call 781-519-4840.