Recent News: Hawaii Hospitals Mark MEDITECH's Presence in All 50 U.S. States

WESTWOOD, MA, August 19, 2009 -- For the very first time, MEDITECH hospitals now span all 50 U.S. states, as we are proud to welcome Hilo Medical Center (Hilo, HI), Ka'u Hospital (Pahala, HI), and Hale Ho'ola Hamakua (Honokaa, HI) to our customer community. Making up the East Hawaii Region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC), the three facilities have all selected MEDITECH's latest technology platform, 6.0.

"We chose 6.0 because it aligns with our overall health care strategy," explains Hilo's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer Money Atwal. "We were looking for a centralized community-wide system which would offer a complete electronic medical record for our providers, encompassing all patient information from cradle to grave."

The main goal for Hilo, the first of the three hospitals scheduled to implement 6.0, was to partner with a vendor that could provide an integrated EMR encompassing all patient needs-including, but not limited to, long-term and acute care, emergency department services, and outpatient clinics. "The fact that MEDITECH is one of the very few EMR vendors that offers complete clinical documentation and billing across the continuum of care, significantly increased the value of the system in our eyes," he says.

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