Adena Health System's "Adena One Project" will change how the system documents patient information, place orders and maintain patient medical records in an effort to consolidate their patient care systems into one integrated system, reports Chillicothe Gazette.
Here are five key notes, according to the report:
1. The project will go live on midnight, Aug. 1.
2. Previously, with many patient systems, Adena saw the result was "an inefficient use of time to get around system shortcomings," Adena's Chief Information Strategy Officer Linn Weimer told Chillicothe Gazette.
3. Adena has invested over $15 million in preparing for the conversion to the Meditech 6.15 information system.
4. In September, Adena's 35 ambulatory locations will begin converting to the new Meditech Ambulatory 6.15 information system.
5. The ambulatory phase of the project is expected to complete in 2016.
"Once everyone is on the same system, a patient’s data will travel with the patient from their primary care provider, to specialists, to departments like Lab, Radiology or Surgery. It will be completely seamless for the patient," Chief Operations Officer Eric Cecava told Chillicothe Gazette.