September 24–26, 2008 AHIS Conference Nova Scotia Upcoming MUSE Regional Events: We are happy to announce that Kathleen Catalano, RN, JD, of Perot Systems Healthcare will be the keynote speaker at the Eastern and Western Canadian Regional Conferences   September 5-6, 2008 UK and Ireland Manchester, UK September 30-October 2, 2008 Western Canada Region Edmonton, AB October 15-16, 2008 Eastern Canada Region Toronto, ON October 22-23, 2008 Western US Region Portland, OR November 3-5, 2008 Eastern US Region Vienna, VA November 13-14, 2008 Central US Region Louisville, KY MEDITECH 2008 Strategic Workshops October 16-17, 2008 Physician Informatics Workshop November 13-14, 2008 Chief Nurse Executive Workshop

Interview with Richard (Dick) Latuchie, CIO at Regional Health, Rapid City, SD
Like many healthcare organizations, Regional Health saw the benefits of electronic medical record keeping as a strategic initiative towards achieving their long-term healthcare delivery objectives. As part of their implementation strategy, Regional Health decided to migrate from MAGIC to MEDITECH's Client/Server 5.6 platform and concurrently put into place a disaster recovery solution to ensure the safety and availability of the electronic data. They chose JJWild as their migration partner.
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Profile of a successful conversion: Regional Health migrates from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6
Here’s how one community-based healthcare network made a smooth and successful transition from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6.
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Key considerations in conversion from MAGIC to Client/Server
Intro: Thinking about upgrading from MAGIC to Client/Server? Here are a few questions you should be asking.
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Interview with Hoda Sayed-Friel, MEDITECH's Vice President of Marketing
With the advent of MEDITECH’s Client/Server 6.0 Release, many hospitals are evaluating their long term strategies - considering a migration from MAGIC to Client/Server or updating to 6.0 from an earlier Client/Server Release. Hoda Sayed-Friel, Vice President of Marketing for MEDITECH, recently sat down with our editors to discuss this. Click here for more (PDF)

Setting your course for MEDITECH 6.0
As we kick off the New Year and plan for what's ahead, MEDITECH's readiness to launch Client/Server 6.0 in 2008 is at the forefront.

The implementation of C/S 6.0 at West Georgia Health System is well underway, and Doylestown Hospital, a stalwart adopter and innovator in the MAGIC community, is well on the road to moving from MAGIC to C/S 6.0. Word out of Canton is that MEDITECH marketing representatives are exclusively demonstrating C/S 6.0 technology to new account prospects now. We recently assisted MEDITECH's Development and Marketing teams in creating an aggressively-virtualized environment for the further development and demonstration of C/S 6.0. With all the excitement, interest, and potential questions about six-dot-oh and what it might mean, we thought it would be useful to summarize some things we know and provide some inputs to your planning processes.  Click here for more (PDF)

JJWild’s Healthcare Optimization Workshop (HOW ’08) Recap
Leslie Hein Sullivan, Director, Marketing Communications

JJWild held our sixth annual Healthcare Optimization Workshop (HOW ’08) at the Hilton in Dedham, Massachusetts on June 18, the day before MEDITECH’s CIO Technology Workshop.

The goal of HOW has remained unchanged for the past six years. We designed this annual one-day event as a forum to discuss significant strategic issues facing healthcare leaders. We want to encourage dialog about these important topics through educational workshops and opportunities for networking, and let you know we’re here to help you deal with them.

We were delighted this year to welcome over 120 leaders including CIOs, VPs, IT Directors, CMOs, and CFOs from over 86 different healthcare organizations in every region of the United States, the five Canadian provinces, and England. We were also happy to have many friends from MEDITECH take time out of their busy schedules to join us. Additionally, our partners BridgeHead, Dell, EMC, FormFast, Forward Advantage, HP, IBM, Motorola, Stratus, and VMware participated in the event, spending quality time with our guests throughout the day. Click here for more (PDF)

Doylestown Hospital Goes Live from MAGIC to 6.0!
Congratulations to Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on their June 1^st migration from MAGIC to 6.0. Additionally, Doylestown implemented Scanning and Archiving, Operating Room (OR), and Patient Care Manager (PCM) as part of their “Go Live”. This overall migration will allow Doylestown Hospital’s staff and physicians to take advantage of the robust capabilities and new user interface of 6.0. JJWild provided project management, Healthcare Operational Continuance/disaster recovery services, and infrastructure consulting as well as infrastructure components to Doylestown for this exciting initiative. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.

Woman’s Hospital enlists JJWild to migrate applications to Client/Server 5.6 and ultimately 6.0
Woman’s Hospital of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has chosen JJWild to migrate their MEDITECH applications to Client/Server 5.6 and ultimately 6.0. An existing MEDITECH MAGIC site, JJWild will help Woman’s Hospital with their infrastructure design, technology review, implementation, and support. We look forward to partnering with Woman’s Hospital and are pleased to support their commitment to quality care.

JJWild Participates in 6.0 Architectural Review with MEDITECH
As MEDITECH’s integration partner, JJWild has been working diligently to collaboratively test and certify hardware and software for use with 6.0 and to develop appropriate infrastructure designs and services to support 6.0 requirements. We have partnered with MEDITECH since early testing phases of 6.0 and have continued to adjust these designs as new information about how best to support 6.0 is learned. At the same time, we’ve developed a suite of professional services to help organizations prepare for, plan, budget, and successfully adopt 6.0. We will continue to align ourselves closely with MEDITECH and ongoing 6.0 implementations. You can be sure you are always getting a quotation that is based on the most up-to-date, accurate information available to ensure success of your 6.0 deployment and future growth of your infrastructure.

Rapid City Regional Health Goes Live from MAGIC to Client/Server!
Congratulations to Rapid City Regional Health on their April 1st (no fooling!) migration of five of their hospitals from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6. Additionally, Rapid City Regional Health also implemented a dual data center, high availability environment for their MEDITECH systems to help ensure optimal availability. This migration will allow Rapid City Regional Health’s staff and physicians to take advantage of the robust capabilities and new user interface of 5.6. JJWild provided project management, application subject matter expertise, and infrastructure consulting to Rapid City Regional Health on this exciting initiative.

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