Uvalde Memorial Hospital Contracts For Summit Express Connect And Meditech 6.0 Migration Services

Texas Hospital turns to Summit Healthcare to streamline their Interoperability Strategy and Prepare for Meditech 6.0 migration

Summit Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare system integration has engaged in a partnership with Uvalde Memorial Hospital in Uvalde, Texas, to provide its Summit Express Connect interface engine technology and Meditech 6.0 migration services.

Uvalde Memorial Hospital, a 66-bed, not-for-profit, county-owned facility has turned to Summit Healthcare in an effort to accelerate the pace of its Meditech 6.0 migration and support the move to an interoperability technology platform. The hospital is focused on supporting the core attributes of compassion, accessibility, integrity, stewardship and excellence in its patient care model. Working with Summit Healthcare helps the hospital achieve these goals by giving it the technological foundation it needs to improve patient care through the best operations possible.

"As a county-owned and operated facility, we have to use financial resources as efficiently as possible," said Alice Rogers, RN, Clinical IS Coordinator, Uvalde Memorial Hospital. "By investing in integration technology from Summit Healthcare, we are making the best possible use of the funding and laying a solid interoperability foundation as we embark on our Meditech 6.0 migration."

One of the primary elements of this partnership is an effort to accelerate their Meditech 6.0 migration at Uvalde Memorial Hospital. It typically takes between six months to a year to integrate existing systems with Meditech 6.0 and test them. Summit Healthcare’s professional integration services team will work closely with Uvalde Memorial Hospital, helping it complete the process in just three months.

Summit Express Connect will help Uvalde Memorial Hospital develop the type of integration infrastructure needed to stay ahead of the technology curve in healthcare. This will leave the hospital primed to eventually connect to the state HIE, community physician EMR offices and comply with ARRA mandates.

"Our partnership with Uvalde Memorial Hospital is exciting for Summit Healthcare.  When they presented us with a tight timeline our professional services team with their strong Meditech knowledge and expertise was able to meet the challenge,” said Ted Rossi, CEO, Summit Healthcare. "Our full solution offering of professional services paired with cost-effective integration technology provides Uvalde the foundation they need for future integration projects without straining their fiscal or technical capabilities."

About Summit Healthcare
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complementary tailored services and solutions. For more information, visit www.summit-healthcare.com.

Summit Healthcare offers a full integrated product suite and comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs.  From interface management to data migration and business continuity the portfolio includes:

• Summit Express Connect - a robust, powerful interface engine with inherent mapping and filter capabilities. Seamlessly integrate your HCIS with 3rd party ancillary systems, HIE/RHIO, ACO or to meet MU objectives.
• Summit Provider Exchange- a scalable, secure solution that facilitates the integration of bi-directional patient data between the hospital and the EMR at the physician office or clinic. 
• 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 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 HCIS or network downtime.
• 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.

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.