Meditech ER Software

We are using it in the ER for many things except nursing notes. We use it for order entry and PCI for looking up radiology, u/s, lab reports, Etc. We use it for looking up H&P's, notifying Pharmacy of needed/missing meds and we use it for triaging pt's. We use meditech on the units for nursing notes but it's too difficult in the ER. Everyone needs to see notes very quickly and I see why it just wouldn't work when your writing 10 little short notes on 15 different pt's. What are your thoughts on it???

We use TSystem electronic charting for nurses notes but still have another system for inpatient which the labs go to and paper orders because the physician's didn't trust the electronic order entry aspect of TSystems

(this post should probably be in the emergency nurses board)

Thanks, Larry. Moved to Emergency Nursing forum.

We had a wonderful system (Ibex) & "upgraded" to Meditech...its horrible! Ibex was so ER/user friendly this is not. Our doctors, nurses, & techs absolutely hate it! We have had it for ~ 5 months & I do not know of anyone that likes it!

Meditech is the reason a whole new job was created out of thin air.

We currently use Meditech for Order Entry, Lab/Rad results, PCI
We will be switching from Codonix (our current system of ED charting) to Meditech in the New Year

I, too, am interested in how Meditech is working out as a documentation tool for ED patient charting. It's the critical patients that require documentation almost simultaneously on different systems that worries me.

When you have to switch from Cardiac to Resp to Neuro screens to document your initial assessment because you've gotten that obtunded hypotensive patient...seems like a lot of unnecessary and frustrating jumping around to be able to adequately describe your presenting assessment (at least in the test system I've seen with our facility)

I hope there's a Free Text option for me...

Another Ibex/Pulsecheck fan here.

Despise Meditech. Too horrible for words!

cheers,