meditech 6.0

Goodvibes_pnp · Apr 16, 2014

I hate meditech I think the system is outdated and hard to navigate

JustPeachyRN · Apr 16, 2014

Awful. Confusing, redundant, and glitchy are just a few words to describe it.

Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN · Apr 16, 2014

I despise Meditech. It is totally unintuitive and clunky. Everything takes so much longer because I'm trying to figure out where/how to do things. I can't wait until it's gone.

zmansc, ASN, RN · Apr 16, 2014

We use some version of meditech, I only know it's not the current version because whenever I ask why we don't have xyz feature, they tell me it's in the next version that will be coming. I have found places where things need to be documented in four separate places, I refuse to do so. There isn't much admin can say to me, they agree it's a joke to try to make a nurse (or anyone for that matter) do double, let along quadruple documentation. I can only hope that it's our implementation that is causing the issues and that it gets better, but the fact of the matter is that what we document with (which is obviously built upon meditech) is very, very poor and time consuming.

I do know that the system our med-surg floor nurses uses (also built on top of meditech) is at least 10x worse. I'm not sure if the ER version was purchased/home grown/customized from something/what. I wasn't here when it was developed.

ERGirl83 · Apr 20, 2014

Oh no. We are on par to switch from T-System to Meditech this fall, and I'm already not looking forward to it. Are you using EDM specifically on Meditech, or just the PCI they use up on the floors?

zmansc, ASN, RN · Apr 20, 2014

Probably the EDM, whatever that is. PCI is what our floors use, and I use it to look up information about the pt's past visits. If EDM is the part with the trackers, then that's what we use. I do my best to stay as out of the fray of how meditech works, etc as possible. They can't pay me enough to make me deal with that crap at a deeper level!

I will say the EDM stuff (assuming that's what we use) is much better than the stuff they have to use on the floors! OMG, I think the average ratio is 10 min of documentation for 1 min of intervention at the bedside. Its horrible. Again, I have no idea how much of this is brought on by our implementation and how much is because of meditech itself.