[MT-L] Is Meditech 6.0 really that different from CS and Magic?

[McClain, Jeff]

The extent of my 6.0 knowledge is a couple weeks of part-time remote work doing a very specific project that involved the MIS, NPR, and ESS modules.  The look and feel is different, but I didn’t have any trouble accomplishing what I needed to do in the same amount of time it would take me in the other versions. 

 

I have 6 years’ experience in Client Server, and 8 years in Magic.  I didn’t have any trouble hitting the ground running with Magic after working with CS.  I would venture to say that 95% of IS Meditech Analysts could flip between CS and Magic with very little acclimatization.  

 

Like a lot of people on here, I get emails from recruiters where they are requiring 6.0 experience over Magic or CS, even for a position that supports multiple facilities with two, or all three versions of Meditech. 

 

For those of you who have worked in CS or Magic and also 6.0, is it really so different?   

 

If you’ve done implementations of 6.0 with prior Meditech experience, would you prefer someone with 1 or 2 Meditech 6.0 implementations over someone with 4-5 Meditech CS or Magic implementation experience? 

 

I see the health care industry going in the direction that the banks went in the 80s and 90s.  So, as more hospitals merge, I would like to still be ‘walk-on-water’ valuable in my areas of expertise.  Training budgets keep getting cut, and I don’t want to be ‘sunsetted’ before my kids graduate from college.  After that, I’m going off the grid.  ;)

 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Jeff McClain

Sr. Systems Analyst  II

IS Business Systems

Sinai Health System

California Ave. at 15th Street

Chicago, IL

Phone: (773) 257-2370

Email: jeff.m...@sinai.org

 

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[David Gibbs]

Hi Jeff

In my opinion for many modules (the NPR based ones) there really is no difference between c/s 5.6 and 6.x. The look and feel is the same though with some new functionality. The introduction of the M-AT modules do change a few things (OE is replaced by OM for example). There are also some completely new modules and some disappear. Perhaps the biggest difference is Report Designer and how rules in M-AT work. However, if you have significant MEDITECH experience it takes very little time to get comfortable with the change. If you can switch between c/s and magic with ease, picking up 6.x will not be difficult. 

David Gibbs

Independent Consultant

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