[MT-L] CPSI vs Meditech

[Sandy Sothman]

Anyone here have experience switching from CPSI TO Meditech?
Or from Meditech to CPSI?
I'd like to visit.

Sandy Sothman

Sr Systems Analyst

Cass County Memorial Hospital

1501 East 10th Street

Atlantic, IA 50022

712-243-7550 ext 3624

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[Purvins, James A.]

Sandy,
You have piqued my interest.

What sort of questions do you have ?

James Purvins
Inland Northwest Health Services
(509) 232-8384

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[Akhtar, Sohail]

We switched from CPSI to Meditech C/S two years ago in one of our
facilities. We recently converted HR/Payroll from CPSI to Meditech.

Sohail

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Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:58 PM
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Subject: [MT-L] CPSI vs Meditech

[Paul Goedicke]

Sandy, I was on the evaluation team at my previous employer when they had to replace a sunsetting system (Y2K). We looked at HBOC, CPSI, and Meditech (including, I think a visit to your facility), as well as Keane, who purchased our old vendor. Keane was out almost immediately for lack of support. HBOC had a lot of flash, but functionality was still being developed. We had a competitor 20 miles away that had been live with CPSI for about 9 months, and did nothing but complain about the lack of functionality. A negative we saw with Meditech was the high level of maintenance involved, in comparison. But it provided more functionality and a certain level of customization not available with CPSI. CPSI is cheaper, that's for sure, but it you don't have the IT support staff to maintain Meditech, CPSI could work with the understanding that you'll lose flexibility and capability. Keeping that in mind, it would probably be an easier transition from Meditech to CPSI than from CPSI to Meditech.

I realize as reimbursements shrink, uninsured patients rise, and budgets tighten, hospital Boards and CFO's look for the quickest way to make major expense cuts. If a change is being considered based on functionality, I think a CPSI to Meditech switch is the only one making sense.

Many of us bash Meditech (and LSS) periodically on the list, but having seen CPSI personally, it's obvious (to me) which is better. My former competitor lab affectionately referred to their system as the C-Pi$$y system because it frustrated them so - but the majority of their issues were also directly related to the competence level of the person with responsibility to maintain it (my opinion).

Paul

Paul Goedicke
Clinical Analyst III
Jackson County Memorial Hospital
1200 E. Pecan Street
Altus, OK 73521
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Subject: [MT-L] CPSI vs Meditech

Sandy Sothman

Sr Systems Analyst

Cass County Memorial Hospital

1501 East 10th Street

Atlantic, IA 50022

712-243-7550 ext 3624

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[Veillette, Steve - MIS Director]

We were a CPSI site before we converted to Meditech Magic in 1997, so my
experience with CPSI is rather old. We are an 85 bed hospital and we
were constantly pushing CPSI to the edge regarding adapting their system
to our needs. We decided we needed to have greater flexibility with our
HCIS, understanding that with flexibility also comes greater internal
responsibility.

That said, CPSI's strengths were many. They were (still are?) a true
single-vendor solution, hardware and software. There was very little
customization so support requirements were much less, making them a
perfect solution for smaller organizations with no or almost no MIS
Departments. I'd say their niche market was/is 24-50 bed rural
hospitals.

One of the most favorable things about CPSI were their people. They
were absolutely wonderful to work with. For example: After converting
to Meditech we kept our old CPSI system around as an archive for 7
years, no maintenance contract or anything, and 5 years into it we had a
hardware failure on the server. We called them out of desperation, they
had us ship the unit down to Mobile, fixed the problem, and shipped it
back - and only charged us for the shipping.

One more thing. The CPSI user group was vendor-run and paled compared
to MUSE. (You're welcome, Alan.)

Stephen F. Veillette
Director M.I.S.
New Milford Hospital
21 Elm Street
New Milford, CT 06776
860-350-7282 Phone
860-350-7300 Fax
veill...@nmhct.org

[Stewart, Donald]

Was this a good move for you? Do you think you have a better system now?

Donald

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[mailto:meditech-...@mtusers.com] On Behalf Of Akhtar, Sohail
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [MT-L] CPSI vs Meditech

We switched from CPSI to Meditech C/S two years ago in one of our
facilities. We recently converted HR/Payroll from CPSI to Meditech.

Sohail

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