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Your platform for true interoperability.

Healthcare today demands an EHR that’s much more than a repository of data, but instead operates as a data platform — collecting, integrating, managing, analyzing, and presenting data in meaningful and actionable ways. This includes data from both inside and outside of your organization. MEDITECH Expanse is a powerful and scalable platform for healthcare organizations of all sizes, and MEDITECH Traverse is our robust interoperability toolset for securely connecting it to the world of data around you — whether that’s a facility across town, your state or regional HIE, or a national data exchange.

Learn how San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center uses MEDITECH Traverse to bridge gaps in care.

Connected Communities
Interoperable data exchange

Digitally Enabled Care
Open platform for innovation

Operationalizing Data
Intelligent application of AI

Person-Centered Care
Population health, precision medicine

Consumer Engagement
Attract and retain

Clinical Sophistication
Driving effective care delivery

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Whole-patient care: See the big picture.

Your clinicians need the right data at the right time to make the best decisions for your patients. That means bringing in care data from outside of your organization to get a fuller picture of your patients’ health. It also means delivering that data to clinicians when, where, and how they need it — within existing workflows, at the point of care, in intuitive and actionable ways.

See the big picture with Traverse, and provide whole-patient care.

Drive transformational change

Interoperability takes care to the next level, breaking down silos and making data more accessible to patients and providers. MEDITECH’s approach to interoperability produces:

Better Clinical Outcomes

When clinicians have access to comprehensive, real-time patient data, they can make better decisions, resulting in better patient outcomes.

More Empowered Patients

Patients want — and need — access to their medical data. A patient who is informed about and engaged in their medical care is more likely to adhere to treatment recommendations, including medication regimes.

Increased Operational Efficiencies

Interoperability enables innovative technologies that can reduce bottlenecks and facilitate automation.

Traverse’s robust suite of interoperability tools includes:

Bi-directional exchange via CommonWell Health Alliance^® for sharing member records with all major EHR vendors
Powerful interfaces for submitting and receiving orders and results to/from labs and other systems, with automated results notifications
External connectors for secure EHR-to-EHR data sharing from Expanse to other EHRs, with context-aware functionality that eliminates the need to sign on again or re-identify patients.

Apps — the next frontier

Ever since we launched Expanse, we’ve been on a mission to make EHRs easy and enjoyable to use and we’ve received some of the highest marks possible for usability and clinician satisfaction.

Now we’re raising the bar again, opening Expanse to a growing family of trusted organizations and software developers who are building innovative solutions that securely connect to data in Expanse. They’re testing their apps in our Greenfield Workspace environment, where they can execute APIs and test their applications against a real MEDITECH EHR. And they’re joining the MEDITECH Alliance, an expanding ecosystem of partner organizations with proven, successful, and interoperable solutions.

Two leaders combine forces

MEDITECH and Google Health are piloting powerful new search and summarization capabilities inside the Expanse EHR to reduce cognitive overload and help clinicians efficiently access the information they need to make the most informed decisions.

By embedding Google’s powerful AI, Natural Language Model and search capabilities into Expanse, clinicians can surface data from legacy platforms, other health systems, labs, specialty care settings, and a variety of additional sources. Search results include concepts, not just word matches, along with abbreviations, medical jargon, even misspellings and related concepts. It scours unstructured data, scanned documents and handwritten notes — sorting, summarizing, and ranking results by relevance for quick review. That’s the power of search and summarization by MEDITECH and Google Health.

Physician Benefits

Reduces burnout: less time searching fragmented data
Supports timely decision making
Embedded in workflow

Patient Benefits

Less need to provide or recall historical data
Care team has a better understanding of them and their background
More face time with clinicians

Organizational Benefits

Supports more holistic patient care
Lowers cost of care by reducing duplicate testing
Easier access to historical data

Traverse Exchange Canada bridges communication across communities.

Traverse Exchange Canada is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based interoperability network that enables the free flow of health information between multiple participating organizations, including other EHRs that comply with interoperability standards. Our subscription-based software-as-a-service solution provides clinicians with a more holistic view of their patients' care.

Cloud-based technology seamlessly connects participating organizations to each other and to Ontario Health using MEDITECH's record locator system.
Once patients opt in, providers receive a comprehensive picture of their record directly within the MEDITECH EHR — regardless of where care was provided.
Data is located beyond hospital walls, across jurisdictional or federal systems from a variety of sources.
Data can be viewed or consumed within the EHR as discrete data.

“Putting the right information in the hands of the people who need it is what interoperability is all about. With Traverse Exchange Canada, we will be able to access external records from acute care, primary care, long term care, and other settings to create a more intelligent patient picture that is relevant to the care journey and pertinent to the moment. This kind of intelligent interoperability will improve patient outcomes and lays the foundation for delivering personalized care to our community.”

Peter Bak, Ph.D.
Chief Information Officer
Humber River Hospital

Preparing you for TEFCA — and beyond

MEDITECH actively participates with leading organizations and initiatives advancing interoperability, ensuring that our customers are always ahead of the curve.

The Argonaut Project

The Argonaut Project is a private sector initiative to advance industry adoption of modern, open interoperability standards. Launched in 2014, it has rapidly developed the FHIR-based API and Core Data Services specification to enable expanded information sharing for EHRs.

CommonWell

CommonWell Health Alliance is a not-for-profit trade association devoted to the simple vision that health data should be available to individuals and caregivers regardless of where care occurs. Their nationwide network has surpassed 200 million individuals, which means it is sharing electronic health data for roughly 62% of the U.S. population.

The Gravity Project

The Gravity Project is a national public collaborative that develops consensus-based data standards to improve how information is shared and used on social determinants of health (SDOH). Founded in 2017, its members advance equitable health and social care by leading the development and validation of consensus-driven interoperability standards.

FAST

The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) identifies Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) scalability gaps, defines solutions to address current barriers, and identifies needed infrastructure for scalable FHIR solutions. Launched as an ONC-convened initiative, FAST has transitioned to an HL7 FHIR Accelerator focused on the infrastructure needed to scale FHIR.

360X

360X strives to define implementation guidance to enable EHR interoperability in support of patient transitions of care, particularly around referral management and closing the referral loop, with an aim to add value to patients, clinicians, office staff and overall clinical workflows.

Da Vinci

The Da Vinci Project is a private sector initiative that includes payers, providers, and EHR vendors collaborating with HL7 to improve data sharing in value-based care (VBC) arrangements using the HL7 FHIR platform.

Helios

Helios is an alliance of government, private sector and philanthropic partners who aim to use widely accepted healthcare standards to help advance public health. It was launched by HL7 and jointly supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

Direct Trust

DirectTrust is a non-profit alliance of Health Information Service Providers (HISPs), Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), healthcare providers, consumers/patients, and Health IT vendors working to develop, promote, and enforce rules and best practices for maintaining security and trust within the Direct Secure Messaging community.