Rural Health

Providing essential technology to support rural and community healthcare

Rural healthcare organizations face a formidable mix of challenges. They serve a disproportionately older and chronically ill population, have a higher percentage of under or uninsured patients, and experience the same workforce shortages as their urban peers. Recent legislative changes could significantly exacerbate these challenges.

What rural providers need is access to the same innovative EHR technologies used by their larger, urban counterparts — powerful analytics, intuitive data sharing and interoperability, and proven, field-tested AI solutions. And they need these solutions to be easy to install, operate, and maintain with limited IT resources.

That's MEDITECH Expanse.

Resolve to stay independent

MEDITECH Expanse secures your autonomy with a full-scale EHR designed for long-term sustainability. By optimizing clinical value and operational efficiency, we enable you to dedicate your resources to where they matter most: within your own community. Stay self-governed, stay local, and maintain the unwavering focus your patients deserve.

Hear why Bingham Healthcare selected MEDITECH Expanse to maintain its independence and commitment to its community.

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The freedom to focus on your goals

MEDITECH is committed to supporting rural, community, and critical access hospitals, as well as clinics. This commitment is demonstrated by our cloud-native MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS) offering. MaaS provides access to high-quality enterprise-level tools without the need for significant capital investment or on-premise infrastructure.

With MaaS, customers of any size can:

Access the same powerful EHR as larger medical centers.
Operate their EHR with fewer IT resources.
Retain autonomy over their EHR. Unlike other EHR vendor models, decisions are not dictated by other customers.
Improve financial performance and focus on providing patient care.

“MEDITECH offered state-of-the-art software with an affordable price tag, which is essential for us to remain independent. MaaS has given us the flexibility to customize our software to meet the unique needs of our rural environment across all care settings.”

Jessica Camacho, MBA

Business Office Director

Serve communities in innovative ways

Meet patients where they are by giving them easy and flexible access to care. Connect them with social and community services to enhance patient outcomes. See how rural and community hospitals across the US are thriving and making a powerful impact by engaging with their communities in innovative ways to meet their needs.

SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), provides care across 26 communities. It is committed to providing quality healthcare that honors the traditions of Alaska Native people and American Indians, while ensuring that advanced medical technologies are made accessible to all.

“Southeast Alaska’s archipelago of islands demands a uniquely creative approach to ensuring care accessibility. In our region, transportation could require a plane, boat or even intervention from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide medical support for patients. The innovative use of our new EHR is helping us overcome these challenges. We’ve streamlined social determinants of health processes, maintained steady claims during roll-out, and increased internal referrals by 10% with a new centralized referral center.”

Dr. Cate Buley

Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer

Augusta Health (Fishersville, VA) is a nationally recognized, community-based health system known for its leadership in health equity, patient safety, and advanced clinical care. The independent community health system is investing in its community by tackling health equity challenges.

“Some may question how we can financially justify the investment in these programs, and we propose: how can we not? These programs support value-based care goals and align with our personal mission towards a healthier community. Partnering with local organizations divides the work demand, fosters trust, and promotes meaningful work.”

Krystal Moyers

Administrative Director, Community Outreach and Partnerships & Communications

Level the playing field with data exchange that is seamless and meaningful

Remove the cumbersome barriers to data exchange and maintain your autonomy while simultaneously improving patient-centric care. MEDITECH’s advanced national interoperability network, Traverse Exchange, ensures that data remains valuable and meaningful regardless of its origin.

Interoperability plays a critical role in helping health systems of all sizes:

Eliminate the need for redundant infrastructure investments or the pressure to join another health system’s network solely to exchange data.

Reallocate scarce and valuable IT resources toward other organizational and community needs, ensuring that healthcare remains local.

Empower patients to access and share their health information through their preferred devices and communication channels, such as the MyHealth patient portal or Expanse Patient Connect.

Create an open ecosystem that enables patients to integrate their health data into apps for care coordination, medication management, digital insurance cards, and remote monitoring.

Ensure equitable access to technology and information for clinicians and patients.

Foster personalized care by leveraging innovations such as AI and genomics.

Build for the future with a robust EHR foundation

Rural health systems across the country are leveraging MEDITECH Expanse as their foundation for innovation. Twenty-nine of Becker’s Hospital Review’s “2025 Great Community Hospitals” use MEDITECH. Take a look at some of the award-winning rural hospitals using their MEDITECH Expanse EHR to deliver significant impact to the populations they serve.

North Country Healthcare (Whitefield, NH), comprising three critical access hospitals, earned CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Level 9 in both Acute Care and Ambulatory Care for the 2nd consecutive year in 2025.

“This recognition reflects the commitment of everyone at North Country Healthcare who understands that when technology is used with purpose, it strengthens safe, reliable, and compassionate care for the patients and communities we serve.”

Darrell Bodnar

Chief Information Officer

Newman Regional Health (Emporia, KS) enables clinicians to screen for and address essential needs at the point of care. Providers can seamlessly refer patients to community health workers and local agencies from within their native Expanse workflows, ensuring a coordinated, whole-person approach to care.

“Rural hospitals are the heartbeat of their communities. At Newman Regional Health, we are proud to take on that responsibility every day. By listening to our patients and responding to their needs with compassion and innovation, we are building a healthier, stronger future for the people we serve.”

Cathy Pimple, DNP, RN

Chief Executive Officer

Colquitt Regional Medical Center (Moultrie, GA) transformed its 155-bed facility into a high-performing rural hospital and is recognized for award-winning patient safety, innovation, and workforce engagement.

Becker’s “100 Great Community Hospitals”
An impressive 20 consecutive "A" grades from The Leapfrog Group
Recipient of the Press Ganey "Pinnacle of Excellence" award for patient experience

Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI), a 40-bed acute care hospital, is recognized for providing innovative, high-quality rural health care to over 55,000 residents across an eight-county region.

Becker’s “100 Great Community Hospitals”
First to implement the AI-powered Expanse Navigator built on Google Cloud, significantly reducing clinician charting time by an average of 7.5 minutes in prep time per patient
"Performance Leadership Award" from The Chartis Center for Rural Health

MBMC recently published a study highlighting how AI-based features, incorporated directly into the EHR, have improved the clinician experience.