On FOCUS

by Joel Berman To convert or not to convert. That is the question. Over the past year or so, many of you have struggled with whether you should rush to get in line to convert to FOCUS or stay with what you have, whether it’s MAGIC or Client/Server (C/S). A few months ago at HIMSS [...]

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by Mike DeVoe For those of us who have worked in FOCUS, we know MEDITECH will fire up and close multiple instances of the FOCUS client as we navigate through the system.  The sign-on process and main menu navigation is one instance of the FOCUS client; if you launch into an application, MEDITECH starts a [...]

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by Ed Bishop MEDITECH’s 6.x role based technology appears intended to simplify the clinical user’s workflow.  As a customer, you can define the menu options up to the point a user selects a patient. After patient selection, MEDITECH decided the menu and the workflow choices.  Keeping things consistent and simple seem to be key to [...]

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by Frank Fortner Recently, there has been a growing trend of concern expressed by some sites (particularly MAGIC sites) about the possible migration to the 6.x platform.  Some of this has been shared on the MEDITECH L-list while other concerns have come up in private conversations with various IT leaders.  I’ve spoken with many existing [...]

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