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    It's Only Logical: Choosing MEDITECH Expanse with CereCore International

    It's Only Logical: Choosing MEDITECH Expanse with CereCore International

    By Daniel Eyre
    on Dec 16, 2024

    For NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations selecting MEDITECH for their Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system is a critical decision that supports operational transformation and improves patient...

    EPR Optimisation: Maximising the Impact of Your Technology Investment

    EPR Optimisation: Maximising the Impact of Your Technology Investment

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    By Sarah Peart-Bentham
    on Nov 14, 2024

    Welcome to the seventh and final blog in our standardisation focused blog series. If you missed any of our previous blogs, you can find them here:

    Maximising Efficiency with Epic's Cogito Analytics: Key Areas to Focus On

    Maximising Efficiency with Epic's Cogito Analytics: Key Areas to Focus On

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    By CereCore
    on Jun 25, 2024

    Epic's Cogito analytics suite offers a range of reporting tools across all applications, providing endless possibilities. However, with so many options available, it can be daunting to find the best...

    Healthcare of the Future: Key Insights to Encourage Transformation

    Healthcare of the Future: Key Insights to Encourage Transformation

    By Daniel Eyre
    on Jun 5, 2024

    As we navigate the 21st century, it’s clear that our traditional models need a radical transformation to address the emerging challenges related to patient centred care, healthcare data...

    Boosting Your EPR: How to Navigate Post-Implementation Optimisation

    Boosting Your EPR: How to Navigate Post-Implementation Optimisation

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    By CereCore
    on Jun 3, 2024

    Large implementations can be overwhelming, and organisations often run out of steam. Modern EPR (EHR) platforms are like living, breathing entities that require care and feeding to keep an...

    Implementing an EPR? Don't Overlook Fundamentals Like Change Management

    Implementing an EPR? Don't Overlook Fundamentals Like Change Management

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    By Melissa Alfiero
    on May 22, 2024
    • Do your leadership and operations teams feel unprepared to go live, or do they think their voices have not been heard?
    • Are your providers unhappy? Do they feel like they are spending too much time...
    Mastering Epic Optimisation: Strategies for Continuous Improvement

    Mastering Epic Optimisation: Strategies for Continuous Improvement

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    By Sumir Saroya
    on Apr 4, 2024

    After implementing a good governance structure and clearing the issues backlog from the Epic EPR post-go-live phase, you will transition into the optimisation phase. There are several tools provided...

    Leading the Way: Liverpool Women’s Wins Health Tech Team of the Year Award for MEDITECH Expanse Implementation

    Leading the Way: Liverpool Women’s Wins Health Tech Team of the Year Award for MEDITECH Expanse Implementation

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    By CereCore Media Coverage
    on Feb 16, 2024

    Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has been honoured with the Health Tech Team of the Year award by HTN for its successful MEDITECH Expanse Implementation. In a landmark achievement, the Trust...

    Elevate Efficiency: Reporting Processes Optimisation

    Elevate Efficiency: Reporting Processes Optimisation

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    By Lyndsay Schuering
    on Jan 31, 2024

    Analytics touch every application within your system, working in parallel with your workflows. A strong analytics program integrates reporting content directly into users’ day-to-day activities,...

    Liverpool Women’s CIO Perspective: Digital Maturity One EPR Milestone at a Time

    Liverpool Women’s CIO Perspective: Digital Maturity One EPR Milestone at a Time

    By CereCore
    on Sep 1, 2023

    Matt Connor is the chief information officer (CIO) for Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, and they were the first NHS organisation in the UK to go-live on MEDITECH Expanse. Matt joined our...

    CereCore International Earns MEDITECH Hardware Integrator Certification

    CereCore International Earns MEDITECH Hardware Integrator Certification

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    By CereCore Media Coverage
    on Aug 1, 2023

    LONDON, Aug. 1, 2023 --CereCore Internationaltoday announced the company is a certified hardware integrator for MEDITECH in the United Kingdom and Ireland and is providing end-to-end healthcare IT...

    Liverpool Women's is First to Complete Modern EPR Milestone

    Liverpool Women's is First to Complete Modern EPR Milestone

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    By CereCore Media Coverage
    on Jul 25, 2023

    Liverpool Women's has become the first NHS Foundation Trust to go-live on MEDITECH Expanse, and CereCore International provided expertise during the planning stages, go-live support, and optimisation.

    Healthcare Applications in the Cloud: Is it Really the Easy Button?

    Healthcare Applications in the Cloud: Is it Really the Easy Button?

    By Treece Efird
    on Jul 7, 2023

    You’ve decided to host one or more of your strategic applications remotely or in the cloud. If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve done a lot of due diligence ensuring the application will perform in a...

    Drowning in Technical Debt? Uncover Big Risks to Patient Care

    Drowning in Technical Debt? Uncover Big Risks to Patient Care

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    By Peyman Zand
    on Jun 23, 2023

    Technical debt is on the minds of healthcare CIOs. In March 2023, CereCore sponsored an online survey of healthcare IT executives, all CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives)...

    Epic Advisory Services: An Acquisition and Install Story

    Epic Advisory Services: An Acquisition and Install Story

    By CereCore
    on Jun 15, 2023

    Moving from MEDITECH to Epic

    One Hospital System’s Formula for Navigating the Unknown

    The ClientPrivate, nonprofit hospital system being acquired by another hospital system.

    The FacilityThe...

    How to Transition from MEDITECH Legacy EHR to Expanse

    How to Transition from MEDITECH Legacy EHR to Expanse

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    By Bob Gronberg
    on Jun 9, 2023

    For the past 40 years, MEDITECH Magic has been a stable, cost-effective electronic health record solution for healthcare organizations. But, Magic is an aging technology that eventually will...

    A Clinical Service Desk for Epic Users: Emphasis on Clinical

    A Clinical Service Desk for Epic Users: Emphasis on Clinical

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    By Chris Wickersham, Stephanie Murray
    on Apr 28, 2023

    Not all Epic clinical service desks are created the same. At CereCore, our Epic help desk is focused on providing well-informed Level 1 agents backed by experts with decades of clinical expertise....

    Opportunities Abound in the Fight Against EHR Staffing Shortages

    Opportunities Abound in the Fight Against EHR Staffing Shortages

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    By Doreen DeGroff
    on Apr 21, 2023

    As an IT hiring manager, finding the right resource with the right skills, knowledge and culture fit can be a herculean task. In the fast-changing healthcare IT space, finding individuals who have...

    US firm CereCore brings its EMR implementation expertise to the UK

    US firm CereCore brings its EMR implementation expertise to the UK

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    By CereCore Media Coverage
    on Apr 13, 2023

    CereCore is pleased to participate as a sponsor of Digital Health in the UK. Jon Hoeksma, editor and CEO of Digital Health, interviewed Curtis Watkins, President and CEO of CereCore, to learn...

    Building a Unified EHR with MEDITECH Expanse: A Look Back at Key Decisions

    Building a Unified EHR with MEDITECH Expanse: A Look Back at Key Decisions

    By CereCore
    on Feb 24, 2023

    One of the first steps Memorial Healthcare in Owosso, MI took when they were deciding to unify their EHR with MEDITECH Expanse was to closely examine integrations, workflows, and day-to-day...

    Sese Bennett Shares How Hospitals Can Be Best Prepared for Cybersecurity Breach

    Sese Bennett Shares How Hospitals Can Be Best Prepared for Cybersecurity Breach

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    By CereCore Media Coverage
    on Feb 3, 2023

    Over the holidays, a cybersecurity breach at a New Jersey hospital forced the healthcare facility to turn away emergency department visitors and suspend outpatient services. This type of...

    The Secret to One Hospital's $115k Savings in EHR Build Costs

    The Secret to One Hospital's $115k Savings in EHR Build Costs

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    By Bob Gronberg
    on Jan 6, 2023

    After wrapping up a recent MEDITECH Expanse project in which our team used automation tools and processes, we did some analysis on the overall cost savings —we saved the healthcare organization over...

    ICYMI: 10 Clinician-Focused Blogs to Help You Get the Most Out of Healthcare IT

    ICYMI: 10 Clinician-Focused Blogs to Help You Get the Most Out of Healthcare IT

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    By CereCore
    on Dec 30, 2022

    Here’s a look back at our most popular blogs from the year. From EHR implementation and optimization topics to recent survey findings from healthcare CIOs and CFOs on the industry’s top challenges,...

    4 EMR Implementation Cost Leaks and How to Prevent Them

    4 EMR Implementation Cost Leaks and How to Prevent Them

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    By Bob Gronberg
    on Nov 4, 2022

    EHR implementations are a huge investment. And for many healthcare IT teams, this type of project may be a once in a career type of experience. I have spent more than 30 years of my career helping...

    Optimize Orders in MEDITECH Now to Save Providers Time Later

    Optimize Orders in MEDITECH Now to Save Providers Time Later

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    By Dee Rentmeister
    on Aug 26, 2022

    When was the last time your facility reviewed the MEDITECH procedure build? Has it been since the original implementation or build? Is your operational philosophy, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,"...

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    EHR Hosting and Backup: Budgeting and Planning Tips that Avoid Surprise Costs

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    By Clay Posey
    on Aug 12, 2022

    Whether your healthcare organization is tackling a digital transformation agenda, considering an EHR upgrade or rip and replace, or navigating merger and acquisition activities, decisions around IT...

    Oncology Integrations in MEDITECH Ambulatory: 7 Focus Areas for Team Collaboration

    Oncology Integrations in MEDITECH Ambulatory: 7 Focus Areas for Team Collaboration

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    By Sarah Smith, CPhT
    on Jul 8, 2022

    MEDITECH Expanse gives sites the ability to take advantage of the new updated version of the Oncology application. This essentially new version further integrates the application with MEDITECH’s...

    Healthcare Literacy and the Patient Portal: Explore Hands-On Video Resources to Increase User Confidence (Part 2)

    Healthcare Literacy and the Patient Portal: Explore Hands-On Video Resources to Increase User Confidence (Part 2)

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    on Jul 1, 2022

    According to The National Assessment of Adult Health Literacy report, only 12% of Americans have proficient health literacy skills. Adults who lack such skills may struggle to understand instructions...

    A Healthcare IT Consultant Story: Why You Need a Guide

    A Healthcare IT Consultant Story: Why You Need a Guide

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    Health Literacy and the Patient Portal: Start Assessing Your Community and Facility

    Health Literacy and the Patient Portal: Start Assessing Your Community and Facility

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    on Jun 3, 2022

    I got a new phone a week ago, and I feel pretty special because it’s one of the “new flip phones”. Of course, that also makes me laugh because I owned one of the original flip phones way back when....

    MEDITECH Expanse: Customizable Features that Improve Clinician Satisfaction

    MEDITECH Expanse: Customizable Features that Improve Clinician Satisfaction

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    By Devon Dow, BSN, RN
    on May 6, 2022

    MEDITECH Expanse is packed with functionality to help your hospital improve its efficiency. You have likely heard that Expanse has new, improved features. Let’s explore several Expanse features that...

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    MEDITECH Expanse: Bringing Ambulatory and Acute Under One EHR

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    on Apr 1, 2022

    MEDITECH’s Expanse Ambulatory platform provides an opportunity for healthcare organizations to unite their ambulatory practices and the acute care system within a single electronic health record....

    Four Ways to Support Patient Safety Through Healthcare Technology and Communication

    Four Ways to Support Patient Safety Through Healthcare Technology and Communication

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    Making sure the right clinical staff receive test results on time, documenting medication information, taking advantage of alerts and alarms – here are just a few examples of communications...

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    EHR Change Management Tips That Help Overcome Reluctance

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    By Kristin Cox
    on Mar 11, 2022

    The reasons for implementing changes to your EHR can vary from the need for new workflows, improving existing workflows and processes, regulatory requirements, or introducing new technology. So how...

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    MEDITECH Dictionary Cleanup for Clinicians (and IT)

    MEDITECH Dictionary Cleanup for Clinicians (and IT)

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    The Path to MEDITECH Expanse: Where Should You Begin?

    The Path to MEDITECH Expanse: Where Should You Begin?

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    By Bob Gronberg
    on Nov 22, 2021

    MEDITECH Expanse is the most recent version of the MEDITECH electronic health record system. The path to MEDITECH Expanse is a significant transition. So where should you begin? Let’s dive into...

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