MEDITECH’s 6.1 Web Acute Selected as Calvert Memorial Hospital’s Roadmap to the Future

July 27, 2015 — For healthcare organizations, selecting an EHR best suited for staff needs can be a lengthy process, but for Calvert Memorial Hospital (Prince Frederick, MD), selection only took nine months. A MEDITECH customer since 1995, Calvert announced they will be implementing the new 6.1 Web Acute platform.

In an interview with healthsystemcio.com, Calvert’s VP & CIO Ed Grogan, shared the reasons why the health system ultimately decided on the new MEDITECH, population health being one of them.

“Right now, every hospital in Maryland with the exception of one, as of this year, is under capitation under one of two plans. And so population health management is very important for us — not only because it’s the right thing to do to help maintain the wellness of our community but also, it’s a requirement for our financial survival and to remain independent,” he said. “We wanted to make sure MEDITECH had a good roadmap for the future, and that’s what we concluded at the end of the selection process.”

Calvert was also recently recognized by the AHA as a 2015 Most Wired hospital and just made HIMSS Stage 6. Grogan says their goal is to achieve Stage 7 with the new MEDITECH platform.