MEDITECH
Integrated
Communication System
product brief
MEDITECH's Integrated Communication System is an intuitive, electronic messaging and tracking solution for busy health care providers. The Integrated Communication System is fast and efficient, easy to use, and integrates with the MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS).
Highlights:
•
An electronic messaging system which offers standard e-mail
functions such as sending, reading, deleting, or composing
messages
• Full access to mail and tracking
information via the Internet
• Integration with the MEDITECH HCIS.
Standard Features
Improved
Communication
The Integrated Communication System facilitates communication
among the many physicians, clinicians, patients, administrators,
and health care executives who make up a health care community.
Physicians can communicate with colleagues and patients and be
sure that messages are sent and received. Busy hospital staff can
locate other employees or find important information using a
simple and easy-to-use tracking system. Because it uses industry-standard
protocols, the Integrated Communication System can communicate
with other e-mail systems.
An
Important Clinical Tool
The Integrated Communication System becomes an important clinical
tool for physicians when used to assist with daily patient care
responsibilities. E-mail now becomes a new way to efficiently
communicate information.
User-Friendly
Electronic Communiqué
MEDITECH's Integrated Communication System is comfortable and
easy to use. The software provides standard, user-friendly
electronic messaging functions, enabling users to:
• Create, edit, send, forward, reply, receive, delete,
scroll, select, and view electronic messages
• Toggle among new, read, old, and future mail lists
• Interact with external entities using disparate e-mail
programs
• Direct the product by using a mouse or keyboard
equivalents
• Receive and send
various attachment types, including HTML documents
• Sort the list of displayed messages by subject, by sender,
by date and time of receipt, and by number of attachments
• Spell check messages.
Integrated
Communication System Trax
The Integrated Communication System Trax component displays
demographic and location information about each user on a health
care organization's system. The Trax captures this information
from the MEDITECH dictionaries, saving staff time from double
entry.
Users can view the
demographic and location information pertaining to themselves as
well as to other users on the system. Information provided in the
Integrated Communication System Trax includes:
• User name
• Job title
• Phone extension
• E-mail address
• Department
• Main facility location
• Work hours
• Supervisor name
• Organization-defined
parameters defining whether or not attachments can be received
• Staff photos
• Room locator that
includes the ability to incorporate maps and directions.
Integration
Our Integrated Communication System has been designed to work
seamlessly as part of our HCIS to offer one dynamic and fully
integrated product suite. By taking advantage of data already
entered in the dictionaries, customers avoid the need for double
entry. The dynamic design of our total integrated solution also
sets the stage for expanded use with clinical applications as the
functionality of the ICS further evolves.
An additional benefit of having one integrated system is that all products contained in our HCIS share the same built-in security features. Since the Integrated Communication System is integrated with the MEDITECH dictionaries, all user access and confidential patient record restrictions automatically apply.
System
Performance and Benefits
MEDITECH's robust technology solution coupled with industry-standard
components is fast and reliable, offering a real value to our
customers. The system runs on Microsoft® Windows 2000 servers.
These servers power the basic functions of sending, opening,
creating, reading, and closing a message. The clients (Microsoft
Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me) handle the remaining functions. Limited
taxation on the servers increases the service provided to users
and maximizes the power of the clients. Customers benefit from
low administrative "overhead" costs as well as minimal
required resources and time.
Secure
Desktop Access
Access to the Integrated Communication System is easy and secure.
Users simply click on their Integrated Communication System
application icon. The native Integrated Communication System
address book prevents users from receiving viruses targeted at
public address books.
Access
to Mail and Trax Via the Internet
Users can also access the mail and Trax via any Web portal. The
Integrated Communication System uses the industry-standard SSL (secure
socket layer) Protocol.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com