MAGIC to Client/Server Migration

Migration from MEDITECH MAGIC to 6.0

An interview with Rick Lang, Vice President & CIO, and Robin Hall, Director of IS, Doylestown Hospital.

There is a lot of discussion these days about infrastructure requirements relating to the prospective migration of the MAGIC and Client/Server (C/S) 5.X community to MEDITECH's C/S 6.0. In our experience, most of these discussions focus on the potentially significant capital investment that hospitals currently running MAGIC are facing. While there is no doubt that an investment in IT infrastructure will be required for most hospitals to migrate to C/S 6.0, some careful thinking and advanced planning can significantly ease the transition.

Got Virtualization? Here's how it can help you migrate to 6.0

Virtualization can help you migrate to 6.0 from MAGIC, or update to 6.0 from Client/Server 5.x.

Interview with Richard (Dick) Latuchie, CIO at Regional Health, Rapid City, SD
Like many healthcare organizations, Regional Health saw the benefits of electronic medical record keeping as a strategic initiative towards achieving their long-term healthcare delivery objectives. As part of their implementation strategy, Regional Health decided to migrate from MAGIC to MEDITECH's Client/Server 5.6 platform and concurrently put into place a disaster recovery solution to ensure the safety and availability of the electronic data. They chose JJWild [now a Perot Systems Company] as their migration provider.

Profile of a successful conversion: Regional Health migrates from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6
Here’s how one community-based healthcare network made a smooth and successful transition from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6.

Key considerations in conversion from MAGIC to Client/Server
Thinking about upgrading from MAGIC to Client/Server? Here are a few questions you should be asking.

Interview with Hoda Sayed-Friel, MEDITECH's Vice President of Marketing
With the advent of MEDITECH’s Client/Server 6.0 Release, many hospitals are evaluating their long term strategies - considering a migration from MAGIC to Client/Server or updating to 6.0 from an earlier Client/Server Release. Hoda Sayed-Friel, Vice President of Marketing for MEDITECH, recently sat down with our editors to discuss this.

Setting your course for MEDITECH 6.0
As we kick off the New Year and plan for what's ahead, MEDITECH's readiness to launch Client/Server 6.0 in 2008 is at the forefront.

JJWild’s [now a Perot Systems Company] Healthcare Optimization Workshop (HOW ’08) Recap

Doylestown Hospital Goes Live from MAGIC to 6.0!
Congratulations to Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on their June first migration from MAGIC to 6.0. Additionally, Doylestown implemented Scanning and Archiving, Operating Room (OR), and Patient Care Manager (PCM) as part of their “Go Live”. This overall migration will allow Doylestown Hospital’s staff and physicians to take advantage of the robust capabilities and new user interface of 6.0. JJWild provided project management, Healthcare Operational Continuance/disaster recovery services, and infrastructure consulting as well as infrastructure components to Doylestown for this exciting initiative. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future.

Woman’s Hospital enlists JJWild [now a Perot Systems Company] to migrate applications to Client/Server 5.6 and ultimately 6.0
Woman’s Hospital of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has chosen JJWild to migrate their MEDITECH applications to Client/Server 5.6 and ultimately 6.0. An existing MEDITECH MAGIC site, JJWild will help Woman’s Hospital with their infrastructure design, technology review, implementation, and support. We look forward to partnering with Woman’s Hospital and are pleased to support their commitment to quality care.

JJWild [now a Perot Systems Company] Participates in 6.0 Architectural Review with MEDITECH
As a MEDITECH preferred integration provider, JJWild has been working diligently to collaboratively test and certify hardware and software for use with 6.0 and to develop appropriate infrastructure designs and services to support 6.0 requirements. We have worked with MEDITECH since early testing phases of 6.0 and have continued to adjust these designs as new information about how best to support 6.0 is learned. At the same time, we’ve developed a suite of professional services to help organizations prepare for, plan, budget, and successfully adopt 6.0. We will continue to align ourselves closely with MEDITECH and ongoing 6.0 implementations. You can be sure you are always getting a quotation that is based on the most up-to-date, accurate information available to ensure success of your 6.0 deployment and future growth of your infrastructure.

Regional Health Goes Live from MAGIC to Client/Server!
Congratulations to Rapid City Regional Health on their April 1st (no fooling!) migration of five of their hospitals from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6. Additionally, Rapid City Regional Health also implemented a dual data center, high availability environment for their MEDITECH systems to help ensure optimal availability. This migration will allow Rapid City Regional Health’s staff and physicians to take advantage of the robust capabilities and new user interface of 5.6. JJWild provided project management, application subject matter expertise, and infrastructure consulting to Rapid City Regional Health on this exciting initiative.

Rapid City Regional Health Goes Live from MAGIC to Client/Server!
Congratulations to Rapid City Regional Health on their April 1st (no fooling!) migration of five of their hospitals from MAGIC to Client/Server 5.6. Additionally, Rapid City Regional Health also implemented a dual data center, high availability environment for their MEDITECH systems to help ensure optimal availability. This migration will allow Rapid City Regional Health’s staff and physicians to take advantage of the robust capabilities and new user interface of 5.6. JJWild provided project management, application subject matter expertise, and infrastructure consulting to Rapid City Regional Health on this exciting initiative.

Community Memorial Hospital of Ventura enlists JJWild [now a Perot Systems Company] to Help Migrate its MEDITECH Software Applications from MAGIC to Client/Server
Community Memorial Hospital of Ventura, in Ventura, California, has chosen JJWild to migrate their MEDITECH applications to Client/Server. An existing MEDITECH MAGIC site, JJWild will help Community Memorial Hospital with their infrastructure design, technology review, implementation, and support. JJWild will be involved in a number of consulting engagements in preparation for migrating to C/S, including project management, revenue cycle, and materials management. After careful consideration, the hospital also signed a contract for JSite, JJWild's fully managed disaster recovery service, for their MEDITECH infrastructure. We look forward to working with Community Memorial Hospital of Ventura, and are pleased to support their commitment to quality care.