Meditech - Healthcare Information System - Sunil Nair Health Informatics Dalhousie University

Meditech is a healthcare IT company that provides an integrated software system for healthcare organizations. Their system handles various functions like patient management, clinical documentation, financial management, and more. It allows for things like computerized physician order entry, management of clinical and financial data, budgeting and cost analysis. The system aims to facilitate information sharing across different departments and providers. It collects data in a centralized data repository for reporting and decision making. Meditech competes with other large healthcare IT vendors and their system is used widely, though full integration across the healthcare system has yet to be achieved.