Practice Unite ® vs MEDITECH Expanse Now

Practice Unite®, now part of Uniphy Health, brings secure, HIPAA-compliant clinical communications and collaboration features to your healthcare system. This configurable application helps your organization: * Communicate and collaborate securely and effectively. * Securely share PHI with colleagues. * Find and communicate with colleagues by secure text or by phone. * Share and receive clinical data where and when it is needed. Available features include: * Secure Messaging: Search for colleagues by name, specialty and location. Send encrypted texts to one or more users or groups. Coordinate care via patient-centric care team messaging. Includes receipt confirmation. * Patient-centric Collaboration: Securely create and share patient notes among physicians, nurses and other clinicians. * Secure Photo Sharing: Save and share encrypted images. * Voice Calling: Call colleagues directly by cell, office number or VOIP (if provided by your organization). * Consults: Send consults directly from patient’s EHR to physicians’ mobile devices. * Clinical Alerts: Receive critical/abnormal lab results and other important clinical information directly from EHR and other clinical systems. Escalate as needed. * On-Call Schedule Management: Identify and communicate with the on-call physician or team quickly, from any mobile device. * Procedures: Schedule procedures and have results delivered to ordering physician’s mobile device. * Hospital System Directory: Access an up-to-date system-wide directory of phone numbers searchable by employee name or phone location. * Search: Find physicians based on name, specialty, area of practice, insurance participation, location and other criteria. * Events: Send invitations and obtain RSVP lists for hospital and departmental events. * News: Read important news and view images and videos from your organization. * Feedback: Easily get user feedback through short surveys. * Third-party app integration: Use Practice Unite as a “single pane of glass” to incorporate functionality from apps such as Charge Capture and streamline the user experience.

Expanse Now enables physicians to securely access their Expanse EHR workload and perform tasks remotely using intuitive mobile device conventions and voice commands. Providers on call or covering for others can remotely manage routine tasks wherever they are, without the need to connect to the full EHR from a desktop or laptop computer, ensuring anytime/anywhere access to the most essential elements of their Expanse EHR. With Expanse Now, physicians can: • View their own workload items, and items of providers for whom they are covering • Receive notifications of new workload items • View patient result notifications • View patient demographics, allergies, medications, and problems • Review relevant patient clinical data • Manage prescription refill requests • View and return patient calls, and call care team members • Create, forward messages/tasks • Mark items as read/unread To use Expanse Now, please contact your organization’s IT department.