Case Study: Firelands Regional Medical Center achieves real-time COVID-19 situational awareness with MEDITECH Business and Clinical Analytics

Firelands Regional Health System Monitors COVID-19 Patients with MEDITECH’s BCA Solution

Firelands Regional Medical Center, part of Firelands Regional Health System in Sandusky, Ohio, needed a better way to manage the rapidly changing demands of the COVID-19 surge. The 405-bed medical center wanted faster, more organized access to patient, testing, capacity, and resource data than spreadsheets could provide, and turned to MEDITECH’s Business and Clinical Analytics (BCA) solution.

MEDITECH helped Firelands build an interactive COVID-19 reporting dashboard that updates hourly and serves both frontline infection control staff and executive leadership with different levels of detail. The dashboard supports real-time monitoring of ED volume, bottlenecks, surge capacity, bed occupancy, lab results, and mortality, helping the team compare outsourced lab turnaround times and improve response planning. Firelands says the dashboard became its go-to source for the most current COVID-19 information and enabled more proactive, coordinated decision-making.

Firelands Regional Medical Center

Denao Ruttino

Chief Information Officer/Vice President of Operations