MEDITECH history

Early developments at MEDITECH included the company's first customer, the Hyannis, Massachusetts-based Cape Cod Hospital, as well as the MEDITECH Interpretive Information System Language (MIIS), which was introduced in 1970.

Lockheed Corporation created Eclipsys in 1971, a computerized physician ordering system for El Camino Hospital in California.

Although they were closed a few years later, in 1972 the company opened two regional offices in the western United States and one in the Midwest.

Almost all company events in the 1980's were held here until the acquisition of our Canton building.

In 1982, Dragon Systems developed a voice recognition prototype to the cheers of medical assistants everywhere!

Domestically, the company acquired a facility formerly known as the Underwood Building and opened its new headquarters in Westwood, Massachusetts, in 1983.

By 1984, MEDITECH was supporting the VAX family of computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). That year, revenues totaled approximately $20 million.

MEDITECH celebrated 20 years in business in 1989 and reached another milestone by opening a new facility in Norwood, Massachusetts.

In August 1990, MEDITECH purchased a three-story facility to accommodate its growing enterprise.

The study wouldn’t be published until 1991, but it found security issues, lack of standards and cost were the primary barriers to adopting electronic health records at the time.

Key leadership changes took place in 1993 when Pappalardo became MEDITECH's chairman, and Polimeno assumed the role of president.

By late 1994, MEDITECH's revenues totaled $100 million, and its systems were in use by approximately 12 percent of all United States hospitals, or 640 institutions.

MEDITECH's revenues reached $167.8 million in 1996, with more than 20 percent devoted to research and development initiatives.

Growth continued at MEDITECH in 1997.

Roberta Grigg, who later served as senior vice-president of MEDITECH's international operations before retiring in 2001, was another staffer who joined the company at this time.

Another important technical milestone came in 2002, when MEDITECH began supporting both Citrix and Windows XP.

Several important developments took place at MEDITECH in 2003.

Meditech announced its version 6.0 in 2006.

MEDITECH will build a four-story, 120,000 sq. ft. office building at the site of the former Kerr Mill in Fall River, MA. Plans to complete early 2007.

A number of these customers, including 2008 Malcolm Baldrige award winner Poudre Valley, were recognized for their achievements by MEDITECH President and COO Howard Messing during our 10th annual CIO Technology Workshop in June.

As of December 2009, 21 MEDITECH customers achieved Stage 6.

In 2010, 34 customers went LIVE with MEDITECH's advanced 6.0 platform.

We’re Still Growing: By the end of 2011, MEDITECH had over 3,300 employees!

And the List Goes On and On: As of May 2012, over 400 MEDITECH customers have successfully attested for Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, and are working with us to meet their Stage 2 goals.

Despite widespread adoption of EHR systems since the passage of the HITECH act, by 2014 healthcare systems were not widely sharing healthcare data outside their organization.

As of 2015, electronic health record adoption had doubled in just seven years.

MEDITECH announced the launch of Expanse, the company’s mobile, web-based EHR, on February 27, 2018.

On January 29, 2020, Meditech announced the launch of Expanse Patient Care, a web-based application software that allows nurses and therapists to conduct administrative tasks through a mobile device.