World class tools for accessing and monitoring your MEDITECH data.

We pride ourselves in providing sophisticated tools for working with your MEDITECH databases. Our intimate knowledge of MEDITECH's underlying environments is used to create the finest software and services available.

Founded On A Crazy Notion

Blue Elm was founded to serve the MEDITECH healthcare community with technical tools that are not widely available but are highly valuable to healthcare organizations.  MEDITECH provides a fabulous and economical healthcare solution.  We simply make MEDITECH healthcare systems better by providing cutting edge tools and solutions. 

History 

Founded in 1998 as part of Acmeware, Inc., Blue Elm was spun off as a product company in 2001.  Our first commercially successful product DrAuditor was first created in 1999.  Since then DrAuditor has become the defacto standard for validating data in MEDITECH based data repositories.  In 2003, Blue Elm introduced OpenGate, an ADO.NET driver for running directly against the MEDITECH (MAGIC and C/S) databases.  OpenGate has proved to be every bit as a commercial success as DrAuditor has been and more. Our products are installed at over 500 hospitals.

We pride ourselves in are a small company and like to keep things that way as quality control is our number one concern.  All our programmers are highly experienced in MAGIC and NPR as well as Windows and relational databases. 

President Bio

John Mackey worked for MEDITECH for 10 years.  Starting in the MIIS (MUMPS) group as a programmer/analyst, he took over the MIIS training classes within his first year.  John created the first HL7 interfaced used at MEDITECH, and wrote the lower layer network and asynchronous protocols that are used by MEDITECH today in NMI.  In addition, John created the first patient monitor interfaces, insurance verification interfaces, and a vast number of other interfaces at MEDITECH.  In additon, John was leant out to various MEDITECH groups as a technical resource. 

After 10 years at MEDITECH, John founded, with Glen D'Abate, Acmeware, Inc.  Acmeware specialzied in data repository consulting.  However, during Acmeware infancy, it was realized that MEDITECH's data repository was not very reliable.  John developed DrAuditor to automate the tedious consulting task of verifying table accuracy in data repository. 

In 2001, Acmeware was split and  John founded Blue Elm to take over the growing number of DrAuditor customers.  The number of DrAuditor customers quickly grew to over 30.  In 2003, John created OpenGate based on his experience with interfaces and the need to pull dynamic data out of MEDITECH to validate data in data repository.  OpenGate was originally created for internal use at Blue Elm.  However, a number of vendors and sites found out about OpenGate and were highly excited about the technology.  Thus, Blue Elm made OpenGate commerically available.

Our Mission

Blue Elm believes MEDITECH systems offers the best cost to feature ratio in the HCIS business for healthcare organizations. However, we also understand that no system is perfect. In this end, Blue Elm tries to make the MEDITECH HCIS system better.

Blue Elm Company supplies cutting edge healthcare software products, specializing in solutions for MEDITECH clients needing native MEDITECH data drivers and data repository validation.