MetaVision powers clinical excellence & interoperability in Soroka Medical Center’s ICU and OR units

About the hospital:

Soroka University Medical Center is one of Israel’s largest hospitals and a major regional hub for advanced medical care, education, and research. Located in Beersheva, it serves over one million people in Southern Israel. The hospital has approximately 1,200 beds and provides comprehensive care across all specialties, including serving as a tertiary referral and level-1 trauma center. As a teaching hospital affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka plays a vital role in training the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Soroka University Medical Center is one of Israel’s largest hospitals and a major regional hub for advanced medical care, education, and research. Located in Beersheva, it serves over one million people in Southern Israel. The hospital has approximately 1,200 beds and provides comprehensive care across all specialties, including serving as a tertiary referral and level-1 trauma center. As a teaching hospital affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka plays a vital role in training the next generation of healthcare professionals.

The challenge

In the mid-2000s, Soroka University Medical Center set out to implement an electronic medical record (EMR) in its critical care departments. The hospital needed a system capable of handling the large volumes of complex patient information generated across its critical care units.

At Soroka, critical care spans multiple neonatal, pediatric, and general ICUs and operating rooms, each with distinct workflows and documentation needs. The hospital required a system flexible enough to support different departments while ensuring that patient information, including medical orders, vital signs, and clinical progress, was consistently documented in the patient file.

The solution

After evaluating available systems, Soroka selected MetaVision as the clinical information system for its critical care departments, implementing it in 2007. Two capabilities were central to the decision: the ability to connect directly to multiple medical devices and the flexibility to tailor the system to each department’s needs.

MetaVision captures clinical data from medical devices, hospital systems, and clinician documentation and incorporates it into the electronic medical record. This ensures that key clinical data generated during patient care is automatically documented within the patient file.

The system can be configured to support the workflows of different critical care departments and connects with other hospital applications, allowing information from external systems to be incorporated into the patient record.

The results

At Soroka, MetaVision supports clinical teams by managing patient records across ICUs, NICUs, PICUs, and ORs, providing clinicians with a unified, easily accessible view of patient information.

Key benefits reported by staff include:

• Consistent clinical documentation – Doctors and nurses document treatment and medication orders, vital signs, progress notes, and other patient information directly in the system. This creates a single, comprehensive electronic record that follows the patient throughout their time in the critical care department.
• Smooth integration with hospital systems – MetaVision connects with other applications and systems used at Soroka, allowing information from diverse sources to be presented together in the patient file.
• System flexibility – The system is easily tailored for different departments. Forms, charts, and documentation structures within the patient record can be configured to reflect the workflows and documentation requirements of each unit.
• Excellent support experience – Staff highlight the responsiveness and collaboration of the iMDsoft team. Yochai Peretz, Deputy Manager in the IT Department, says, “It’s really a privilege to work with them.”

After nearly two decades of use, MetaVision continues to support Soroka’s critical care teams by providing a flexible platform for documenting and managing patient information across the hospital’s specialized units.

“We chose MetaVision because of the ability to connect to multiple devices that deliver the vital signs and information from the devices to the EMR. The second reason is the ability to customize almost everything we need, tailored to each department specifically, according to their needs.”
Yochai Peretz, Deputy Manager, IT Department, Soroka Medical Center