BOSTON – Partners HealthCare will roll out new acute care and preoperative clinical technology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Partners will deploy Needham, Mass.-based iMDsoft's MetaVision at both hospitals in all critical care and general care in-patient beds. The system will also be used to document all pre-op, operating room and acute care at the hospitals and their respective ambulatory surgery centers.

Partners HealthCare, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is an integrated health system founded by Brigham and Women's and Mass General. In addition to its two academic medical centers, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, community health centers, a physician network, home health and long-term care services and other health-related entities.

The iMDsoft project builds on MetaVision technology in use as Mass General's anesthesia information management system.

"MetaVision's state-of-the-art technology, which combines comprehensive clinical workflow management with unique decision support capabilities, has already improved care quality, efficiency, research and education in MGH's ORs," said Cindy Spurr, Partners' corporate director of clinical systems. "We expect like benefits as we deploy MetaVision more broadly across BWH and MGH."

MetaVision clinical information systems are used by medical centers across the globe - automating data collection, presentation, decision support, analysis and order management activities, said Phyllis Gotlib, CEO of iMDsoft.

Partners will be the first U.S. hospital system to implement MetaVision hospital-wide.