Hub Magazine "Health & Wellness Innovation - LIVES MATTER" article By Tee Green.
CARROLLTON, Georgia, Dec. 8, 2015 — Greenway Health CEO Tee Green featured in Hub Magazine November/December 2015 issue.
Nearly 20 years ago, my father, his associates and I recognized the potential for technology to change the healthcare industry – particularly physician practices and ambulatory clinics – as it had for the financial industry where we were then focused. If properly applied, we believed it could improve the care that patients receive, and how providers deliver it.
Turns out we were right, though I’m not sure we could have fully anticipated the rapid pace of change, both in healthcare delivery and in technology, and how health IT today is beginning to literally transform lives.
To guide Greenway Health’s strategic direction, we identified three industry “megatrends,” the first of which we called electronification. The old days of doing things by paper charts, faxes and phone calls had to end. The old “system,” if you can even call it that, was expensive and led to misunderstandings and delays that could literally kill people. With spiraling healthcare costs and an aging population, things simply had to change.
In recent years, the federal HITECH act’s Meaningful Use program has encouraged the shift to electronic health records and related solutions – all of which Greenway Health offers – and has financially incented providers to box up their paper charts, unplug their fax machines and move into the 21st century. While MU has had its shortcomings, it has caused a transformational shift towards electronification. And everyone’s benefitting from it.
At Greenway Health, we’re also seeing broader electronification across all facets of a provider’s revenue cycle. We have more and more customers partnering with us for clinically driven revenue services that leverage the robust data in our solutions to support the mission-critical financial side of their business. That frees doctors to do what they do best – take care of patients.
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