Greenway Health is an information solutions provider based in Carrollton, Ga., serving a variety of healthcare provider organizations, including integrated health systems, community health centers, physician practices and ambulatory surgery centers.
Here are 10 things to know about Greenway Health.
1. Greenway Health's roots extend to the founding of Greenway Medical Technologies in 1998, a health IT software and services provider offering electronic health records, practice management and interoperability solutions. In September 2013, Greenway Medical Technologies joined forces with Vitera Healthcare, which traces its roots to 1977, and SuccessEHS, to form Greenway Health. Greenway Health has pioneered clinical, financial and administrative solutions, enabling providers to better adapt to the constantly evolving healthcare system and continue to provide quality care.
2. Tee Green is CEO of Greenway Health. He has been a company leader since starting as vice president of sales and marketing with Greenway Medical Technologies in 1998. Within one year he was named president and became a member of the board of directors. Mr. Green assumed the chief executive role in 2010.
3. The strategic vision for Greenway Health is, in Mr. Green's words, "to build world-class services that enable our providers to perform clinically at the highest level."
4. Interoperability — or "data liquidity" as Mr. Green calls it — is at the core of Greenway Health's mission, not only through health information exchanges but also through the extension of information to advance research and development. "You can build electronic data, but if it can't flow across the system, it's built like Hotel California," says Mr. Green. "You can come but you can never leave. The consumer is not going to stand for that." He continues, "If we're truly going to improve health, we're going to need to start connecting provider and consumer information with clinical research."
5. As part of its efforts to enhance data translation to clinical research, Greenway Health has joined forces with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., to develop a clinical data research network. The project is funded by a Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute grant, and Greenway Health is the first EHR provider to be a full partner in a PCORI grant project. The network is gathering the de-identified EHR information of 30 million patients to support clinical data research.
6. Illustrative of Greenway Health's interoperability efforts is its involvement in many nationwide initiatives pushing for interoperable health IT infrastructure. Greenway Health is a founding member of the CommonWell Health Alliance, a cross-vendor initiative to improve data access, reduce workflow time and reduce complexity. Additionally, Greenway Health is the first ambulatory health IT provider to join Healtheway, the public-private collaboration that supports the ONC's eHealth Exchange.
7. Interoperability serves as a gateway into population health goals and management, and Greenway Health is intent on helping the industry shift to a position where population health management becomes easier. Mr. Green says patients are no longer patients; they are becoming consumers. He says rising healthcare costs and high-deductible health plans lead consumers to increasingly demand quality, access and value, which require tools to improve the overall landscape of the industry. "We can collect EHR data from multiple systems around the country and create automation to track clinical events. All of these things lead to our real goal: to improve health and enable our providers to perform clinically at the highest level and thrive financially. That's good for the healthcare delivery system. That's good for the country, and I know it's good for me as a consumer."
8. Greenway Health emphasizes investing back into the community. The Greenway Community Foundation is involved with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. The company also offers a scholarship and internship program. Students in the internship program automatically receive a job offer when they graduate. Greenway Health also sponsors a nonprofit clinic providing free health services to the uninsured.
9. In 2014, Healthcare Informatics magazine named Greenway Health a "most interesting HIT vendor" for its leadership efforts in health IT interoperability.
10. At HIMSS 2012, Greenway Health launched the Greenway Marketplace, an online platform for customers to browse and evaluate solutions to add to their Greenway platform. More than 80 partners currently work with Greenway to provide solutions through the Marketplace. Those solutions are separated into 12 categories, such as care coordination, mobile solutions and patient education, and providers can submit solutions to be hosted on the platform.
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