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Greenway Medical Technologies
Donates Electronic Health Record, Clinical Research and Revenue
Cycle Solutions to Northern Kentucky University
Other topics:
Patient
Deductible Data,
Intensity-Modulated
Radiotherapy (IMRT),
Medical
Informatics Major
PRNewswire
February 26, 2010
Curriculum Initiatives Further University's Leadership Role in
Creating National Health IT Workforce
CARROLLTON, Ga.
* The U.S. Bureau of Labor projects a 47 percent increase in
Health IT job needs by the end of 2012.
* The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is
sponsoring programs to train 10,000 new Health IT professionals.
* The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC) announced $80 million in separate higher
education grants last November to train Health IT professionals.
* The Health Informatics graduate program at Northern Kentucky
University (NKU) is one of the nation's largest, and the
university is home to the Healthcare Interoperability (HCI)
Research Laboratory.
* NKU is merging grant funds obtained within the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) with Greenway's solutions
to create two certificate programs and related usage throughout
the health informatics and health professions curricula. |
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Greenway Medical Technologies,
Inc. is providing its integrated electronic health record (EHR),
practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite®;
clinical trials and research analytics solution PrimeResearch™;
and revenue cycle management solution PrimeRCM® to Northern
Kentucky University.
While the ONC and other agencies are making major investments in
advancing healthcare technology training and an expanded
workforce, current university and college curricula lacks
leading edge Health IT solutions.
Northern Kentucky University has one of the largest and most
progressive graduate programs in Health Informatics in the
nation. Greenway's donation of industry leading HIT solutions
will allow NKU to merge programs within its College of Health
Professions and College of Informatics to provide training for
all clinical students, and make the new programs available to
other institutions through programs being established by ONC.
The university plans to begin the implementation of Greenway's
solutions by March 15.
The use of Greenway's integrated solutions is allowing NKU to
use Workforce Investment Board (WIB) grant funds obtained within
ARRA legislation to create Healthcare Technology and Business
Process Analysis programs within the two colleges, which will,
for example, make Greenway's automated solutions accessible to
750 nursing students and 200 Allied Health students.
The university's HCI lab will research simulation models of cost
savings attributable to healthcare information exchange and
interoperability, while a related project plans to create a
virtual medical center demonstrating how a fully-functional EHR
solution integrates with patient care.
"The interaction of informatics and nursing students using
Greenway's Health IT software gives the students the ability to
manage illness and technology to the fullest possible extent,
just when technology is a critical part of today's healthcare,"
said Denise Robinson, dean of the College of Health Professions.
"The healthcare industry is increasingly turning to
technological innovation to improve patient care, reduce costs
and create a national healthcare infrastructure," said Greenway
President Tee Green. "Greenway is proud to play its part in
creating a skilled healthcare technology workforce through
academic institutions. Based on Northern Kentucky University's
informatics and healthcare foundations, we are honored to
provide the means to expand these capabilities."
Greenway is also represented in an academic Health IT panel
discussion at the Health Information Management Systems Society
(HIMSS) conference in Atlanta. Titled, "Three Perspectives on
the Impact of ARRA on IT Education," the panel is led by Justin
Barnes, Greenway vice president of marketing, corporate
development and government affairs, and representatives from St.
Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., and the University of Missouri
School of Medicine's Health Management and Informatics
Department. The panel is scheduled for February 28 at 2:15 p.m.
in room C205 of the Georgia World Congress Center.
Northern Kentucky University is located seven miles south of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and is an accredited, four-year public
university with more than 50 graduate offerings for its more
than 15,000 students.
In addition to the creation of two new academic programs and
initiatives within NKU's HCI lab, Greenway's solutions are
leading to the creation of new coursework and enhancements to
existing studies:
* Health Information Databases, using PrimeSuite capabilities to
examine information and technical security, efficiency best
practices and real-world demonstrations of the range of
interoperable EHR databases.
* Health Informatics ROI, using PrimeRCM to develop return on
investment metrics for health informatics and develop new ROI
models.
* Health Informatics Research, using PrimeResearch to enhance
the existing course by providing evidence-based studies and
clinical trials in masters programs to gather, store, retrieve
and analyze data through real-time availability.
* Project Management for EHRs, the practical application and
understanding of the intricacies of project management combined
with the implementation of EHRs.
* Healthcare Process Analysis, a partnering of graduate students
in the nursing fields to gain informatics knowledge through
systems management and technological processes.
* HIT Seminar, using clinical and human patient simulations to
create a problems-based virtual medical center for hands-on
exercises using a fully-functional EHR system to show how
technology integrates with patient care.
"The Greenway Medical Technologies gift represents a major step
forward in the curriculum of the Health Informatics graduate
program in the College of Informatics," said Douglas Perry, dean
of the College of Informatics. "Tee Green and his colleagues,
understanding the future of healthcare delivery and recognizing
the potential of Northern Kentucky University's health
informatics initiative, have generously offered their support
for the betterment of all."
About Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.
Greenway Medical Technologies provides the latest in EHR,
ambulatory healthcare and clinical research business solutions
and services to more than 23,000 healthcare providers
nationwide, in 30 specialties and subspecialties, by enhancing
the delivery of patient care through innovative HIT software and
on-demand services that allow physician practices to function at
their highest level of efficiency. Greenway's PrimeSuite is a
comprehensive, interoperability component of the integrated
physician's infrastructure solution, which serves as the
starting point of a long-term business plan for physician
practices. PrimeSuite 2011 is a pre-market CCHIT Certified® 2011
Ambulatory EHR, additionally certified for Child Health and
Cardiovascular Medicine, with optional Advanced Reporting.
PrimeSuite integrates a practice's clinical, financial and
administrative processes, and allows practices to increase
profitability, enhance patient satisfaction and facilitate
adherence to compliance guidelines. Established in 1998,
Carrollton, Ga.-based Greenway Medical Technologies is a
privately held company with more than 300 employees. For more
information about Greenway, visit www.greenwaymedical.com.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the
matters discussed in the press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the safe-harbor provisions of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ
materially, including but not limited to economic, competitive,
governmental, and technological factors affecting the Company's
operations, markets, services and related products, prices, and
other factors. |
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