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Geisinger Health System Pennsylvania switches to MedHub

Ann Arbor, Michigan – Today, MedHub, Inc., concluded an agreement with Geisinger Health System Danville, Pennsylvania to deploy its MedHub enterprise residency management system across all residency and fellowship programs within Graduate Medical Education (GME).

The MedHub system is an integrated web-based suite of modules developed to improve communication, information workflow and reporting for physician training and residency program accreditation and institutional billing and Medicare reimbursement. MedHub provides a diverse group of stakeholders, real-time access to critical information essential to the management of their respective specialized tasks. These include rotation and call schedules, procedure logging, conference management, duty hours documentation, licensure and institutional compliance management and much more.

MedHub replaces multiple databases and ad hoc processes with linear workflow centered a unified database. Stakeholders use MedHub to manage hundreds of tasks and activities that address three essential requirements:

  1. Residency program accreditation
    2. Physician training (residents, fellows and medical students)
    3. Affiliated institutional billing & Medicare reimbursement

The result is increased efficiency and oversight, decreased redundant effort, streamlined audit response and improved collaboration across large enterprises with complex business processes and substantial pressure to meet growing regulatory requirements. A myriad of complex tasks is driven by elegant workflow using task-based algorithms.

Geisinger is an integrated health services organization widely recognized for its innovative use of the electronic health record, and the development and implementation of innovative care models. Geisinger Health System was recently recognized with a number two national ranking on the IMS 2012 Top 100 Integrated Health Systems list as well as inclusion in the list of the top 15 health systems in the country by Thomson Reuters. The rankings are the latest in an ongoing trend of accolades recognizing Geisinger’s fully integrated model and commitment to quality and innovation.