Ann Arbor, Michigan – MedHub, Inc., has recently concluded a deal with The University of Washington School of Medicine (UW) to deploy its enterprise residency management system across UW sponsored all residency and fellowship programs. UW sponsors 86 ACGME-accredited graduate medical education programs with approximately 1100 trainees. UW also sponsors several graduate-level training programs accredited by other agencies and numerous non-accredited fellowships.
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. The MedHub system also manages and documents daily resident and fellow activity required to drive Medicare reimbursement and affiliated institutional billing.
The deployment of MedHub at UW—where residents and fellows primarily train at four hospitals including UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, will represent one of the largest and most complex installations of its system to date. Nearly 8,000 users will interact with the MedHub system daily. Multiple institution specific requirements will be addressed to satisfy the unique requirements of UW.
The MedHub system provides diverse stakeholders real-time access to information essential to the management of their respective specialized tasks. MedHub replaces multiple databases and ad hoc processes with a single workflow centered unified database. Stakeholders will use MedHub to document activities, manage tasks and streamline workflow. The return is improved data quality, reduced redundant effort and enhanced collaboration.
Data managed by MedHub includes: complex rotation, shift, call and clinic schedules, faculty and resident demographics, resident evaluations, case logs/medical procedures, didactic conference management, resident duty hours and document management. Institutional data managed and processed by MedHub include: payroll/funding input, affiliated institutional billing, Medicare reimbursement, contracts, FTE calculations, and auditing functions. MedHub stakeholders include residents, attending faculty, program administrators, Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Finance, paging, nurses and others.