Ann Arbor, Michigan – Today, MedHub, Inc., concluded an agreement with Yale University New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and The Yale University School of Medicine (YSM) to deploy its MedHub enterprise residency management system across all residency and fellowship programs within Graduate Medical Education (GME) and all medical students within Undergraduate Medical Education (UME). MedHub will also deploy its system across Yale affiliate hospitals across the State of Connecticut.
This latest deployment represents an increasing push across the country to merge undergraduate and graduate physician education on a single unified platform to leverage multiple efficiencies, decrease redundant effort, maximize Medicare reimbursement, reduce costs and improve audit response. This contract continues MedHub’s rapid growth that has seen revenue increases of over 100% per year since 2008. It also represents the seventh straight switch of a large academic teaching institution from a competitors’ Medical Education management system to MedHub. MedHub now has over 80,000 users.
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.
Yale University is a nationally ranked primary care hospital with over 3,600 physicians and 100 medical specialty areas. Yale-New Haven Hospital regularly ranks among the best hospitals in the U.S. and is accredited by The Joint Commission. In conjunction with YSM and Yale Cancer Center, YNHH is nationally recognized for its commitment to teaching and clinical research.