Greenway’s Public Health Software
Leading the Way in Public Health Software Initiatives and Biosurveillance
Never has it been so important to understand clinical outcomes, disease patterns, and population health issues as it is today. Healthcare spending continues to climb, as the number of Americans aged 65 and older grew to more than 34.9 million in 2000, compared with 3.1 million in 1900 – or, from a different perspective during the same years, the ratio of elderly Americans to the total population jumped from 1 in 25 to 1 in 8. Combined with increasing disease resistance to common antibiotics and the mobility of our general population, we face a real crisis in managing public health.
Greenway Medical Technologies has been on the forefront of delivering public health software that enables the identification of disease classes and symptoms of interest, with reporting to public health registries that can be used to thwart potentially harmful health outbreaks. No other electronic health record (EHR) supplier has so successfully delivered solutions to the complex problem of population and public health.
PrimeSUITE's Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-based immunization schedule and forecast module interoperate with population-based immunization information systems (IIS) to transmit and receive immunization records. It is imperative that EHRs interoperate with public health agencies and registries directly from physicians' offices and medical facilities, which are on the front line of patient care. As we face dangerous health issues, including increasingly virulent flu viruses that pose genuine threats, care providers must be able to relay information on potentially threatening medical outbreaks to government agencies. We can then act as a coordinated healthcare community to inform the public about health issues and risks, and provide appropriate treatments to a varied population.
At Greenway, we pride ourselves on innovation, leadership and responsiveness to its customers and to the healthcare system overall. Greenway was among the first healthcare information technology suppliers to facilitate pre-population of disease case report forms directly from the clinical information stored in the PrimeSUITE EHR. By stepping up to the challenges of population health, we strive to serve our customers and their patients with tools that deliver real results. Greenway Medical Technologies leads the industry in these challenging and complex efforts. Partner with Greenway to be on the forefront of our healthcare transformation while providing the most advanced care possible.