Finding Community Solutions

I’ve just returned to Greenway from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) conference in Las Vegas, where executives from FQHC, RHC and community health centers nationwide gathered to discuss and learn ways to more effectively advance patient care and advance their own needs while meeting the ever-changing guidelines of the UDS (Uniform Data System.)

For this 2011 Financial, Operations Management/Information Technology (FOM/IT) event, the theme was “Real Solutions for Real Change in Health Care.” With limits to budgets, decreasing revenues and rapid changes in the healthcare industry, CHCs are facing many challenges. In order for these entities to continue to thrive, their leaders have to continuously seek new ways to operate more effectively and efficiently.

In my capacity as a conference and trade show coordinator, we utilized our booth space to demonstrate and explain just how Greenway is providing new efficiencies in the integration of EHR, practice management and interoperability to help CHCs meet federal reporting and payment requirements and serve their largely uninsured and underinsured patients, which is the mission of these comprehensive care centers, which often provide primary and specialty care, pharmacy and even dental services.

We are growing in this space to meet the demand for innovations to this patient population safety net due to our recent assets acquisition of CySolutions. We were received well at the conference and I met a lot of very interesting people, one of my favorite aspects of my job.