MedHub signs global clients to bolster local growth

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | Source: Concentrate

MedHub is working to add more staff at its Ann Arbor base by growing its market reach around the globe. The University of Michigan spin-out has recently signed contracts with teaching hospitals in Europe and the Middle East.

The company uses web-enabled enterprise residency management solutions to improve communication, collaboration and residency information management in teaching hospitals. Simply said, the 7-year-old firm provides a system that tracks residents and fellows (advanced medical school students in training to become doctors) in order to ensure hospitals get all of the Medicare reimbursements they are entitled to.

"We're probably bringing on 3-4 academic teaching hospitals per year," says Peter Orr, president of MedHub. "We have now penetrated the international market."

The international customers include the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland and Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar, the largest teaching hospital in the Middle East. It also serves a variety of name brand domestic teaching hospitals, such as the Cleveland Clinic, Stanford University, and the Duke University Health System. The new international clients are adopting U.S. health-care professional training standards, making services like MedHub attractive.

"Our system fits very well with what they are requiring," Orr says. "That opened up a nice market for us."

The firm has hired one person over the last year, rounding out its staff to four employees. Orr plans to add another three positions by the end of the year, primarily in software development.

Source: Peter Orr, president of MedHub
Writer: Jon Zemke

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