Introducing MedWay: Saving time for physicians and support staff

Processing time cards or human resources paperwork is not a good use of time for physicians or their support staff. MedWay aims to help doctors save time for treating patients — and to get out of the office at a reasonable hour. MedWay CEO David Ford explains.

Medical Economics: In an era when health care is facing a shortage of workers, how does that business efficiency make a difference for physicians as they interact with their support staff?

David Ford: What we hope is, it frees up a lot of time. I've talked to so many independent physicians who have stitched together their back office functions, some of whom stop every two weeks to fill out, to process time cards and process payroll. It's not a good use of a physician's time, right? It's not a good use of staff time. It's something that can be automated. And what we hope is, a few things. One that, yes, that frees up more time for patient care. You take some stress off of everyone in the practice to outsource a lot of those functions, also hopefully feeling like they have a support team that can help them, because in any business you have HR headaches. And what we also hope is that it gives the physician and their support staff the opportunity to go home to have dinner with their family, because they're not sitting in the office processing payroll, when that can all be done by our platform.