Success Story: MedCo Data Inc.

MedCo Data in Tampa specializes in helping healthcare offices improve, expand and evolve their services through technology and electronic health records. In 2009, Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance (TBWA), through its Summer Youth Program, provided MedCo Data with three interns who , according to MedCo Data Chief Operating Officer Rob Cash, played a major role in helping the company bring Workflow Centric™ – its trademarked system of analysis, evaluation and implementation methodologies – to market in 2009. One of the three interns, Larry Slater, was hired full-time by MedCo Data and, along with Product Development Manager, Scott Braico – also hired through a Workforce Alliance On-the-Job Training (OJT) initiative – played a key role in developing Chart Ready™ scanning software and bringing it to market in 2010, months ahead of schedule.  

MedCo Data again turned to TBWA , this time for the talent needed to help physicians overcome a major hurdle in transitioning to electronic medical record systems: converting paper charts to digital records that can be imported into EMRs. TBWA selected, from youth in its 2010 Youth Employment and Leadership Exploration Summer Program, participants to work in practitioners’ offices scanning paper charts into digital files using MedCo Data Chart Ready™ software and scanning equipment donated by Kodak. This initiative was so successful that four of the youth subsequently were hired by practitioners into permanent positions.

“MedCo Data’s partnership with TBWA has been life-changing for youth participants and for our company,” said Chief Operating Officer Rob Cash. “Without their help, our growth rate would have been slower and our employment numbers far lower. With Workforce’s ongoing support, we are confident that we will continue increasing our staff and  enhancing our training initiative, which enable us to continue growing revenues – growth that translates into additional new jobs and higher wages to properly service customers.