Co-founder, Vice President and CTO
Jeff McGeath, co-founder, vice president and CTO of Accent on Integration (AOI), is a skilled technology strategist with a talent for converting ideas into comprehensive IT solutions that connect disparate technology systems and enable data integration across organizations. Under Jeff’s guidance, AOI’s product development is fueled by the company’s commitment to creating innovative, highly flexible products that can be customized to address each customer’s individual needs. In addition to contributing to software development, Jeff also manages AOI’s partner relationships and identifies new technologies that give healthcare providers better access to patient data, helping improve patient care and safety.
Armed with rich software development knowledge, as well as 11 years experience working in healthcare IT, Jeff creates solutions that address the daily challenges faced by clinicians and IT executives. Jeff has repeatedly led successful software implementations and provided consulting services to both providers and healthcare IT vendors facing integration challenges or general healthcare IT issues. These consulting engagements have covered different areas of healthcare integration, including integration/interface architecture, PACS engineering, implementation of HIE compliant systems, intelligent routing of clinical data, Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) architecture, and EMR deployments.
Prior to co-founding AOI, Jeff was director of strategic solutions development for a 16-hospital IDN. There he designed and developed a clinician portal and comprehensive toolset to address the organization’s patient data needs at the point of care. Jeff also created a clinical EMR that allowed the organization to utilize its best-of-breed HIS and still have access to important clinical data.
Before his healthcare system experience, Jeff was a software developer for an international steel fabrication company. In this role, he created the company’s first barcode status solution that became available to customers worldwide via the Internet. He also modified and upgraded the IT system to support worldwide growth, helping the company achieve the third-largest global market share.
Jeff received a Bachelor of Science degree in business and technology from Texas A&M University-Commerce and is a member of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).