Corporate Offices
About Healthwise Technologies, Inc
Healthwise Technologies is a privately held company that provides the many benefits of personalized and specialized attention to your unique health care needs. Our staff brings years of health care management expertise to serve your special needs.
We believe that the delivery of cost effective yet high quality care will result in profit optimization. In achievement of the delivery of quality care key factors include personalization, safety, timeliness, efficiency and innovation.
Quality medical care must be patient-centered, respectful and responsive to individual patient needs.
The delivery of care should be timely. Reducing waits and often harmful delays are to be a priority in an effective delivery system.
Efficiency must be a high priority with the avoidance of waste of supplies, equipment and energy.
Provision of care must not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, geographic location, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
HTI adheres to its guiding principles of quality and respect for individual needs. These are characteristics we have followed that model since 1971.
Innovation and specialization are core competencies of HTI. We find that providers who endorse innovation and specialization excel today’s competitive environment.
About Jerry E. Gillman, Founder, Chairman, CEO
Mr. Gillman’s distinguished career as a healthcare executive includes more than 30 years’ experience leading hospital management teams, building a successful national surgery and founding a software company that develops software for healthcare companies.
Mr. Gillman’s 38 years of hospital management accomplishments include:
- Extensive hospital turn around specialist at three different single corporate owned facilities that resulted in improved patient care and operating profits.
- Directed the turnaround of a rural, 48-bed, general and acute hospital that was preparing to close. As Managing General Partner and after two years of oversight, the facility was sold to an investor group.
- Spearheaded the reorganization of an underperforming 150 bed general and acute hospital, established service oriented patient mindset service, implemented standardized operating processes and controls and converting prior period losses to $3 million profit.
- Increased revenue by $700K per month as CEO by recruiting physicians to the acute, 99 bed, Los Angeles area hospital, adding an average of 100 surgeries per month and instituting a Foot and Ankle Program with approved podiatric residence training.
- Responded to a critical community at a 225 bed general and acute care hospital by recruiting numerous physicians and instituting a 30 bed AIDS Specialty inpatient program for essential care and as CEO generated a substantial profit.
Mr. Gillman’s entrepreneurial energy and acumen for partnering with physicians is best evidenced by his successful founding of a specialty Bariatric Surgery company that established and managed bariatric surgery programs throughout the United States. Under its LivLite Surgical Weight Loss Program brand, he provided hospitals and physicians with a turnkey, customized program to quickly implement, manage and market a complete bariatric weight loss surgical program to clinically obese.
In recognition of the need for electronic medical records, HTI developed web based electronic patient health record software known as the Patient Tracker, which takes full advantage of the Internet. The software division was recently divested and the company focuses on a comprehensive menu of hospital surgery center and other provider management services.
Mr. Gillman earned an MBA in Hospital Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati. He was also awarded a BS in Pharmacy by Raabe College at Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. Earlier in his career he was a licensed pharmacist.
Mr. Gillman is a member of ABL Healthcare Executive Roundtable and American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.