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Dr. Steele to give keynote at Healthcare Business Intelligence Forum
April 17
DANVILLE, Pa., April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Glenn Steele
Jr., M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Geisinger
Health System, will be a keynote speaker at the Healthcare Business
Intelligence Forum on Thursday, April 17, at the Renaissance
Washington D.C. Downtown Hotel.
At Geisinger, Dr. Steele has guided one of the nation's largest
integrated delivery networks and made it a leader in using data
contained within the electronic health record (EHR) to improve patient
care. He will share insight during his 9 a.m. keynote, titled "Data
and Behavior Change, Now and in the Future: The Geisinger Experience."
Dr. Steele will discuss what he sees as the sweet spot in the
evolution of health care: combining data and behavior change to
improve both patient care and the bottom line.
"Our structural advantage that we talk about internally and externally
over the past 15 years is this payer-provider sweet spot," Dr. Steele
said. "We've tried to figure out how our version of vertical
integration between payer and provider can really optimally mesh the
information and the use and analysis of it from both sides of the
house."
He will emphasize the importance of changing the behavior of patients,
providers, clinicians and payers in achieving improved care and
cost-containment goals. He will also share his vision for how
Geisinger will continue to evolve its data strategy over the next five
years.
"One thing that we're really committed to - and we've recruited new
leadership into the information technology area, on both the provider
and payer side - is getting distributed data out there. We're
interested in the functionality aspects," Dr. Steele said. "I would
love to see Geisinger set the pace on applications, and to move to a
much more open-source platform, as opposed to this incredibly rigid,
incredibly proprietary pipe that we're now dependent upon for our
EHR."
His talk will also provide business intelligence advice to smaller
providers that they can apply to their own hospitals and practices.
"I think the biggest piece of advice is to look at the functionality
you want first," he said. "And understand the nuance of the various
systems, whether they're hospital-based or ambulatory, or what have
you."
Since 2012, Dr. Steele has served on the United States Congressional
Budget Office's panel of health advisers. He is also a member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, serves as a
member of the Roundtable on Value and Science-driven Healthcare, was
recently appointed to the Committee on the Governance and Financing of
Graduate Medical Education, and previously served on the Committee on
Reviewing Evidence to Identify Highly Effective Clinical Services
(HECS). A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Steele is a
member of the American Surgical Association, the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, and past president of the Society of Surgical
Oncology.
About Geisinger Health System Geisinger Health System is an integrated
health services organization widely recognized for its innovative use
of the electronic health record, and the development of innovative
care models such as ProvenHealth Navigator@ and ProvenCare@. As the
nation's largest rural health services organization, Geisinger serves
more than 2.6 million residents throughout 44 counties in central and
northeastern Pennsylvania. The physician-led system is comprised of
more than 20,800 employees, including a 1,000-member multi-specialty
group practice, eight hospital campuses, two research centers and a
450,000-member health plan, all of which leverage an estimated $6.1
billion positive impact on the Pennsylvania economy. The health system
and the health plan have repeatedly garnered national accolades for
integration, quality and service. In addition to fulfilling its
patient care mission, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to
medical education, research and community service. For more
information, visit www.geisinger.org, or follow the latest Geisinger
news and more on Twitter and Facebook.
CONTACT: Mike Ferlazzo: 570-214-7410, 515-450-2908 (c),
msferlazzo@geisinger.edu
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