2006 - CEO IT Achievement Award

Leaving behind big-city living, CEO IT Achievement Award winner Glenn Steele Jr. makes IT dreams a reality at small-town system.
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Welcome to our fourth annual supplement profiling the winner or winners of the CEO IT Achievement Award, sponsored by Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. On the following pages, you'll meet the sole winner of the award for 2006, Glenn Steele Jr., president and chief executive officer of Geisinger Health System, based in Danville, Pa.The award, created in 2003 by Modern Healthcare and HIMSS, recognizes one or more healthcare industry CEOs who demonstrate leadership and a commitment to using information technology to advance their...
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Modern Healthcare and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society would like to thank the following healthcare chief executive officers and chief information officers for serving as the judges for the 2006CEO IT Achievement Award competition. We appreciate their diligence, knowledge and integrity -- all of which helped make this year's fourth annual program another success.Joel Allison*President and CEOBaylor HealthCare SystemDallasMark Neaman*President and CEOEvanston (Ill.)Northwestern
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According to a RAND Corp. study released in September 2005, the U.S would save $81 billion annually if healthcare providers broadly adopted a comprehensive medical-records system. The study found that medical-records systems would result in greater efficiency and ultimately would improve the quality and safety of care.However, despite the promise of savings, only about 20% to 25% of hospitals have made serious investments in information technology or adopted such systems. Lack of confidence in the return on investment offered by IT is cited as a major obstacle.Glenn Steele Jr., the...
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and our members congratulate Glenn Steele Jr., president and chief executive officer of Geisinger Health System, as the recipient of Modern Healthcare's 2006 CEO IT Achievement Award, co-sponsored by HIMSS. Now in its fourth year, the award continues to demonstrate the strategic leadership of forward-thinkers such as Steele, a physician who understands the value of information technology in transforming the delivery of patient care and the patient experience at Geisinger.Each year, I learn more about the progress of...
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An elderly Pennsylvania woman vacationing in Maine found herself in need of emergency care. When an emergency room physician sat down to take her complex history and find out what medications she was on, she offered to log onto the Web and show him the medical record from her physicians and hospital stays. The records, at MyGeisinger, were just what he needed, including recent lab results."The doctor was delirious with joy," says James Walker, Geisinger Health System's chief medical information officer.The Danville, Pa., health system is offering its physicians a cash incentive of up to...
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