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Geisinger Health System and Stanson Health Partner to Help Geisinger Physicians Make High-quality, Cost-efficient Decisions at the Point of Care

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 General News
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stanson Health, a next-generation Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and analytics company, today announced Geisinger Health System has contracted to install Stanson Health Clinical Decision Support and Stanson Analytics.
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"As a high-performance health system, Geisinger provides innovation, quality and value to our patients," said Alistair Erskine, M.D., Geisinger Chief Informatics Officer. "We've contracted with Stanson Clinical Decision Support to inject real-time, patient-specific intelligence directly into our electronic health record in order to help our physicians make evidence-based decisions to ensure better outcomes for our patients at a lower cost. We look to their analytics to help us monitor the performance of these interventions, benchmark physician response, and reduce overall alert fatigue."
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The Stanson catalog of several hundred clinical decision support interventions are geared toward assisting physicians at the point of care. Content is focused on important care opportunities such as MACRA, Choosing Wisely, Antibiotic Stewardship, Opioid Management, and more. Stanson analytics help executive leadership understand clinician reaction to evidence-based recommendations and result in industry-leading follow rates. The combination of clinical interventions and closed-loop analytics help provider organizations succeed in health care reform, ACOs, risk-based payments, exchanges, and narrow networks.

"Many healthcare organizations have made significant investments to improve their capabilities in value-based care. Stanson's ability to provide meaningful, patient-specific information to physicians in real-time has resulted in improved patient care and financial outcomes," said Scott Weingarten, MD, Co-Founder, and Chairman of the Board at Stanson Health. "We are honored to have the opportunity to partner with Geisinger Health System, a world class health system and global leader in population health, to assist in their efforts to improve the quality and cost of patient care across their health system."

About Stanson Health

Stanson Health, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is leading the way in developing next-generation Clinical Decision Support solutions. Stanson provides EHR-integrated real-time interventions optimized for use in the physician's clinical workflow. Combined with relevant analytics, Stanson solutions safely guide physician decisions toward the elimination of unnecessary or inappropriate care and help improve the quality of care. Stanson clients operate more than 232 hospitals and support more than 67,000 providers.

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 delivery models such as ProvenHealth Navigator® and ProvenCare®. As one of the nation's largest health service organizations, Geisinger serves more than three million residents throughout 45 counties in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania, and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of AtlantiCare, a National Malcolm Baldrige Award recipient. The physician-led system is comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 12 hospital campuses, two research centers and a 510,000-member health plan, all of which leverage an estimated $8.9 billion positive impact on the Pennsylvania economy. Geisinger has 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: Betse Humphrey, 570-214-9926, [email protected]

 

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