Why Geisinger ProvenKnowledge^SM solutions?

As a healthcare organization leader, you need to improve quality, reduce costs, and refocus your delivery model from quantity (productivity) to quality (outcomes).

Geisinger ProvenKnowledge^SM solutions give you the building blocks to improve performance in today’s era of value-based healthcare. ProvenKnowledge represents the culmination of years of deliberate and informed design needed to build one of the nation’s most innovative healthcare delivery systems. ProvenKnowledge is a fit for any physician practice, hospital or health plan.

ProvenKnowledge is far from a typical consulting firm’s “cookie cutter” model that uses concepts based on third-party empirical observation. It reflects our nationally recognized innovations and real-world experience. Our active healthcare professionals make up the ProvenKnowledge team that develops scalable, transferable solutions for healthcare industry challenges, including:

• Evidence-based practices for improving outcomes and reducing costs, all with bundled, packaged pricing
• Information technology processes to optimize electronic health record (EHR) use, promoting real-time clinical decision making
• Physician, payor, and related incentive alignment
• Strategic cost management through improving clinical operations (rather than reducing staff)
• Implementing patient-centered medical home to facilitate partnerships between patients, providers and, when appropriate, a patient’s family
• Comprehensive population health management
• Care continuum and care transition optimization

To help your organization reach its goals in any environment (including fee-for-service, bundled pricing, results sharing, and capitation), Geisinger offers:

• Education — including our free, nationally acclaimed Innovations for Healthcare conference
• Performance/gap assessments and roadmap development
• Strategic advisory and mentoring services
• Training and skills transfer
  Dr. Steele and Geisinger honored by nation's healthcare leaders

  Dr. Steele receives the eighth annual American Hospital Association's Health Research & Education Trust (HRET) Award for his strong use of research to inform evidence-based practice, his leadership as an early adopter of health information technology and patient-centered care, and his vision to redesign and implement new payment models.