Rockingham Leveraging Concurrent Core Measures Data Improves Care and Results

Rockingham Memorial Hospital consistently faced mediocre core measure results even though hospital staff knew patients were receiving appropriate care.

Knowing Left From Right

Data Drives 'Perfect Care'

St. Joseph Medical Center used CareDiscovery Quality Measures to identify and resolve barriers to achieving 100 percent recommended interventions 100 percent of the time.

The Spider Man

Smart Little Fish

My research into robotics has led me on a lot of adventures, from human-machine interfaces for intelligent wheelchairs to flying robots for security surveillance.

Rockingham Leveraging Concurrent Core Measures Data Improves Care and Results

Rockingham Memorial Hospital consistently faced mediocre core measure results even though hospital staff knew patients were receiving appropriate care.

Data Drives 'Perfect Care'

St. Joseph Medical Center used CareDiscovery Quality Measures to identify and resolve barriers to achieving 100 percent recommended interventions 100 percent of the time.

Pfizer Health Solutions

Thomson Reuters worked with Pfizer Health Solutions (PHS) to develop an Individualized ROI Calculator. The ROI calculator provides individuals with a tool to project future health care expenditures and productivity losses related to modifiable health risk behaviors. The model for the PHS Personal Health Care Calculator was based on a body of literature developed for the employer community showing that healthcare costs are influenced by individual employee demographics and common modifiable health risks, and that lower costs can be realized by improving the risk profile of individuals.

Leveraging Executive Support and a Strong Decision Support System to Improve Quality

As the sole not-for-profit healthcare system in one of the fastest growing communities in Arkansas, Washington Regional Medical Center wanted to differentiate itself based on excellence in quality of care. To stay ahead in its highly competitive local market, the hospital's strategy centered on taking an accelerated, proactive approach to quality and cost effectiveness.

CIGNA HealthCare Addresses Price Transparency at the Point of Care

CIGNA HealthCare is one of the nation's largest health insurers, covering more than 12 million individuals. Through user-experience interviews with covered individuals, employers, and healthcare providers, CIGNA discovered that 21st-century benefit plan designs were creating a new set of challenges.

Knowing Left From Right

The Spider Man

Smart Little Fish

My research into robotics has led me on a lot of adventures, from human-machine interfaces for intelligent wheelchairs to flying robots for security surveillance.

Happiness is...

My area of research is a unique concept: by linking economic strategy directly to people's emotional experiences it is possible to measure outputs such as happiness, joy and pain.

The Problem with Cancer

The focus of my career has been on two of the most common cancers in the western world — prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women and the remarkable similarities that exist for potential treatment techniques.