Belated #3GoodThings for yesterday:
- accidentally spent the bigger part of the morning researching for the #Geisinger #OneNameStudy (e.g. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-852) of @sidaba
- had almost no deciphering problems while transcribing the multi-page Certificate of Inheritance for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hei%C3%9F-242
- I won't tell you

#ThreeGoodThings #Genealogy

#HealthScience is alive and well at #Geisinger!

Some #Research Symposium highlights
- #GLP1 protocol testing
- #AI-assisted #risk assessment
- #experimentAversion
- #health #nudges
- Dr. Todd Rice on #Vanderbilt's pragmatic trials

Abstracts + #dataViz: https://ugc.production.linktr.ee/092a8266-e67c-4536-87df-cf1e3d7482fd_Research-Symposium-accepted-abstract-catalog-4.9.2025-FINAL.pdf

*US vs Geisinger*

7. How would patients be hurt by the transaction?
Hospitals compete to attract patients to their facilities by offering high quality care, a broad #scope of #services, #amenities, #convenience, customer service, and attention to patient satisfaction. This competition improves access to #healthcare, reduces wait times, and improves the quality of care for all patients, including commercially insured, #Medicare, #Medicaid, and #uninsured #patients. #Hospitals also compete to be included in health insurers’ networks and this #competition enables insurers to #negotiate lower #reimbursement rates and other terms that reduce healthcare costs, all for the benefit of patients. This transaction permanently and fundamentally alters the competitive relationship between #Geisinger and #Evangelical by linking them together in a number of ways that, taken together, raise the likelihood of coordination and reduce #Geisinger
#incentivetocompete #aggressive against each other... The transaction is likely to lead to #highprices, #lowquality, and #reducedaccess to high-quality #inpatient hospital services for patients in central Pennsylvania. In addition, the transaction creates incentives for Geisinger to raise prices to commercial insurers and other #purchasers inpatient acute care...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1301586/dl

Intriguing #health #science hypothesis in yesterday’s report from the #CommonwealthFund:

"One possible explanation [of high U.S. performance on care process] lies in the ...pay-for-performance, or #valueBasedCare, efforts that ... may have succeeded in ...preventive services in particular."

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/sep/mirror-mirror-2024

#healthcare #policy #business #ethics #economics #science #medicine #Geisinger #KaiserPermanente

#Geisinger is often #hiring a wide range of positions (from anesthesiologists to helicopter pilots), both remote and on site.

If you want to learn about working here, feel free to reach out and/or peruse the website: https://jobs.geisinger.org/geisinger-benefits

#jobs #career #healthcare #higherEd #benefits #employerAwards

A major update from me: After completing my first tenure track appointment, I'm lucky to be starting a lab in #Geisinger's Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences: https://www.geisinger.edu/gchs/research/about-gchs-research/find-an-investigator/2024/07/09/15/41/nick-byrd

I may blog about the decision and next steps (so feel free to ask questions), but for now you can find my initial thoughts about the transition on #LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7221136969722990592/

#NewBeginnings #Bioethics #DecisionScience #Research #Hiring

For those lucky souls who had the weekend off: here was another reminder of the insider threat:

Mass General Brigham fires two employees after patient data breach

https://databreaches.net/2024/06/30/mass-general-brigham-fires-two-employees-after-patient-data-breach/

Neither #MGB nor #Nuance have responded to inquiries about their insider breaches. For Nuance, its breach affected more than 1 million #Geisinger patients. My post included details on the former employee's criminal activities:

https://databreaches.net/2024/06/25/when-the-insider-threat-is-at-your-vendor-could-you-discover-it-quickly/

#databreach #healthsec #HIPAA #ThirdParty #Insider