[Colloq] Colloquium Spkr - TODAY @ 3PM!

[Chantal Cardona]

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*College** of **Computer** and Information Science Colloquium*

Presents:

*Dr. Earl Steinberg*

*Resolution Health Incorporated*

Who will speak on:

*Use of Health Insurance Claims Data to Improve Quality and Reduce Cost 
of Health Care*

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*/Thursday, November 10^th , 2005/**//*

*/3:00pm/**//*

*/10 Behrakis /*

*/Northeastern University/*

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_Bio_:

Dr. Steinberg is president and chief executive officer of Resolution 
Health Inc., a company based in San Jose, California, that is focused on 
reducing health care costs and improving quality of care, and an adjunct 
professor of medicine and of health policy and management at the John 
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

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_Abstract_:

In its landmark report on the state of health care in the U.S., the 
National Academy of Health’s Institute of Medicine concluded that health 
care delivery has been relatively untouched by the revolution in 
information technology that has been transforming nearly every other 
aspect of society, and that information systems are essential to 
enhancing quality and improving efficiency in the U.S. health care system.

Despite this call to action, and President Bush’s appointment of a 
health care information czar, it is highly unlikely that physicians will 
replace the paper records they currently use with computerized medical 
records anytime soon.

There is a vast reservoir of information that resides in health 
insurers’ information systems, however. In his lecture, Dr. Steinberg 
will explain how this information will increasingly be used to improve 
the quality and reduce the cost of health care in the U.S.