Dr. Anthony Joseph, MD Delivers Keynote Address at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Anthony Joseph, MD, the Chief Strategic Officer of The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle company, recently delivered a keynote address at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute.  The address entitled "Constancy and Change in Healthcare: The Role of Decision Technologies in Creating the Healthcare System of the Future" sought to influence radical change in how decision support affects healthcare and provide a new model for national healthcare in America. 

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The Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting took place from November 22-25, 2014 in Tampa Fla.  This year's theme was "Technology and the Rapidly Changing Global Business Landscape: How the heightened pace of technological innovation is driving change in business and business educational paradigms."  The 45^th Annual Meeting was attended by international decision support specialists across all major verticals including healthcare, technology, law, business, government and operational development.

The Healthcare Colloquium uses a continuum of care model in its approach to healthcare and its hospital member organizations work within four established domains: Community, Hospital, Clinicians and Science.  Dr. Joseph challenged DSI attendees to approach healthcare decision-making in a similar manner. Chronic disease, like heart failure, provides a fertile ground for predictive analytics to make a difference in the 20+ years before its true diagnosis.  Dr. Joseph illustrated how The Healthcare Colloquium, coupled with the Battelle Memorial Institute, is bringing predictive analytics into healthcare in the form of disruptive innovative solutions like quality improvement analytics and clinical predictive analytics tools that hospitals and health systems can leverage to significantly impact the bottom line as well as saving patient lives. 

"Dr. Joseph provided a compelling and passionate call for action for the decision science community and encouraged them to bring their integrative knowledge and action-oriented research skills to designing the health care system of the future," says Moderator Vicki Smith-Daniels, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, The Indiana University Kelley School of Business. "Early adopters of innovative, patient-centered care coordination models, such as the Healthcare Colloquium's heart failure program, are well-positioned to become leaders in transforming health care and achieving better outcomes, better care, and lower total costs."

Dr. Joseph received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Ohio State University in 1977. Completing his residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, he began fulltime practice in the hospital's emergency department, becoming Emergency Department Chair in 1989 while serving as a senior active staff physician from 1986 to 2000.  Dr. Joseph served on the national steering committee for the Healthcare Quality Improvement Program (former HCFA) that developed the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project, was a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Patient Safety Task Force, the American Heart Association ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction System of Care Committee as well as the writing committee for the Heart Attack Safety Act of 2005 introduced into the US Senate.  The Healthcare Colloquium, founded by Dr. Joseph in 2008, was acquired by Battelle Memorial Institute in 2014. 

About The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle Company

As a hospital membership organization based in Columbus, Ohio, The Healthcare Colloquium, a Battelle Company, (http://colloquiumhealth.com) is comprised of over 70 member hospitals and hospital systems with a common shared passion: pre-eminence in caring for those with critical illnesses. The Healthcare Colloquium provides solutions including heart failure accreditation, data-driven quality improvement services, the WayFinder^™ quality improvement analytics tool, and predictive analytics, and clinical decision support.

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