SCIO Health Analytics Enhances Executive Leadership Team to Provide Clinical Focus to Customer Analytics

WEST HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SCIO Health Analytics, a leading health analytics services company, today announced the appointment of Kevin W. Keck, M.D. to the newly-created position of Chief Medical Officer (CMO).  Dr. Keck will lead the development of clinical analytics that combine new data structures such as electronic medical record (EMR), clinical values, consumer purchasing, fitness and health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) with medical and prescription claims, and provide insights on the value of clinical pathways to improve risk. He also will focus on provider analytics to assess leakages and the impact on quality and cost, and provide insights on prescription analytics to measure the impact of therapeutic drug classes based on member risk levels.  In addition, Dr. Keck will enhance SCIO's behavioral economics models with clinical values.

"The ability to offer our clients actionable insights into their clinical data is one of our key differentiators. With the addition of Kevin Keck to our team, we can now provide even deeper insight and analysis at the clinical level," said Siva Namasivayam, CEO, SCIO Health Analytics. "His extensive experience with health plan, physician group and hospital operations will help them create systems of care to improve quality that result in measureable business change and success."

Dr. Keck spent the past 25 years as a physician executive, and most recently worked with The Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento, CA as a palliative care physician. He has also held CMO positions at Providence Health Plans where he created a value based benefit design, Providence Medical Group, and was Chief of Medicine at Kaiser Permanente.

"Analytics are the business roadmap in healthcare, which puts SCIO in a position to affect real change in the industry," Dr. Keck noted. "I look forward to utilizing my clinical experience and expertise to enhance current offerings, develop new offerings, and bring a deeper level of value to the analytics we provide our customers."

Dr. Keck will be based at SCIO's headquarters in West Hartford, Connecticut.  

About SCIO Health Analytics
Based in West Hartford, Connecticut, SCIO Health Analytics is a leading health analytics services company, serving more than 50 health care organizations including 15 of the top 25 insurers that represent more than 80 million members and 4 of the top 5 PBMs. SCIO's consumer analytics provide actionable insights on consumers, helping healthcare organizations gain insight into consumer preferences and drivers affecting their behavior to streamline their experience and improve engagement. Through the use of integrated healthcare data, proprietary algorithms and technologies, SCIO focuses on predictive analytics, business services and insights in the areas of payment integrity, risk and care management, opportunity analysis and incentive design, consumer segmentation and engagement, marketing analytics, ACO and network analytics. For more visit www.sciohealthanalytics.com

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KNB Communications
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