#geisinger — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

#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

*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

*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

*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

*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

#Geisinger #wow
people be angry yo.

#Geisinger #wow
people be angry yo.

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

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

#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

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

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

Former IT employee accessed data of over 1M US patients
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-it-employee-accessed-data-of-over-1-million-us-patients/
#ycombinator #computers #windows #linux #mac #support #tech_support #spyware #malware #virus #security #Data_Breach #Employee #Geisinger #Healthcare #virus_removal #malware_removal #computer_help #technical_support

Former IT employee accessed data of over 1M US patients
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-it-employee-accessed-data-of-over-1-million-us-patients/
#ycombinator #computers #windows #linux #mac #support #tech_support #spyware #malware #virus #security #Data_Breach #Employee #Geisinger #Healthcare #virus_removal #malware_removal #computer_help #technical_support

They also have some #Geisinger records, @sidaba

https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Search/#/1/2/147/0/German/Military/GEISI

If the insider threat is at your vendor, could you discover it quickly?

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

#databreach #insiderthreat #PHI #Geisinger #Nuance #infosec #vendor #BAA

If the insider threat is at your vendor, could you discover it quickly?

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

#databreach #insiderthreat #PHI #Geisinger #Nuance #infosec #vendor #BAA

@aspensmonster

Yo! No way it's gotta be #Geisinger !
i truly, truly loathe them all

@aspensmonster

Yo! No way it's gotta be #Geisinger !
i truly, truly loathe them all

Und falls es da draußen noch jemanden geben sollte, der noch nicht weiß, was @sidaba für ein tolles #Geisinger-Projekt auf #WikiTree betreibt:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Geisinger_Name_Study
#ahnenforschung

People don't bitch about #Adderall enough. Seriously. What are you afraid of?

I've been on it since I was a youngster. It has become next to impossible to get the Rx filled these days. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I have an accredited doctor who I happen to convene with via Telehealth. She's part of my whole clinical network/ insurance company, #Geisinger .

#Walmart refuses to fill the script because it's a #telehealth Dr.

This comes as a surprise because
1.) I've had the Rx filed by Walmart off-and-on over the past 20 years or so.
2.) I had no issues with #CVS / no idea that this was "a thing"

Now closer to a WM pharm vs the prev CVS, it made sense to have this month sent here
(Adderall patients are forced through this rigmarole every 30 days).

Why don't more people bitch? Haven't you been affected?
#bigpharma #adhd #add #ritalin #concerta #dexadrine

People don't bitch about #Adderall enough. Seriously. What are you afraid of?

I've been on it since I was a youngster. It has become next to impossible to get the Rx filled these days. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I have an accredited doctor who I happen to convene with via Telehealth. She's part of my whole clinical network/ insurance company, #Geisinger .

#Walmart refuses to fill the script because it's a #telehealth Dr.

This comes as a surprise because
1.) I've had the Rx filed by Walmart off-and-on over the past 20 years or so.
2.) I had no issues with #CVS / no idea that this was "a thing"

Now closer to a WM pharm vs the prev CVS, it made sense to have this month sent here
(Adderall patients are forced through this rigmarole every 30 days).

Why don't more people bitch? Haven't you been affected?
#bigpharma #adhd #add #ritalin #concerta #dexadrine

Gerade entdeckt: Die Schwächen bei der Volltextsuche der Zeitungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek lassen sich über geschickte Filterung mit dem Deutschen Zeitungsportal kompensieren. So kann @sidaba damit endlich nach ihren #Geisinger suchen, ohne jede Menge Treffer zu #Geisingen zu finden: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper?query=geisinger&provider=Badische+Landesbibliothek
#ahnenforschung #Zeitungen #BLB #Zeitungsportal

Gerade entdeckt: Die Schwächen bei der Volltextsuche der Zeitungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek lassen sich über geschickte Filterung mit dem Deutschen Zeitungsportal kompensieren. So kann @sidaba damit endlich nach ihren #Geisinger suchen, ohne jede Menge Treffer zu #Geisingen zu finden: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper?query=geisinger&provider=Badische+Landesbibliothek
#ahnenforschung #Zeitungen #BLB #Zeitungsportal

Gerade entdeckt: Die Schwächen bei der Volltextsuche der Zeitungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek lassen sich über geschickte Filterung mit dem Deutschen Zeitungsportal kompensieren. So kann @sidaba damit endlich nach ihren #Geisinger suchen, ohne jede Menge Treffer zu #Geisingen zu finden: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper?query=geisinger&provider=Badische+Landesbibliothek
#ahnenforschung #Zeitungen #BLB #Zeitungsportal

Gerade entdeckt: Die Schwächen bei der Volltextsuche der Zeitungen der Badischen Landesbibliothek lassen sich über geschickte Filterung mit dem Deutschen Zeitungsportal kompensieren. So kann @sidaba damit endlich nach ihren #Geisinger suchen, ohne jede Menge Treffer zu #Geisingen zu finden: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper?query=geisinger&provider=Badische+Landesbibliothek
#ahnenforschung #Zeitungen #BLB #Zeitungsportal

started a #wikipedia article on US physician and medical researcher Edith E. Nicholls (1892-1978): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_E._Nicholls @WikiWomeninRed #smithcollege #Geisinger #Yale #CornellUniversity #polio

started a #wikipedia article on US physician and medical researcher Edith E. Nicholls (1892-1978): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_E._Nicholls @WikiWomeninRed #smithcollege #Geisinger #Yale #CornellUniversity #polio

started a #wikipedia article on US physician and medical researcher Edith E. Nicholls (1892-1978): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_E._Nicholls @WikiWomeninRed #smithcollege #Geisinger #Yale #CornellUniversity #polio

started a #wikipedia article on US physician and medical researcher Edith E. Nicholls (1892-1978): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_E._Nicholls @WikiWomeninRed #smithcollege #Geisinger #Yale #CornellUniversity #polio

started a #wikipedia article on US physician and medical researcher Edith E. Nicholls (1892-1978): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_E._Nicholls @WikiWomeninRed #smithcollege #Geisinger #Yale #CornellUniversity #polio

@DigiBib @sidaba hier leider auch keine #Geisinger https://www.digibib.genealogy.net/viewer/image/792257642D_II_20/41/#topDocAnchor

Still Snow (49/52/2023)
So between shovelling snow, baking Xmas cookies and doing some Xmas decoration found some time to work on more ancestors https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Frebel-10 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Frebel-9 in #WikiTree …another LNAB to be corrected to Frevel… read the instructions how to customise the #Geisinger #OneNameStudy sticker…created one and its online https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Geisinger_Name_Study#How_to_Join …and #Cats hibernate like bears …at least cat Freya tries 😉

Still Snow (49/52/2023)
So between shovelling snow, baking Xmas cookies and doing some Xmas decoration found some time to work on more ancestors https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Frebel-10 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Frebel-9 in #WikiTree …another LNAB to be corrected to Frevel… read the instructions how to customise the #Geisinger #OneNameStudy sticker…created one and its online https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Geisinger_Name_Study#How_to_Join …and #Cats hibernate like bears …at least cat Freya tries 😉

Borromäus (46/52/2023)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geissinger-31 …name seems seldom…ran into two in #Bavaria #WikiTree #Geisinger #OneNameStudy discovered one in Vilshofen…googled and found another one in Regensburg…unfortunately to young for online records…but no Geisinger prior 1904 in the relevant burial book…mmm…may be related…there was a Geisinger of same profession in Heddesheim #Baden looks like a interesting research path including some rabbit holes…just good for nasty weather

Borromäus (46/52/2023)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geissinger-31 …name seems seldom…ran into two in #Bavaria #WikiTree #Geisinger #OneNameStudy discovered one in Vilshofen…googled and found another one in Regensburg…unfortunately to young for online records…but no Geisinger prior 1904 in the relevant burial book…mmm…may be related…there was a Geisinger of same profession in Heddesheim #Baden looks like a interesting research path including some rabbit holes…just good for nasty weather

Eugen Geisinger (44/52/2023)
Working on #Geisinger #OneNameStudy finding the marriage of Eugen Geisinger's parents marriage https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-354 to finally proof that his father Philipp were the Philipp already had in #WikiTree…now Eugen is connected to the tree and I have an 2nd cousin 3 times removed …uhh #WikiTreeDay is next weekend… still polishing my small presentation piece of #GermanyProject…no no not getting nervous getting nervous ?

@sven I did not started any #YDNA testing, since my direct #Geisinger Ancestor is my mother and my Grandfather and his brothers already passed away. May be I will grow an interest in it when all the existing sources are gathered.

@sven I am positive that it should be possible to cut this at least to the half, since I have currently many couples were the wife has a Geisinger maiden name, and her side never was "researched". People tend to research their paternal lines first.
I know of at least 3 seperate lines which are proven seperate origin, for all the others there is a lot not look at. When I started I thought on a 10 year plan, but in the moment it seems like a lifelong plan. #Geisinger #OneNameStudy

Summer still hiding (30/52/2023):
#WikiTreeTech helped me to generate descendant list for my #Geisinger #OneNameStudy. Now I know about 140 independent lines exist in WT. A lot to connect. My cat is upset by colder rainy days, which the roses love. Some insects ate up all the rucola plants. Had some creative time to generate background graphics for the new #Meszecsov One Name Study in #WikiTree. Just received my great-grandmother's passport.

Summer still hiding (30/52/2023):
#WikiTreeTech helped me to generate descendant list for my #Geisinger #OneNameStudy. Now I know about 140 independent lines exist in WT. A lot to connect. My cat is upset by colder rainy days, which the roses love. Some insects ate up all the rucola plants. Had some creative time to generate background graphics for the new #Meszecsov One Name Study in #WikiTree. Just received my great-grandmother's passport.

Geisinger One Name Study (27/52/2023):
#Geisinger #OneNameStudy https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Geisinger_Name_Study has its 2nd #Anniversary (June 21-June 23) in #WikiTree Had some finds on some emmigrants: Martin Geisinger https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-349 moving to Cape Hope in 1749 and Felix Geisinger https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-448 following his family to Wisconsin in the 1850ties and increase Geisingers in WikiTree, heading towards 1000 profiles.

Geisinger One Name Study (27/52/2023):
#Geisinger #OneNameStudy https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Geisinger_Name_Study has its 2nd #Anniversary (June 21-June 23) in #WikiTree Had some finds on some emigrants: Martin Geisinger https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-349 moving to Cape Hope in 1749 and Felix Geisinger https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Geisinger-448 following his family to Wisconsin in the 1850ties and increase Geisingers in WikiTree, heading towards 1000 profiles.