Geisinger CEO discusses telehealth, precision medicine and more

Dr. David Feinberg has served as president and CEO of Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger since 2015. Previously, he was president of UCLA Health System, CEO of UCLA’s hospitals and associate vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences.
In a recent phone interview, he chatted about the Geisinger National Precision Health Initiative, the organization’s National Symposium and what’s on the horizon in 2018.
We’ve done a lot in telehealth. We have an eICU we’ve been operating for a number of years.
At the very another end, we do telepsychiatry and telederm. Because of our footprint, we were a pretty early adapter to telemedicine.
With telehealth, I think the “tele” should drop off. It’s really just about providing care to people. Our real focus is on access to care. We don’t actually care about the way you access it as long as it’s convenient, easy and low-cost for you as our patient.