History of Geisinger
Danville resident Abigail Geisinger, widow of iron magnate George Geisinger, used her fortune to build a hospital intended to be a regional medical center modeled on the Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1915, Geisinger Health System provides more than 2.6 million people in 44 counties in Pennsylvania a complete continuum of health care. The Geisinger Health System enjoys national recognition as a model for high quality integrated health service delivery, has been listed in Best Hospitals in America, and its physicians have been listed in The Best Doctors in America. Its primary care facility is the Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) located in Danville, with two other hospitals in Wilkes-Barre, Geisinger Wyoming Valley (GWV)and Geisinger South Wilkes Barre. There are numerous Geisinger clinics throughout northeastern Pennsylvania in Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Wyoming, Scranton, Dallas, Plains, Kingston, and other surrounding cities and towns.
An electronic health record, in place since 1996, provides patients the ability to view their records, electronically communicate with their caregivers and research various medical topics through links to trusted medical information on the Internet. Non-Geisinger physicians and their staff can access their patients’ Geisinger electronic health records by utilizing a special portal that allows them to communicate electronically with Geisinger specialists and sub-specialists. Geisinger Health System has adopted the Epic EMR for electronic documentation of patient and medical information. Currently, the latest implementation known as CPOE (Computerized Provider Order Entry) took place at Geisinger Medical Center in mid October 2007 and has thus remained a success. Expected future implementations are scheduled for the latter part of this year and into the beginning of 2009 at remaining clinics and hospitals.
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