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Bob Kelley
Vice President, Healthcare Analytics
In his role of vice president of healthcare analytics, Mr. Bob Kelley is responsible for the development and ongoing enhancement of all analytical methods incorporated in the decision support applications. These applications are used by health plans and large employers to measure and evaluate provider performance and to identify opportunities for improvement.
Mr. Kelley is directly responsible for Thomson Reuters Medical Episode Grouper (MEG), one of the leading episode groupers applied to the measurement of physician efficiency. He is an expert in both the clinical and statistical methods applied in the grouper, and is knowledgeable of the challenges and appropriate solutions in the use of episodes for evaluating cost efficiency.
Mr. Kelley has 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. During his ten years with Thomson Reuters, he has advised dozens of large employers and health plans on analytical methods, has designed decision support applications, and created and managed a national consulting practice.
As director of the Saint Joseph Mercy Quality Institute, a quality improvement organization within Trinity Health, he was responsible for measuring and monitoring quality and efficiency for a multi-hospital system, a large physician IPA, and a managed care plan. Mr. Kelley was also responsible for managing a variety of performance improvement initiatives.
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