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How Healthfirst is Partnering with a Health System to Make Providers’ Jobs Easier

How Healthfirst is Partnering with a Health System to Make Providers’ Jobs Easier

G.T. Sweeney

Chief Information Officer,
Healthfirst

G.T. Sweeney has been Healthfirst’s Chief Information Officer since 2014, leading the Information Services department to help transform our business and tightly integrate our information systems to further our strategic goals.

G.T. came to Healthfirst with over 20 years of experience in the information technology field, with a continuous focus on ensuring the IT strategy aligns with company goals and strategy. He spent six years as the VP of Information Technology at Cigna, where he was responsible for managing core operations of all medical insurance platforms, as well as establishing a three-year strategy to overhaul all clinical systems. Before that, G.T. worked for Credit Suisse in a variety of IT roles including Chief Operating Officer of Technology Infrastructure Services and Head of Data Center Operations, where he played a critical role in centralizing IT across all Credit Suisse into a single 10,000+ person, $3 billion organization.

In 2011, G.T. was honored with the Cigna Global Volunteer of the Year Award for his decade-long efforts to improve the health and well-being of older adults in New York. He graduated from State University of New York at Albany, where he majored in mathematics and computer science.

Sami Boshut

Chief Information Officer,
MediSys Health Network, Inc.

Sami has a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & healthcare industry with a proven track record and expertise in Healthcare Consulting, Infrastructure Installations, Software Implementation and Vendor Management.

How Healthfirst is Partnering with a Health System to Make Providers’ Jobs Easier

G.T. Sweeney, Chief Information Officer of Healthfirst and Sami Boshut, Chief Information Officer of MediSys Health Network, Inc., join Eric to discuss how their organizations collaborated with a technology company to create a cloud-based platform that enables seamless sharing of patient data across the care continuum.

The platform connects longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for providers to address patient needs in real-time. The two discuss how the platform supports the next phase of value-based care by ensuring providers have the right information at the right time to address the needs of patients.

Sweeney and Boshut also provide a blueprint to help other organizations implement similar provider-centric technology systems.

About Our Guests:

G.T. Sweeney has been Healthfirst’s Chief Information Officer since 2014, leading the Information Services department to help transform the insurer’s business and tightly integrate information systems to further strategic goals.

Sami Boshut has a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry with a proven track record and expertise in Healthcare Consulting, Infrastructure Installations, Software Implementation and Vendor Management.

G.T. Sweeney

Chief Information Officer,
Healthfirst

Sami Boshut

Chief Information Officer,
MediSys Health Network, Inc.

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