Dr. Eleanor C. Seiler

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  www.medical-industry-news.com/20060327/ehealthconnectic - [Cached Version]
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  Eleanor Seiler, MD, Senior Medical Director, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue

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  www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=37190 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/11/2003    Last Visited: 6/11/2003  

  According to Eleanor Seiler, senior medical director of Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, more than 80 percent of Connecticut doctors say they have ordered more tests, and 74 percent have referred patients to specialists, more often than they would have otherwise based on their professional judgment alone.

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  www.fcma.org/public/components/societytools/admin/viewN - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/13/2006    Last Visited: 8/14/2007  

  Author: Linda A. Masci & Eleanor C. Seiler, MD
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  Linda A. Masci is vice president and general manager of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's Connecticut Operations in North Haven; Eleanor C. Seiler, M.D., is senior medical director there.

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  DuPage County Medical Society Committees Page - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/15/2004    Last Visited: 11/3/2004  

  Also present at the news conference to speak in support of tort reform were Eleanor Seiler, MD, senior medical director, Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield of CT; Paul Timpanelli, president and chief executive officer, Bridgeport Regional Business Council; and Susan L. Davis, RN, EdD, president and chief executive officer, St. Vincent's Medical Center.

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  ADVANCE for Health Information Executives | Editorial - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/14/2004    Last Visited: 4/14/2004  

  "By improving health outcomes over the long term, you will prove that quality costs less," Eleanor Seiler, MD, senior medical director of Anthem, told the newspaper.

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  Advocacy - CHA Position Statements - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/11/2007    Last Visited: 7/11/2008  

  The panelists were Senator Christopher Murphy, Co-Chairperson of the General Assembly's Public Health Committee; Senator George Gunther, Ranking Member of the Public Health Committee; J. Robert Galvin, M.D., Commissioner of the Department of Public Health (DPH); Cristine Vogel, Commissioner of the Office of Health Care Access (OHCA); Susan Cogswell, Commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department; Bruce Gould, M.D., Associate Dean of Primary Care for the University of Connecticut School of Medicine; Judy Solomon, Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children; Eleanor Seiler, M.D., Senior Medical Director for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Suzette Benn, MS, Director of Community Health for the Urban League of Greater Hartford; and Steve Frayne, CHA's Vice President of Finance and Insurance Services.

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  CAQH 2002 Press Releases - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/2003    Last Visited: 10/16/2009  

  ?It is not uncommon for a physician to contract with 10 or more healthcare organizations, each of which requires a credentialing application,? said Ellie Seiler, M.D., senior medical director at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. ?As a member of CAQH, Anthem is committed to easing this burden for physicians.

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  Connecticut Business Times -Stories Page - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/22/2003    Last Visited: 5/22/2003  

  Referring to the reduction of ADEs and NIs, Eleanor Seiler, M.D., senior medical director of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, said, "Experts estimate that up to a third of these problems are preventable.
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  "We know that if they (ADEs) occur in the hospital, they may well lead to increasing the time patients remain there," Seiler said."We also know that there is an increasingly serious risk of hospital-acquired infections no longer being responsive to new high-powered antibiotics and that the mortality rate from antibiotic resistant infections may grow.Decreasing both adverse drug events and hospital-acquired infections can only improve the health of our communities and decrease overall health care costs."
  
  Regarding the focus on diabetes and asthma, Seiler continued, "Through the CQP, we expect to see significant improvements in the health of the people with these diseases.

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  Connecticut Post Online - WOMANWISE - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/21/2004    Last Visited: 8/21/2004  

  Dr. Eleanor Seiler, senior medical director for Connecticut Anthem, said the company takes pains to promote proper vaccinations, including sending reminders to parents of children who haven't had their immunizations.
  
  "Vaccinations are a good thing for a couple of reasons," Seiler said."For one thing, it really helps protect children from a series of diseases."
  
  She also pointed out the vaccinations have already severely limited or altogether eliminated a number of diseases, including smallpox, polio and measles.

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  ECDS | High-Tech Takes On ER's High Stresses (02/26/06) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/26/2006    Last Visited: 2/18/2008  

  For example, with comprehensive systems, computers could track whether a patient who left the office with an order to get a blood test actually followed through, said Dr. Eleanor C. Seiler, vice president for medical affairs at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
  
  A doctor in private practice, she said, operates largely in a clinical vacuum.
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  "If we could connect people, type in the name, get a whole list of all the things she's had done and the results, the patient could get the right services at the right time in the right place," Seiler said.
  
  In addition, she suggested, doctors would be able to track their own patients with similar conditions and get a better idea of which treatments work better than others.

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