Introducing a Lens of Equity into Healthcare Delivery Measurement Systems

NorthShore University HealthSystem is a 5-hospital integrated healthcare delivery system in the northern Chicagoland area. In his role, Chad oversees the team responsible for NorthShore’s clinical and operational reporting, analysis and predictive modeling, which focus on leveraging and delivering data that improve the quality of care, patient and physician experience, and efficiency of the healthcare system. Chad is also a faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives where he teaches a course on healthcare analytics for executives.

As director of Thought Advisory, Technology and Innovations at HIMSS, Shelley Price is a prominent leader and organizer on internal strategic development, organizational alignment, and enterprise research efforts. She also provides subject matter expertise services and thought leadership to form insights that guide change across the healthcare ecosystem. Those areas focus on content expertise and strategic guidance on turning data and analytics into actionable insight across the healthcare ecosystem, with an eye toward big data and analytics, population and precision health, artificial intelligence and machine learning; and with stakeholder focus on pharma, payers, and clinical and business development in care delivery settings.

Ms. Price has worked on healthcare information, technology, and policy in Washington, D.C. for over two decades. Prior to joining HIMSS, she served as Senior Manager, Strategic Planning and Policy in the Policy and Research department at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the trade association of the country’s leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies. She provided research, analysis, and strategic planning in support of the association’s policy engagement on intellectual property and creating an abbreviated regulatory approval pathway for biosimilars.
Additionally, she was lead staff on health IT issues and manager of the PhRMA Health IT Workgroup. In this capacity Ms. Price was responsible for creating a strategic work plan that addressed the association’s priority engagement points in the health IT debate; developing positions and policies on privacy and data access matters; leading the drafting of the industry response to the 2008 federal rulemaking on e-prescribing standards; reviewing all federal health IT bills; identifying threats and opportunities for the industry, creating positions around those points, and engaging with various outside entities to further those positions; and responding to member company inquiries on various health IT concerns.
Ms. Price began her career as associate director of governmental issues for a prominent Washington, D.C.-based law firm specializing in energy, the environment, natural resources and healthcare. While there, she was a part of the team that represented a Fortune 25 company that is one of the world's largest healthcare services company and a leader in health information technology and pharmaceutical supply distribution and management.

Ms. Price obtained her bachelors of science degree from the University of Michigan and her masters of science from Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She is a HIMSS Fellow and past board member of the Arlington Virginia Chapter of the League of Women Voters.