Industry Veteran Dr. Glenn Steele Joins Millennium Health Advisory Board

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Health announced today that it has added Glenn D. Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, to its advisory board. Dr. Steele currently serves as the president and CEO of Geisinger Health System and chairman of xG Health Solutions. Steele was recently named among the nation's most influential physician executives by Modern Healthcare for the fourth consecutive year.

"We are very fortunate to have Dr. Steele join our advisory board. His focus on quality, value, coordinated care, and treating patients as individuals, aligns well with Millennium Health's mission to provide customized health solutions that get more out of medications," said Brock Hardaway, chief executive officer. "His visionary leadership and depth of knowledge and experience transforming patient care through innovation will help us grow and better serve our customers and their patients."

Dr. Steele joined Geisinger Health System as president and CEO in 2001. Since his arrival, the health system has experienced substantial growth, having gone from 7,500 employees in 2001 to almost 21,000 today, and gained recognition for its innovation and role in the transformation of health care. He came to Geisinger from the University of Chicago, where he served as Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery, vice president for medical affairs, and dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. Prior to that, he was the William V. McDermott Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, president and CEO of Deaconess Professional Practice Group and chairman of the Department of Surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital.

Widely recognized for his investigations into the treatment of primary and metastatic liver cancer and colorectal cancer surgery, Dr. Steele is past chairman of the American Board of Surgery. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous prominent medical journals. Most recently, he has concentrated his areas of study on innovation in health care delivery and financing. He has authored or co-authored nearly 500 scientific and professional articles. Steele has been named to Modern Healthcare's list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives five times, including the past four years, and to the list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare for the past five years.

Dr. Steele joins Millennium's distinguished advisory board, which includes health care, technology and public policy experts former Senator Tom Daschle; Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Brookings Institution; Robert Pfotenhauer, MPH, former CEO of four healthcare companies with more than 35 years of experience in health insurance and health care delivery; and John Short, principal of Short Consulting LLC, a health care consulting firm.

About Millennium Health

Millennium Health is a leading health solutions company that delivers accurate, timely, clinically actionable information to inform the right treatment decisions for each patient at the right time. The company shares a unified belief that everyone has the right to safe and effective treatment and aims to deliver on that idea by providing clinicians and payers with effective tools and information to reach that goal. Millennium Health offers a comprehensive suite of services including The RxAnte System, Millennium PGT^SM and Millennium UDT^SM that can be used to better tailor patient care. More information can be found at www.millenniumhealth.com.

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