Andrew Wiesenthal, Board Member
Andy is a seasoned clinician, physician leader, health system executive, and strategic consultant, with experience in the public sector, private sector, not-for-profit, for profit, and government health care entities. He is skilled in the areas of patient engagement, strategic leadership, and governance. He has designed, implemented, and led quality measurement and improvement systems, first at Kaiser Permanente of Colorado, ultimately leading it to a recognized leadership position in U.S. health care. Recognizing that rich data was needed to understand and improve quality of care and utilization of scarce health care resources, he immersed himself in clinical information technology, ultimately implementing a proprietary electronic health record in KP of Colorado and then leading Kaiser Permanente’s national electronic health record implementation from start to finish, successfully creating what remains the largest electronic health record system in the world. Along the way he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, a large multispecialty physician group practice with more than $1 billion in annual revenues, ultimately serving as the Chair for 3 years. He was also a member of the Board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a health maintenance organization accreditation organization, and he has served on the boards of several not-for-profit health information technology standards organizations, including SNOMED International, Health Level 7, and the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. When it became clear that the business model for the latter had become unsustainable, given abrupt changes in the regulatory environment, as chair of the board he led the board and the organization through an orderly and successful cessation of operations. Andy continues to be asked to serve on similar boards and federal advisory committees.
Andy retired from Kaiser Permanente in 2000 after 28 years with the organization and immediately joined Deloitte Consulting, LLP as a Managing Director. He retired from Deloitte in December 2022. Given his extensive experience with physician governance, quality improvement, and health information technology, he is much in demand across a wide variety of engagements and clients. The latter have included federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and the Veterans Health Administration; large academic medical centers like UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of North Carolina, and Stanford
University; health systems like Partners Health Care, John Muir Health System, Sutter Health; and government health systems like Alberta Health Services, the national health services of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and the Ministry of Health of Israel. He frequently has become a trusted advisor to the leaders of these organizations. He instigated the Digital Bridge, a bidirectional exchange of critical health data between delivery systems and public health.
He received a BA from Yale University with honors in Latin American Studies and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. His medical degree is from the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and his general pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases training was all done at the University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. He is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases. He holds a master’s degree in healthcare management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and he has also served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control.
