About Us
Joshua Seidman, PhD
President
Center for Information Therapy (IxCenter), Bethesda, MD
For 17 years, Josh has been on a quest to improve health care quality-first by influencing health plans and provider behavior, then shifting to a grassroots approach by activating consumers. In October 2001 Josh saw the fusion of his two strategies to improve health care quality in information therapy. Information therapy (Ix) is the timely prescription and availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals’ specific needs and support sound decision making.
The IxCenter’s mission is to advance Ix practice and science to improve people’s health. The IxCenter stimulates innovation and diffuses best practices related to support for informed decision making and healthy behavior. The IxCenter also is a catalyst for advancing initiatives at the intersection of patient-centered care and health information technology (HIT).
Background on Joshua Seidman
Before joining the IxCenter, Josh served as senior editor and director of quality initiatives for the Advisory Board Company’s consumer health initiative. In that capacity, he played a leading role in strategic planning and product development and provided leadership in the development of quality-of-care information for consumers.
Josh has worked for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the director of measure development, guiding NCQA’s measure development efforts and overseeing analytical projects related to health-plan-performance measure testing and development for HEDIS . He has also worked at the Advisory Board Company as a consultant and senior research associate and at the American College of Cardiology as assistant director of private sector relations, conducting extensive research and analysis in managed care, quality-of-care issues, and other aspects of the health care industry. In addition, Josh has published several book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals on e-health and quality-of-care-related issues.
Josh holds a PhD in health services research and a master of health science degree in health policy and management, both from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His doctoral research involved the development of a tool to evaluate the quality of health information on the Internet and an assessment of what Web site characteristics influenced health information quality. He earned a bachelor of arts in political science from Brown University.
For five years, Josh volunteered as president of the board of directors for the Micah House, a transitional house in Washington, D.C., for homeless women recovering from substance abuse.
In his less cerebral moments, Josh enjoys spending time with his three young children (Ben, Leo and Ryan) and wife (Jocelyn Guyer) and running marathons.
