Michael Seavers, Ph.D., MHA, MBA, MS Comp Sci
Chair of Faculty, Department Chair, Program Lead, and Assistant Professor of Healthcare Informatics<
Harrisburg University or Science and Technology
The Secretary maintains the records and rosters for the chapter, duties generally include: taking minutes at regular and special board meetings, sending meeting notices and agendas accompanied by minutes.
Dr. Seavers has a varied background in IT, business, and healthcare spanning many decades. Dr. Seavers began as a programmer analyst at Shared Medical Systems and later at General Electric Aerospace. Dr. Seavers then began working at Book-of-the-Month Club where he managed an IT application department focused on order processing and pick-pack-and-ship algorithms. Later as a Senior Project Manager, Dr. Seavers worked for Hanover Direct during the .COM initial years working with major corporate clients like Sony.
As the .COM industry went bust, Dr. Seavers moved to the healthcare industry. Dr. Seavers worked at Capital BlueCross for nearly two decades. The first decade was as a Senior Manager in the IT department and the second decade heading up the entire claims division and later heading up the enrollment and billing division. Dr. Seavers focus was automation of labor for instance in the way of robotics for healthcare.
After a varied career background and various formal degrees, Dr. Seavers is now teaching full-time for Harrisburg University.
- Ph.D. in Public Administration, Penn State University, PA, U.S.A.
- Masters in Healthcare Administration, Penn State University, PA, U.S.A.
- Masters in Computer Science, Villanova University, PA, U.S.A.
- Masters in Business Administration, Penn State University, PA, U.S.A.
- Bachelor Science in Computer Science, Shippensburg University, PA, U.S.A. (Minor in Music)
