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December 22, 2009

Featured Tuesday Session

Employers as Catalysts for Accountable Care Systems:
A Supply Chain Model for Population Health Management

Featured General Session - Tuesday afternoon- March 30

Moderated by: Peter Roberts

President of Roberts Health Systems

Speaker at IHPM's 10th Annual International Health & Productivity Conference

"Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are becoming a new focus for better delivery of health care, in part because of new public policy support for improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of care.   In our employer-based private health care system in the U.S., such improvements are driven by employers as purchasers of health care for their employees." says Peter Roberts.

But better care delivery depends heavily on the actions of providers – of physicians, hospitals, and health systems.  In the health care “laboratory” that is the State of Iowa, efforts are being made to bring employers and providers together in new ways to create just such accountability, and establish new models for “Population Health Management.” 

IHPM is pleased to feature these efforts at its 10th Annual International Conference in a feature session on Tuesday, March 30th entitled:  Employers as Catalysts for Accountable Care Systems: A Supply Chain Model for Population Health Management. 

This panel session moderated by Peter Roberts, President of Roberts Health Systems, will feature: Dale Andriga, MD, Medical Director of Vermeer Manufacturing Company,  Brad Archer, MD,  President of Iowa Health System,  and Jason Levett, MD,  Medical Director of Physicians Clinic of Iowa and President of the Cedar Rapids Health Care Alliance. 

This panel discussion "will examine three approaches to establishing Accountable Care systems, using a supply chain model that will best meet local market needs," says Peter Roberts.

• Vermeer’s direct employer-to-local health care provider business relationship;
• Iowa Health System’s goal to serve as an ACO for local self-funded employers;
• The Cedar Rapids coalition’s initiative to sponsor a community-based ACO with local employers and providers.

Like the earlier session description of Manatee County, Florida's value-based heatlh strategy, this is another example of how some of the best things happening in American healthcare are to be first found at IHPM conferences.

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IHPM's10th Annual International Health & Productivity Conference

Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida

March 29-31, 2010

Managing, Marketing, Measuring

the Value of Health & Productivity

The Institute for Health and Productivity Management is pleased to announce its 10th Annual International Health & Productivity Conference, an event that draws attendees from around the world as the Institute continually expands its global reach.

Activities will get underway on Monday morning, March 29th.....

Pre-Conference Academy on Value-Based Health,  chaired by Steve Priddy, Director of IHPM’s Value-Based Health (VBH) initiative. The Academy will open with an Executive Summary of the Status of Value-Based Health by Randy Abbott, Practice Leader at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, for large employers and by Jack Bastable, Practice Leader at CBIZ, for small employers.  Next will be sessions on value-based benefit design for three critical chronic diseases that account for a huge share of employers’ total workplace burden of illness – Depression, Diabetes,  and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).  The Academy will conclude with a presentation of an award-winning integrated value-based health management strategy by a public employer – Manatee County, Florida.

The Conference itself opens the afternoon of the 29th with the annual presentation of IHPM’s President’s Award.  Sessions for the rest of the opening day will focus on:

1. HPM  as a Global Business Strategy– Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director of Health for Dow Chemical and Tami Graham, Global Benefits Design Director for Intel.  Two of the acknowledged international leaders in managing health as human capital talk about how they built their integrated strategies and how they implement them worldwide.
2. Measurement: Digging Deeper and Reaching Wider to Make the Case for HPM, with Debra Lerner, PhD, Senior Scientist from Tufts Medical Center, Brent Pawlecki, MD, Corporate Medical Director for Pitney Bowes, and Joe Leutzinger, PhD, Principal of Health Improvement Solutions
• measuring the impact of caregiving on workplace productivity
• measuring the health of a corporate culture
3. 10th Annual Corporate Health and Productivity Management Awards (sponsored by Novartis) and presented by Joe Leutzinger, PhD, President of IHPM’s Academy
4. Understanding Your "Customer":  Using Consumer Marketing Strategies to Engage Employees in Health and Wellness Programs, featuring Steve Cook (accomplished Sr. Executive with P&G, Coca-Cola and Samsung) and Bob Isherwood (former Worlwide Creative Director for Saatchi & Saatchi) Principals from i.e. healthcare
5. Rewards and Punishments – Employer Panel Discussion of Incentive and Cost-Sharing Strategies led by Randy Abbott of Watson Wyatt

Tuesday Morning, March 30th, will feature sessions on:

1. Technologies to Bring Greater Value to Health Management, such as Dossia, Healthy World,  and DeskActive
2. The Meaning of “Value” – Multistakeholder (Employer and Health Plan) Panel Discussion led by Steve Priddy from IHPM’s Value-Based Health Initiative (VBH) and featuring VBH award winners Intel, Procter & Gamble, John Deere, and Aetna
3. 3rd Annual Value-Based Health Awards presented by Steve Priddy and Jack Bastable of VBH
4. Manatee County, Florida – Value-Based Health Management that Reaches the Community, presented by Bob Goodman and Kim Stroud
5. Employers as Catalysts for Accountable Care Systems: A Supply Chain Model for Population Health Management – The panel session will feature:  Peter Roberts, President of Roberts Health Systems,  Dale Andriga, MD, Medical Director of Vermeer Manufacturing Company,  Brad Archer, MD,  President of Iowa Health System,  and Jason Levett, MD,  Medical Director of Physicians Clinic of Iowa and President of the Cedar Rapids Health Care Alliance. 

Tuesday Afternoon, March 30th, featured sessions:

1. Launch of IHPM's Workplace Center for Respiratory Health
• COPD:  The Next Epidemic for Employers
• Economic Burden of COPD on Employers; William Bunn, MD, VP for Health, Safety & Productivity, Navistar International
• Smoking Cessation - Doorway to Respiratory Health - Ken Glover, Director of Health & Wellness & Ergonomics, CSX
• Update on Pay for Performance initiatives for COPD
2. Workplace Center for Behavioral Health, co-chaired by Richard C. Bedrosian, PhD, Director of Behavioral Health, HealthMedia and Ed Jones, PhD, Executive Vice President, ValueOptions (program tba)
3. Workplace Center for Metabolic Health
• Washington State's Healthy Worksite Initiative, Scott Pritchard, Director of Integrated Employee Health & Productivity
• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Breakdown of Metabolic Health

Tuesday Evening, March 30th, featured session:

Tuesday evening features the Annual Public Policy Dinner (sponsored by Pfizer) with the return of a health policy “star” from the 2008 Annual Conference, Grace-Marie Turner, President of the Galen Institute, who will speak on Health Reform: Looking Back and Ahead.

Wednesday, March 31st, the conference will conclude with these sessions:

1. The “Two Pens:” Engaging Physicians with Employers,  a panel discussion chaired by Ray Fabius, MD, Principal with AB3 Health
2. Coaching – New Path to Better Health - Victor Strecher, PhD, Founder & Chief Vision Officer, HealthMedia
3. Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Employer-Based Health Intervention Programs, presented by Grant Skrepnek, PhD, from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy
4. Legal Threat to Health and Productivity Management:  The Unintended Consequences of GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) - Randy Abbott, Watson Wyatt
5. Health and Productivity in Asia:  Significant new findings from IHPM's first-of-its kind comprehensive health and productivity assessment with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority

Please email bonnie.jean@ihpm.org for more information or to register.

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