March 15 , 2010

Managing, Marketing and Measuring

the Value of Health & Productivity

IHPM’s 10th Annual International Health & Productivity Conference
March 29-31, 2010

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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Pre-Conference Academy - Monday, March 29th, 8:00 - 12:00 p.m.

General Session - Tuesday, March 30th 1:00-5:45pm

IHPM’s Workplace Center for Behavioral Health – the first of its kind – was created to identify and share innovative, integrated approaches to the full range of behavioral health conditions through research and education focused on the workplace impact and effective treatment of these conditions  – including depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and alcohol and substance abuse.

The Center was made possible by founding sponsorship from HealthMedia, with additional support from ValueOptions, Aetna, CIGNA, and Milliman.   It has produced conference presentations, magazine and journal articles, webinars and electronic “eDitorials” on subjects such as Mental Health Parity legislation and co-morbid conditions.

Leaders from the Workplace Center for Behavioral Health will be featured at the Pre-Conference Academy session at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, March 29th and again at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30th to focus on behavioral health issues:

• Pre-Conference Academy

Value-Based Benefits and Depression: Why It Matters and Why It’s Complicated, presented by Rich Bedrosian, PhD, Director of Behavioral Health, HealthMedia, and Janice Rahn, Executive Vice President for Product Innovation and Marketing at Health Insight.  Depression is co-morbid with so many chronic conditions – and has such impact on productivity loss as well as medical costs associated with those conditions – that it makes sense to include it in value-based benefit programs, although it raises unique issues.  This session will discuss how to modify value-based designs to include depression, and will present participation and outcomes data from a company that offers employees incentives to participate in a confidential intervention for depression.

• General Conference Session

Addressing Behavioral Health in the Workplace: Are You Using the Right Tools, presented by Rich Bedrosian and by Ed Jones, PhD, Sr. Vice President for Commercial Division, Value Options.  Behavioral health conditions greatly amplify all the medical consequences of other chronic conditions, as well as their workplace impact – especially lost productivity; this can be seen vividly in the case of the societal and workplace epidemic of obesity, which must be approached from both a behavioral as well as a clinical perspective.  This session will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both medication and psychotherapy, and the particular issues of confidentiality and social stigma that keep people with behavioral health problems from accessing care.  Employers pay the biggest price for these problems, but are arguably in the best position to do something about them – by thinking in terms of population health rather than disease management.  The session will describe how employers can use incentives as well as innovations like digital coaching to target employees at all levels of severity, and will share participation and outcomes data from effective programs.

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Monday - March 29 - 8:00 a.m. - Health Fair & Exhibit Hall Open

Pre-Conference Academy for Value-Based Health Agenda

Monday March 29th 8:00am - noon - sponsored by sanofi-aventis

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 Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt Worldwide), for large employers and by Jack Bastable, Practice Leader at CBIZ, for small employers.  Next will be sessions on value-based health 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.

GENERAL SESSION CONFERENCE AGENDA

Monday March 29th 1:00 -5:45pm

1:00 -1:15 pm Welcome / President's Award and International Leadership Award

1:15 - 2:00 pm - Measurement: Digging Deeper and Reaching Wider to Make the Case for HPM -- Measuring the impact of Caregiving on Workplace Productivity - Debra Lerner, PhD, Senior Scientist from Tufts Medical Center and Brent Pawlecki, MD, Corporate Medical Director for Pitney Bowes

2:00 - 3:30 pm -HPM as a Global Business Strategy - 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.

2:00 - 2:45 pm - Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director of Health for Dow Chemical

2:45 - 3:30 pm Tami Graham, Global Benefits Design Director for Intel. 

3:30 - 4:00 pm Break in Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors

4:00 - 4:15 pm - 10th Annual Corporate Health and Productivity Management Awards sponsored by Aetna Inc. - Joe Leutzinger, PhD, President of IHPM’s Academy

4:15 - 5:00 pm - Improving Health to Reduce Costs and Improve Productivity - sponsored by CIGNA - Pamela Grove, Director, Benefits & Human Resources, Land O'Lakes

5:00 - 5:45 pm - Reducing Risk Factors to Prevent Disease and Improve Performance in a Puerto Rico Workplace Culture - Nestor Ortiz, Abbott Director, Commercial & Government Affairs Puerto Rico, and Changes That Last a Lifetime® Ambassador

5:45 - 7:30 pm Reception in Portico with Health Fair Exhibitors -SPECIAL EVENT - Kelly Adair, Body-for-Life Champion, Lifestyle Achievement Award Winner - sponsored by Abbott

Tuesday Morning March 30th 8:00am – 12:00pm

7:00 - 8:00 am Breakfast in Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors

8:00 - 9:15 am - Technologies to Bring Greater Value to Health Management -- Understanding Your "Customer":  Using Consumer Marketing Strategies to Engage Employees in Health and Wellness Programs -

8:00 - 8:45 am Michael Becker, VP Strategy, iLoop Mobile, Inc. and North American Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association

8:45 - 9:15 am - Steve Cook (former Sr. Executive with P&G, Coca-Cola and former Chief Marketing Officer for Samsung Electronics, North America) and Bob Isherwood (former Worldwide Chief Creative Officer for Saatchi & Saatchi, recipient of the Clio Lifetime Achievement Award and an inductee into the Clio Hall of Fame), Principals from i.e. healthcare innovating engagement in health and healthcare.

9:15 - 10: 15 am - The Meaning of “Value” – Multistakeholder (Employer and Health Plan) - Panel Discussion - co-chairs Steve Priddy, leader of IHPM’s Value-Based Health Initiative (VBH) and Randy Abbott, Practice Leader at Towers Watson -- featuring VBH award winners Intel (Tami Graham, Global Benefits Design Director), Procter & Gamble (Sandra Morris, Sr. Manager, Benefits Design), John Deere (Sharon Hodson, Health & Productivity Manager), and Aetna (Ed Pezalla, MD, National Medical Director for Aetna Pharmacy)

10:15 - 10:45 am Break in Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors

10:45 - 11:00 am - 3rd Annual Value-Based Health (VBH) Awards - sponsored by sanofi-aventis - Steve Priddy and Jack Bastable, IHPM's VBH Initiative

11:00 - 11:40 am - Value-Based Health Management that Reaches the Community - Bob Goodman and Kim Stroud, Manatee County, Florida

11:40 - 12:00 pm Peter Mills, MD, Healthy Worlds - virtual delivery of health coaching with a real-time demonstration.

12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch in the Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors - SPECIAL EVENT with the Human Performance Institute - sponsored by the Human Performance Institute

Tuesday Afternoon, March 30th 1:00-5:45pm

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Launch of IHPM's Workplace Center for Respiratory Health

COPD:  The Next Epidemic for Employers - Rick Nevins, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, IHPM and David Armstrong, Ph.D., Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Boehringer Ingelheim  

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 - Linda K. Shelton, LKS Consulting

3:00 - 3:30 pm Break in Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors

3:30 - 4:40 pm 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)

4:40 - 5:45 pm Workplace Center for Metabolic Health

Washington State's Healthy Worksite Initiative, Scott Pritchard, Director of Integrated Employee Health & Productivity - Using the Outcomes from a Metabolic Health Improvement Program to Drive Value-Based Health Design Systemwide

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): A Silent Epidemic, Anisha Pirani, RPh, American Regent

5:45 - 7:30 pm Reception in Portico with Exhibitors "Kick Off" - SPECIAL EVENT - Nick Lowery, Football Hall of Fame, Kansas City Chiefs - sponsored by CBIZ

Tuesday Evening, March 30th 7:30pm

Grace-Marie Turner, President of the Galen Institute

Greg Simon, Sr. VP, Worldwide Policy, Pfizer

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

Wednesday, March 31st 8:00am – 12:45pm

7:00 - 8:00 am Breakfast in Portico with Health Fair & Exhibitors

8:00 - 8:50 am - The “Two Pens:” Engaging Physicians with Employers,  a panel discussion chaired by Ray Fabius, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Thomson Reuters, and featuring the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG), Wells Shoemaker, MD, Medical Director, CAPG; Dale Andringa, MD, Medical Director, Vermeer Manufacturing Company, and James Levett, MD, President, Cedar Rapids Health Care Alliance.

8:50 - 9:40 am - 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 Andringa, MD, Medical Director of Vermeer Manufacturing Company,  and James Levett, MD,  Medical Director of Physicians Clinic of Iowa and President of the Cedar Rapids Health Care Alliance. 

9:40 - 10:10 am - Coaching – New Path to Better Health - Victor Strecher, PhD, Founder & Chief Vision Officer, HealthMedia

10:10 - 10:25 am - BREAK

10:25 - 11:15 am - Improving and Measuring the Value of a Healthy Corporate Culture at Amway; Tom Boehr, Optimal You Manager, Amway Corporation and Joseph Leutzinger, PhD, Principal, Health Improvement Solutions and President of IHPM's Academy for Health and Productivity Management (AHPM).

11:15 - 11:45 am - Correlating Employee Health and Performance: New Evidence from Global HPM Leader Unilever working with Lancaster University in England, presented by Dean Patterson, Health & Productivity Manager, Unilever.

11:45 - 12:15 pm - Designing, Implementing and Evaluating Employer-Based Health Intervention Programs, presented by Grant Skrepnek, PhD, from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

12:15 - 12:45 - Legal Threat to Health and Productivity Management:  The Unintended Consequences of GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) - Randy Abbott, Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt Worldwide)

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Featured Topic Updates: 

HPM as a Global Business Strategy

Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director of Health for Dow Chemical

Tami Graham, Global Benefits Design Director for Intel

Dow Chemical’s Global Health Strategy: Forces and Factors, Actions and Outcomes - IHPM first began to think globally when Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director of Health for Dow Chemical and one of IHPM's original corporate “brain trust,” told us that “everything we do (at the Dow Chemical Company) we do globally.”  Since that time, Dow has continued to provide international leadership to the Health & Productivity movement – and IHPM has followed Cathy’s advice and become a global enterprise!

Dr. Baase returns to IHPM's stage this year to help observe the 10th anniversary of what has since become its Annual International Conference –  to explain the forces and factors that led Dow to grasp the need and develop the rationale for a worldwide health strategy, and describe the actions taken in pursuit of that strategy and the outcomes they have produced.  In addition, Cathy will take a few minutes to reiterate another critically important idea – that employers are crucial to the future of health and the realization of larger public health objectives.  They are a vital societal component of any national health strategy, and to remain involved must have the freedom to manage and innovate – what business does best.

A key message to take away from Dr. Baase's presentation is that business success and health objectives are interdependent, and must be achieved together – in the mutual interest of companies and nations.

IHPM conference attendees always look forward to the latest progress reports from the Health & Productivity leaders who drive this movement worldwide.  Another such corporate leader who has appeared at our forums around the world is Intel Corporation, and this year they are back to share more of their continuing story in a session titled Intel’s Journey into On-site Wellness and Primary Care Services: Building the Business Case, Implementing and Measuring Success, presented by a new Intel face for our audience,  Tami Graham, JD,  Global Benefits Design Director.

With 79,000 employees worldwide, Intel has been working to improve its health care landscape for many years – as our conference attendees know.  The company’s long-term strategy is to create a global culture of health and wellness, including (1) innovative health plan design, (2) award-winning wellness programming, and (3) integrated onsite healthcare clinics.
In this session on the opening afternoon of the conference, Tami will relate Intel’s journey, including in-depth discussion of:

1. Business case for investing in employee wellness and onsite healthcare clinics;
2. Program elements and metrics for gauging success;
3. Key cultural considerations globally.

Reducing Risk Factors to Prevent Disease and Improve

Performance in a Puerto Rico Workplace Culture

Nestor Ortiz, Abbott Director, Commercial & Government Affairs Puerto Rico;

Changes That Last a Lifetime® Ambassador

Health promotion need be no more of a challenge in other languages and cultures: a health promotion program  focused on prevention and reduction of chronic disease risks, and with motivational support, is an effective strategy to improve workplace performance in a Puerto Rico workplace.

The desire to get healthy is universal, so teaching healthy habits in nutrition and fitness translates in any language and culture.  Find out how Abbott employees in Puerto Rico improved their health when they tackled the issue of obesity and its associated risks for chronic metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, presented by Nestor Ortiz, Abbott Director, Commercial & Government Affairs Puerto Rico, Abbott and Changes That Last a Lifetime Ambassador.

For Abbott, Changes That Last a Lifetime is a health promotion program that includes a fun and exciting 12 week ‘Challenge’ that fosters peer motivation and support.  By taking the 'Challenge' Abbott employees in Puerto Rico proved that small changes in nutrition and fitness can result in major improvements in health and productivity.

Healthy Worlds

Delivering Scalable, Cost-effective Health Coaching Virtually

Peter Mills, MD

Healthy Worlds uses 3D virtual worlds to deliver scalable and cost-effective health coaching – by harnessing the functionality of these environments in three distinct ways:

• By delivering real-time events such as health seminars and workshops;
• By creating self-directed learning modules that can be completed alone or with a coach;
•  By establishing a global health community where individuals can meet, interact with, and support their peers.

Results from early pilot studies show that these environments are engaging and easy to use, and add value to more conventional channels of health advocacy.  This presentation by Peter Mills, MD, former Medical Director of UK-based vielife will take place on Tuesday morning, March 30th, and include a real-time demonstration with participants spread over three continents, as well as the thoughts of a global employer on the applicability of this model to its overall employee health strategy.  Join us in the world of “avatars”

Employer-Based Health Intervention Programs

Building the Business Case

Professor Grant Skrepnek, PhD, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

The U.S. Labor Department estimates the annual cost of poor health in the workplace at nearly $11,000 per employee – or $1.8 trillion for the 137 million nonfarm employees in 2008.  And research studies have found that the cost of lost productivity from health conditions exceeds the direct cost of treating those conditions by a factor of 2 to 4 times.   Welcome to the world of health and productivity!

The dual factors of escalating health care costs and increasing global competition are making employers aware of the financial impact on their companies of health-related expenditures and productivity losses in the workplace.   Tools now are available to assess the impact of health on employee performance – putting readily available data into intuitive scientific frameworks.  Findings from these worksite analyses often reveal large gaps in care even while providing guidance on how to implement preventive screenings and clinical interventions.

Examples from the scientific literature provide evidence on how large these gaps in care can be within employee populations, and how targeted interventions can reduce these gaps.  Rick Nevins, MD and Joe Leutzinger, PhD, reported that about half (50%) of cases involving the “metabolic syndrome” of multiple related risk factors were unrecognized prior to screenings – i.e., not reported on HRAs.  Following behavior change interventions, multiple risk factors either improved or were eliminated for nearly all those who completed the program, and the health-related productivity loss was reduced by about 45%.

The findings from employer worksite studies produce some of the best evidence of cost-effective wellness, prevention, and care management programs.  On Wednesday morning, March 31st, Professor Grant Skrepnek, PhD, from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy will make a presentation on Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Employer-Based Health Intervention Programs – showing the importance of measuring health-related expenditures and productivity impacts, and introducing the leading methods for assessing this total cost burden. 

 

Amway:  Improving and Measuring the Health of a Corporate Culture

Tom Boehr, Optimal You Manager, Amway Corporation

Joseph Leutzinger, PhD, Principal, Health Improvement Solutions

Ongoing measurement of results is key to sustaining any health improvement initiative – and also is necessary for getting an integrated health management program started.   Determining the portion of a company’s total health-related costs resulting from unhealthy lifestyle and health- related productivity loss is critical to program evaluation and justification.

Other measures, however, are just as important but often neglected or even ignored – such as leadership behavior and cultural variables like organizational norms, values, beliefs and attitudes related to workplace health behaviors.  Joseph Leutzinger, PhD will discuss methods for measuring leadership support, workplace health culture and associated variables such as safety and health; then Tom Boehr of Amway Corporation will present a case study using some of these measurement strategies. 

Amway is a global leader in the direct-selling industry, with a long-term vision of helping people live better lives. In 2009, the company celebrated 50 years in this business, with year-end sales of $8.3 billion driven from the U.S. and 58 global affiliates.  Amway has almost five million distributors worldwide, more than 15,000 employees and 450-plus high quality products. 

In 2005, Amway recognized that it needed to include its own employees in its commitment to helping distributors achieve optimal health through products, facilities and programs.  Optimal You, thus, was born – its mission to strengthen the physical and emotional wellbeing of employees and their families, and its vision to be a leader in corporate employee wellness programming.

Now entering the fifth year of delivering wellness programming to its workforce, Amway has successfully advanced that mission and vision for Optimal You.  The next phase in this successful evolution of wellness will be to improve the health of the company’s culture, and balance its commitment to wellness with the company’s global growth objectives.

Presenteeism:  Demonstrating the Link

Between Health and Performance at Unilever

Dean Patterson, Health & Productivity Manager, Unilever

Under the leadership of its Global Head of Corporate Occupational Medicine, Dr. John Cooper, international giant Unilever has been building a health and productivity management strategy since 2002 for which the company was first recognized by IHPM at its London conference in 2003, and Dr. Cooper was presented an International Leadership Award at IHPM’s Annual Conference in Scottsdale in 2005.

Last year in Orlando, Dr. Cooper and Dean Patterson, the company’s Health & Productivity Manager, shared HPM evidence from Unilever locations around the world, drawing on its outstanding global data.  On Wednesday morning, March 31, Dean Patterson returns to present new findings from the Unilever Lamplighter Program, which demonstrate a significant link between health improvement as measured by the occupational medical staff and improved employee engagement and performance – measured by the human resources staff – for a sample of non-manufacturing employees. 

Health and productivity measurement is more easily done for manufacturing workers, for whom absence from a production facility can be documented, than it is for non-manufacturing workers who suffer much more from “presenteeism” – or impaired functionality at work resulting in reduced productivity on the job.  This Unilever study – which will be replicated for a much larger sample of employees – provides yet further validation of the significance of presenteeism for these service and “knowledge” workers.

The Caregiver Burden

Brent Pawlecki, MD, Corporate Medical Director for Pitney Bowes

Debra Lerner, PhD, Senior Scientist from Tufts Medical Center

IHPM was early in calling attention to the "iceberg" issue of the caregiver burden - the impact on the overall health and performance of an aging work force of caregiving responsibilities for parents, spouses and children with serious health problems. 

This issue was featured at an IHPM conference and in Health & Productivity Management magazine several years ago; now the newest and most compelling example of employer attention to the burden on working caregivers is featured at this year's 10th Annual Conference.

Pitney Bowes - already a recognized corporate leader in the value-based benefits arena, now shows its leadership on this growing health and productivity issue by partnering with Tufts Medical Center to adapt the leading tool in health and productivity measurement - the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) - to gauge the productivity impact on working caregivers.

In particular, Pitney Bowes is using the "Caregiver-WLQ" to measure the positive impact of its programs in addressing the burden of caregiving on employees dealing with end-of-life issues in their families, this session presents the company's programs and shares initial findings concerning their impact on the productivity of employees with caregiving responsibilities.

Value-Based Health (VBH)

IHPM's Value-Based Health (VBH) Initiative has been advancing the understanding and implementation of value-based health plans and programs in Corporate America. IHPM has developed a "checklist" of value-based criteria used to recognize leaders in VBH through an Awards program, published a series of articles in Health & Productivity Management magazine, produced a two-year series of webinars featuring the best value health examples, and built a movement of employer, health plan, and consultant leaders which continues to grow.

At this year's conference there will be Three VBH Features:

1. A plenary session co-chaired by Steve Priddy, leader of VBH for IHPM and former HR VP for FedEx, and Randy Abbott, Practice Leader for Towers Watson - examining the "Meaning of Value" in an hour-long panel discussion with four prior VBH Award-winners: Tami Graham, Global Benefits Design Director for Intel; Sandra Morris, Sr. Manager of Benefits Design at Procter & Gamble; Sharon Hodson, Health & Productivity Manager at John Deere; and Ed Pezalla, MD, National Medical Director for Aetna Pharmacy Management;
2. Third Annual VBH Awards, (sponsored by sanofi-aventis) presented by Steve Priddy and Jack Bastable, National Practice Leader for CBIZ
3. A Pre-conference Academy on Value-Based Health (see below).

 

• California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG)

IHPM has been working behind the scenes to realize a long time desire to bring employers - the purchasers of care - together with physicians - the deliverers of care - to improve outcomes for employees as well as the value for employers - and reward physicians for doing so.

We now have discovered in the CAPG the ideal partner in the medical provider world to start making this happen. CAPG member groups provide care to 18 million Californians, and constitute the most significant physician presence in any private health care marketplace in the U. S.

In a session facilitated by Ray Fabius, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Thomson Reuters and himself a long-time advocate of bringing health care directly to the employer site, CAPG, IHPM, and two employers discuss the exciting potential for working together to bring greater value to all parties - improving health and reducing the total workplace burden of illness.

• Learning from the Leaders in HPM

Dow Chemical and Intel are recognized world leaders in implementing health and productivity management strategies in their operations around the world, providing examples of how to do this in markedly different countries and cultures around the world. (Dow and Intel are leading a new IHPM multi-employer measurement initiative in China.)

Manatee County, Florida provides an outstanding example of integrating health and productivity management programs at the local level and extending their reach in to the larger community.  This award-winning public employer is featured in the pre-conference Academy as well, and in the recent issue of Health & Productivity Management magazine.

Pitney Bowes (PB) needs no introduction to the practitioners of value-based benefit design but the company also is providing leadership in the arena of health and productivity measurement.  Working with Tufts University Medical Center Program on Health, Work and Productivity, PB is pushing the boundaries of measurement to look at the impact of family illness on the productivity of working caregivers.

10th Annual Corporate Health & Productivity Management Award Winners - sponsored by Aetna - Presented by Joe Leutzinger, PhD, Chair of the CHPM Award Judges' Panel

• Looking More Closely at Value-Based Health

At the pre-conference Academy attendees will get an executive summary of value-based health initiatives among large employers from Randy Abbott, Practice Leader at Towers Watson (formerly Watson Wyatt Worldwide) and small and medium sized employers from Jack Bastable, National Practice Leader at CBIZ.

IHPM’s Value-Based Health Initiative (VBH) will engage award winning employer s - John Deere, Intel and Procter & Gamble – and Health Plan, Aetna, in a facilitated panel discussion on the meaning of “value” in health benefit and program design, moderated by Steve Priddy.

2010 VBH Award winners will be recognized - sponsored by sanofi-aventis

• Providing Value-added Disease Prevention & Management through IHPM’s Workplace Centers

IHPM’s new WorkPlace Center for Respiratory Health takes dead aim at the impending global epidemic of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) resulting from generations of smokers.  Employer case studies focus on improved management (Navistar International) of this leading cause of workplace productivity loss (CSX Railroad), and prevention of COPD through smoking cessation programs.

IHPM’s WorkPlace Center for Behavioral Health seeks to integrate management of clinically diagnosed disorders such as depression and anxiety with related health issues like sleep disorders and eating disorders to increase the impact on mental health and productivity.  These sessions will focus on depression and obesity. (details TBA)

IHPM’s WorkPlace Center for Metabolic Health continues to integrate the management of cardio-vascular and metabolic risk factors to reduce the prevalence and workplace impact of  metabolic syndrome and its ultimate manifestations of health attack, stroke and chronic kidney disease (CKD).  Case study of using outcomes from metabolic health improvement programs to drive value-based health plan design will feature Scott Pritchard, Integrated Employee Health & Productivity from the State of Washington Health Care Authority.

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