“We’ve chosen to partner with IHPM for its 12th Annual International Health & Productivity Conference because it ‘pushes the curve’ on content with new thinking, offers the best networking opportunities with leading employers and practitioners, and has a global focus unique in the conference arena,” said Ed Jones, President, Commercial Divison of ValueOptions, a major sponsor of IHPM’s WorkPlace Center™ for Behavioral Health, and convener of its own behavioral health trends and policies group that includes IHPM.
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....... is going to be a new kind of event, with a mix of “global focus” and theme sessions on the emerging health issues of greatest concern to employers around the world - and including 'breakouts' to offer greater value to attendees with special interests. |
Conference Diamond Partner: VALUEOPTIONS
Conference Gold Partner: AETNA, GENENTECH
Conference Silver Partners: AFLAC, BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM, CHESTNUT GLOBAL PARTNERS, UNIVITA HEALTH
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 China – the world’s second largest economy and biggest target market for nearly all international business, and a place of almost incalculable opportunity for provision of value-added health and productivity services; IHPM has been building its presence in China for 5 years and now is “on the ground” through its joint venture with the Ciming Health Check-Up Management Group in Beijing, to deliver Enterprise Health Management programs and services to Chinese corporate giants such as Sinopec and Huawei, as well as to Western multinationals.
 Brazil – the emerging global giant of the Southern Hemisphere, which has the second-largest private health insurance market in the world with a well-developed self-insured corporate sector providing the basis for building an HPM service delivery capacity in this country of 200 million people; IHPM is developing partnerships in Brazil to serve the health management and needs of corporate giants like Vale, Petrobras, and Itau-Unibanco.
 Mexico – a country of more than 100 million people, with a large multinational corporate sector and the advantage of liberal trading rules because of NAFTA; IHPM has been active on the ground for 5 years, and, with DuPont, has established a Roundtable of HPM leaders that includes Unilever (like DuPont, a winner of the Institute’s International Corporate HPM Award ) General Electric, , Dow Chemical, John Deere, Navistar International and PPG Industries; the Roundtable also is establishing a research and education program with Anahuac University, Mexico’s leading medical school.
   USA, UK, EU – In addition to these emerging economies, the Conference also will focus anew on expanding HPM markets in Europe and the U.K., where IHPM has been active for a decade with conferences and forums in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom – hosted by its corporate members such as Unilever in London, Credit Suisse in Zurich, Intel in Dublin, and Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt. In addition to its annual EU Forums (the 7th was just held in November), the Institute is in discussions to establish an ongoing research and training presence "on the ground" with European partners in 2012, as well as develop demonstration projects to make the business case for HPM programs and services in key markets such as England, Germany and Poland.
The Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) has been expanding its activities and the program of its annual conference globally for the last several years.
If your business looks beyond the boundaries of the United States – as most business now does – this will be the first conference that will take you there. April 2-4 in Orlando, reflecting a rapid acceleration of its global expansion in 2011, IHPM will hold a new kind of conference event – one featuring expert health care market analyses of strategically significant “BRICMIST” countries such as China, Brazil and Mexico that are targets for all multinational companies as well as for Western health service providers because of the huge HPM opportunities there. At the same time, there will be a new look at the “emerging” HPM marketplace of Europe and the UK, as well as a first look at rapidly developing opportunities in the Persian Gulf.
IHPM's Opening Keynote: Ed Jones, President, Commercial Division, ValueOptions – the biggest independent behavioral health care and wellness company addressing the most significant source of performance loss in the modern, knowledge-based economy.
Regions, Topics, International Speakers
ASIA:
Jeffrey Fan, President WellPoint Greater China (tbc)
Eric Kung, President & CEO - HumanDynamic, Hong Kong
EUROPE & THE UK:
Dr. Michael Drupp, Head - AOK. Institut für Gesundheitsconsulting – Hannover, Germany
Wolf Kirsten, MS, HPM - International Health Consulting - Berlin, Germany
Konstantin von Vietinghoff-Scheel, MD - Corporate Counseling Services, Sarl - Luxembourg
Dame Carol Black, National Director - Health & Work in the United Kingdom
LATIN AMERICA:
Pedro Borda, Director General- Asociación Mexicana en Dirección de Recursos Humanos A.C., Mexico City, Mexico (tbc)
Dirk Schroeder, ScD, MPH, Executive VP - HolaDoctor, Latin America
Louis Servizio, Managing Partner, Sistemsa E Consultoria Healthcare - Sao Paulo, Brazil
USA MULTINATIONAL TOPICS AND SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Multi-National Employer Panel on Behavioral Health – Kathy Mahieu, Aon Hewitt and Employers (tba) — Chaired by Rich Paul, Sr. VP, Health & Performance Solutions, ValueOptions
Multi-National Employer Panel on HPM in Different Regions of the World – Employers (tba) – Chaired by Dr. Jim Loomis, Corporate Medical Director at InfoTech and Director of Prevention and Wellness at St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director, Health Services - The Dow Chemical Company
Francis Coleman, Director - Towers Watson’s International Consulting Group, Los Angeles, USA
Tami Graham, JD, Director of Global Benefit Design - Intel Corporation
David Hoke, Global Wellness Manager, Yum! Brands
Russ Hagen, CEO & Matt Mollenhauer, VP - Chestnut Global Partners - a featured session: Doing Business Providing Health Services Outside the Western World: Lessons Learned in Brazil, China and Russia
Chestnut Global Partners has been delivering employee assistance and related health services in “non-western” countries – notably Brazil, China and Russia – for the past decade, in close collaboration with local joint venture partners. Critical to the success of any health intervention are (1) understanding a country’s history and cultural characteristics and (2) designing programs that fit into that historical and cultural context. Individuals’ experience of well-being or illness cannot be separated from their culture. This session will share important lessons from clinical and business perspectives when setting up and delivering wellness-oriented programs in Brazil, China and Russia – addressing questions like:
- When should administrative and clinical practices be standardized or locally customized?
- How can a “western-style” evidence-based intervention be adapted in a culturally sensitive manner to increase program participation without compromising its integrity?
- What are ways to develop effective internal communications mechanisms in radically different cultures?
This session will allow time for attendees to share their views and experiences.
Others to be announced soon!
The 12th Annual International Conference also will be organized around critical topics with global reach, on which IHPM has been taking a leadership role in creating awareness, providing education and carrying out field research:
- Behavioral Health: the leading reason for lost performance at work in an increasingly knowledge-based economy is no longer “physical” health problems but “mental’ or “psychological” health issues – like depression, with its enormous impact as a co-morbidity of nearly all other serious chronic diseases. Under the umbrella of IHPM’s WorkPlace Center for Behavioral Health, these issues will be front and center at the 12th Annual Conference. At the same time, different kinds of incentives operate to engage different kinds of individuals in “healthy behaviors” and sustain positive behavior changes that result in lasting better health and performance – in the process helping create and maintain a “culture of health” in the workplace and building “resiliency” against the negative health impacts of unmanaged stress on the job – identified as the top workplace health issue in many countries outside the U.S. and increasingly being addressed worldwide through the rapid growth of EAP services.
Beyond Health Benefits: The Decoupling of Workplace Health from Medical Insurance – as employers around the world increasingly appreciate ( and measure) the impact of better health on employee performance, they are viewing wellness and prevention programs as investments in the “human capital” of their workers, much like training and education; this is divorcing the “insurance question” of how to finance protection against the costs of illness or disability, left in the hands of traditional benefit managers, from the “business question” of how to maximize work force functional capacity and performance – now in the province of human resource and operating executives; this is a global phenomenon transcending health care financing systems and making “health” an essential element of any successful corporate culture that can compete in a global economy.
- Respiratory Health –high rates of smoking in many parts of the world (IHPM has just returned from three of them – China, Europe and Mexico) are the leading factor in making Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) the 4th and soon-to-be 3rd leading cause of mortality worldwide and the new chronic illness “epidemic” in the global workplace; IHPM’s established WorkPlace Center for Respiratory Health is taking an expanded global focus on this growing cause of rising medical costs, disability and lost productivity – carrying the HPM message about COPD and smoking around the world, including to the recent World COPD Conference for Patient Groups in Shanghai – and will be giving this subject the attention it deserves in Orlando.
- Chronic Pain and Productivity –since its groundbreaking study at Pitney Bowes of the prevalence and enormous impact of pain on productivity several years ago, IHPM has kept issues such as low back pain, arthritis and migraines in front of its conference attendees and has collaborated with employers like Intel to study ways to reduce the burden of pain in the workplace; now we take an updated look at the extent and effects of pain in the working population, and at creative ways to address what remains the #1 reason for health-related absence from work and the #2 factor associated with lost productivity on the job.
- Demography and Destiny: worldwide demographic trends are combining with unhealthy behaviors to create a looming “tsunami” of chronic illness that threatens to overwhelm health care finances around the globe and jeopardize the health of corporate treasuries and the functional capacity of the work force to be productive; IHPM will present a quick global risk analysis of population and epidemiological trends to develop a targeted worksite population health management strategy for improving overall functional health and productivity in the developed and developing economies;
- Working Caregivers – aging populations and work forces across the Northern Hemisphere (China is the fastest-aging country in the world) are calling attention to the burden of caregiving responsibilities for children and, especially, parents of middle-aged workers – and the impacts of this burden on their health and their productivity; IHPM was the first to put this subject on its conference agenda more than 5 years ago, and now has launched a new WorkPlace Center to focus on the complex of issues around a problem that is only going to get worse for the foreseeable future – as an aspect of” demographic destiny.”
- Technology – A Key Enabler of Work Force Health Improvement – IHPM was the first to alert its conference attendees to the rapidly growing impact of technologies like mobile messaging on getting and sustaining employee engagement in healthy behavior change that, collectively, builds a reinforcing “culture of health” within an organization; the Institute’s mHealth initiative involves employer/customers with device and service providers in identifying and proving the best fruits of technological innovation for bringing value to the end user - even faster in countries that are ahead of the U. S. in adoption of technologies like smart phones.
- Cancer in the Workplace – IHPM has been calling attention to the growing workplace impact of cancer in an aging work force since telling the “Steve Avey Story” at its conferences and in its magazine several years ago; now the Institute’s interest in this area – which intersects with the Caregiver topic – is being focused through the creation of another new Workplace Center similar to existing Centers for Metabolic, Respiratory and Behavioral Health – to take a longer, deeper look at the impact of what has been changed by medical progress from a catastrophic acute event to an often manageable chronic condition – and a global issue;
- Lifestyle Behavior Change in Santa Cruz County, California – HPM Meets the Medical Home – building on its previous successes in reducing chronic cardiovascular and metabolic health risk factors in worksite health improvement programs with published results from the City of Phoenix and the State of Washington, IHPM is engaging multispecialty medical groups in California in such a program to improve the long-term management of these risk factors through the patient/physician relationship – for the first time making doctors partners with employers in improving and maintaining the health of their employees.
- Awards – each year IHPM gives two sets of Awards to deserving employers: (1) Corporate Health and Productivity Management - CHPM Awards (sponsored by Aetna) – now 11 years old; (2) Value-Based Health - VBH Awards (sponsored by Aflac) – now 4 years old. The winners of these two categories of Awards are recognized each year at the Annual Conference, and several of them tell their stories as part of the program – or at the pre-conference Value-Based Health Academy. The CHPM Awards now have a growing category of international winners from around the globe.
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NEW!! Outcomes Measurement Pre-Conference Workshop
with the Leader in the Field
OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT FOR DUMMIES…AND SMARTIES - Health care costs keep rising even as most disease management (DM) and wellness programs claim healthy ROIs. And years after installing DM programs to address the “epidemic” of diabetes, most employers still don’t know how many diabetics they actually have. If you’ve been wondering why this is so, you need to attend this workshop by the inventor of care management outcomes measurement, Al Lewis, President of DMPC, to learn:
- How some wellness and DM vendors inflate their savings claims using mathematically invalid methodologies that consultants don’t know enough to challenge
- Why any pre/post measurement will always s overstate your savings
Most HR/benefits professionals and their consultants don’t understand outcomes reports any better than most drivers with an engine problem know what goes on under the hood. But this workshop will “deconstruct” all outcomes measurement techniques to show you where and why the numbers often don’t seem to add up. Better yet, you’ll learn how to measure your own outcomes.
This workshop is interactive – not another lecture – and will provide key insights and valid measurement techniques from the leading measurement authority in the field…and then let you apply what you’ve learned to sample outcomes reports yourself. You will be empowered to work confidently with vendors and carriers – and you’ll also take home plenty of materials for future reference:
Certification in Critical Outcomes Report Analysis (CORA), ($500 for certification) is the most valuable credential in care management analytics according to all the reviews http://www.dismgmt.com/certs/cora/endorsement – ask any of the 200 people who already have earned CORA Certification! http://www.dismgmt.com/certs/cora/honor-roll. The course – and test – are not about complex actuarial “models” but about common sense tools and plausibility tests… and learning to develop and trust your own intuition.
About the Instructor – Al Lewis, President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC), is “…considered the national leader in analyzing care management outcomes reports,” according to the 2010 Annual Report on the Disease Management and Wellness Industries. Managed Healthcare Executive consistently names him #1 in the field. The inventor of disease management contracting, he was also Founder and first President of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA). His popular book Disease Management and Wellness in the Post-Reform Era http://www.dismgmt.com/release/2011-04-15/beyond-dm is the only book in print on this subject.
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For more information or to learn more about IHPM's initiatives please email:
deborah@ihpm.org or bonnie.jean@ihpm.org.
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