IHPM Partners
Conference Diamond Partner: VALUEOPTIONS
Conference Gold Health Partner: ABBOTT
Conference Gold Partners: AETNA, GENENTECH
Conference Silver Partners: AFLAC, BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM,
CHESTNUT GLOBAL PARTNERS, UNIVITA HEALTH, WALGREENS
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AGENDA UPDATES
NEW! PLENARY SESSION: “China’s Rapidly Changing Health Care System – Implications and Strategies for Employers”- Hocking Cheng, Managing Director, Health Management Solutions, China, AETNA – China’s health care system has been lagging behind the country’s rapid economic development over the past 20 years. Learn about the latest changes to China’s health care system, and what they mean for multinational employers with sizeable ground operations there, from Aetna’s Shanghai-based Hocking Cheng – who also will describe a new approach being implemented by some forward-looking global employers to manage the health and productivity of their work force in China.
NEW! PLENARY SESSION: “Measuring the ROI for Wellness and Occupational Health Programs of Brazilian Employers” – Louis Servizio, Managing Partner, Wellcast, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Carla Decotelli, MD, Health General Manager, VALE, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil has the second-largest private health insurance market in the world, and many giant corporations beginning to invest in the health and performance of their employees. Learn about the award-winning wellness program at Braskem, a huge Brazilian chemical company, and its demonstrated ROI from Lou Servizio, developer of Wellcast ROI in Brazil – then hear directly from Carla Decotelli, Health General Manager at mining company Vale, the largest private corporation in South America, about their beginning journey down the health and productivity path.
NEW! PLENARY SESSION: “The Pursuit of Occupational Health and Wellness by Multinational Employers in India” – John Cooper, MD, former Head of Corporate Occupational Health at London-based global consumer products giant Unilever, describes the state of occupational health and wellness at multinational companies in Asia’s other great emerging economy and gives his outlook for the future of health and productivity on the Indian subcontinent.
NEW! CORPORATE PLENARY SPEAKERS : Tre McAlister, EdD, Health & Welfare Manager, Dell. Tre will join other panelists from Aon Hewitt and WorkOptions in a session - "Developing an Effective Road Map to Achieve a Global Health and Productivity Strategy" - chaired by ValueOptions. Sandra Morris, Senior Manager for Employee Healthcare Benefits Design, Procter & Gamble Company. "Branding and Communications Across a Global Culture of Health"
NEW! PRE-CONFERENCE Academy On Value-Based Health (VBH) – Chaired by Steve Priddy, IHPM’s Executive Director of Employer Relations. FEATURING: a) Randall Abbott, Senior Consultant & N. American Leader/Health & Group Benefits, and b)
Employer Winners of IHPM’s 2012 Value-Based Health Awards (tba)
January 11, 2012 Updates Follow:
IHPM's Opening Keynote: "Behavioral Health to Health Behaviors" - Ed Jones, PhD, President, Commercial Division, VALUEOPTIONS – the biggest independent behavioral health care and wellness company in the world – will address the most significant source of performance loss globally in the modern, knowledge-based economy.
PLENARY SESSION: "Real Change Takes Bold Moves" - Tami Graham, JD, Director of Global Benefits Design, INTEL – Despite Intel’s leadership position in wellness, consumer plan engagement and on-site clinics, double-digit health care cost increases are re-emerging. Extensive study of employee needs and local health care delivery system capability has convinced the company that the “ecosystem” is ripe for making bold changes in how care is delivered and all stakeholders are rewarded. Tami will share the key components of a new model Intel believes could be a blueprint for true health care “reform” in the U.S. – and around the world. This headline session could be called Health Care Reform Begins at Home!
PLENARY SESSION: "Developing an Effective Road Map to Achieve a Global Health and Productivity Strategy" - Moderator Rich Paul, MSW, Sr. Vice President of Health & Performance Solutions, Value Options; Panelists Kathy Mahieu, MBA, Leader for Behavioral Health Solutions, Aon Hewitt; Alan King, President & COO, Workplace Options; and Tre McAlister, EdD, Health & Welfare Manager, DELL with one additional employer (tba).
Companies competing in a global marketplace face significant challenges to the health and productivity of their workforces, and to designing and implementing universal health benefits that yet account for regional cultural differences. The global economic turndown, meanwhile, has increased mental health and substance abuse problems for employees regardless of geographical location. More employers are focusing on Employee Assistance (EAP) and Health and Wellness programs to serve also as a launching pad for support services across borders. This session will help attendees draw a roadmap for designing, implementing, and getting employee buy-in to, a global EAP and wellness strategy – with programs to prevent and reduce the human and financial toll of workplace stress, unhealthy behaviors, and poor productivity. The panel will share expert views of best practices from the perspectives of employers, benefit consultants, and providers of global EAP and wellness programs.
PLENARY SESSION: "Personalized and Precision Medicine - and the Future of Cancer Treatment" - Clinical Speaker (tba) and William Bunn, MD, Vice President for Health, Safety, Security & Productivity, NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL. Personalized medicine is a young but rapidly advancing field in which unique individual clinical, genetic, genomic and environmental information enable diagnosis and treatment to make it as individualized as the disease. This allows accurate predictions of individual susceptibility to developing disease, the likely onset and course of the disease, and its response to drugs and other treatment. For personalized medicine to be used effectively by health care providers and their patients, its findings must be translated into precise diagnostic tests and targeted therapies.
Precision medicine integrates genomic and phenotypic information to help providers understand the underlying biology of a disease, and identify patients most likely to benefit, for example, from a new drug. In addition, as diseases are subtyped more specifically and therapies better designed, clinical drug trials will become more focused. As advanced diagnostics and targeted treatments continue to evolve rapidly over the next few years, physicians will be faced with evermore diagnosis variables; precision medicine can reduce or even eliminate the costly trial-and-error intrinsic to medical practice.
The potential value of personalized and precision medicine is, perhaps, no where greater than in the treatment of cancers – by stratifying disease status, selecting the proper medication and tailoring dosages to specific patient needs. This session will provide expert clinical and employer medical perspectives on personalized and precision medicine in the future treatment of cancers, which have become a significant source of employer medical costs and lost productivity in an aging workforce.
PLENARY SESSION: "Doing Business Providing Health Services Outside the Western World: Lessons Learned in Brazil, China and Russia" - Russ Hagen, CEO & Matt Mollenhauer, VP, Chestnut Global Partners - 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:
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When should administrative and clinical practices be standardized or locally customized?
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How can a “western-style” evidence-based intervention be adapted in a culturally sensitive manner to increase program participation without compromising its integrity?
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What are ways to develop effective internal communications mechanisms in radically different cultures?
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| Regions, Topics, International Speakers |
ASIA:
Hocking Cheng, Managing Director, Health Management Solutions - Aetna
John Cooper, MD, former Global Head of Corporate Occupational Health, Unilever
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)
Carla Decotelli, MD, Health General Manager, VALE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dirk Schroeder, ScD, MPH, Executive VP - HolaDoctor, Latin America
Louis Servizio, Managing Partner - Wellcast - Sao Paulo, Brazil
MULTI-NATIONAL TOPICS AND SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Multi-National Panel on Behavioral Health – Kathy Mahieu, Aon Hewitt; Alan King, President & COO, Workplace Options; and two (2) 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
Randall K. Abbott, Senior Consultant and North American Leader/Health and Group Benefits - Towers Watson
Cathy Baase, MD, Global Director, Health Services - The Dow Chemical Company
William Bunn, MD, Vice President for Health, Safety, Security & Productivity - Navistar International
Francis Coleman, Director - Towers Watson’s International Consulting Group, Los Angeles, USA and Nicole Serfontein, Senior Consultant, Global Health at Towers Watson (London, UK and New York, USA)
Tami Graham, JD, Director of Global Benefit Design - Intel Corporation
Russ Hagen, CEO & Matt Mollenhauer, VP - Chestnut Global Partners
David Hoke, Global Wellness Manager - Yum! Brands
Sandra Morris, Senior Benefits Manager for Employee Healthcare Benefits Design- Procter & Gamble |
Others to be announced soon!
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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.
- 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.
- 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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