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April 6-8, 2009
Fifth Annual Health Management Conference - Orlando, FL
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The Institute for Health & Productivity Management is a non-profit
corporation created to document and promote the vital relationship of
employee health to workplace productivity and, thereby, to corporate
performance. The Institute's vision is to make employee health a sound
business investment for corporate success. This will create greater value
for employers by providing a higher return on dollars spent for health
and health care.
To realize its vision, the Institute has set four strategic goals:
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To become a global resource on health and productivity by
assembling the substantive evidence to support the value
of investing in employee health.
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To develop the terminology, metrics and methods to drive
and measure enhanced corporate performance through investment
in health.
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To champion investment in health as a strategy for corporate
success and a business asset.
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To educate and equip purchasers, providers and suppliers
of health care to generate value from investment in employee
health.
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The Institute's initiatives are designed to build the resource base,
develop the products and deliver the message that will move all stakeholders
in health care--employers, other purchasers, suppliers, providers,
health plans and workers with their families--to a higher level of
value.
As stakeholders' incentives become aligned toward improving health
and work performance, health care will move toward an integrated principle.
This effort will break down the compartments within which employers
have managed health-related benefits and providers have delivered health-related
services. The results from linking these activities will be improved
outcomes for workers, reduced total health-related costs for employers,
and rational rewards for providers who deliver these outcomes and savings--a
system that ultimately works for all stakeholders.
The Institute is working to achieve these outcomes in three phases:
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Four Centers of Inquiry have completed research
on health and productivity relationships in the following functional
areas:
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Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
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Corporate Culture and Organizational Health
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The Center teams of interdisciplinary experts have helped define
the emerging field of health and productivity management. They also
performed an "environmental scan" of current knowledge
and leading corporate practices. In doing so, the teams have made
a business case for investing in health to enhance corporate performance.
Each Center of Inquiry has identified opportunities to create new
links between employee health and corporate performance and has documented
important research in its report.
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Phase II: A set of health and disease management
initiatives is developing and testing measures of health
and productivity in varying employee populations with different
demographic characteristics and cost factors for various
medical conditions and health risks. This phase was launched
with a study of the costliest disease categories by major
industry, performed for IHPM by The MEDSTAT Group.
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Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
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Corporate Culture and Organizational Health
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The third phase of the Institute's work
is now being launched:
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To test outcome measures and leading corporate practices
that link health to productivity with additional national
employers and regional alliances of employers, providers
and health plans.
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To disseminate new knowledge widely and rapidly among
stakeholder groups, though several communications channels
including an e-newsletter, a quarterly publication, regional
forums and a national conference.
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The goal of the Institute's final phase is to accelerate
the integration of health care delivery and employee health
management to enhance productivity as the ultimate outcome
for employers.
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