HealthInsight™ to Host Value-Based Health Care Panel Discussion at Employer Health and Human Capital Congress 2010
January 28, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--HealthInsight, provider of the only value-based health care administration platform, today announced it is sponsoring a value-based panel discussion at 1:45 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 3, at this year’s Employer Health and Human Capital Congress in Washington, D.C. The panel, An Inside Look at Value-Based Benefits — Lowering Costs and Improving Heath, will explore the important questions today’s senior human resources and benefits executives have on how value-based health plans are able to reduce costs while improving their employee wellness.
The panel participants will also share ideas around the future of health care and how value-based benefits play an important role in bending the trend. The panel will feature a number of value-based health care experts including:
John Herrick, executive director of the Employer Segment at Novartis, a global healthcare company whose mission is to discover, develop and market innovative products to cure diseases, ease suffering and enhance the quality of life. Novartis has been offering value-based benefits to its 98,000 employees for five years. John is the co-chair of Novartis’ Corporate Health and Wellness initiative. John has played a leadership role for the pharmaceutical industry serving on several important boards and advisory councils, including a board appointment on the National Healthcare Leadership Council for the National Business Group on Health, Strategic Advisor, and Institute of Health and Productivity Management.
Dr. Robert Kritzler, deputy chief medical officer at Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC, which develops and manages medical care contracts with organizations, government programs and health care providers for more than 200,000 plan members. Dr. Kritzler primarily focuses on corporate care management strategy including resource management, pharmacy design and administration, benefit design and new product development. Dr. Kritzler is a board member for The Center for Health Value Innovation.
Janice Rahm, executive vice president, leads product innovation for SeeChange Health, a fully insured value-based health plan, and HealthInsight, a technology and services company supporting value-based benefit administration. Rahm is responsible for creating consumer-friendly products designed to incent healthy behavior. She has been one of the industry’s innovation leaders having been part of the original Definity Health foundational team and most recently served as senior vice president of product innovation for Prodigy Health Group. Rahm’s demonstrated ability to successfully develop products, services, and software designed to promote healthy behavior and reduce health care costs make her uniquely qualified to lead both organizations value-based initiatives.
Jeremy Smerd, staff writer at Workforce Management magazine, will moderate the panel discussion. As the magazine’s health care reporter, Jeremy has written extensively about the employer-based health care system in the United States and its impact on business and society. He has focused his reporting on the problems high health care costs and erratic medical quality pose to employers and their workers competing in a global marketplace. Jeremy has also written about the failed and successful strategies employers have used to spend their health care dollars more effectively.
Scott Young is currently responsible for all economic incentive products at CIGNA. He has accumulated more than 15 years experience developing and deploying health promotion and disease management programs and services in a variety of settings. Scott has guided the design and delivery of comprehensive health incentive programs for major health plans, Fortune 500 companies, and other large organizations across the country over the past 4 years. Prior to joining CIGNA, Scott was vice president, strategy and outcomes, for IncentOne, an integrated incentive solutions provider. Scott also led the Health Promotion and Disease Management programs at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.
Panel presenters will define value-based health care and explain the difference between a “value-based” plan and a typical “preventive” plan; outline how value-based plans reduce health care costs while improving employee wellness and share their point of view on the future of health care and how individual accountability for health is key to bending the healthcare trend.
About HealthInsight
HealthInsight provides value-based benefit administration capabilities, completely private-labeled, to health care payers and employers. A partnership with HealthInsight gives benefit administrators the ability to offer innovative value-based benefit solutions. Through personalized scorecards, on-line health coaches and a personal health record, individuals are encouraged to play an active role in managing their health. HealthInsight is focused on total health management, employee engagement, and individual accountability versus line item health care costs. Through early detection and proactive health management, in conjunction with leveraging extensive data analytics and a sophisticated team of medical professionals, HealthInsight is able to provide a solution to health care that is proven to reduce health care costs and improve employee health. For more information, please visit us at www.healthinsight.com.
Contacts
HealthInsight
Janice Rahm, 763-582-1262
jrahm@healthinsight.com
or
Weber Shandwick
Dave Reddy, 650-868-4659
dreddy@webershandwick.com
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