| 2007
Health Care Forum |
Putting the Consumer Back Into Health Care
Engaging Employees in their health care purchasing
and lifestyle decisions |
| Thursday,
May 17, 2007 |
America's Ballroom
at America's Center
701 Convention Plaza, St. Louis
| Doors Open: |
11:10 a.m. |
| Luncheon / Program |
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
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| Featured Speakers |
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| Roberta
Bixhorn |
| Roberta
Bixhorn is the Vice President, Compensation and
Benefits at Owens-Illinois, Inc. located in Toledo,
OH. In this role, she provides worldwide leadership
for O-I’s compensation and benefits programs
and processes. Like most manufacturers, O-I operates
in a very competitive market. Roberta has been
able to implement many cost-management improvements
to the benefit programs without simply passing
costs on to employees. Her initial efforts have
created $20 million in savings to the company
in her first 18 months. One of Roberta’s
biggest initiatives has been the development
and implementation of the company’s health
management program, called Perform. In addition
to improving the health of salaried employees,
the Perform program provides a platform for the
company to educate union employees about their
responsibilities for managing their own health.
Perform’s goal is to encourage employees
and families to take responsibility for their
own health and healthcare decisions to improve
their quality of life, increase productivity
and reduce cost trends for employees and O-I. |
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| Dr. Lee
B. Sacks |
| As
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
since 1997, Dr. Lee B. Sacks is responsible for
Clinical Outcomes, Information systems, strategic
Planning and Growth, Research and Education,
and the eICU® Core Program. He also continues
in the role of President, Advocate Health Partners
to which he was appointed in 1995. AHP is the
umbrella organization over the eight (8) Advocate
PHOs, and the medical groups that determine Advocate’s
managed care strategy, negotiates the managed
care contracts and enhances medical management. |
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| Elizabeth
Olmsted Teisberg |
| Elizabeth
Olmsted Teisberg, Associate Professor at the
Darden Graduate School of Business at the University
of Virginia, is co-author with Michael Porter
of the ground-breaking new book, Redefining Health
Care: Creating Value Based Competition on Results.
Previously Drs. Porter and Teisberg published
Redefining Competition in Health Care in the
Harvard Business Review, and Fixing Competition
in U.S. Health Care as a Harvard Business Review
Special Report. Dr. Teisberg’s current
research and consulting focus on innovation in
health care and in high-technology industries,
while her earlier projects have analyzed the
strategy in medical device and biotech companies,
the real option value of capital investments,
research and development decisions, medical innovation,
and how managers consider and respond to uncertainty. |
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| Susan
Dentzer |
| Susan
Dentzer is an on-air correspondent with The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS). She leads a unit dedicated to
providing in-depth coverage of health care,
health policy and Social Security. The unit,
begun in 1998, is funded by a grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dentzer and the health
unit are the recipients of multiple awards.
Its April 2005 piece, “Wounded Warrior,” about
a paralyzed and brain damaged soldier who
was severely wounded in Iraq, earned both
a CINE Golden Eagle and New York Festival
award. The unit’s October 2004 piece, “Osteoporosis,” received
a first-place Gracie Allen award for public
television news from American Women in
Radio and Television. The unit’s
two part investigative series on importation
of prescription drugs, broadcast in March
2004, earned a second place prize for radio
and television programming from the American
Health Journalists Association. Coverage
in 2002 of the "Eden Alternative" approach
to nursing home reform garnered a 2003
Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy
for Communication Arts Professionals. And
a 1999 report on schizophrenia earned the
2000 earned the 2000 Robinson Electronic
Media Award from the American Psychiatric
Association.
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