Using Value-Based Design to Improve Quality and Cost in an Era of Health Care Reform

October 15, 2009
12:00 pm -1:30 pm ET

With health promotion a major focus of health care reform and more and more employers demanding health and wellness programs and targeted incentive programs for their employees, value-based designs are most likely at the top of your business initiatives. In this Virtual Seminar, The TriZetto Group Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Gail Knopf, and Center for Health Value Innovation President & CEO, Cyndy Nayer, will share with you the types of programs employers are requesting, how other payers have designed and launched innovative and effective value-based benefits, and what you need to consider implementing value-based benefits for your organization. You’ll learn what types of programs provide the greatest value, what incentives work the best to change health care behavior, and how to ensure and increase member participation.

 

About the presenters:

Gail Knopf, Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, The TriZetto Group, Inc.

Gail Knopf is an established thought leader in health care information technology, having spent more than 25 years in leadership positions in the field. She was Chief Information Officer of Humana and was responsible for its technology transformation from a hospital company into one of the largest managed care businesses in the country. From 1997 to 1999, Gail was co-founder, Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer for Management and Technology Solutions, a physician technology and services venture acquired by TriZetto in 1999. Initially at TriZetto, Gail led the Internet technology division, spearheading its growth and bringing the first business-to-business Web technology to health plans. In her current role as Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, Gail leads the Value-Based Benefits and incentives segment of the Integrated Healthcare Management strategy.

Cyndy Nayer, President and CEO, Center for Health Value Innovation

Cyndy Nayer is the President and CEO of the Center for Health Value Innovation, a community of employers and payers building evidence, tools and competency in value-based design for improved health and reduced cost trends. She also leads River City Partnership on Health, Inc., a national employer health strategy company linking employers, health plans, and providers in improved Total Health Management.

A futurist and health improvement expert, Cyndy was recently voted one of the emerging leaders on consumer directed health and a visionary for health transformation. She speaks and writes for national media on the concepts of consumer and employer health engagement, and she has developed worksite health strategies for Fortune 100 companies in the US and in Canada. Cyndy was awarded the CEO Leadership award in Consumer Driven Health by CDHC Solutions in September 2008.

 

Click here to register for this free virtual seminar

 

Presented By: The TriZetto Group, Inc.

 

The content presented in this audio conference is solely attributable to the speaker and does not represent an endorsement by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) of the accuracy of the information presented in the audio conference or any opinion expressed by the speaker.

 


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