Workforce Health 2010: New Deal, New Dividend
by Glen Hiemstra on 24/03/10 at 7:47 pm | 
This week I am in San Diego to attend and provide a closing keynote to the Employee Health Care Conference, a program of the Conference Board and Coopers and Towers Watson. In February we presented the same event in New York.
My topic is 21st Century Health Care. While health care reform was up in the air when we met in New York, now it is in place. More appropriately called Health Insurance Reform, the bill just approved by the U.S. Congress for the first time establishes the concepts for a system that attempts to cover everyone. Thus, the U.S. joins the industrialized world. But the reforms are more about insurance than health care, and the changes that are coming and need to come in health care itself are what I will address. Most of the conference focuses on innovations in health benefits and employee health programs in the business world.
You can follow the conference on Twitter at #ehcc10
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Michael Smith
Mar 26th, 2010
I would love to get a copy of your presentation. You are correct that current legislative intiiatves are addressing payment reform and ignoring care delivery.
I have been working on alternative and new delivery mechanisms for health care for ~20 years. Both from the outside and from inside a health care organzation.