The WHCC Employer Summit convenes over 150 senior level HR and Purchasing executives focused on improving benefit design, employee productivity, cost effectiveness and promoting health and wellness. Coalition executives and Employer Corporate Medical Directors, CEOs and CFOs, Purchasing executives are in attendance, as well as Vice Presidents and Directors of Human Resources and Benefits, Wellness and Health Promotion and Disease Management from the nation's largest employer organizations.

• Employer cost-containment strategies that drive efficiencies and quality in health care
• Strategies to align rewards and incentives into benefit design to influence decisions for improved health
• Proven value-based purchasing strategies and tools to define health plan deliverables and to modify benefit design and incentives
• End of life care as an employer reform strategy to decrease overall costs and to improve the patient/family experience

• Whole Health pilot project demonstrating a positive impact on productivity and health outcomes
• Analyzing the ROI of the Whole Health program from two measures of reduced claims and improved health metric
• The use of a technology platform to establish a framework for communication and to create an evolving incentive program
• Early results of social networking initiatives to improve health engagement and create engaging wellness portals

• Successful strategies to build a culture of health through employee health support
• Strategies to create targeted interventions based on thorough wellness assessments
• Perspectives on microeconomic and behavioral economics to motivate change
• Top down perspective from Washington Counties Insurance Fund/Pool on implementing integrated disease management programs
• Insight into Union Bank's preliminary results from a disease management program and strategies to adapt the program for improved results
• Air Products and Chemicals' approach to disease management, including the launch of a case competition for health and productivity

• How Perdue has revolutionized primary care delivery through payment reform and on-site clinics in a real-world environment
• Discussion of the relative value of classes intervention – From immunization to arthroscopy to treatment of hypertension and diabetes
• Successful intervention results demonstrating a dramatic improvement in the control of high blood pressure, diabetes and other expensive diseases
• Dramatic data and evidence for a comprehensive health and wellness program including flat per member per year cost for 6 consecutive years

• Evolution of traditional disease management programs into secondary prevention programs to identify and target at risk individuals
• Deep dive into the data – Evaluating the predictive modeling strategies, targeted interventions and resulting outcomes

• Embarking on a thorough review and refinement of corporate policies to focus on health of employees and dependents
• Proven strategies to reduce employee absenteeism, improve productivity and boost morale through prevention programs
• Generating and measuring health status to demonstrate a ROI from wellness initiatives and workforce culture

• Innovative approaches for community wide engagement for wellness, prevention and health promotion in Rochester, NY
• In-depth review of a community-wide program to build, implement and measure results from a program to address high blood pressure
• Engaging all community stakeholders from the inner city to the suburbs, from citizens to providers, from clergy to barbershops, pharmacies, the RHIO, public health and everyone in between
• Health system collaboration including $18M in state funding for a best-in-class RHIO and lean six sigma methodologies for ERs throughout Rochester

• Developing patient-provider connections for improved compliance, health literacy and development of an effective medical home
• Specific examples for integrating value-based benefit design elements with the medical home
• Partnering with employers to support quality, patient-centered care practices
• Leveraging a worksite clinic for chronic condition management and health coaching support