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Monday April 17, 2006
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Joel Cohen, PhD
Director, Division of Social and Economic Research, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 View Biography
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2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
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- Research on emerging trends including: consumer-directed health products, health plans’ focus to reach members directly, employers’ role in reinforcing their employees' efforts in self-management for both chronic illnesses and prevention and the growing interest in personal health records
- Solutions to improve consumer involvement in care and treatment decisions
- Innovations to support informed treatment choices including choices between roughly comparable alternatives
- Group Health’s access initiative, MyGroupHealth, offering online access to personal health records, scheduling, medication refills, and disease management tools and services
- Evidence of success to date toward improving consumer involvement in care and treatment decisions
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3:00 pm -
3:45 pm
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- Review of the underlying economic principles that drive health benefits utilization in the current employer-sponsored system
- Data demonstrating how rich benefits plans and economic incentives encourage over-use of health care and paid time off benefits
- Strategies to implement a Health as Human Capital approach to shift incentives in order to maximize human capital growth and enhance productivity
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3:45 pm -
4:15 pm
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4:15 pm -
5:00 pm
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- State of Wyoming case study - How the creation of a health information database provided meaningful analytic information to support health and social welfare benefit policy decisions
- Analytic data describing cost and quality problems for both beneficiaries of State provided social welfare and health service programs, including Medicaid and the medicalization of social problems, and State employee health benefits.
- Discussion of intervention strategies to address the cost and quality problems identified.
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