Videos

Institute videos provide a glimpse into the actual application of the HPM business model in the real world. See how employers around the country are using HPM strategies to discover what is increasing their corporate healthcare expenses and the steps they are taking to lower their costs and help improve member health. This area also features educational videos.

1 The Inflated Cost of Healthcare

Company healthcare costs increase roughly 15 percent every year, which consequently threatens to lower the standard of living for employees. To compensate rising costs, stealth taxes, as Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey describes, are passed down to employees in the form of increased premiums, co pays and deductibles. Dickey stresses the need for understanding of what is actually driving inflation and the education of employees on how they can become better consumers of healthcare.

2 The Hidden Economics of Healthcare

The CEO of Cumulus Media talks about the hidden economics of company paid health care in the second video of this series.

3 Empowerment and Competition

The CEO of Cumulus Media talks about empowering employees with information and the need to create competition in the third video of this series.

4 Investing in the consumer

The Ceo Of cumulus media Talks about investing in the consumer in the fourth video of this series.

5 Quality Driven Solutions

The CEO of Cumulus Media talks about quality driven health solutions in the fifth video of this series.

6 Personal Responsibility

The CEO of Cumulus Media talks about t personal responsibility being the future of health care in the last video of this series.

Why does Healthcare cost so much?

"Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much" describes the healthcare performance management strategy and how integrating new technology solutions can help significantly lower health plan costs. The video discusses how engagement at the C-Suite level as well as the employee level helps increase employee health and productivity while lowering health plan expenses.

Disruptathon on Healthcare IT Comes to Washington

Disruptathon identifies disruptive innovation opportunities so they can become growth advantages for companies, governments and industries.

Healthcare executives, doctors and industry stakeholders gathered for a launch event at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia on October 28th, 2010. This video is a brief recap and summary of the event.

Disruptive healthcare IT providers featured were:

FoxNews: Getting Hosed by Feds and Health Insurance Companies

On August 12, 2010, Bill O'Reilly on Fox' The O'Reilly Factor addressed how Americans are suffering from rising healthcare insurance premiums and how health insurance companies are experiencing significant profit growth. He talked about how over the next four years, health insurance companies are going to try and make as much money as they can before federal rules are officially imposed.

 

Building a High Performance Engine for Healthcare: Why Cloud Computing Architecture Matters

 brightcove.createExperiences();Cloud computing will have an immense impact on the economics of managing health plans in the months and years to come.  Organizations in the public and priva...

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Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:38 PM GMT

A Forum for Iconic Change in Healthcare – Harvard Business School Conference on Health

[HealthBlog]
On Saturday, February 4th, it was my honor to present the closing keynote at the 2012 Harvard Business School Conference on Health .  Nearly 700 business leaders, clinicians, alumni, students, an...
Friday, February 03, 2012 2:10 PM GMT

What’s your health care dream?--Susannah Fox

[e-patients.net]
  #whatifhc in #TheWalkingGallery   Note: This is two posts in one — scroll down to read Regina Holliday’s point of view. From Susannah Fox: For me, Twitter is a free-wheeling sp...
Friday, February 03, 2012 12:27 PM GMT

Health-Care Sector Added 30,900 Jobs Last Month

[The Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
The gain came amid overall growth of 243,000 jobs last month and a drop in the unemployment rate to 8.3%.
Friday, February 03, 2012 10:55 AM GMT

iPads and health care – health IT managers slow down physicians’ clinical adoption

[HealthPopuli]
Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t...
Friday, February 03, 2012 10:01 AM GMT

Healthcare employment growth predicted to skyrocket through 2020

[Health Care Finance News]
Job growth in the healthcare sector will outpace other sectors through 2020 predicts new statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.BLS’ employment projections find that total em...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:00 AM GMT

A Guide to the Supreme Court's Review of the 2010 Health Care Reform Law

[Kaiser Family Foundation]
This brief examines the pending Supreme Court case challenging the 2010 Affordable Care Act, including the key constitutional questions issues and the parties' legal arguments.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:26 PM GMT

Gabby Giffords Is the Reality Star of US Healthcare [posted on MCOLblog.com]

[Center For Health Value Innovation]
I’m told that one should not mix stories in a blog, but, as a serial disruptor, I’m about to do just that.  I’m inspired by Representative Giffords and see her story as a frame for some ideas ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 4:00 PM GMT

Health 2.0 News launches

[Health 2.0]
By Matthew Holt Today I'm very excited to tell you that Health 2.0 News is...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:39 PM GMT

A Smarter Planet — The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel...

[Healthnex]
The Social Traffic Conundrum: An IBM vPanel Interactive Dialogue Date: Wednesday, September 22, 4pm ET Location: The IBM New Intelligence Video Studio, http://www.livestream.com/newintelligence Descri...
Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 PM GMT

Does Obamacare Limit Profits for Health Insurance Companies in Your State?

[The Health Care Blog]
By Jason Shafrin One of the provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a ACA, a.k.a. Health Reform, a.k.a. Obamacare) is that it limits the profits of health insurance companies...
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