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.

 

How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery

How Technology, Analytics and Big Data Are Transforming Healthcare Delivery  In today’s digital age, a growing number of employers are embracing technology, analytics and big data to ...

Breaking Industry News
Monday, February 11, 2013 7:17 PM GMT

It’s a small world after all - staying connected on business travel in Australia

[HealthBlog]
Yesterday morning I arrived in Brisbane, Australia. After a 14 hour direct flight from LA, I was more than ready to get a little exercise before heading full speed into this year’s multi-city busine...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:42 AM GMT

Commonwealth Fund report examines challenges facing doctors internationally

[Health Care Finance News]
Communication and teamwork across healthcare systems appears to be a nearly universal challenge, according to a survey of nearly 9,800 primary care physicians representing 11 nations. The Commonwealth...
Monday, February 11, 2013 9:41 AM GMT

Health cost transparency on the W-2: sticker shock at the point-of-paystub

[HealthPopuli]
If you receive health insurance benefits from your employer, you’ll see a new line item on your W-2, courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service: the cost of employer-sponsored group health plan co...
Monday, February 11, 2013 8:21 AM GMT

Readmission Prevention Effort Focuses on Colon Surgery Patients

[Health Leaders Media]
Characterizing current dischargeinstructions as lacking "a systematic implementation methodology," researchers have created guidelines suggesting which post-surgical events should prompt p...
Saturday, February 09, 2013 8:00 AM GMT

What if health care…?--Susannah Fox

[e-patients.net]
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking frien...
Friday, February 08, 2013 12:16 PM GMT

How Companies Can Foster Healthy Employees

[The Wall Street Journal Health Blog]
Many employers offer wellness programs to contain their health-care costs—and perhaps also improve morale and productivity.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:00 AM GMT

Implementation of Affordable Care Act Provisions to Improve Nursing Home Transparency, Care Quality, and Abuse Prevention

[Kaiser Family Foundation]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first comprehensive legislation since 1987 to expand quality of care-related requirements for nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid and improve f...
Friday, August 31, 2012 8:32 AM GMT

CHVI: For Specialty Solutions in Cancer Care, Less Can Be More

[Center For Health Value Innovation]
CHVI and Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions produce webinar focused on pathways to improving patient Outcomes ESTERO, FLA. – August 31, 2012 –When cancer patients are given more of a voice in the...
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

How to Win Friends and Influence Millennials: Health Exchanges Edition

[The Health Care Blog]
By MIKE MIESEN America is only a few months away from Exchange Day—October 1, 2013—when the state and federal health exchanges open up for business. And when they do… well, I’d surprised if a ...