Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by cyndynayer in News, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wayne Burton, M.D, Longtime Corporate Medical Director of JPMorgan Chase, Joins Center for Health Value Innovation Board of Strategic Advisors.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – January 19, 2009 – Wayne Burton, M.D., retired corporate medical director at JPMorgan Chase and nationally recognized expert on health and productivity management, has joined the Center for Health Value Innovation’s Board of Strategic Advisors (www.vbhealth.org). As a member of this seven-member advisory board to the Center, the nation’s premier information exchange for value-based design, Dr. Burton will share his wealth of experience and practical strategies for applying value-based designs to benefit both the health of workers and the companies that employ them.
“I’m looking forward to contributing to the Center’s mission to advance analytic tools and educational programs that improve individual health and financial sustainability for organizations,” says Dr. Burton. “I have spent my entire career developing value-based interventions that improve function, reduce disability, increase productivity, ease costs, and strengthen the commitment of workers to their employers. As a member of this distinguished advisory board, I anticipate robust information exchange with Center members.”
At JP Morgan Chase, and previously at Bank One (which was acquired by JP Morgan Chase), Dr. Burton was responsible for managing worksite occupational health services at 20 major locations in the United States and Canada, while managing corporate health initiatives and wellness/disease management programs. Dr. Burton is the author of numerous articles and research that demonstrate the linkages between health risk and medical condition management and improved cost trends at the worksite, such as reduction in short term disability, absenteeism, presenteeism, and total cost burden for the employer.
Dr. Burton is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. He is associate clinical professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University in Chicago, and adjunct professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago.
“Dr. Burton’s unparalleled work in health and productivity management has paved the way for employers to measure, manage, and significantly enhance worker health and improve the return on investment in human capital,” says Cyndy Nayer, president of the Center.
About The Center for Health Value Innovation Information Exchange for Value-Based Design
The Center for Health Value Innovation has grown into the nation’s premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs for sustainable health and financial improvement.
www.vbhealth.org
Wayne Burton is strat advisor (PR)
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by cyndynayer in Press Releases
Looking Back… and Ahead
Although the ADVANCE for Health Information Executives magazine and website have come to an end, we look forward to taking our next step in reaching an elite group of healthcare executives. First, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to each person we’ve had the pleasure of interacting with over the years in the HIT market. Whether you were a devoted reader or dedicated contributor, we appreciate you bringing ADVANCE into your life. You helped us build a powerful community of HIT professionals and become the defining voice for healthcare IT executives everywhere. And for that, we thank you!
Our new print and online product, Executive Insight: Strategies and solutions for healthcare leaders, will provide in-depth analysis and strategic planning solutions for healthcare leaders to respond, adapt and thrive in today’s rapidly changing environment. Through our exclusive webinars, interactive online community, multimedia and cutting-edge content, healthcare executives will have the opportunity to engage with one another and implement forward-thinking strategies to lead their facilities to success.
This new quarterly print magazine and robust website are slated for a fall 2010 debut, so stay tuned as
we release more details leading up to the big launch.
Burton-Advance for Health Information Exec
“’Tis a sordid profit that’s accompanied by the destruction of Health.” –Bernardino Ramazzini,
Treatise on the Diseases of Tradesmen, 1705
By Karen O’Hara
Amovement is afoot to get more occupational health programs and modestly sized companies to embrace workplace health and productivity management (HPM) initiatives that have been the domain of larger corporations. When appropriately applied, proponents say HPM significantly expands the net cast by occupational medicine practitioners, who are population-health oriented.
The objective is to extend outreach from individual employees, to groups of workers, to the community at large – somewhat analogous to the circles that radiate from a pebble dropped in a pond. “I would hope an occupational medicine program would offer health and productivity management services to the employers they serve and to their community,” said Doug Benner, M.D., occupational health coordinator for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, where he works closely with Kaiser’s group health plan. “Many people in our field feel you can’t do this just at the worksite. You have to make the whole community healthy. You can’t fix the employees if you have an unhealthy workplace or if the whole community is not health focused.” Pamela Hymel, M.D., M.P.H., president of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), corroborates Dr. Benner’s view. “A healthy workplace, workforce and community are vital to the long-term financial stability of the country,” she said. “The U.S. has far underestimated the impact of poor health in the workplace and on the economy. As we look at our gross domestic product and how much we spend on health care, it’s important for us to determine how we can provide greater efficiency and not have to treat so many chronic and end-stage diseases. “We can’t just look at insurance coverage. We need to look at how we can increase the baseline health of the population. . . .
Burton Visions continues here. . .
Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer, from the Center for Health Value Innovation, speak with David Harlow about value-based health designs for health improvement and cost savings
I recently spoke with Wayne Burton, MD and Cyndy Nayer. Cyndy is co-founder and President of the Center for Health Value Innovation; Wayne is a member of the Board of Strategic Advisors, and former longtime Corporate Medical Director of JP Morgan Chase. The Center focuses on sharing evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs. In the current environment, this sort of private-sector focus on value-based health improvement and cost savings is critical.
Given the recent collapse of health reform inside the Beltway, now is the time for organizations such as the Center to prove themselves and their approaches, by demonstrating that they are able to “bend the cost curve” while improving health indicators, and ensure that efforts to do so yield a significant ROI. Wayne and Cyndy shared with me a number of ways in which programs run by large employers in the public and private sectors are a step ahead of the health care systems in place for other folks. Here’s one excerpt from our conversation:
No one succeeds in a value based design without two things. One, an incredible focus on prevention and wellness, an expectation that people will take care of their health. And the second is consistent and ongoing communication. We have several instances where companies thought if they announced a value based design during benefits enrollment people would dive on to it. And within eighteen months they had left the value based design space because it’s a complicated message and it takes a while for people to understand what exactly we want them to do. Value based design is not just about moving copays to zero for a drug. It really is about teaching people what part of the highway do we want them to travel on. How do we help them get to their destination, healthier, higher performing, more productive and that’s what the levers are about. Think of them as cones on the highway, and as we fix the highway or encounter new bumps we move the cones around to get the cars to move a different direction – that’s exactly what a lever does.
For more on the topic, check out the many articles posted on the Center’s website.
Burton-Nayer Blog w/Harlow
David Harlow continues the value-based design conversation with Wayne Burton, MD and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Value Innovation
Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs. The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number of levers targeted at health and wellness – rather than health care. The ROI of wellness efforts in the workplace is pegged at nearly 300% in a recent Health Affairs article by Karen Baicker et al. and accompanying Health Affairs blog post by Jaan Sidorov – one of my fellow “Health Wonks.” Clearly this is an area that demands our attention.
Burton-Nayer Blog Part II w/Harlow
Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by cyndynayer in Cyndy's Spot on Health Value, News
February 2, 2010 was our third birthday, and what a celebration was had! We’ll be updating this post and adding more, but here are a few highlights for you:
JOHN J. MAHONEY MD AWARD for community health innovation was announced. Polishing Jack’s star is hardly necessary, yet we created this award to expand the concepts and innovations in value-based benefit design that has made Jack the icon that he is. For those who don’t know, Jack is a co-founder of the Center, serves as our Chief Medical Officer, and still spends a great deal of his time at Pitney Bowes and the Florida Business Health Coalition. Pitney is where Jack created the first value-based benefit design–but what most don’t know is that it was focused on behavioral health Rosenheck, Yale Pitney Bowes study EAP A surprise to Jack, this award is an innovator’s dream: a Pay-it-Forward award. Initial funding came through an educational grant from Johnson and Johnson Health Care Services, then the Center matched the funds. Now, multi-stakeholder collaboratives within a community can apply for the $40,000 award and the Center will provide oversight, training, and suggest innovative technology that will fuel value-based benefit designs. BUT THERE IS MORE: The community that wins the award must contribute $40,000 into the award “pot” so that the next community that applies will get the same oversight, etc., as the first–that’s the cool Pay-It-Forward concept, and it’s just how Jack works! He shares openly on his learnings, his experiences, and his challenges. For more on the award, Mahoney Award App FINAL Dr. Cathy Baase of Dow, medical director for Dow, a member of our Board and an expert in community health improvement, will chair the judging committee–all applications must be received electronically at the Center no later than May 31, 2010.
Michael Taylor MD (Chairman of our Board) and Wayne Burton MD (new Strategic Advisor and Master of Ceremonies for the Award announcement) were nothing short of stellar at the Board Meeting. You know Dr. Burton as the former Medical Director of JPMorgan Chase (and, before that, BankOne) and the research guru of Health and Productivity Management. Mike, of course, is the Medical Director for Health Promotion for Caterpillar. Over 80 people attended our Celebration and we inducted new members into the Fellows of the Center as well (more to follow later). Other luminaries included not only our Board of Directors, but also Mike Critelli (former CEO of Pitney Bowes and now the Chair of Dossia and the Dossia Foundation), Tom Parry (President of the Integrated Benefits Institute), Ron Loeppke MD (Chair of IBI, head of ACOEM’s HPM subgroup, and, now the President of US Preventive Medicine), Andy Webber (President of the National Business Coalition on Health), Tracey Moorhead and Jeanette May of DMAA: the Care Continuum Alliance (Tracey is President and Jeanette is VP of Research), Judy Cahill (Executive Director of AMCP), Sally Greenberg (Executive Director of National Consumer League) and Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former US Surgeon General and now a mainstay in our board meetings–she provides the inspiration close to the hard work we are all doing together.
Finally, at the Annual Meeting we launched the brand new survey that we commissioned from Buck Consultants (Michael Jacobs, National Practice Leader for Buck, is now on our Board of Directors). Our goal was to survey experienced companies for their view of value-based benefit designs. Key learnings: 87% use the VBD approach for prevention and wellness, 60% for chronic care management, and 26% for guidance in care delivery. Most important learnings: engage the employees faster AND make sure to engage the physicians/pharmacists/clinicians sooner. CHVI-BUCK VBD 2009 FINAL- Report
We’ll be posting more here, but, as I head off to the IBI-NBCH meeting in San Antonio, I was determined to get the highlights up so you could all share! Stay tuned, there is SO much more that we’re doing.
Be well,
Cyndy
