Lessons from State and Community Health Reform Efforts

Innovators at the state and community level are proving the value of programs that prevent and manage chronic diseases as a means to reduce costs. This event will present case studies of state and community disease prevention and management efforts that show signs of success in improving health and value and reducing costs.

Remarks by:

• Jim Hester, Ph.D., Director, The Vermont Legislature Commission on Health Care Reform
• David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, Director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine
• Mark Blum, Executive Director, America’s Agenda: Health Care for All

Moderated by:

• Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Costs, Savings and Chronic Disease: Health Reform and the Congressional Budget Office

At the briefing, health policy researchers Mike O'Grady and Jim Capretta released a new white paper, Health Care Cost Projections for Diabetes and other Chronic Diseases: The Current Context and Potential Enhancements, which was commissioned by the PFCD. The event featured the white paper authors as well as PFCD executive director Ken Thorpe, Ph.D., and American College of Preventive Medicine Fellow Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H. Click here for the full event summary or to watch the video.
 

The New Health Care Delivery System

Private and public employers are emerging as leaders in efforts to redesign health care delivery to promote health and productivity through an emphasis on disease prevention, detection and management. Experts discussed successful wellness programs: how they work, why they work and what we can learn from them.