Operational Excellence
February 7, 2012
Contact: Diana Yee, 510-271-6671
Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Arthur Southam, MD, Gives Keynote Address at IBI/NBCH Health and Productivity Forum
Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President, Health Plan Operations, Arthur Southam, MD, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s IBI/NBCH Health and Productivity Forum. The event, hosted by the Integrated Benefits Institute and National Business Coalition on Health, will be held Feb. 13-15 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Dr. Southam’s Feb.13 address, “Improving Health and Productivity: Envisioning Total Health in the Workplace and Beyond,” will explore the many factors that drive health care costs and impact productivity — i.e., the behavioral, social and environmental factors in the broader community that must be addressed to improve health and control costs. In addition, he will talk about how Kaiser Permanente is expanding the concept of “total health” — starting with individuals and their families — and extending it into the environments in which they live, work and play.
On Feb. 14, Kaiser Permanente will lead a panel discussion, “Workforce Health Leads to Improved Productivity: A Case Study.” Victoria George, national executive director, Total Health and Productivity Evaluation and David Schweppe, national vice president, Customer Analytics and Reporting, will showcase Kaiser Permanente’s customer reporting and analytic capability, and explain how these reports can help employers improve the health and productivity of their workforce.
About the Event
IBI and NBCH — two nationally recognized, non-profit organizations focused on workforce health and its broad impact on worker productivity and quality of life — are partnering to host the 2012 IBI/NBCH Health and Productivity Forum. The program will provide employers, their supplier-partners and other health and productivity stakeholders a unique learning environment. The goal is to foster objective discussion and evaluation of the latest practical approaches to investing in and promoting workforce health and productivity. The merit-based sessions will offer successful health and productivity interventions, research insights, case studies and networking opportunities in novel, interactive sessions.
