Institute for Healthcare Improvement: WIHI

Up Next on WIHI

Getting Down to Business…and Health Care Reform

November 19, 2009
2:00PM - 3:00PM Eastern Time

Featuring:

Helen Darling, President, National Business Group on Health

Raymond J. Zastrow, MD, FAAFP, President, QuadMed, LLC

Learn more about the speakers

If you’re a U.S. employer providing health care benefits to your employees, there’s no sitting still anymore or sitting on the sidelines and accepting whatever comes next. Even in the midst of possibly historic health care reform, insurance premiums continue to rise and take a far greater chunk out of a company’s bottom line; employees are being asked to pay more out of pocket, too.

In this environment, employers have become a lot smarter about what they’re purchasing. They’re paying more attention than ever to issues of quality and patient safety, and the degree to which health plans focus on wellness and primary care. In some instances, such as at QuadMed, employers are seizing the reins and building the type of integrated health care delivery system they believe should serve as a model for society as a whole. That’s what Dr. Raymond Zastrow will describe on the next WIHI, joining Helen Darling in a timely discussion of the more sophisticated role they believe companies must play in reforming health care. What sorts of incentives can employers offer employees to improve their health without being punitive? We need your ideas and your input. Join us on the next WIHI!

There is no fee for participating in a WIHI program, but enrollment is required.

Welcome to WIHI

How to Join

WIHI is an exciting new "talk show" program from IHI, connecting you to the cutting edge of health care improvement. It’s free, it’s timely, and it’s designed to help dedicated legions of health care improvers worldwide keep up with some of the freshest and most robust thinking and strategies for improving patient care.

Every other week, IHI will bring you a 60-minute show free of charge, that will help health care improvers worldwide stay on top of the latest thinking and strategies for improving patient care. You can tune in “live” through your computer or telephone, or listen to recordings of the broadcast later at your convenience. Your host, IHI’s Madge Kaplan, has years of experience as a health care reporter for public radio, but may be best known as “the voice” of the 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives Campaign conference calls. Please join us!

WIHI programs use WebEx technology. There are three ways to join:

Via computer alone. You can access the audio through your computer speakers or headphones and can submit comments or questions via the chat function in WebEx.
Via telephone alone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program, but will not have access to chat functions.
Via computer AND telephone. You can participate in the audio aspects of the program and the chat functions as well.