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For Immediate Release: Health Integrated Announces Success of Executive Leadership Summit: The Patient-Centered Medical Home Tampa, FL – July 28, 2008 – Health Integrated, Inc., a Targeted Population health management company focused on helping health plans deliver truly integrated care management, announced the success of its most recent Executive Leadership Summit, at which key executives from health plans across the country discussed emerging challenges and opportunities for incorporating the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) into their chronic care management strategies. Key executives from leading health plans, physician groups and consultants from across the country, representing over 18 million covered lives, attended the Summit to learn of the latest successful implementation strategies for executing Patient Centered Medical Home programs for their membership. The Medical Home concept is the latest evolution in improving overall care to chronically ill patients, based upon the conviction that the best quality of care is provided not in episodic, illness-oriented, complaint-based care—but through patient-centered, physician-guided, longitudinal care that encompasses and values both the art and science of medicine. The result is improved healthcare at a lower cost. “Our Executive Leadership Summits bring together colleagues from health plans around the country to share best practices and to discuss current topics important to the success of their organizations,” said Steve Wigginton, president of Health Integrated. “Our customers must often compete with very large, national health plans, so health management innovation – informed by shared experience to minimize risk and time-to-market – is a critical part of their business strategy. Our Executive Leadership Summits provide a facilitated forum to drill into key topics quickly, while tapping into industry experts in an efficient, interactive setting.” For the most recent Executive Leadership Summit, presenters examined the implications for physicians and group practices, health plans and patients of current pilots applying the Patient Centered Medical Home principles. Additional panel discussions incorporated feedback, input and questions from all attendees, thus adding to the overall benefit of the Summit.
“Thank you for an excellent meeting and most especially for the opportunity to hear knowledgeable speakers, interact with colleagues from other companies, and to meet the good people that comprise Health Integrated,” said Dr. James W. Howatt, MD, MBA, Corporate Chief Medical Officer, Molina Healthcare, Inc. “I look forward to exploring areas of opportunity going forward.” At the request of several customers, Health Integrated announced at the Summit the establishment of a PCMH Benchmarking Initiative, to be conducted throughout calendar year 2009. This Benchmarking Initiative will provide health plans with a wide variety of comparative data points on critical program design, implementation and execution elements, as well as moderated best-practices sessions, aggregated data analysis and fully-developed content for RFP responses. “We hear from clients about the tremendous value they gain by participating in a non-competitive setting with a variety of health plan leaders from across the country to ignite new ideas, share best practices and lead the way to better business,” said Tom Joyer, Vice President of Business Development for Health Integrated. “As a facilitator we look forward to these events to hear from clients about industry trends and competitive issues most critical to their organizations to help ensure we remain focused on delivering solutions to our customers’ most critical business and competitive issues.” Health Integrated’s next Executive Leadership Summit is scheduled for October in Chicago. For information on logistics and content, please see the Events page at www.healthintegrated.com. To participate in the PCMH Benchmarking Initiative, please contact: Dawn Shivers, Health Integrated Marketing, 813.388.4061, or marketing@healthintegrated.com.
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