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Monday October 23, 2006

Track Chair
  Jeff Oldham
Regional Vice President
Nationwide Better Health
2:15 pm
Session 1 - Integrating Health Improvement and Productivity Loss Prevention Strategies
  • Acquire knowledge of the meaning, measurement and significance of health-related productivity loss
  • Determine the adverse impacts of depression on employees and employers.
  • Improve knowledge of an integrated workplace strategy for effective disease management, functional improvement, and productivity loss prevention
  Debra J. Lerner, MS, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts-New England Medical Center;
Director of its Program on Health, Work and Productivity; Associate Professor of Medicine
3:15 pm
Session 2 - Use of Case Management in Causality Determination to Enhance Management of Worker's Compensation Claims
  • Discuss compensabilities and subrogation
  • Identify and eliminate precipitating exposures or hazards
  • Predict disability duration
  • Work with patient education and patient advocates
Carolyn Langer, MD, JD, MPH
Medical Director, Fallon Community Health Plan
Instructor in Occupational Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health
Former Chief Medical Officer, Tufts Managed Comp

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Tuesday October 24, 2006

2:15 pm
Session 3 - Using Disability and Absence Data to Improve Employee Participation in Health and Disease Management Programs
  • Provide an overview on how to effectively leverage employees’ disability and absence data
  • Describe how to use disability and absence data as an early indicator in helping to identify the employees responsible for increasing health care costs
  • Demonstrate how to integrate disability and absence data within the business strategy and influence an employer's selection of the most effective health and productivity offerings
  • Describe how disability and absence data can increase employee participation in health and disease management offerings
  Kathleen Herath
Director of Nationwide's Health and Wellness Program
Associate Health Services
Holly Snyder
President of Health and Productivity
Nationwide
3:15 pm
Session 4 - Using the EAP Platform for Total Health Interventions and Disability Management
  • Determine the true competencies available in the EAP platform
  • How can EAP be restructured to address employee and workplace needs more effectively
  • Outline examples of success with a restructured EAP, which is expanded and modified toward Total Health and Disability
Paula Allen
Vice-President
Health Solutions & Product Development
FGI World

Wednesday October 25, 2006

12:45 pm
Session 5 - Effective Integration of Disability and Workers Compensation Plans
  • Define appropriate metrics to measure the effectiveness of short- and long-term disability and workers compensation insurance programs
  • Adopt measures to control costs within the short- and long-term disability and workers compensation insurance programs
  • Evaluate the benefit of integrating strategies, processes and decisions associated with short- and long-term disability and workers compensation insurance programs
Kay R. Curling, SPHR
Director, Work Life Solutions
SRA International, Inc.
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