Description

An Employer’s Perspective:
"Controlling Costs and Improving Health through Healthcare Reform"
Presented by Paul Grundy, MD, MPH
Global Director of Healthcare Transformation, IBM, and President, Patient-Centered Care Collaborative

Employees and their families who lack effective primary care, prevention, and chronic disease management often cannot be productive workforce members. With reform looming, now is the time to address the high-cost/low-value situation employers face as buyers of their care.
What You’ll Learn:

• IBM’s experience at the forefront of national healthcare reform.
• Cutting-edge ideas which benefit patients, employers, and the healthcare industry as a whole.
• Innovations for improved health and controlled costs at the workplace.

About the Speaker: As global director of healthcare transformation at IBM, Dr. Paul Grundy is trying to shift health care delivery toward consumer-focused, primary care-based systems. Grundy is President of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative - a coalition he led IBM in creating, one dedicated to advancing a new primary care model called the patient-centered medical home.