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“You’ve Got It, Use It - Transforming Data to Drive Health Plan Competitive Advantage”

A Free Industry Web Summit & Audio Conference from CSC

Topic: “You’ve Got It, Use It - Transforming Data to Drive Health Plan Competitive Advantage”

Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004

Time: 1:00 pm Eastern

Place: Your desk – we’ll provide you with all session materials and connection information

Cost: None 

To Register: www.healthwebsummit.com/advmedregister.htm

Deadline to register: Monday, July 12, 2004.  After this date, you can request a Post-Summit CD by going to: http://www.healthwebsummit.com/csc/advancemed/advcdorder.htm.

ABSTRACT  

In “Healthcare Payer Organization Client Issues for 2004,” Gartner predicts that the transformation from a transaction focus to an information focus will become the future differentiator for healthcare payers.  Health insurers and administrators that prevail against competitors will be those that can tap into their rich stores of data to produce timely, credible, accurate, clear and useful information to: 

–        Support decisions that influence health service quality and cost reduction; 

–        Deliver and demonstrate value to customers; and

–        Satisfy regulatory reporting requirements. 

The process of turning mountains of raw health data into real information presents major business challenges for health payers.   

Join us on July 15^th at 1:00 Eastern for an informative, one-hour Industry Web Summit & Audio Conference, hosted by MCOL and sponsored by CSC, in which we’ll explore creative and cost-effective solutions for addressing this problem.  Learn from healthcare business intelligence experts Manon Ruben, Senior Scientist with Quality Resource Systems, Inc., and Kelsey Rauch, Senior Manager with CSC’s AdvanceMed division, as we focus on the latest approaches for: 

–        Identifying best treatment patterns;

–        Targeting health plan members for proactive health intervention and care management; and

–        Effectively communicating medical cost drivers to health plan customers. 

FACULTY

Manon Spitzer Ruben Senior Scientist, Quality Resource Systems, Inc.	Manon Spitzer Ruben has over 25 years experience in health services research and analysis.  Formerly Vice President for Applications Research at AdvanceMed Corporation, a CSC Company, she is now a Senior Scientist with Quality Resource Systems, Inc. as well as an independent consultant with Plan Data Management, Inc. and with the Public Health Institute of California. She has played key roles in the development of software and population-based  analytic products applied to private sector managed care, Medicare and Medicaid, and the Department of Defense TRICARE program.  These analyses integrate epidemiological methods and predictive risk assessment and adjustment tools to fairly evaluate variations in health care delivery, provider performance, and costs.  She is a recognized expert on ACGs (Adjusted Clinical Groups), DCGs (Diagnosis Cost Groups), and ETGs (Episode Treatment Groups), assisting clients to convert the results of their statistical analyses into strategies for provider performance evaluation, including fraud detection, reimbursement and capitation strategies, network selection, disease management, and continuous quality improvement.
Kelsey Rauch Senior Manager, AdvanceMed, CSC	Kelsey Rauch is Senior Manager of CSC’s AdvanceMed division.  Ms. Rauch’s work experience includes more than 12 years in both the health/medical field and the healthcare technology industry. Program management responsibilities in both the federal and commercial markets include Web-based decision support product implementation and support, clinical special studies, and outcomes measurement (including JCAHO ORYX, HEDIS, and the development of risk-adjusted outcomes measures in the long-term acute care setting). Her clinical background includes more than five years as a Registered Nurse in the Georgetown University Cardiovascular and General Surgery Intensive Care Unit and a Laboratory Technologist in the Infectious Disease Section of the Pediatric Branch, National Institute of Health. She is responsible for the on-site management of the entire AdvanceMed team and oversees the completion of the HEDIS certification process and the subsequent CCIS product release.

REGISTRATION:

Register online at www.healthwebsummit.com/advmedregister.htm and you will receive instructions for logging in to the Web seminar.  Slots for this event are limited. Please register promptly. All free registrations are subject to review and approval by CSC.  If you have questions, contact Patty Jamison at the Healthcare Web Summit Office at 209.577.4888 for more information.  We look forward to your participation in this event!     

Deadline to register: Monday, July 12, 2004.  After this date, you can request a Post-Summit CD by going to: http://www.healthwebsummit.com/csc/advancemed/advcdorder.htm.

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