The Role of Behavior Modification in Disease Management and Health: New Perspectives on How You Can Maximize Your Program's Effectiveness, an August 10, 2005 audio conference on CD-ROM, examines what strategies you can use to get patients to modify their behaviors for healthy lifestyles.
Click here to listen to some pre-conference comments from our audio conference presenters.
Increasingly healthcare organizations are realizing that patients who don't modify their own behavior
to meet their health-related goals are one of the key reasons disease management programs don't work.
During this 90-minute audio conference on CD-ROM, your expert panel of speakers, Dr. Rick Botelho,professor of family medicine at the URMC Family Medicine Center, Dr. Richard Citrin, vice president of EAP solutions at UPMC Health Plan and Michael Thompson, principal with PriceWaterHouseCoopers, provide you with strategies you can use to:
- Increase the role of leadership and stakeholders in population health management;
- Use benefit-related incentives;
- Drive participation in employer-sponsored health plans and see results using
a population health orientation;
- Implement specific strategies for health behavior change;
- Integrate behavior change strategies with a health plan to deliver to
an employee base;
- Structuring effective interventions;
- Implement individual change strategies;
- Help patients maintain their change in behaviors;
- Motivate "resistant" patients; and
- Go beyond the limits of evidence-based medicine.
You can "attend" this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings – no travel time or hassle; no hotel
expenses. It’s so convenient! Invite your staff members to listen in.
Here's what participants said about the live program:
This conference "helped me to understand the in-depth theories that surround this topic," said Shelley Van Buskirk, RN, case manager, Florida Hospital Healthcare System
"It offered several usable approaches to disease management," said Cindy Welsh, director of quality improvement/credentialing at Advocate HealthCenters.
"It proivdes current industry knowledge about trends and key success factors for a disease management program," said Shana Hurm, director of education and training at Health Integrated.
"Good speakers – knowledgeable and informative," said Paula Davis, disease case manager, ProHealthCare Scotland Memorial Hospital
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS AUDIO CONFERENCE?
CEOs, medical directors, health plan executives, performance
improvement and quality improvement managers, executives responsible for consumer-driven healthcare plans, case managers, risk managers and business development and strategic planning directors and pharmaceutical executives.
ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:
Dr. Richard Citrin
Richard Citrin, Ph.D., MBA is vice president of EAP Solutions at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Citrin is a licensed psychologist whose work focuses on using behavioral strategies to improve patient health.
He is currently involved in the integration of workplace and health plan approaches toward the improvement of member chronic and wellness behaviors as a strategy to improve workplace health and productivity.
Dr. Citrin’s recent publications and presentations have focused on predictive modeling and health coaching as well as approaches to improve delivery of healthcare programming in the workplace.
Dr. Richard Botelho
Dr. Rick Botelho is a Professor of Family Medicine and Nursing at the University of Rochester, New York. Dr. Botelho is a family physician (25 years in practice), author, researcher, trainer (online/offline) and motivational guide.
He helps patients overcome their emotional resistance to changing their unhealthy habits. Dr. Botelho uses blended learning methods (online programs, workshops and telephonic sessions) for training the general public, lay health guides and healthcare practitioners. He works with leaders to create synergistic, top-down and bottom-up approaches that promote healthy habits, both inside and outside of organizations.
Dr. Botelho edited a book entitled Partnerships in Healthcare: Transforming Relational Process. He has recently published the second editions of Motivational Practice: Promoting Healthy Habits and Self- care of Chronic Diseases for practitioners and lay health guides Motivate Healthy Habits: Stepping Stones to Lasting Change and My Healthy Habits Journal that are Mutual Aid and Self-Help (MASH) guidebooks for the general public. Dr. Botelho has given presentations on this topic in more than 16 countries and conducts "Train the Trainers" workshops for wellness and disease management programs.
Dr. Botelho received his B.M.B.S. from Nottingham Medical School (England). He completed his vocational training in general practice in England and became a member of the Royal College of General Practice (1982). He moved to the United Satates. in 1982 and became a Board-certified family physician. Dr. Botelho is a member of the WONCA Organization, chairing a Task Force on Tobacco Cessation and a Special Interest Group on Behavior Change. He also is a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is a Principal in the New York practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has over 25 years of experience in healthcare and employee benefits strategy development and implementation, design, financing, pricing, operations and analysis. Thompson consults with major employers and health plans on the design and execution of healthcare strategies including health and performance, healthcare consumerism, integrated health management, defined contribution retiree health, supply chain performance management, and human capital effectiveness.
Thompson currently leads PwC’s national efforts focusing on consumerism, quality and population health strategies and is a frequent speaker on Next Generation Healthcare strategies. In the past few years, he has served as a leader in promoting and establishing collaborative healthcare industry efforts based on the principals of Six Sigma. Thompson is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and serves on the American Academy of Actuaries(AAA) Federal Health Committee, Disease Management Committee, Medicare Reform Committee as well as Chairman of the of the AAA Quality Initiatives Work Group reviewing "Pay for Performance" for Medicare.
Prior to joining PwC, Thompson served as an executive with one of the national managed care organizations in various capacities including national leadership roles in operations, underwriting and national accounts.
Here's what participants said about the live program:
"This conference was very informational and applicable to most aspects of healthcare, the workplace and personal life," according to Sharon Brooks, RN, CPHQ with Columbia United Providers.
This was very useful. As a DM Nurse Educator, I'm always seeking ways to help positively modify my patient's behavior," according to Benita Hines, RN, BA, BSN, CDE, Diabetes Nurse Educator with the Advocate Health Center.
"The information was helpful. It gave many tools in which to approach the patient and help them with understanding the disease, accepting the disease, then complying with what it takes to change the many levels of treatment," according to Janice Beaty, RN, BSN with Centene Corporation.
