The 5th Health Economy Simulator in our series of nationwide events kicked off yesterday morning. If you don’t recall, the Health Economy Simulator (@healthsim on twitter) is a program put on by Humana’s Leadership Institute to teach health industry stakeholders how the health economy works. Our agency, BTS, has created a system that allows people to manage the system for “three years” over the course of two days. Participants win by lowering costs, improving outcomes, and benefiting the consumers. Here is a video explaining what our program is:
This time the sim is being held in Chicago. Once again we’re twittering and posting photos on flickr. Later on today we’ll have our first video up on Youtube. Because this is the second healthsim that has enjoyed the social media treatment, we’re looking forward to seeing some growth in the Linked In Group (http://bit.ly/32VIcx). If you’re interested in connecting with other prominent members of the health community, please join us on Linked In.
Here in Chicago, we have gathered some really impressive people: CEOs of the Chicago health care system, the President of the local American Heart Association, doctors and surgeons, and more. They are really engage in learning about how this system works. We brought in Professor Scott Wallace from Darden Business School at University of Virgina. He had some very interesting insights on value based health care. You can read slides from his presentation here: http://www.hbs.edu/rhc/speaking.html. Some of the participants commented: as a physician, this was incredible valuable. More significant than some of the things I learned about patient care in medical school.
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