Building a Health Management IT Platform for Health Coaching, a June 13, 2007 audio conference on CD-ROM, examined how healthcare organizations can effectively build a platform for an effective health coaching program.

An effective program needs an IT platform that has the ability to process information from various sources, including online and paper health risk assessments, clinical data repositories, health screenings, eligibility information and portal requests and provide that information into a usable format for health coaches.

During this 90-minute audio conference, industry experts John Harris, senior vice president of the health support division of Healthways, and Sean Slovenski, president and CEO, Hummingbird Coaching Services, described how to effectively capture and integrate multiple data sources to identify potential clients for health coaching and how to effectively use that information to achieve health coaching success.

Listen to pre-conference comments from John Harris.

You will get details on:

• Collecting and integrating data sources to identify candidates in need of health coaching;
• Training health coaches to use this information to achieve health coaching success;
• Analyzing data to create predictive models; and
• Future IT needs for effective health coaching programs.

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS AUDIO CONFERENCE?

CEOs, medical directors, disease management directors, managers and coordinators, health plan executives, care management nurses and business development and strategic planning directors.

Available in three formats

• CD-ROM for computer play
• CD-ROM for stereo play
• On Demand version accessible online

Please note the stereo version ships as two CD-ROMs, whereas the .mp3 version ships as one CD-ROM.

ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:

John Harris

Individual learning style and risk level are factors in determining whether a Web-based or telephonic coaching intervention would be most effective, explains John Harris.

John Harris, M.Ed., FAWHP, is senior vice president at Healthways, a company specializing in health management in the corporate and health insurance sectors. He is also the general manager of the health support division of Healthways. Harris was formerly an executive vice president of Axia Health Management, which was acquired by Healthways in late 2006.

Harris was the co-founder of Harris HealthTrends, Inc., an entrepreneurial corporation specializing in the prevention of disease and the reduction of healthcare costs, and served as its chief executive officer for over 18 years. Harris HealthTrends, Inc. is credited with helping to shape the prevention industry into what it is today.

Harris is a Fellow in the Association for WorkSite Health Promotion, and served on its Board of Directors. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Mercy Health Partners, an 11 hospital health system, and on the Board on Trustees of Lourdes College, the fastest growing college in the United States. Other boards on which Harris serves include the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), Health Promotion Advocates, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Health and Productivity Management, and Volunteers of America, Northwest Ohio.

Harris speaks internationally, and has been the author of numerous publications on employee health, including Making a Difference - The Business Community Takes On Diabetes, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the book Why and How People Change Health Behaviors, co-authored with Dr. Joseph Leutzinger. He has served as a consultant to such organizations as Union Pacific Railroad, General Motors Corporation, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., PepsiCo, Kellogg USA, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Aetna.

Harris received a Bachelor of Science from Grand Valley State University in 1977, and a Master of Education from The University of Toledo, in 1982. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the health management field, employed in both the corporate and private sectors, and was nominated for Toledo, Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990.

Sean Slovenski

Sean Slovenski is a co-founder and the CEO of Hummingbird Coaching Services and is recognized as a healthcare industry visionary with over 18 years’ experience in prevention and wellness.

He started his career by helping craft and manage one of the nation’s first large-scale wellness and health coaching product lines servicing many of the Fortune 500. Sensing the need and potential for a broad-spectrum coaching product and the use of the internet to provide a more accessible and cost effective delivery capability, Slovenski created a company that launched the first highly scalable online personal coaching service back in 1997. This product called MyHealthCoach.com is the technology and general coaching foundation that was incorporated into Hummingbird.

Hummingbird services organizations such as United Health Care, Motorola, Revolution Health, P&G and others major corporations around the world with products ranging from health coaching to life and parent coaching as well.

Slovenski holds a bachelor’s degree in Health and Physical Education from Bowling Green State University.