Mentality. Its all on us, not the member to get the care they need, or talk to somebody about their Current Health care crisis or that of a family member. So identification for shield concierge some of the what is the word im looking for if you have cancer, catastrophic injuries, diabetes, lgbtq health, opioid use, pain management, all of those things are triggers for us to outreach to a member. And then on july 1st of this year, we also launched an enhanced program that is a digital experience for members. It is individualized based on their health care needs. I didnt put that information on here, but thought i would offer it up. And that is designed to treat the whole member and give them an individualized health and wellness pass. Its based on, if i log into the program or access it from my phone, and i put in my scores and my Blood Pressure and things like that, it will help and then any other identifying factors for a health care condition, it will create an individualized health
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
Services that were provided by the carriers themselves. And then over the last decade, we have seen some new trends where there were these passive disease Management Programs, those were something where maybe somebody had a couple of chronic conditions or something in the mail, or maybe by email, and frequently unfortunately these went into the garbage, but these were disease focused. And finally, in the last few years, we have seen Holistic Care through new Population Health Management Programs. These are focused on the individual, and have a holistic wellbeing based in meeting the individual needs. These could be provided by either a vendor or the carrier depending on what type of hybrid model is actually used. Lets go forward another slide. Okay. As we begin to delve into these frameworks and how they are changing, and how best to understand the marketplace, maybe the best place to start, is how are we defining Population Health management today . At the lowest necessary cost, it re
Of excellence that is recommended. Through provider upward optimization tools and navigation tools and through this intervention, the employer has the opportunity to influence a different way and go upstream with how the employee is actually going to interact with the healthcare system. The provider example might be that a referral for a special type of therapy, maybe immunotherapy that we have already about, the providers will say, who provides that type of service and to this type of spherical tape influence that we have here. They could be referred to a place that is in network and consider the best in class. Those are two life examples. On our next slide, and it is our final slide, as we walk away and open this up for discussion and for the carriers to come up and talk about how they are addressing this today, theres various approaches you could take in acknowledging these pain points. One is, the approach is it is health centric. You work with the carriers to work on the pain poin
You got quiet so quickly. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. We are in for an important discussion. I am liz schrayer the president and ceo of u. S. Global Leadership Coalition usglc . We are honored to cohost todays event. And i would like to welcome our special guest ivanka trump and usaid administrator mark greene. Todays program is the first public event in the United States of the u. S. Global initiative. This is an opportunity to highlight a Game Changing initiative. Unleashing the full potential of women in the world. And to hear about innovative activity. For the men in this room no offense to you but a topic like this, to go wrong . U. S. Global Leadership Coalition usglc has been pleased to be part of this initiative. I remember early on when the board had the opportunity to meet with ivanka trump your unwavering commitment to bring the idea of womens Economic Empowerment to the center stage has been extraordinary. And everybody in this room joins and thank you for that. An