CIGNAs Healthcare Leadership Program

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Global Knowledge Exchange Network
Project Overview November 19, 2008 Dubai Present
ation by Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch colleen.conwa
y-welch_at_vanderbilt.edu
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Global Health Crisis

• Globally industrialized nations are faced with a
  health care crisis rising healthcare costs
  threatening system sustainability, human resource
  shortages, increasingly frustrated consumers, and
  an absence of shared solutions and cross country
  communications.
• There is a need for the identification, exchange
  and cross country promotion of better healthcare
  system practices through traditional and
  non-traditional channels.

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Global Knowledge Exchange Network

• Vision The Global Exchange will become the
  recognized neutral venue for evaluating and
  promoting better practices in achieving
  cost-effective health outcomes from across
  industrialized nations.
• Mission To improve health and the value of
  healthcare by comparing and contrasting key
  drivers and approaches to addressing healthcare
  costs and outcomes across industrialized nations,
  with a goal of identifying and promoting
  successful, relevant, and replicable strategies.

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Global Knowledge Exchange Network

• Outcome Well-vetted ideas with relevance to
  industrialized nations healthcare cost and
  delivery systems and cultures, for programs and
  policies that improve health outcomes and promote
  individual and systems accountability. 
• Scope GKEN will identify and publish better
  practices in the organization, financing, and
  delivery of care, including elements that
  influence outcomes and cost. GKEN will source
  replicable better practices from healthcare
  systems across industrialized nations.

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Global Knowledge Exchange Network

• Product GKEN will disseminate the results of
  its robust interactive knowledge exchange through
  a variety of media, including printed materials,
  videos, conferences, toolkits, and a public
  internet site. The website will provide
  information on healthcare system better practices
  and promote cost-effective healthcare
  improvements to a wide audience across
  industrialized nations.

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GKEN Operating Principles

• We will focus on process improvement rather than
  medical science.
• GKEN is principally a communication enterprise
  focused on promoting better healthcare practices
  among industrialized nations.
• Our ultimate goal is to promote better practices
  across all of the core components of health and
  healthcare
• We believe that improving health systems will
  lead to population health improvements.
• We have a patient/consumer focus.
• We will build on current knowledge and look for
  effective emerging practices. 

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GKEN Operating Principles

• We will help enable health systems to decrease
  its focus on illness and increase its focus on
  wellness.
• We will capture better practices with measurable
  outcomes.
• We favor private policy/action (that which can be
  done by organizations without governmental
  action) over direct influence of public policy
• Our work will be unique and distinctive.
• Our work will be dynamic that is, amenable to
  continuous refinement.

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GKEN Areas of Focus

• Workforce and Training
• Individuals Active Participation in Health
• Health Promotion and Wellness
•  Chronic Illness
•  Integration
•  Metrics
•  Efficiencies
• Health Disparities

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Merton Declaration

• Whereas industrialized nations are faced with
  escalating healthcare cost threatening system
  sustainability, increasingly frustrated consumers
  and a dearth of shared solutions to those
  problems and,
• Whereas we all know that there are sound
  healthcare practices utilized by nations all over
  the world but information about those practices
  is not organized for learning, readily exchanged
  or widely adopted by industrialized nations and,
  
• Whereas the Global Knowledge Exchange Network on
  healthcare (GKEN) is dedicated to the improvement
  of individual health and health system
  advancements and,
• Whereas GKEN is a non-profit organization
  dedicated to the identification, exchange and
  promotion of better healthcare practices through
  traditional and non-traditional channels,
• We the undersigned declare our commitment to work
  in collaboration with GKEN and through our
  various professional channels to promote the
  awareness and adoption of better practices in
  healthcare throughout the developed world.

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GKEN Participants
Catharina Maulbecker Armstrong , Associate
Partner, McKinsey, Germany Cathy Baase, Global
Director of Health Services, Dow Chemical, US
Russ Bantham, President, Bantham Consulting,
Former General Counsel to PhRMA, US Gordon Best,
Director, OD Partnerships Network, UK Yank
Coble, Professor Director, Center for Global
Health Medical Diplomacy, U. of N. Fla.
Clinical Prof. of Medicine, U. of Fla. Past
President, World Medical Association, US Marty
Davis, Founder President Applied Communications
Institute, Former Dir., Special Campaigns
Promotions, AARP, US Mike Farrar , Chief
Executive, NHS Northwest, UK Pam Garside,
Newhealth, Judge Business School, University of
Cambridge, UK Paul Ginsburg, President, Center
for Studying Health System Change, US Ed Hanway,
Chairman CEO, CIGNA, US Johan Hjertqvist ,
President, Stockholm Network and Health Consumer
Powerhouse, Sweden Maria Hofmarcher-Holzhacker ,
Institute of Advanced Studies France, Austria
Delon Human, Pres., Health Diplomats, Immediate
Past Pres. World Medical Association,
Switzerland Pere Ibern, Professor, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Spain Frances Kelleher, VP Market
Intelligence, CIGNA HealthCare, US Lowell Kruse,
CEO, Heartland-Health Meng Kin LIM, Professor,
National University of Singapore Beverly Malone,
CEO, National League for Nursing, US LaMar
McGinnis, Clinical Prof. of Surgery, Emory Univ.
Past Pres., American Cancer Society, US
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GKEN Participants (cont.)

• Chris Mc Swain, Director Global Benefits,
  Whirlpool Corp., US
• Jonathan Meakins, Nuffield Professor of Surgery,
  John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford UK
• Surya N. Mohapatra, Chairman Chief Executive
  Officer, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. US
• Russ Newman, Provost and Vice President for
  Academic Affairs, Alliant University, US
• Rick Norling, CEO, Premier Inc., US
• Mike O Grady, Sr. Fellow, National Opinion
  Research Center, U. Chicago Principal, O'Grady
  Health Policy, LLC, US
• Stig Pramming, CEO, Oxford Health Alliance
  Co-Founder, Oxford Alliance 3four50.com, UK
• Jerry Reeves, Principal, Health Innovations LLC
  Chairman, World Doc, US
• Murray Ross, VP, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
  Director, Kaiser Institute for Health Policy, US
• Barbara Safriet, (former) Assoc. Dean for
  Academic Affairs Lecturer on Law, Yale law
  School, US
• Sophia Schelette, Senior Health policy advisor
  Bertelsmann Foundation
• John Seffrin, CEO, American Cancer Society
• Michael Showalter, SVP, HealthCare Strategy
  Marketing, CIGNA HealthCare, US
• Shane Solomon, Chief Executive, Hong Kong
  Hospital Authority, China
• Dominik von Stillfried, Managing Director of
  Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche
  Versorgung (ZI), Germany
• Karen Timmons, President and CEO, International
  Joint Commission, US
• Neil Trautwein, Vice President, Natl Retail
  Federation, US
• Janet Trautwein, CEO, Natl Assoc of Health
  Underwriters, US
• Jo Webber , Deputy Policy Director, NHS
  Confederation, UK

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Global Knowledge Exchange Network
Project Overview November 19, 2008 Dubai Presenta
tion by Dr. Colleen Conway-Welch colleen.conway
-welch_at_vanderbilt.edu