Cohen & Hinz: Building Community and Your Network

March 12, 2010

Building Community and Your Network, presented by Diann Cohen and Debra Hinz, focused on the dynamic professional effects of networking skills. They detailed key points for learning how to recognize and categorize others’ strengths, emphasizing how to prioritize the professional time spent with portions of one’s community and network.
Cohen and Hintz drew attention to [...]

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Rodriquez, Gardner, Hanlon, & McFaul: Lawyers & Doctors as Entrepreneurs

March 12, 2010

The panel on Internet marketing, featuring Joe Rodriguez and Jane Gardner of Harbour DNA, Martha Hanlon of Wide Awake Marketing, and Stuart McFaul of Spiralgroup, focused on how Internet marketing is changing professional services marketing, especially for lawyers and doctors, enabling entrepreneurship.
The team noted that the Internet has dramatically reduced the costs and time associated [...]

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Jerry Fogel: Reinventing Workers’ Comp — The Power of Criteria

March 12, 2010

In Reinventing Workers’ Comp: The Power of Criteria, Jerry Fogel called for rewiring of our workers’ compensation system from something that adheres to the desires of people to something that creates solutions based on their actual needs. Creating a more successful workers’ comp system should result in a decrease in overall workers’ comp costs, medical [...]

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Colledge: Utah’s Proactive Approach in Workers’ Compensation

March 12, 2010

Utah has become one of the least costly states in the nation for a business to obtain workers’ compensation insurance. In his session Utah’s Proactive Approach in Workers’ Compensation, Alan Colledge, Medical Director of the State of Utah Labor Commission, reviewed measures currently in use by his state. These include controlling physical therapy and chiropractic [...]

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David Freeman & Mark Hyman: Sex, Sleep, Psych, and Deconditioning

March 12, 2010

In Sex, Sleep, Psych, and Deconditioning, David Freeman and Mark Hyman highlighted the importance of separating legitimate sleeping disorders such as insomnia or Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) from the regular goings-on of daily life or psychological affectations. They recommended using the impairment rating to judge a condition’s intensity and how pervasive [...]

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Janice Haris and Robert Canning: Settlement Strategies with Medicare Set-Asides

March 12, 2010

In Settlement Strategies with Medicare Set-Asides, Janice Haris and Robert Canning discussed the factors necessary to file an MSA in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible. Early collaboration with numerous professionals as well as one’s MSA vendor affords more extensive input and can keep expenses at a minimum.
Proactively researching the changing guidelines of CMS [...]

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Angela Livingston: Unraveling the Mysteries of Managed Care

March 11, 2010

In Unraveling the Mysteries of Managed Care: Making Your Cost Containment Program Work For You, Angela Livingston educated buyers of managed care services on creating transparent relationships to generate positive outcomes and cost savings.
Livingston’s presentation spanned the basics of terminology; reviewed the layers related to buying bill review, utilizations review, and case management; and described [...]

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Peter Coffee: Salesforce.com’s Newest Tools

March 11, 2010

Peter Coffee emphasized the benefits surrounding cloud computing, of opening doors to the creation of customer and partner communities that propel rapid product and service improvement in his presentation, Our Newest Tools for You: salesforce.com.
By reducing capital investment burdens and radically accelerating application deployment, cloud computing represents a key component of competitive IT strategy [...]

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David DePaolo: The Future of Workers’ Compensation in California and Across the Nation

March 11, 2010

In The Future of Workers’ Compensation in California and Across the Nation, David DePaolo, president of WorkCompCentral, stressed the importance of reforming the healthcare and worker’s compensation system into an incentivized environment focusing on returning workers to gainful, productive activity.
Those who are disturbed by the current social and economic implications of workers’ compensation can help [...]

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Barbara Karkula: What Works for the Marines Can Work for You

March 11, 2010

In What Works for the Marines Can Work for You, Barbara Karkula explained the model utilized for the United States Marine Corps for its civilian employees, and described the values and practices that have proved most effective for them.
The Marines’ work environment presents unique challenges, but developing trusting relationships, establishing respect for [...]

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