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NEWS/EVENTS
Events
December 3-5, 2012
The Renaissance - Chicago, IL
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As an AHIP Select Program partner, OpenConnect, along with AHIP is hosting a session at this year’s Fall Forum entitled Real Data, Real Impact: Claims Processing and the Business Case for Improving Adjudication. This session will highlight the results of a recent survey examining claims processing and provide insights on market solutions that can improve efficiencies in key metrics. The panel will use the survey data as the basis for a business case discussion that also demonstrates the benefits of claims adjudication for Plans and ultimately, the consumer. Presenters will be Jeff Lemieux, Senior Vice President, Center for Policy and Research, AHIP and Edward Peters, Chief Executive Officer, OpenConnect
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December 3-5, 2012
Barton Creek Resort - Austin, Texas
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In order to achieve growth, insurers in the U.S. will need to remain proactive by adopting new technologies and management strategies in order
to squeeze unnecessary costs out of the system, improve productivity and meet demands of future regulatory changes. The NG Insurance Summit
will bring together decision makers from across the US Insurance sector to meet with solution providers like OpenConnect who are actively looking to target
this exciting growth market.
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November 29, 2012
2:00-3:30 pm
Register Online
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The biggest challenge a Health Plan faces when managing its administrative costs is understanding and measuring the true productivity of their workforce. Gaining visibility into the true productivity of your resources is possible. The Improving Workforce Productivity through Visibility and Analytics webinar will show you how to gain visibility into employee events and activities, work processes and application flow, and provide the metrics necessary to improve productivity and lower administrative costs. For more information please visit http://ahip.org/Webinar/WorkforceProductivity/.
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November 7-9, 2012
The Fairmont - Newport Beach, CA
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OpenConnect is hosting a workshop entitled Driving Cost Reductions and Implementing Continuous Improvement in Claims Automation and Workforce
Efficiency at this year’s Summit. The NG Healthcare Payers Summit brings together senior decision makers from across the U.S. healthcare payers industry
to focus on the latest IT solutions available to them, and identify the strategies some are employing to comply with this newest wave of mandates in the reforming healthcare payer market.
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September 9-13, 2012
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AHIP Medicare and Medicaid Conferences
Washington, D.C.
AHIP Medicare Conference and Medicaid Conferences will provide a timely and informative exchange about the changes, challenges, and opportunities facing health plans participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. As an AHIP Chairman Level Select Sponsor at this year’s Conferences, OpenConnect will be hosting a breakfast session entitled What Can Be Done to Reduce Waste and Fraud While Improving Outcomes in Medicaid and the Dual Eligible Population? The panel of experts presenting at this September 12th session include:
- Mark Birdwhistell – Former Secretary for Health and Family Services (Commonwealth of Kentucky)
- Merrill Matthews, Ph.D. – Resident Scholar for Institute of Policy Innovation
- Edward Peters – Chief Executive Officer, OpenConnect
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September 11-12, 2012
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Versicherungsforen Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
OpenConnect will conduct a workshop September 12th, entitled New Methodologies for Sustainable and Fact-based Process Analytics. One of the biggest challenges the P&C industry faces today is improving process and workforce efficiency. In this workshop operational P&C executives will learn how to apply new, evolutionary methods in process analytics in order to enable their companies to execute process improvement that is easily repeatable, sustainable and automated.
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September 10-13, 2012
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2012 Blue National Summit
Orlando, Florida
OpenConnect is pleased to participate at this year’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield National Summit where over 2000 executives will gather to exchange best practices, hear from renowned guest speakers and discuss key local and national industry issues. This is the only all-Blue event that brings together Blue professionals from all 38 Blue Plans and from virtually every discipline. With its comprehensive agenda, this conference offers attendees an extraordinary opportunity to gather leading edge knowledge on issues specific to their industry while also providing system-wide perspectives on topics that matter to every Blue Plan.
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June 20-22, 2012
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AHIP Institute 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah
The decisions that will shape our nation’s health care are near. The Supreme Court Decision. The Presidential election. Implementation decisions within health plans that are shaping the delivery of care. Institute2012, will address these factors head on. There’s not a better place to learn firsthand how these decisions will affect your organization’s efforts immediately, tomorrow, and beyond.
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March 6-7, 2012
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National Policy Forum
Ritz Carlton - Washington, D.C.
OpenConnect is sponsoring a symposium at AHIP’s National Policy Forum entitled “Solutions to Address Key Policy Challenges of MLR”. Edward M.L. Peters, OpenConnect CEO, will host the session. Joining Mr. Peters will be Merrill Mathews, PhD and resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. For more information on the Policy Forum please visit, http://www.ahip.org/Conferences/Policy2012/ .
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December 4 - 7, 2011
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Blue National Summit 2011
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers
The 2011 Blue National Summit is an annual event hosted by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plan management-level staff from across the U.S.
It is the only all-Blue event that brings together Blue professionals from across 11 disciplines for networking and knowledge sharing.
OpenConnect is an exhibitor at this year's summit and will be showcasing Comprehend, its process intelligence, workforce analytics and process automation solutions designed to create high value improvements for Healthcare Insurance plans.
To set up a one-on-one demo of our solutions please contact: Brett Blosser at bblosser@oc.com. You can also visit us at our booth #1115 for more information on Comprehend.
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March 27 - 30, 2011
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New Orleans Marriott
OpenConnect to Sponsor, Present and Exhibit at the 2011 BCBS Call Center and MTM Conference
Hal Markowitz, VP Shared Services, BCBS Florida, and Edward M.L. Peters, CEO, OpenConnect, to host session discussing how leveraging process and workforce intelligence can help improve performance, operational efficiency, and drive cost reductions. Key discussion topics will include claims auto adjudication and workforce productivity validation.
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February 3, 2011
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Edward. M. L. Peters, CEO of OpenConnect Systems, spoke at the AHIP Executive Leadership Summit.
His presentation centered on lowering administrative costs and improving service quality through process intelligence.
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August 3, 2010
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View the AHIP video discussing NarrativeTracker and the use of social media-based monitoring to better understand issues driving healthcare reform.
Featuring
Ed M.L Peters, CEO, OpenConnect
Paul Payack, President, The Global Language Monitor
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July 26, 2010
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View the AHIP video featuring Jay Levine, SVP & CIO of BCBSMN, discussing how OpenConnect Comprehend is helping reduce costs and improve claims processing performance.
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June 29, 2010
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View the AHIP vidcast featuring BCBSFL discussing how OpenConnect's Comprehend helped drive cost reductions
and improvements in claims automation and workforce efficiency.
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Featuring:
Darnell Smith, Group Vice President, Service Organization, BCBSFL
Hal Markowitz, Vice President, Shared Services Organization, BCBSFL
Ed Peters, CEO, OpenConnect
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AHIP Institute 2010
6/9/2010-6/11/2010
Event Details
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas,NV
Institute 2010 is an educational platform that provides health care companies the tools and strategies to streamline their business operations and provide evidence-based
coverage to more Americans. The Institute features keynote sessions with speakers who are among the nation’s most influential thought leaders as well as concurrent
sessions that range in topic and bring industry discussions down to the level of day-to-day opportunities. There is also an Exhibit Hall where you will hear from industry
experts and see state-of-the-art products and services. OpenConnect is a sponsor and exhibitor at this year’s Institute.
AHIP Vidcast Shows How OpenConnect Helped Horizon BCBSNJ Improve its Claims Processing Performance
Featuring:
Mark Barnard, SVP & CIO, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey
Edward Peters, CEO, OpenConnect
Chip Nash, Director of Business Advancement, AHIP
Event Details:
OpenConnect recently helped Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey lower costs and improve the efficiency of its claims processing performance system.
The vidcast released by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), discusses in detail how Horizon BCBSNJ’s claims system was improved by utilizing OpenConnect
Comprehend and why the partnership was so successful.
Stop Guessing and Start Knowing: Realigning your business processes with your business objectives.
Featuring:
Maureen Fleming, Program Director, Business Process Automation and Deployment
Edward Peters, CEO OpenConnect
Christopher Houck, Ph.D., Vice President of Product Marketing
Event Details
You can't measure what you don't know. So Stop Guessing and Start Knowing the true cost of work with advanced, transparent, and non-invasive process
analytics and forensics.
Learn how OpenConnect Comprehend automatically discovers business process inefficiencies, allowing you to quickly recoup costs by
realigning your business processes with you business objectives
Please join us and hear what experts from IDC have to say about how OpenConnect’s Comprehend solution has helped organizations to quickly
eliminate business process inefficiencies that cut into productivity and profit.
Process Discovery - Intelligente Lösung für Prozessanalyse zur Identifikation von Prozessverbesserungspotentialen.
Join us at a location near you
- Munich, Germany – June 3, 2008
- Hamburg, Germany – June 9, 2008
- Frankfurt, Germany – June 10, 2008
- Cologne, Germany – June 11, 2008
International Workshop on Business Process Analytics
Automated mining and discovery tools have recently started to emerge on the technology landscape. Business
intelligence systems have incorporated content discovery techniques to automatically mine the corporate
data looking for interesting and relevant patterns. Systems management companies have similarly launched
technology to automatically discover IT assets and usage pattern. The next logical step of automated
discovery is moving beyond assets and content to understanding the business processes encapsulated within
the application systems.
Join OpenConnect, SAI Research and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for the 2nd
Annual Workshop on Business Process Analytics
Date: October 18, 2007
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
For more information and to Register see http://www.sai.be/nl/eventdetail.aspx?ev_id=151 or call 972.484.5200
OpenConnect Launches Comprehend at DEMO
DEMO is the premier launch venue for new technologies and products. For more than 16 years, DEMO has
established a reputation for identifying products mist likely to have a significant impact
on the marketplace.
To view OpenConnect's stage demonstration at DEMO of Comprehend see
http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2006/63013.php
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