• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP
  and Nora Blay, MBA in Health Services Management:
  
  CBS Eyewitness News
  February 2003
  
  Interview on Obesity (1.95MB)
  
  
  

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:
  Washington Business Group on Health, Summit on Obesity —
  The Threat from Within. Washington DC, December 5, 2002.
  Kickoff Speaker: Overview of Obesity, an American Epidemic.
  View Presentation

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP, Bruce Douglas, DDS, MPH and Gary Earl:
  Washington Business Group on Health, Summit on Obesity —
  The Threat from Within. Washington DC, December 5, 2002.
  Workplace Culture and Lifestyle Modification —
  A Comprehensive Weight Management Pilot Program

• Dr. Smithline's book chapter, "Physician Focused Protocols," in Goldfield and Pine's "Measuring and Managing Health Care Quality", Aspen Publishing, 1992 and 1995, demonstrated how protocols can change physician behavior and reduce the cost of care.

• Noreen Orbach, PhD:
  Post Traumatic Stress in the Workplace…Six Months after 9/11, published in the Journal of Workers Compensation, Summer 2002.

• Eighth Annual National Disability and Absence Management Conference—Integrating Total Disability and Absence Management, July 20-23, 2003 in Newport Beach, CA.
  Neil Smithline,MD, FACP with Gary Earl, Park Place Entertainment; and Carrie Craven, SPHR and David Whitehouse, MD of CIGNA Behavioral Health.

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP and Bruce Douglas, DDS, MPH:
  Washington Business Group on Health,
  16th Annual National Conference on Employee Disability,
  Health and Productivity. Washington DC, October 24, 2002.
  Title: Managing the Aging Baby Boomer
  MPH. View Presentation

• Dr. Smithline's New England Journal of Medicine article titled "Increased Costs and Rates of Use in the California Workers' Compensation System as a Result of Self-Referral by Physicians" demonstrated how financial incentives affect physician behavior and was often cited in the context of health care reform (New Engl J Med 1992;327:1502-6).

• Recent Development in Integrated Delivery in California.
  Neil Smithline, MD, FACP, in his second stint as guest editor for the Journal of Ambulatory Care Medicine 2000;23:1-89, assembled a panel of noted experts to analyze the effects of health care integration and managed care in California. As underscored in his preface, this was a cycle of integration followed by dis-aggregation, as managed failed to deliver the promise of quality care at reduced cost.

• Dr. Smithline's pioneering article, "Outpatient Surgery for Injured Workers," classified the frequency, type and cost of outpatient surgery for injured workers ( Journal of Ambulatory Care Medicine, February 1990). Findings: outpatient surgery represents 12% of all workers compensation costs; the five most expensive types of surgery are closely related; half of all cases cost under $1,000; and physician fees represent 85% of total case cost.

• In Nora Blay and Neil Smithline's "The Integration Movement in California's Workers' Compensation Market," see how managed care principles and efficiencies have been applied to the Workers' Compensation market and how countervailing government incentives have both propelled and hindered integration (Journal of Ambulatory Care Medicine 2000;23:57-67).

• Noreen Orbach, PhD was recently appointed to the Attorney General of Illinois' select, Committee on Prescription Drugs.

• Noreen Orbach, PhD:
  The Employee Assistance Program as A Risk Management Tool, published in Behavioral Health Management, July/August 2001.

• Rick Johnson recently kicked-off General Dynamics' Health and Productivity Initiative program. Health and Productivity (H&P) initiatives are becoming more prevalent as a way to manage an ever-growing portion of an organization's total compensation costs — demonstrating substantial savings and return on investment (ROI) through documented results. Being more comprehensive than traditional approaches, H&P impacts not only program design and delivery, but also needed skills, organizational and operational issues, and most importantly, the company's culture. The General Dynamics' H&P program will be implemented in 2003.
  

Technology Trends
(Presentations are best viewed using high speed internet connection)

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:
  E-Health Developer Summit. Phoenix, AZ, November 7, 2002.
  Session Moderator: Emerging Technologies and Implications
  for E-Health Development

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:

  Health Care Information and Management Systems Society
  (HIMSS), Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. January 28, 2002.
  Title: Handhelds, the Holy Grail of Health Care

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:
  Health Care Information and Management Systems Society
  (HIMSS), Summer Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. June 10, 2002.
  Title: Handhelds, the Holy Grail of Health Care
  View presentation (best viewed using high speed internet connection)

• Dr. Smithline's most recent national presentation, "Handhelds, the Holy Grail of Health Care?" was attended by over 600 participants at the 2001 national Health Care Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) held in Atlanta.

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:
  E-Health Developers' Summit 2002, Planning Committee

• Neil Smithline, MD, FACP:
  "Physicians And The Internet: Understanding
  Where We Are And Where We Are Going,"
  developed a simple-to-use taxonomy that categorizes Internet applications useful to physicians, and reviewed recent trends in the physician-computer interface (Journal of Ambulatory Care Medicine 2001;24:39-53).
  
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