Business Health Agenda 2008 Innovation, Transformation & Reform in the Healthcare Marketplace March 12-14, 2008 - Washington, DC Registration Now Open! 2008 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyle Awards 2008 Application and Awards Criteria Now Available Apply by March 3, 2008 - award winners will be recognized May 13, 2008. "A Call to Action for People & Their Communities" annual assessment of the relative healthiness of our nation features insights of Helen Darling on what employers are doing to address the obesity epidemic in this country (see page 130). Investing in Maternal and Child Health: An Employer’s Toolkit - Now Available provides information employers need to design health promoting and cost-effective medical benefits for children, adolescents, and pregnant women. Pharmacogenomics: An Emerging Tool in Medicine Although personalized medicine is in its infancy, employers and other plan sponsors cannot afford to ignore today's advances in pharmacogenomics. A Toolkit for Action: Ensuring Patient Safety Across Health Care designed to increase employer awareness of this critical problem and, especially, to promote actions that employers can take to support the growing patient safety movement Employer Summit on Health Care Costs & Solutions January 23-24, 2008 - Atlanta, GA Registration Now Open For Corporate HR and Benefits Professionals only Summary of Employer Health Care Cost Trends for 2008 updated matrix of latest national surveys Avian Flu - Background, Alerts, Tip Sheets and Other Resources Helen Darling selected by Modern Healthcare for 5th Consecutive Year as one of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2007 Business Group in the News NBGH's Position on National Health Care Reform Membership Report New Business Group Members Since October 1, 2007: BP America, Inc., Rockwell Collins, Toyota, Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Carena, Inc. Click above to see the complete member listing 65 National Business Group on Health members listed in 2006 Fortune 100. Seeking Savings, Employers Help Smokers Quit NY Times (10/26/07) cites Business Group and several members regarding successful Tobacco Cessation programs and trends. Business Group Members Recognized for Behavioral Health Programs Aetna, Cisco Systems, Delta Air Lines, GlaxoSmithKline and Pitney Bowes NBGH 2008 Plan Design Survey Final results provide information on Medical Plan Costs, Employee Cost Sharing, Medical Management Initiatives, Consumer-Directed Health Care...more Business Group member named as one of Business Insurance's Women to Watch Dahna Baisley, Director of Health and Insurance Programs Honeywell International Inc. Business Group members, please select your e-mail preferences Looking for another Business Group member?