IBI Announces its 2020 Agenda We are pleased to report that IBI has just completed our most successful year on record and will be expanding staff and initiatives in 2020 to bring greater value to our members. As we begin 2020, we wanted to highlight the program the Board of Directors recently adopted [...]
As we begin the new year, we would like to highlight the agenda that IBI’s Board of Directors and staff have created for 2019. Please let us know if you have any questions or would like to discuss any of our initiatives. We look forward to working with you this year. Research [...]
"IBI's research shows how often employers’ short-term disability (STD) insurance policies incur claims for several conditions impacted by climate change. These result in lost income for employees and lost productivity for employers and society-at-large—all of which may become more severe in the wake of extreme climate events." To learn more about the impact of climate [...]
IBI Research Director Dr. Brian Gifford sat down with Sedgwick's Executive Vice President and Chief Performance Officer Darrell Brown to discuss the work and health relationship at the 2017 Annual Risk Management Society (RIMS) Conference.
Earlier this month, IBI President Dr. Tom Parry sat down with Sedgwick Institute’s Chris Mandel to discuss IBI’s 20-year trajectory within the ever-evolving field of occupational health. In this podcast, Dr. Parry advocates for an increased attention to the business value of workforce health, recognizing that health must be considered not simply a cost, [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY To provide employers and their supplier partners with evidence-based expectations about how long claims will continue to generate costs, and the distribution of costs over time, IBI analyzed the four-year development of WC claims that resulted in temporary total disability (TTD) absences from work. Main Findings At 48 months, the average claim [...]
Recently, a select group of business leaders from across the nation assembled in Washington, D.C., to address one of the most pressing challenges facing employers today: managing health care costs while improving worker productivity in the midst of a chronic disease epidemic. This invitation only Employee Health Benefits Executive Forum addressed how designing effective benefits [...]
The big “C” – cancer -- can cause panic and feelings of helplessness. These feelings, however, often are shared beyond the patients being screened or treated for the disease. Employers often are unsure of how to help their employees who have been diagnosed with cancer and desire to remain at work during treatment or [...]
This IBI report features the productivity implications of poorly managed diabetes drawing upon IBI’s 2013 Benchmarking data, prior IBI studies and others’ research. Together these findings suggest that when diabetes is managed well work-disruptive symptoms and events -- such as attendance problems, fatigue-related performance issues and work disability episodes -- are likely to diminish. Value-based [...]
On April 2nd, 2015, IBI President Dr. Thomas Parry spoke at the Dallas Fort Worth Business Group on Health’s meeting of HR professionals. He described the competitive advantage of a population-based approach to workforce health management and included results from IBI’s study of the costs of low prevalence diseases. IBI board member Abbvie sponsored the [...]
