Did you know that Americans collectively incur $700 billion per year in wasteful health-care expenses that do not improve health outcomes? Moreover, employers continue to pass an increasing share of health-care costs on to their employees, a trend that is likely to continue.

How can you improve the financial health of your organization and achieve better health-care outcomes for your employees? By attending this webcast, you will be among the first to hear about pioneering research based on Thomson Reuters' analysis of health-care claims data from nearly 18 million people.

From this research, you will learn:

• which types of metrics most accurately reflect your company's ability to minimize wasteful health-care spending;
  
  
• how certain types of programs, such as consumer-driven health plans, affect health-care costs for companies and health-care outcomes for employees; and
  
  
• how you can benchmark your company's health-care spending relative to that of companies similar to yours, including companies within your industry.
  
  

From this webcast, you will also discover essential sources of information you can use to dramatically improve how well your company evaluates and manages the purchase, delivery, quality and communication regarding your employees' health care.