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In 2010, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and established the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), an independent, non-profit organization. PCORI is committed to transparency and a rigorous stakeholder-driven process that emphasizes patient engagement. The Institute's mission is to help people make informed health care decisions and improve health care delivery and outcomes by producing and promoting high integrity, evidence-based information that comes from research, guided by patients, caregivers and the broader health care community.

In January 2012, PCORI will announce their National Priorities and Research Agenda. Join PCORI's Executive Director, Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, and Harlan Weisman, MD, member Board of Governors, in this interactive webinar as they share the framework for PCORI's National Priorities and it's translation into the Research Agenda. Drs. Selby and Weisman will answer your specific questions and requests for clarification about the National Priorities and the Research Agenda and also share insight into the process and timeline for providing comments to PCORI on these exciting initiatives.

Submit Your Questions to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Submit your questions for Drs. Selby and Weisman prior to the webinar by emailing PCORIwebinarquestions@diahome.org. You will also have the opportunity to submit questions during the webinar through the chat feature.

To learn more about PCORI's National Priorities and Research Agenda, and to provide comments, paste this link into your web browser: www.pcori.org/provide-input/

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants should be able to:
• Discuss Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's National Priorities
• Discuss the history behind the development of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute's Research Agenda
• Explain how the Nastional Priorities and Research Agenda will impact the health of individuals and improve health care system performance.
• Describe how patient-centered outcomes research is collected to help patients and health care providers make informed decisions.

Target Audience:
Professionals from biotech and pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, academic health centers, regulatory authorities, patients, patient advocacy groups involved in:
• Medical affairs/Health outcomes liasions
• Regulatory affairs
• Research and development
• Researchers/Analysts within payers with responsibility for evidence collection, analysis, and/or decision making
• Clinical research
• Comparative effectiveness/Health technology assessment/Evidence-based medicine
• Clinical safety/Pharmacovigilance
• Public Policy/Law/Corporate compliance
• Health policy personnel, researchers, federal or state government employees, and private sector employees

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12211

Contact Information:
Questions about this Webinar?
Contact Colleen Braun, Program Developer
Telephone +1.215.442.6160
Fax +1.215.442.6199
Email Colleen.Braun@diahome.org.

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Webinar: How to Overcome the Hedge Accounting Challenges Corporations Face Today
With Insights from Auditing Firm KPMG LLP

Thursday, February 23 @ 11:00am EDT / 8:00am PDT / 4:00pm GMT
FREE Webinar

As a financial professional, you know that hedge accounting improves your financial risk management and reduces your income statement volatility. However, how do you effectively overcome the challenges associated with this process and adhere to the complex rules of hedge accounting?

Learn practical approaches to applying hedge accounting directly from KPMG and FINCAD. Understand what auditors typically look for when auditing your hedge accounting process and relationships. Learn the appropriate methodologies for hedge effectiveness testing, how to include credit risk and ultimately what documentation is typically required to ensure your hedge accounting process is accurate, consistent and efficient.

Join our experts in this 45-minute webinar as they address these fundamental hedge accounting questions:

• What documentation is required to comply with hedge accounting standards (U.S. and International)?
• How do I test the effectiveness of my hedges, and which methodology should I use?
• How do I incorporate credit risk in my hedge effectiveness tests? Is it mandatory?

This webinar will also provide you with information on how to implement an in-house solution that makes it easier to get auditor sign-off without adding complexity to your daily routine.

Register today so you don't miss this event.

Who should attend:

This webinar is critical for all CFOs, Treasurers, Controllers and other finance professionals who are:

• Considering applying hedge accounting, or
• Looking to simplify their existing hedge accounting process while reducing the time and costs associated with it.

Presenters:

Dilshad Hassen
Partner, Risk Consulting at KPMG LLP

Mr. Hassen is a Partner in KPMG's Risk Consulting practice in Toronto. He has extensive knowledge and experience in advising clients on managing and mitigating financial risks and the accounting for complex transactions and financial instruments under both US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards. Mr. Hassen serves as an advisor to financial and non-financial institutions on risk management and the application of accounting standards to various complex transactions.

Gurpreet Banwait
Director, Insight Solutions Product Management, FINCAD

Gurpreet Banwait has over a decade of experience working in the financial services and software industry. He is a chartered financial analyst (CFA), as well as a financial risk manager (FRM). In his current role, he analyses market needs, particularly the needs of corporate treasuries, chief financial officers (CFOs) and other financial professionals, and manages the strategic direction of FINCAD's Insight web solutions, Hedge Accounting Insight and Fair Value Insight.

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Does email marketing still work? Can email marketing help increase your sales? At this session on email marketing you will learn:

• How to build an email list
• How to target your market
• How to develop an email marketing strategy
• How to design your email
• How to measure the effectiveness of your campaign

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Ramp up your sales with targeted, low cost marketing strategies and increase your profits. Achieve both with the tactics learned at this webinar.

We'll discuss:

• The basic marketing rules you need to know.
• How to target your marketing efforts to achieve a high return on investment.
• How to identify your key differentiators - an essential for your marketing plan.
• How to develop a strategic marketing plan.
• Online and offline marketing tools to consider in your plan.
• How to be creative and use direct marketing.

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In the information economy, tools like the iPad, WiFi and smartphones have shifted the competitive landscape in favor of mobile-savvy businesses. But are you in control of your information, or are you being controlled? Learn how to be in control of your critical information while protecting your business' mobile-digital assets.

This Webinar series, sponsored by Deluxe®, is a multi-part interactive Webinar series designed to address these topics and provide simple, actionable tools to protect and enhance the efficiency with which you run your business.

In this class, Cyber Attack: Data Defense for your Mobile Office, you will learn how to:

• Protect smartphones and tablets from common attacks.
• Weigh the pros and cons of cloud-computing model (Gmail, SalesForce, online billing).
• Lock down Wi-Fi data leakage in the office and on the road.
• Protect your traveling office in hotel rooms, airports and off-site offices
• Interactive Q & A to follow. All registrants will receive a free white paper after the webinar

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This 90-minute training on Adverse Impact Analysis will provide the right approach to preventing adverse impact and show how you can address its cause. You will learn about quantitative tools you can use to examine your employment policies and practices and proactively monitor for adverse impact.

Why Should You Attend:

The idea of adverse impact has been around for nearly 50 years. Even though the concept is widely understood, employers are still faced with hundreds of discrimination lawsuits every year. The reason for this is that employers are taking the wrong approach to preventing adverse impact. 

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Why adverse impact is a problem for employers and how conventional training fails?
• The theory of adverse impact and how it differs from intentional discrimination.
• Where in an organization adverse impact typically occurs?
• Common sources of adverse impact.
• The Four-Fifths Rule and its disadvantages.
• Basic statistical inference and statistical significance.
• Foundation of comparative statistical analysis.
• Calculation and evaluation of surplus and shortfall protected group selections.
• Criteria validation – job-relatedness and business necessity.
• The importance of properly defining the study population.
• Interpretation of analysis results: statistical significance, practical significance and sample size.
• Statistical tools typically used in adverse impact analysis.
• The limitations of statistics in addressing adverse impact.

Who will Benefit:

• HR and compensation professionals
• CFOs
• EEO and Compliance Officers
• Any person with an interest in internal pay equity

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This full-day virtual seminar on legal issues impacting HRM will provide a comprehensive overview of employment law, key legislation affecting your management decisions and your responsibility to understand and comply with it. You will learn risk mitigation techniques and strategies for ensuring consistency in management practices.

Why Should You Attend:

Federal, state, and local legislation is often cited by many emerging firms as one of the major barriers to growth. Compliance to these laws covering hiring practices, compensation, employee safety, and labor relations is viewed as a major cost of doing business. Because of the huge expenses related to fighting employee lawsuits or paying government fines, integrating legal compliance into daily management practices would be extremely cost effective and beneficial for the protection of the employees.

Who Will Benefit:

• General HR Practitioners
• Corporate Strategy Professionals
• Management and Supervisory Teams
• Corporate Training Professionals

Instructor Profile:

Cathleen Hampton, is a professional Human Resources consultant with over 25 years of experience. She is a recognized expert in developing and implementing staffing and retention programs that include workforce planning and analysis, along with best-in-class HR technology, sourcing, recruiting and selection methods.

She has been responsible for planning, developing and executing comprehensive strategies for a wide range of client companies, and has broad experience with corporate policy development and program implementation, including affirmative action programs and OFCCP compliance audits.

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This 3-hr virtual seminar on Project Management in Human Resources will focus on key project management skills for the HR professional. You will learn proven, successful techniques for detailed, systematic, team-involved planning and effective implementation.

Why Should You Attend:

You as an HR leader play a major role in shaping your company’s strategy as well as ensuring that the strategy is carried out as planned. While there is much written about the creation of strategy, there is little written about implementation.

In this 3-hr virtual seminar we will talk about strategic and effective management and implementation of programs and ways in which you, as an HR professional, can facilitate both in your company. More specifically, this session will focus on how project management is becoming a critical success factor in the overall HR organizational strategy.

Learning Objectives:

• Benefits of honing your Project Management Skills.
• Understanding the Big Picture, the four processes involved in project work.
• Understanding Work Breakdown Structures and scheduling the work.
• How to Identify and Manage Risk?
• Understanding unique challenges in HR project management.
• How to extract lessons from every HR project and apply them in future projects?

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• From Strategy to Implementation.
• What is Project Management?
• Overall Benefits of Project Management in Human Resources.
• Considerations of Project Management (PM) Related to Human Resources (HR).
• Key Project Management Skills for the HR Professional.
• Approaches to Project Management.
• The Architecture of Implementation.
• Developing Project Scope.
• How to Stay on Course and Maintain Control of the Project?
• Developing the Project Budget.
• Risk Identification, Planning, and Management.
• The People Side of Implementation, Planning Resources.
• Implementing Human Capital Initiatives.
• Strategy as Work in Progress – Verifying Project Scope.
• Project Closeout.
• Developing and Leveraging Your Strategic Mindset for Successful Implementation.

Who Will Benefit:

• HR Practitioners
• HR Leaders and Team Leads
• Organizational Strategy Leaders

Instructor Profile:

Cathleen Hampton, is a professional Human Resources consultant with over 25 years of experience. She is a recognized expert in developing and implementing staffing and retention programs that include workforce planning and analysis, along with best-in-class HR technology, sourcing, recruiting and selection methods.

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This 90-minute training on managing discrimination litigation risks will provide a comprehensive primer on reviewing compensation systems for internal equity and discuss why, in light of recent legal and regulatory changes, employers should be performing compensation reviews.

Why Should You Attend:

The last two years have brought major changes in the legal and regulatory environment regarding compensation discrimination, and there are even more changes on the horizon. These changes encompass both individual claims and claims of systemic discrimination, and affect the policies and procedures employers need to have in place to combat discrimination.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Recent changes in compensation regulation
• Proposed changes in compensation regulation
• Compensation challenges presented by the evolving regulatory environment.
• The importance of involving legal counsel in the compensation review process.
• Identification of the goals of the compensation review.
• Planning the compensation review.
• Types of pay that can be studied via a compensation review.
• Construction of similarly situated employee groupings.
• Identification of the determinants of compensation.
• Compensation data collection, assembly and cleaning.
• Common compensation data pitfalls.
• The use of multiple regression analysis to examine compensation for internal equity.
• Evaluation of analysis results in terms of statistical significance, practical significance, sample size and goodness of fit of the model.
• Follow up investigations of analysis results.
• Adjustment of compensation based on analysis results.
• The importance of compensation decision documentation.

Free Handout:

“Compensation Reviews: How To Use The Most Important Tool In The Risk Management Arsenal”, white paper, Stephanie R. Thomas, Thomas Econometrics.

Who will Benefit:

• HR and compensation professionals
• CFOs
• EEO and Compliance Officers
• Any person with an interest in internal pay equity

Instructor Profile:

Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D, is the founder of Thomas Econometrics. Dr. Thomas is a noted authority on compensation gender equity and the quantitative analysis of discrimination. She has authored numerous papers published in professional journals and regularly speaks to legal and industry groups on equal employment opportunity and affirmative action compliance issues and the statistical analysis of employment decisions. Dr. Thomas provides consulting services to Fortune 500 companies, privately held businesses and federal and state government agencies such as the Department of Justice and the FBI. She has testified as an economic and statistical expert in mediation, arbitration, and in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Prior to her consulting career, Dr. Thomas served on the faculty of New York University, where she taught courses on economic theory and econometrics.

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This 90-minute training will assist you in understanding the complex interaction between FMLA and ADA (AA) as it relates to intermittent leave requests with an underlying accommodation. In addition, we will clarify and discuss strategies for managing the transition from FMLA to ADA, concurrent ADA compliance requirements when designating FMLA, and the significant differences between the compliance requirements.

Do you refrain from terminating employees because you are concerned about running afoul with either the FMLA or ADA and do not want a lawsuit? This interactive Webinar workshop will help you understand when and how you can have confidence to terminate employees if they are not complying with notification and intermittent leaves as they relate to both FMLA and the ADA.

Areas Covered:

• Clarification of employee notifications as they apply to both FMLA and ADAAA in an intermittent and reduced schedule leave environment.
• Explanation on how to respond to intermittent leave requests that include a potential or specific ADA accommodation.
• How to respond to ADA / Workers’ Compensation light duty restrictions as they relate to FMLA intermittent and reduced schedule leave.
• Documentation guidelines that will help your company stay out of court and/or avoid settling claims.
• When to hold a good faith meeting and how to document the process.
• What notification is required at various timelines in the FMLA / ADA leave and accommodation process.
• Medical releases to obtain additional data outside of the FMLA medical certification.
• When you can terminate an employee who has exhausted their FMLA benefits without running afoul with the ADAAA
• Specific case studies will be evaluated to illustrate various scenarios that can cause confusion and leave a company open to potential litigation.

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all companies, not-for-profits, school districts, governmental agencies and pseudo governmental agencies. Those that would benefit most would be:

• Human Resource Managers / Administration
• Risk Managers
• Benefit Specialists
• Supervisors
• Business Owners
• General Managers
• Controllers/ CFOs / Financial Managers

Instructor Profile:

Beth Brascugli De Lima, M.B.A., SPHR-CA, is founder, president, and principal of HRM Consulting, Inc., a California-based human resource consulting firm. Ms. De Lima provides corporate consulting on a national basis regarding employment regulation, compliance and vocational rehabilitation. Her organization has assisted corporate, not-for-profit, school districts, and governmental clients with Human Resource policy development and implementation since 1992 on a national, statewide, and local level.

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