Professor Howard Bolnick to conduct 5 day Executive Development Programme on Healthcare Financing an

Online, September 7, 2009 (Newswire.com) - The Programme will provide a comprehensive, multifunctional perspective on how to understand the changes occurring in the Indian health insurance environment and how to drive growth through product innovation, cost control, application of technology so that it can lead to customer satisfaction of large number of customers located all over the country. Attendees will learn from global as well as Indian thought-leaders through case studies and exercises that will help instill key concepts that can be applied in their workplace to maximize the impact made in the company upon return to work.

The Programme is taught by Professor Howard J. Bolnick, Former Adjunct Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, who is an international authority on Health Insurance. Professor Bolnick is a thought-leader in the industry that has developed and taught this highly regarded international healthcare financing and health insurance to actuaries and insurance executives in actuarially developing countries and has also served as the President of the Society of Actuaries, USA. Professor Bolnick will also be supported by Indian faculty members from different segments of Indian Insurance industry and the academic world. These Indian faculty members are authorities in their respective areas, and will be covering the challenges being faced by the insurance industry in India.
A large number of participants for the Programme will be from India but we also foresee a good number will be International participants who will be coming from ASEAN, SAARC, South Asian and African countries. This seminar is designed for executives, who want to acquire a deep understanding of the health insurance products, as well as a useful theoretical framework and practical conceptual tools needed to design and manage health insurance products.
After an introduction to the health insurance industry, the Programme continues with topics on healthcare financing and health insurance. Learning about the environment is vital to understanding how insurance companies design their health insurance products and manage their product portfolios. Topics include:

• Risk shifting using insurance
• Insurance market behavior and market failure
• Health insurance environment
• Insurance market behavior and health insurance
• Health insurance in India - Target 2020
• Healthcare Technology
• Product Innovation
• Challenges in the Insurance Industry
• Means to improve quality of healthcare services in India
• Government sponsored health insurance schemes - status/critical analysis

Indian insurance Industry has been growing rapidly since 2001 when the industry was thrown open to entry of Private players as well as foreign players (max limit of 26%).There is an acute shortage of trained manpower who can handle various aspects of health Insurance business, whether it is underwriting or product development. Health being the fastest growing segment of Indian insurance Industry many more jobs are coming up in this sector. According to S. K. Sethi, Vice President of IFI those who will be attending this programme in India will be upgrading themselves to handle responsible positions. Many of those who could not go to USA to attend this programme of Prof.Howard Bolnick will find a great opportunity to attend the same in New Delhi itself. We have planned for 50 seats but the response is so encouraging that we find the number may cross 80.