<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Diamond Events</title><link>http://www.diamondconsultants.com</link><description>Upcoming and recent events associated with Diamond</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>2000-2006 Diamond</copyright><item><title>The Third National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit</title><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://www.consumerdrivensummit.com/index.html</link><description>Notes: &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Board+of+Directors&amp;name=John+Sviokla"&gt;John Sviokla&lt;/a&gt;, Vice Chairman, Diamond, will introduce ground-breaking research on how Baby Boomers think about saving and paying for their healthcare, and how Boomers challenge leaders to apply the principles of behavioral economics popularized by Diamond Fellow and MIT Professor &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Diamond+Fellows&amp;name=Dan+Ariely"&gt;Dan Ariely&lt;/a&gt;.</description></item><item><title>Health-Wealth Summit
&lt;br/&gt;Workshop: &lt;a href="http://www.iirusa.com/health/workshops.xml"&gt;Retirement Readiness: Helping Baby Boomers Reduce the Risks&lt;/a&gt;
</title><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://www.iirusa.com/health/welcome.xml</link><description>Notes: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Partners&amp;name=Tom+Weakland"&gt;Tom Weakland&lt;/a&gt;, Managing Partner of Diamond’s Healthcare practice, and &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Partners&amp;name=Aamer+Baig"&gt;Aamer Baig&lt;/a&gt;, Managing Partner of Diamond’s Financial Services practice, will hold a pre-conference workshop that will highlight Diamond’s recent retirement research findings, which are detailed in the firm’s “&lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/ideas/perspectives/Default.aspx?fileRequest=Retirement Study 2008_Diamond.pdf" target="_Blank"&gt;Retirement Study 2008&lt;/a&gt;.”

&lt;p&gt;These findings indicate that companies across the health/wealth value chain need to look at health and wealth together as they design new products and services to help Baby Boomers prepare adequately for their retirement.
</description></item><item><title>The National Predictive Modeling Summit </title><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://www.predictivemodelingsummit.com/</link><description>Notes: &lt;p&gt;The National Predictive Modeling Summit provides the leading forum on the techniques, technologies, strategies, innovations, and case experiences involved with predictive modeling clinical and actuarial applications for health plans and related settings.

&lt;p&gt;The Summit provides nationally renowned keynote speakers, plus concurrent sessions organized into conference tracks including innovations, actuarial applications, health plan populations, clinical applications, and basics.
</description></item><item><title>CIO 100 Symposium</title><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=28</link><description>Notes: Drawing together the nation's most accomplished, forward-thinking IT business leaders, the CIO 100 Symposium delivers three days of highly focused problem-solving, peer exchange and expertise—all targeted at the most effective strategies for engaging the enterprise and delivering value. </description></item><item><title>Excellence in Retail Financial Services</title><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://www.asianbankerforums.com/rba2007/index.asp</link><description>Notes: Diamond Principal Rajesh Balaraman will speak about Diamond's research during a presentation entitled "Banking for the Rural &amp;amp; the Underprivileged".</description></item><item><title>Helping Consumers Become
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise</title><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://exchange.diamondconsultants.com/</link><description>Notes: At this breakfast event, we will discuss the results of our
recent consumer survey where we surveyed 570 consumers
on their attitudes about health and wealth, their lifestyles,
their investment behaviors, which suppliers they trust, and the
current status of their health and savings.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;R.S.V.P. by Monday, October 1st, 2007 to Liz Sewell,
vertical marketing coordinator, Diamond, 312.255.5893
or&lt;a href="mailto:liz.sewell@diamondconsultants.com"&gt; liz.sewell@diamondconsultants.com&lt;/a&gt;.</description></item><item><title>Technology Means to Business Ends
</title><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://exchange.diamondconsultants.com/events/preview.asp?section=technology_means_to_business_ends</link><description>Notes: </description></item><item><title>PackExpo International 2006</title><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://pelv2005.packexpo.com/factsheet2006/</link><description>Notes: &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Partners&amp;name=Mark+Baum"&gt;Mark Baum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Partners&amp;name=Darin+Yug"&gt;Darin Yug&lt;/a&gt;  to present on RFID&lt;br&gt;Read &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/Ideas/Events/Attachments/Internet version of RFID Deck.pdf" target="_Blank"&gt;event presentation&lt;/a&gt; (PDF)
</description></item><item><title>Competitive Implications of Consumer-Directed Health Care</title><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://exchange.diamondconsultants.com/intelligence/20060928</link><description>Notes: </description></item><item><title>Innovations in CDH Payments</title><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>david.moon@diamondconsultants.com</author><link>http://www.pharmedassociates.com/conference.aspx?ccode=B364</link><description>Notes: &lt;a href="http://www.diamondconsultants.com/PublicSite/people/team/?topic=Partners&amp;name=Aamer+Baig"&gt;Aamer Baig&lt;/a&gt; will be speaking on Dynamic and Evolving Roles of Providers, Banks and Credit in Consumer Directed Health
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