Sigma Phi Epsilon - Purdue University

From the heart SIGMA PHI EPSILON 3 Indiana Alpha Society ($2,500 to $4,999) Robert F. Kroeger '58 Balanced Man Society ($1,000 to $2,499) James H. Muehlbauer '63 John R. Treat '66 August G. Voelkel '68 David T. Strother '71 Brotherhood Society ($500 to $999) Donald F. Smith '48 Bill M. Reid '60 John R. Schiffer '61 Donald G. Hoffman '62 Larry R. Horton '62 E. Dana Smith '66 Wendell D. Schultz '68 Kelley Davidson '69 William T. Rice '70 Charles R. Reeves '73 Edward G. Gehlhausen '74 Douglas M. Nabhan '77 Timothy J. Kelly '80 Ross A. Richards '80 Gregory M. Hague '82 Golden Heart Society ($100 to $499) Jean C. Evans '56 John C. Miller '58 Gerald L. Young '58 William V. Dohr '59 Andrew R. Ceperley '65 Kenneth G. Miller '66 Gary L. Evans '67 Michael B. Hammer '68 Patrick J. Woodring '69 J. Michael Volpp, DVM '70 Donovan A. Langford III '72 Dennis C. Lange '74 David M. Andrews '78 Richard C. Schroeder '82 Steven R. Bruns '84 Michael G. Ellis '84 Michael J. Bilder '98 Matthew D. Bennett '00 Donor Society (Up to $99) Richard L. Boggs '57 Timothy J. Catton '77 Channing F. Mitzell '78 Kenneth S. Strouse '82 Annual Campaign Closes 2018 with 42 Fall Contributors Thank You for Supporting Our Alumni Programming T hanks to the support of 42 generous alumni, $5,690 was contributed in response to our fall appeal. If an error has been made in recording the amount of your gift, we sincerely apologize. If corrections to your giving records are needed, please send them to alehr@penningtonco.com. LOCATE contact information for brothers who are missing out on From the Heart. See the list on page 4. PROVIDE your email address to receive our digital updates (we're likely missing it). Contact AVC Alumni Relations Chairman Mitch Salyers '93 at avc-alumnirelations@purdue-sigeps.com. VOLUNTEER as a board member. Contact AVC President Brian Rodell '98 at avc-president@purdue-sigeps.com to express interest and ask questions. ATTEND Indiana Alpha events. Our next one is Homecoming weekend October 11-12. Details on page 4. REFER an incoming freshman you believe would be a Balanced Man. Contact Shawn Cable, Texas Rho '17, at shawn.cable@sigep.net with their information. MENTOR an undergraduate. Contact Mitch Salyers '93 at avc-alumnirelations@purdue-sigeps.com to find out what this could look like. DONATE at purduesigep.org/donate to support our alumni programming. CONNECT with others using the NEW alumni directory stored at purduesigep. org. The password is the year of SigEp's founding. SHARE your copy of From the Heart with brothers, family, and friends. Let them know that Indiana Alpha is back and stronger than ever! F or the last 20 years I have been working on a national level with the clinical technology HITECH programs backing up President Bush's 2004 Executive Order and President Obama's 2009 HITECH Act. These two programs established the Sub Cabinet National Office of the Coordinator of Health Information Technology (HIT). The objective and outcome of the program is the digitizing of HIT. This leads to the new healthcare system of Person Centric eLongitudinal Valued Care with an emphasis on wellness and prevention. In 2004 I was asked by then Secretary of HHS Tommy Thompson to coordinate Long Term Care HIT. I have served on many federal and other committees representing Long Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC). In a short article it is difficult to go into depth on all the legislation and regulations that have or will be passed and implemented to get to our final goal. Basically, it is changing our system from a fee for service to a valued outcome system. Another way to say this is going from an episodic system where a person has an incident and gets fixed to a system that has a focus on quality of life and prevention of incidents. Why is this important to you? First, you as an individual and your loved ones have to be more involved in your healthcare. The government and private companies like Apple will be providing you tools to help especially elderly persons requiring chronic care. The tools and payment models will be based on sharing risks. They will also have to be longitudinal. All health, social, and environmental aspects of an individual will be monitored over time and aggregated for normals. Clinical Decision; Cognitive, AI, IBM Watson, etc. software will be used. We will also be added by Precision Medicine, which is the study of genomics and DNA. We have to get healthcare down to the individual's requirements to ensure the best quality of life at a reasonable cost. This can only be done by persons assuming some responsibility for their own health and working with their clinical team. Persons who smoke, are obese, use drugs, and in other ways don't take care of themselves have to change their habits and focus on their own health and not depend to be fixed after having a health incident. Bottomline, the healthcare systems are changing to a focus on you as an individual and to succeed you and your love ones have to become more involved in your health. The result is a higher quality of life. Brother Derr is a Purdue Distinguished Alumnus (2006), Old Master, and received the Old Indiana Alpha Distinguished Alumnus Award. He is a director of the Purdue University Los Angeles Alumni Association and served on the Purdue School of Pharmacy Dean's Advisory Board for over 15 years. He is most proud that grandson Cameron Neel '22 is a SigEp brother in the new Indiana Alpha. Email: jfderr@mac.com the new person-centrIc healthcare system A Special Submission from John F. Derr '58, RPH, FASCP Alumni Engagement Comes in Many Forms How Can You Help SigEp?

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