The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Quality Congress

Featured Speakers

Tanya Alteras, MPP Deputy Director, Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project National Partnership for Women & Families	Bruce Bagley, MD Medical Director for Quality Improvement American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)	Karen Bell, MD, MMS Chair Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
John R. Butterly, MD, FACP, FACC Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health	Sarah Fleming Cotter Director, Ambulatory Health Information Technology Catholic Medical Partners	Cathy Duquette, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Rhode Island Hospital
Allan Harold Goroll, MD,MACP Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital	Shawn Nowicki Director of Health Policy, HealthPass New York	Stephen Nuckolls Chief Executive Officer Coastal Carolina Health Care
Eric Swain Sales and Account Management United Healthcare	Marie Zimmerman Health Care Policy Director Minnesota Department of Human Services

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The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Quality Congress convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the evolution of health care quality by discussing such topics as  incentives, pay-for-performance, bundled payments, global reimbursement strategies, physician/hospital alignment, patient centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and measurement to improve the delivery of care.

The Congress agenda is designed to assemble over 150 representatives from all sectors of health care, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; society and coalition leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Issues to be addressed in 2012 include:

• Aligning meaningful use to improve with quality improvement
• Creating an IT infrastructure to support the Patient-Centered Medical Home
• What quality initiatives need to be in place to monitor specialists?
• Updated discussion on payment models
• Comparing the various quality methods that need to be in place to measure both hospitals and physicians 
• Data – what needs to be collected? How to measure it? Once you completed the collection and measurement process – what’s next?
• Measurements – what needs to occur so there is more standardization