The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress

World Health Care Congress Market Insight Series

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Interoperability 2.0—Consolidation and Virtualization
  • Assess the past and current interoperability environment and the modernization needed to achieve health reform
  • Identify key technology solutions reducing operational costs, managing risks and the seamless integration of information from multiple sources
  • Realize the role, and potential, of data interoperability in improving health care outcomes, reducing medical errors and lowering health care costs
    
Lola Jordan Lola Jordan
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Companion Data Services, LLC
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Anne Castro Anne Castro
Chief Enterprise Architect
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
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Ashley Corbin Ashley Corbin
Acting Chief Technology Officer
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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William O'Loughlin William O'Loughlin
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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Achieving True Meaningful Use for Patients—Patient Education at the Point of Care
  • Identify methods for engaging patients as partners in the decision making process to achieve meaningful use and to support patient-centered care
  • Learn how integrating the HL7 Context Aware Knowledge Retrieval Standard "Infobutton Standard" into an EHR or PHR system can achieve meaningful use
  • Study results and gather insights from real-world EHR/PHR-based patient education programs
Donald W. Kemper Donald W. Kemper, MPH
Chairman and CEO
Healthwise
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Guilherme Del Fiol Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University;
Co-Chair, HL7 Clinical Decision Support Work Group
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Michael Solomon Michael Solomon, PhD, MBA
Practice Lead, eCare Management
Point-of-Care Partners
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Achieving Total Hospital Efficiency through Care Coordination Transformation and Enabling Technology
  • Increasing system wide efficiency and patient throughput to achieve lower costs and greater quality
  • Reducing Average Length of Stay to enhance revenues and increase capacity
  • Improving quality and outcomes through the transformation of care delivery
  • Minimizing unnecessary and inefficient tasks to achieve error free, high quality, lower cost care
  • Establishing efficient care coordination to facilitate transformation to post reform environment
    
Imran A. Andrabi Imran A. Andrabi, MD, ABFP, FAAFP, CMCM
President and CEO
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
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Samantha M. Platzke Samantha M. Platzke
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial & Transformation Officer
Catholic Health Partners
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Ben Sawyer Ben Sawyer
Executive Vice President
CareLogistics
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Moderator:
Matthew Holt Matthew Holt
Author
The Health Care Blog
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Centrally-Managed Health Care—A Prescription for Lower Benefit Costs and Profitable New Markets
  • Rampant cost inflation is driving significant change
  • Employers discovering the secret to stabilize benefit costs while improving productivity.
  • Carriers realizing they must adopt a new care delivery model to replace the revenue they will lose in coming years.
  • Comprehensive, centrally-managed healthcare is a prescription to check costs and enter new markets
    
R. John Kaegi R. John Kaegi
Chief Corporate Strategist
Healthstat, Inc.
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Surgical Benefit Management—Delivering Cost Savings, Utilization Visibility and Increased Access to Medical Devices
  • Gain insight on utilization and cost of implantable devices for a direct impact on the bottom line
  • Improve member and physician access to implant technology while managing cost and quality
  • Parallels and distinctions between implants and other significant healthcare cost containment initiatives such as pharmacy, specialty pharmacy, radiology and behavioral health
    
William Banks William Banks
Vice President Managed Care/ Revenue Cycle
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
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Melody Mena Melody Mena, RN, RNFA, CNOR
Vice President of Clinical Services
Surgical Investors & Advisors, LLC
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John Seitz John Seitz
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Ambulatory Surgical Group
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Moderator:
Lawrence B. Leisure Lawrence B. Leisure
Partner
Accelus Health
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360 Degree View of the Consumer: Leverage Market Analytics and Thomson Reuters Healthcare Indexes to Ensure Membership Growth
  • Healthcare reform and other market drivers will cause changes in how health plans will acquire members and the need to understand the make-up of the consumers in various market segments
  • Learn how marketing data and health care claims analytics, and Thomson Reuters Healthcare Indexes can help you make better decisions about marketing, product development and other investments to most effectively grow your business
    
Tony Glebe Tony Glebe
Vice President, Practice Leadership
Thomson Reuters
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Gary Pickens Gary Pickens, PhD
Chief Research Officer, Center for Healthcare Improvement
Thomson Reuters
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Telehealth Set Free: Removing the Walls to Care Delivery
  • Learn how online delivery of care is allowing telehealth to expand to new settings, including physician practices, employer sites, and more
  • Get a first look at emerging access points where healthcare providers can interact with patients and consumers
  • Understand health care business opportunities that capitalize on the landscape, with industry examples
    
Joe Sawyer Joe Sawyer
Vice President, Marketing
American Well
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