Main Conference Registration

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Vincent E. Kerr, MD, Executive Vice President, Network and Clinical Strategies, United HealthCare; Chairman, Leapfrog Group; formerly Director of Healthcare Management, Ford Motor Company

Standardization of Healthcare Quality
Metrics — An Industry Debate

In an era of healthcare cost escalation, employers and
public purchasers are increasingly demanding
transparency in healthcare costs and quality. Specifically,
pay-for-performance strategies potentially allow
purchasers to distinguish quality among healthcare
providers. However, there is little consensus on who
defines the measures, which measures are meaningful
and rigorous and whether implementing systems to
track these quality measures is too onerous for
providers. Key stakeholders discuss the pros and cons of
standardization of quality metrics and its implications
on provider accountability.

Moderator:

Steve Wetzell, Strategic Director,
Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project;
Strategic Advisor, The Leapfrog Group

Keynote Panelists:

Dennis S. O’Leary, M.D.,
President, JCAHO

Peter Lee,
President and CEO,
Pacific Business Group on Health

Sam Ho, M.D., Executive Vice President
and Chief Medical Officer,
PacifiCare Health Plans

Albert G. Mulley, M.D., Chief, General Medicine Division
and Director, Medical Practices Evaluation Center,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Sean Tunis, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Director,
Office of Clinical Standards and Quality,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The Business Case for Quality — Case Studies from Public
and Private Perspectives

• AHRQ’s systematic, evidence-based review of quality improvement and pay-for-performance initiatives
• United Centers of Excellence — Building High Performance Networks

Irene Fraser, Ph.D., Director,
Center of Delivery, Organization and Markets,
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Kim Slocum, Director,
Strategic Planning and Business Development,
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Vincent E. Kerr, MD, Executive Vice President, Network and Clinical Strategies, United HealthCare; Chairman, Leapfrog Group; formerly Director of Healthcare Management, Ford Motor Company

Networking and Refreshment Break

Sponsored by:

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Update on Pay-for-Quality Demonstration Projects

• Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project — Progress to Date
• Physician Group Practice Demonstration for improved coordination of care — Implementation plans
• Care Management Performance Incentives to
  upgrade IT — Site selection

Stuart Guterman, Director, Office of Research,
Development and Information,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Industry Respondents and Questions:

Dennis S. O’Leary, M.D.,
President,
JCAHO

Peter Lee,
President and CEO,
Pacific Business Group on Health

Public Reports of Quality of Health Care: What We've Learned and Challenges Ahead

Arnold Epstein, Ph.D.,
John H. Foster Professor of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Reactor Panel:


Roberta Herman, M.D.,
Chief Medical Officer,
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Dale Whitney,
Corporate Health Manager,
United Parcel Service

Sanford R. Kurtz, M.D.,
EVP, COO and Chief Medical Officer,
Lahey Clinic

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Collaborative Care Models to Improve Outcomes — Appropriate Information, Decision-Support and Incentives for Providers and Consumers

Collaborative care integrates chronic care management with decision support tools to support informed, motivated patients and, ultimately, to improve healthcare outcomes. This keynote will explore how to enhance the doctor patient relationship with technology and tools to provide appropriate, timely information to consumers and to align financial and non-financial incentives for providers and patients.

George Bennett,
Chairman and CEO,
Health Dialog

Lance Lang, M.D.,
Vice President, Senior Medical Officer,
HealthNet

Margaret E. O'Kane,
President,
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Herbert Pardes, M.D., Vice Chairman,
President and CEO,
New York Presbyterian Hospital