The WHCC Hospital and Health System Executive Summit convenes over 150 CEO and senior executives focused on creating innovative delivery models for improved safety and quality outcomes, health IT implementation and strategies for reducing hospital readmissions. Hospital, Health Systems and Integrated Delivery Network CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, CFOs and Administrators are in attendance, as well as Vice Presidents and Directors of Patient Safety, Quality, Compliance, Innovation, Interoperability, IT and Pharmacy.

• CMS reimbursement changes and the reimbursement disincentives to reduce admissions and readmissions
• Strategies to address the operational demands necessary for CMS quality reporting

• Implications of Dartmouth Health Atlas' data for policy-makers, purchasers and industry influencers
• Review of key Dartmouth Health Atlas tools to determine your hospital's critical areas for improvement

• Redesign strategies to engage physicians and encourage technology adoption
• Preventative care tools to engage and monitor patients for proactive care delivery
• Future directions for chronic care coordination in the formation of accountable care organizations

• Clinical transformation and technology deployment for improved patient satisfaction
• Creating new models to improve the continuum of care
• Accelerating Best Care at Baylor – Leveraging technology to accelerate the process of care
• Strategies to leverage the best of lean principles and IT deployment to create safe, efficient, and quality care
• Beyond "State of the Art" care -- Future outlook for IT and quality in an ideal health care future

• Metrics to measure value in an ACO – Defining and delivering value across all providers
• Strategies to build practice improvement among providers in an ACO
• New payment models and financial incentives to support an integrated practice

• Poudre Valley Hospital's 8 year journey to achieve performance excellence
• Global Path to Success – Insight into Poudre Valley Hospital’s leadership system to align the organization, deploy its mission and engage all employees in achieving a world-class vision
• Implementing continuous and systematic improvements driven by Balridge criteria to provide comprehensive, quality care

• New approaches to build centers of excellence within hospital environments to develop continuously improved outcomes
• Exploring the increasing trend for community hospitals transitioning away from full service to specialty services
• Leadership's role in the development of a team to perfect care

• Developing an outcomes-based care delivery model aligned to a reimbursement method that rewards providers for high-value health care
• Lessons learned as we drive to becoming an Accountable Care Organization
• Insights from a health system’s challenges in change management, commitment and payer participation