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7th Annual Physician Group Practice Leadership Summit
Adapting Your Practice in an Era of Evolving Reimbursement, Policy and Payer Contracts

The WHCC Physician Group Practice Summit convenes over 150 CEOs and senior executives focused on managing operational cost, physician reimbursement, strategies for successful EMR implementation and payer contract negotiation. Physician Group Practice and IPA CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, Administrators, Chief Physicians are in attendance, as well as, Vice Presidents, Directors and Heads of Operations, Innovation and Strategy, IT, Medical Management and Malpractice.
Monday, April 12, 2010
1:35 pm -
2:25 pm
Meaningful Use—Effective EMR Implementation to Realize an ROI and Improved Patient Care Coordination
  • IT transformation to support quality improvements and practice review
  • Defining meaningful use to meet the needs of physician group practice organizations
  • Strategies for effective and mutually beneficial integration between hospitals and physician-practice EMR Systems
  • Best practices to provide incentives for physician adoption
Peter Basch - Speaker Photo Peter Basch, MD, FACP
Medical Director for Ambulatory Clinical Systems
MedStar Health

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Michael H. Zaroukian, MD, PhD, FACP, FHIMSS
Chief Medical Information Officer, Professor of Medicine
Michigan State University

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2:30 pm -
3:20 pm
Physician Practice Leadership to Initiate Cost-Effective Care and to Eliminate Waste
  • Health policy and reform issues that will attempt to regulate payment changes and quality reporting
  • Engaging clinicians of all levels to implement reform internally
  • Continuous quality improvement to improve quality of care and care coordination as well as the bottom line
  • Lean production strategies to empower all clinicians and staff to improve processes and clinical outcomes
Stephanie S. Axelrod
Administrative Director, Research CPI and CPI Consulting
Seattle Children's Hospital

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Patrick Hagan, MHSA
President and Chief Operating Officer
Seattle Children's Hospital

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
10:20 am -
11:10 am
The Integral Role of Physician Practices in the Formation of Accountable Care Organizations
  • Collaboration strategies to partner with hospitals and other practices in the development of an ACO
  • Contracting strategies to align incentives and patient care coordination
Thomas A. Colacchio - Speaker Photo Thomas A. Colacchio, MD
President
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

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11:15 am -
12:05 pm
New Models for Physicians to Fully Implement an EMR
  • Cost effective alternatives for a fully implemented EMR
  • Web-based vs. Client server based EMR Solutions for physicians
  • Strategies to leverage technology for improved care and reduced cost
Jonathan Bush
Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
athenahealth

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D. Ryan Champlin
Vice President, Operations
Cook Children's Physician Network

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Business Case Forum 9: Building a Medical Home to Increase Reimbursement and Improve the Coordination of Care
2:25 pm -
3:10 pm
Critical System Changes to Build a Medical Home – Improved Collaboration between Physicians and Payer Organizations
  • Effective payer/provider collaboration strategies to develop an effective partnership to measurably improve care coordination
  • Key characteristics of a provider practice to effectively carry out a medical home
  • Successful re-alignment of incentives to support a Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Strategies to form a primary care clinic with in house and outsourced medial home models
Jose A. Guethon, MD, MBA
President and Chief Operating Officer
Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc.
Metcare of Florida, Inc.

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Michael Sherman - Speaker Photo Michael Sherman, MD, MBA
Corporate Medical Director, Physician Strategies
Humana Inc.

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3:15 pm -
4:15 pm
Design and Implementation Results from the Boeing Company’s Intensive Outpatient Care Program
  • Insight into the innovative pilot program and collaboration between The Boeing Company and The Everett Clinic to better manage high utilizers
  • Designing a model to improve clinical quality, patient satisfaction, and the overall health status of patients
  • Lessons learned and redesign elements necessary to provide customized, high quality care to complex and high risk populations
Harold Dash, MD
President
The Everett Clinic

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