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Wednesday, 19 May, 2010
9:00 -
10:00
Keynote: Delivering Sustainable Health Care—Improving Cost and Quality Through Policy and Market Forces
  • Improved collaboration to set health priorities and design to optimise the quality and delivery of care to European citizen
  • Economic considerations and financing requirements to address rising expectations and the shift in health demographics
  • Business impact of policy changes and emerging business models in European Health
Aart de Geus
Deputy Secretary-General
OECD
France

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Oyvind Hope
Research Programme Officer, Directorate for Research
European Commission
Belgium
Dr. Konstanty Radziwiłł
President
Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
Belgium

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Moderator:
Johan Hjertqvist
President and Chairman
Health Consumer Powerhouse
Belgium

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10:00 -
10:55
Keynote: Innovative Care Delivery—Advancing Research of Academic Health Science Centres
  • The role of academia in restructuring organisations so that discoveries, innovations and inventions are received by independent practices
  • How Academic Health Science Centers have been recognised as key for innovation and how the models are now being recognized on an international level
Prof. Dr. med. Detlev Ganten, MD, PhD
President, World Health Summit Charité Berlin;
Chairman of the Board, Charité Foundation

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Professor Steven K. Smith, FmedSci
Principal of the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Centre, Imperial College London;
Chief Executive, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
United Kingdom

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John E.L. Wong, MBBS, FAMS, FRCP, FACP
Deputy Chief Executive, The National University Health System;
Dean; The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, The National University of Singapore;
Director, The National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
Singapore

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Chair:
Dr. Konstanty Radziwiłł
President
Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME)
Belgium

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10:55 -
11:50
Keynote: Successful eHealth Implementation—Improving Privacy, Quality, Access and Cost
  • The EU Digital Health agenda – eHealth for the benefits of patients, society and economy
  • Insight into Europe’s policy priorities and projections for the future of eHealth
  • Defining metrics and benchmarks to measure the success of your eHealth program
Keynote Presenter:
Zoran Stancic
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for the Information Society and Media (DG INFSO)
European Commission
Belgium
Bernard Algayres, PhD
eHealth General Manager
GE Healthcare
Europe, Africa and Middle East


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Dr. Finn Klamer
Medical Director
sundhed.dk – ehealth portal
Denmark

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Moderator:
Marc Lange
Secretary General
European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL)
Belgium

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11:55 -
12:45
Concurrent Interactive Forums
12:45 -
14:00
Executive Luncheon in the Lobby Lounge
14:00 -
16:20
Concurrent Executive Summits
16:20 -
16:50
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
16:50 -
17:45
NEW PROGRAMMING! Market Insights Series
17:50 -
18:30
Keynote: Achieving Cost-Effective Care—High Quality, Low Cost Innovations
  • High quality, low cost innovations that are revolutionizing the delivery of care
  • A comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve European health care and make it affordable
Alan Glyn Davies, MB BS MRCP MD
Chief Medical Officer, EMEA Medical Affairs
GE Healthcare

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Tarmo Martikainen
Chief Executive Office
The Coxa Hospital for Joint Replacement
Finland

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Moderator:
Eva Natali Williams
Senior Consultant
Oxford Analytica
United Kingdom

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18:30 -
19:30
Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
Thursday, 20 May, 2010
9:00 -
10:00
Keynote: Advancing Prevention and Chronic Care Management
  • Realising the need to shift the focus to health, not health care with in-depth results from the NHS Health and Wellbeing Review
  • The policy of health prevention and promotion – the German experience
  • Recommendations for comprehensive improvement in provision of health and well-being for European citizens
  • The role of disease prevention in health sector restructuring
  • Challenges and incentives to change – Experience from the Netherland’s new funding structure to eliminate silos and change the delivery of health
  • Developing unique approaches for eHealth to manager chronic disease internationally
Cornelius Erbe, MD
Senior Vice President and Head of BU Product Management
Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse (DAK)
Germany

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Dr Steve Boorman, MBBS, MRCGP, FFOM, FRCP
Director of Corporate Responsibility and Chief Medical Adviser, Royal Mail Group;
Head, NHS Health and Well-being Review, NHS
United Kingdom

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Jacob Hofdijk - Speaker Photo Dr Jacob Hofdijk
Special Advisor, Chronic Disease Management
Ministry of Health
The Netherlands
Moderator:
Nicholas Timmins
Public Policy Editor
Financial Times
United Kingdom

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10:00 -
11:15
Keynote: Health Systems Reform—Achieving Health Improvement through Public Reporting, Transparency, Risk and Competition
  • Three pathways to health improvement in the UK: Change, selection and reputation
  • Evidence from the US and UK - Implications for system reform
  • A comparative approach to health systems reform with an analysis on the possibilities and effects of market competition in Dutch health care and on the package of health services (benefits) in public health insurance arrangements in Europe
  • Insight into the Netherlands Insurance Reform - Establishing higher standards for insurers as well as care providers in terms of quality and cost
  • Increasing fiscal sustainability and quality of care through effective managed competition
  • Creating a performance oriented system and introducing opportunities for competitive differentiation
Prof. Gwyn Bevan
Professor of Management Science and Director of the MSc in Public Management and Governance
London School of Economics and Political Science

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Prof Hans Maarse
Professor of Health Care Policy Analysis, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Maastricht
Netherlands

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Moderator:
Nicholas Timmins
Public Policy Editor
Financial Times
United Kingdom

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11:15 -
11:45
Refreshment Break in the Lobby Lounge
11:45 -
12:30
Keynote: Health Care in Eastern Europe—Collaboration to Prevent Pandemics
  • Insight into the Czech Republic's public health strategies for strengthening health infrastructure through pandemic planning and overall response capacity for all threats to public health
  • Tools that assist in the development of national pandemic preparedness plans
Chair:
Vahe A Kazandjian, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine;
President, Center for Performance Sciences;
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health;
Senior Vice President, Maryland Hospital Association
Dr. Jan Kyncl
Deputy Head, Department of Epidemiology of the Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology
National Institute of Public Health
Czech Republic

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12:30 -
14:00
Luncheon in the Lobby Lounge
14:00 -
17:00
Concurrent Executive Summits
17:00 -
18:00
Keynote: Public Private Investment Partnerships—Lessons from Partnerships that Work
  • Replicable alternative management models to finance hospitals through private investment: The Alzira Model
  • Identifying the risk and opportunity with new public-private hybrids that go beyond traditional public-service privatisation
  • Strategies to address cost and investment challenges, deliver improvements in efficiency and enhance service quality in health care
Dr. Carlos Trescoli
Chief Executive Personal Adviser
Hospital de la Ribera, Alzira
Spain

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Steven Wright
Executive Directory
European Centre for Health Assets and Architecture
Luxembourg

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18:00
Conference Adjourns
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