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Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:00 am -
8:00 am
Registration and Welcome Coffee in the Executive Networking Lounge
8:00 am -
8:15 am
Chairperson's Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jack Needleman - Speaker Photo Jack Needleman, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Director, Health Services PhD and MSHS Programs, Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health

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8:15 am -
9:15 am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
8:15 am -
8:45 am
Reforming Provider Reimbursement: Transitioning to Accountability for Health Outcomes and Overall Costs
  • Learn about the three key features of an ACO and the foundation that must be laid for successful implementation
  • Evaluate the key design components that highlight the decisions that need to be made through negotiations with participating payers
  • Hear how the ACO model holds substantial promise as a reform that offers a potential win-win for providers, payers, and patients alike
Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Brookings Institution

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8:45 am -
9:15 am
Measuring Physicians’ Performance to Improve the Value of Care: Addressing the Lack of Good Information
  • Hear about ways to improve the current state of physician performance measurement and how the field may advance
  • Uncover reasons why many physicians resist measurement efforts and what can be done to address these concerns
Troyen Brennan, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
CVS Caremark Corporation

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9:15 am -
9:45 am
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
9:45 am -
10:30 am
New Landscape for Emerging Standards for EMR Data Exchange: Challenges and the Future of Interoperability
  • Examine the implications of the current state of health information technology standards in relation to EMR data exchange
  • Learn how HITSP has prioritized various standards, progress and future plans of EMR data exchange adoption for achieving interoperability
  • Hear different view points, debates and challenges that remain with standards in the industry
LeRoy E. Jones
Chief Executive, GSI Health;
Program Manager, Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
American National Standards Institute

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10:30 am -
11:15 am
Data Mapping: How Data is Being Collected and Utilized in Comparative Analysis
  • How to capture administrative claims data to analyze utilization trends
  • Why it is important to review trends in data from various sources other than administrative claims such as PHRs, care management data, laboratory or diagnostic medical records or registries
  • Discover how to map informatics to common terms to structure data to the point of capture and documentation
Though Leader TBD
11:15 am -
12:00 pm
How Good Is Your Data? Effective Data Quality Management and Data Governance to Ensure Accurate Analytics and Minimize Risks
  • Study how Cedars-Sinai Health System ensures data integrity through development of responsive management capabilities to meet data needs for external submission and internal clinical improvements
  • Identify how organizations can exercise oversight of critical data supply chains and conduct validation checks to ensure sufficient integrity
    • Evaluate business processes that produce data resources through flow charting and failure mode analysis
    • Establish data governance leadership capabilities and data quality management infrastructure
    • Prioritize key data elements for focused attention
  • Learn to recognize the complex life-cycle of data resources throughout the organization, crossing departmental and information system boundaries, and the crucial role of building a data stewardship culture
  • Identify the impact on decision-making, and the potential material risks to your organization's reputation of unmanaged data resources
Bruce N. Davidson, PhD, MPH
Director, Resource and Outcomes Management
Cedars-Sinai Health System

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12:00 pm -
1:15 pm
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Leveraging Information to Deliver the Highest Quality Care at the Lowest Appropriate Cost
Variation in the way that care is delivered within health care organizations translates into an opportunity for significant waste reduction, quality improvement and cost optimization. Organizations that can establish a systematic, evidence-based approach to achieve continuous quality improvement will be best positioned to take advantage of these opportunities.
  • Learn how to identifying variation in the most important clinical work processes through Key Process Analysis
  • Understand methods for defining and implementing best practice through an effective Clinical Management Infrastructure
  • Discover how an Adaptive Data Warehouse driven by clinicians can turn data into useful and actionable information
  • Explore how Care Process Models can support the implementation of best practice across an entire health care organization
Steven C. Barlow
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Quality Catalyst, LLC

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Thomas D. Burton
President
Healthcare Quality Catalyst, LLC

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1:15 pm -
2:00 pm
CASE STUDY – Applying Real Time Data Collection Processes
  • Enhance customer satisfaction through real time analytic collections by providing information at a faster pace
  • Recognize how to implement care changes through acquired data
Though Leader TBD
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
CASE STUDY – Montefiore Medical Center’s Implementation and Development of the Clinical Looking Glass
  • Hear how Montefiore Medical Center converts data into information to remediate patient care, to assess public policy and to maintain post marketing surveillance of medications
  • How will we provide information access to quality improvement specialists, clinician and researchers while still protecting privacy?
  • Discover the must-have software functionalities imperative to enable clinicians to summarize outcomes over time across populations of patients and then identify their specific patients who require intervention
Eran Bellin, MD
Vice President, Clinical IT Research and Development, Emerging Health Information Technology;
Department Outcomes Analysis and Decision Support, Montefiore Medical Center

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2:45 pm -
3:15 pm
Networking and Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
3:15 pm -
4:00 pm
Moving Beyond the Office Visit: Extracting Informatics Data from Various Sources to Optimize the Care of Patient Populations
  • Uncover how organizations are creating effective report cards and the information they are collecting
  • An in-depth look at data entities from different types of health care settings
  • How do you effectively utilize data to manage your patients and meet population based performance goals?
Stanley M. Huff, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Intermountain Healthcare

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David L. Larsen - Speaker Photo David L. Larsen, RN, MHA
Director, Quality Improvement
Select Health

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4:00 pm -
5:00 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION – Public Reporting: Utilizing Clinical Information for Public Reporting in an Era of Health Reform
  • What are the issues of what can be measured from what data source?
  • Should there be risk adjustments made for patients that require more care, or should there be a higher reimbursement for those patients?
  • Understand how to communicate extremely technical information for other stakeholders to understand
  • Integrate and improve quality in billing, reporting and availability
  Steven Goldberg, MD, MBA
Corporate Medical Director, Clinical Quality
Humana
Erik Muther
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance

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Jack Needleman - Speaker Photo Jack Needleman, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Director, Health Services PhD and MSHS Programs, Department of Health Services
UCLA School of Public Health

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5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
Networking, Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
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