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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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8:00 am -
9:00 am
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| US Government Officials and industry experts explore the impact of Obama's administration on health care |
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| Government View: |
- Update on the Obama Administration’s plan to fund health reform
- Key features of the reform proposal and projected timing for new legislation
- Outlining the impact of the stimulus package on the players within health care
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Dora L. Hughes, MD, MPH
Counselor for Public Health & Science
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| Insider View: |
- Lessons learned from the failed California experiment for universal coverage
- Recommendations to ensure that a federal program is successful
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Bruce Bodaken
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Blue Shield of California
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- The role of connectors in national reform
- Expanding access versus controlling costs
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Jon Kingsdale
Executive Director
Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector
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Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs;
On-Air Health Policy Analyst, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS
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9:00 am -
10:00 am
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| Economists and financial gurus share their insights on how the US economy will impact health care |
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| Insider View: |
- The imperative for health care reform efforts to also address quality and cost
- The economic urgency associated with achieving responsible and sustainable reforms
- The essential and distinct roles that the private and public sectors have to play to put us on the path to universal coverage
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Angela F. Braly
President and Chief Executive Officer
WellPoint, Inc.
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| Employer View: |
- A CEO's demands of the health care industry to make health care more affordable
- The Committee for Economic Development's analysis of our employer-based health-care
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Carl T. Camden
President and Chief Executive Officer, Kelly Services, Inc.;
Trustee, Committee for Economic Development
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| Expert View: |
- Candid reactions on the future of health care reform and cost projections of he employer-based system vs. universal coverage
- Expert insights on how much the Obama health care reform plan will cost our nation
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Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies and Leonard D. Schaeffer Director's Chair in Health Policy Studies, Brookings Institution; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
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Vanessa Fuhrmans
Staff Reporter
Wall Street Journal
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10:00 am -
10:50 am
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| Innovators in health care and consumerism discuss future trends |
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| Pollster View: |
- Present 1 year data on 400,000 wellbeing surveys and the findings from the behavioral economic science database, including an aggregate figure for life evaluation and recent changes due to the economic climate and the resulting increase in unhealthy behaviors
- Incorporating the presence of physical, emotional and social factors to effectively measure overall wellbeing
- Potential uses of this data and implications for employers, public health and the health care system
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Jim Clifton
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Gallup Organization
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| Media View: |
- What makes good info (transparent, accountable, understandable information) and what Consumer Reports provides to the public (Consumer reports health ratings system, Consumerreportshealth.org)
- Where consumers obtain information on medical treatments and providers today; the types of information that most interests consumers; why people don't look for more information; communication and information mediums that people use
- How the media is doing reporting on key health issues
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Jim Guest
President and Chief Executive Officer
Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)
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| Expert View: |
- Key insights into a consumer-driven cure for the health care system which is dangerously eroding patient welfare and pushing costs out of the reach of millions and its implications for all stakeholders
- How a consumer-driven system can deliver affordable high-quality care to everyone that would include: Smaller, disease-focused medical facilities, national system of medical records, mandatory performance evaluations and health insurance with subsidies for those who cannot afford it
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Regina E. Herzlinger
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair
Harvard Business School
Author, Who Killed Health Care?
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Newt Gingrich
former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives;
Founder, The Center for Health Transformation
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- Definitions of health care consumerism and WHO's definition of health to include wellbeing
- Consumers want improved wellbeing - but can this be improved?
- Insights from the Wellbeing Index and the implications for employers to support employees with programs and policies; implications for the health care industry on the causal connection between wellbeing scores and claims database
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Ben R. Leedle, Jr
President and Chief Executive Officer
Healthways
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10:50 am -
11:30 pm
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| A leading corporate CEO and market innovators outline the necessity of market-based solutions to reform and transform health care. |
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| Employer View: |
- An employer demand to overhaul the most expensive health care system in the industrialized world
- Implementing market forces on the existing system operated by private insurance companies in order to lower costs by up to 40 percent
- How Safeway launched a program to decrease health care costs by promoting proper nutrition and exercise among its employees
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Steven A. Burd
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Safeway Inc.
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| Government View: |
- How a 21st century health care system should be rooted in innovation, consumer choice, affordability, and transparency
- Adopting real-world solutions that proven best practices to drive the design of public policy
- Modernizing health IT within the health care sector which will result in preventing health care fraud, saving over $200 billion per year through real-time claims processing
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Newt Gingrich
former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives;
Founder, The Center for Health Transformation
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| Expert View: |
- How the financial market crisis has limited the options available for true top-down reform in health care
- Strategies to inject market-based reform principles in an era of federal reform that is seemingly similar to FDR-era relief
- A focus on innovation – How a few providers are delivering higher outcomes for high cost procedures and, as a result, developing powerful branding in health care
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Gary Ahlquist
Senior Vice President, Global Health
Booz & Company
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Maggie Fox
Editor, Health and Science
Reuters
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11:30 am -
12:00 pm
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4:50 pm -
5:50 pm
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| Global leaders and entrepreneurs explore innovative international models to deliver high quality, cost effective care. |
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| Global View: |
- How innovative models adopted by the developing countries are churned out of working under severe economic constraints and key lessons for the US and other developed countries
- Evaluating why U.S. health care is so expensive—high cost of manpower and infrastructure ($1M per bed), low productivity of doctors, the legal system, a financing model that does not instill cost effectiveness nor a focus on productivity, and excess expenditure on "Blue Sky Research"
- The simple but difficult paradox between expenditure vs. outcomes vs. access
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Shivinder Mohan Singh
Managing Director
Fortis Healthcare Limited (India)
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- Defying "conventional wisdom" - Is it human action, instead of theory, that defines the fate of health insurance programs?
- Successes of Universal Coverage - Demonstration of how healthcare cannot progress without universal coverage
- Experience and expertise of National Health Insurance - How Taiwan can assist other nations to improve health care systems
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Michael S. Chen
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Bureau of National Health Insurance (Taiwan)
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| Insider View: |
- Review of the general state of national health systems and a diminished financial and logistical capacity for managing illness and addressing public health issues
- General decline in health in both industrialized countries and the Third World due to lack of sustainability of health care systems
- The Global Knowledge Exchange Network will serve as a conduit through which clearly identified better practices may be disseminated world wide provide international guidance on the better/best ways to address many challenges facing the world's healthcare systems
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Edward Hanway
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CIGNA Corporation
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Joanne Silberner
Health Policy Correspondent, Science Desk
National Public Radio
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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8:00 am -
9:00 am
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| A Nobel Laureate and international leaders share a vision for sustainable financing and delivery models to provide health care services to the world’s poorest populations. |
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| Global View: |
- Grameen Health’s work to create sustainable models for healthcare delivery and rural primary care clinics, with the goal of replicating these models for the needs of the 4 billion people around the world whose annual income is less than $3,000
- Analyzing ways to improve the current low-cost micro-health delivery and insurance programs and the operating efficiencies and scope of services at Grameen Health’s 38 existing Kalyan clinics
- Results from recent implementation of primary health promotion and disease prevention programs, including maternal and child health promotion and nutrition programs.
- Introducing genomic, epidemiological and outcomes research capability for the prevention and treatm ent of diseases relevant to the population in Bangladesh, with an emphasis on the best use of existing tested and approved procedures and drugs.
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Muhammad Yunus
Founder and Managing Director
Grameen Bank and Grameen Health (Bangladesh); (Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize)
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| Expert View: |
- Google.org’s focus on emerging infectious disease – factoring in climate change, deforestation and rising international travel and supporting systems that encourage a proactive response to emerging threats
- Sharing knowledge across human, animal, and environmental health sectors and improving data collection, and analysis for enhanced vulnerability mapping and predictive modeling
- Improving detection to surface the earliest indicators of disease, contributing to more timely warning about emerging threats through digital detection, genetic detection and point of care diagnostics in developing countries e.g. Google Flu Trends
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Frank Rijsberman
Project Director, Predict and Prevent
Google.org
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Bernadine Healy
Health Editor, U.S. News & World Report;
President's Council, Advisors on Science and Technology;
Former Director, National Institutes of Health
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9:00 am -
10:00 am
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| Leaders from industry and academia explore advances in informing consumers to improve health. |
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| Supplier View: |
- Impact of prevention and new technologies on health outcomes
- Engaging the whole patient: biological, psychological and social aspects
- How compliance and incentives can slow the chronic disease cascade
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Daniel L. Vasella, MD
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Novartis AG
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| Media View: |
- Second Opinion – arming consumers with the knowledge on what they should do to take control of their health
- The need for the practice of medicine to be an interactive, collaborative process between physician and patients
- The complexities of patient education and the importance of finding the paradigm that works
- The gap between current medical treatment and evidence-based care
- The role of the media to inform and educate consumers
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Dr. Peter Salgo, MD
Host of the PBS series Second Opinion;
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology,
Columbia University;
Practicing physician, Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical and Open Heart ICU, New York Presbyterian Hospital
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| Employer View: |
- Creating a Culture of Wellness—Incentives for employee engagement and why it’s a business imperative
- Individualized Health—A stepping stone to personal accountability
- Changing the System—Strategies for value, portability and universal coverage
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Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Carlson Companies, Inc.;
Author, How We Lead Matters: Reflections on a Life of Leadership
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Joan Kennedy
President, Health Management Corporation (HMC);
Senior Vice President, Wellpoint, Inc.
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3:45 pm -
4:45 pm
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| Employer, provider and payer thought leaders identify challenges to create a nexus to realize payment reform. |
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| Employer View: |
- The role of the private sector to advance health care reform and employers as a stakeholder to push health plans to make reform happen
- How Medicare and the private sector can move forward separately with payment reform
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Andrew Webber
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health;
Board of Directors, National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence
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| Insider View: |
- A look into MedPac’s recommendations to put hospitals as risk for preventable readmissions from a provider’s perspective
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Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI
President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer
HCA, Inc. / Hospital Corporation of America
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| Employer View: |
- Outlining the framework for the Center for Payment Reform
- How the Center for Payment Reform will further Bridges to Excellence's focus on performance-based payments
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Robert S. Galvin, MD
Director, Global Healthcare
General Electric Company
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Peter Lee, JD
Executive Director of National Health Policy
Pacific Business Group on Health
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4:45 pm -
5:50 pm
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| Diverse thought leaders review findings from a national scorecard on U.S. system performance and outline private sector and policy solutions to radically improve population health. |
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| Global View: |
- A 2020 vision to build a high performing health care system
- Analysis of a population-health reform model to improve affordability and health outcomes
- Recent results from the National Scorecard on U.S. health system performance – a comprehensive means of measuring and monitoring health care outcomes, quality, access, efficiency, and equity
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Karen Davis, PhD
President, The Commonwealth Fund;
Board of Directors, Geisinger Health System;
Panel of Health Advisors, Congressional Budget Office;
2006 AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award
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| Insider View: |
- Addressing the imperative to adapt a population health approach in order to deliver affordable, high-quality health care
- Proven population health strategies to engage and to provide incentives to consumers
- Using market segmentation and health IT to identify key interventions for chronic ill and for preventive care
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Randel K. Johnson
Vice President of Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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- Addressing the imperative to adapt a population health approach in order to deliver affordable, high-quality health care
- Proven population health strategies to engage and to provide incentives to consumers
- Using market segmentation and health IT to identify key interventions for chronic ill and for preventive care
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Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group
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Brenda Wilson
Correspondent and Editor, Science Desk
National Public Radio
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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8:00 am -
9:00 am
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| Experts shift focus to health, not health care…including in-depth results from UK’s and Dow Chemical’s prevention programs. |
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| Employer View: |
- Health has a powerful impact on sustainability
- Dow Chemical's global health and wellness program and results from tracking employee health status on global basis
- Implications for health reform and other employers regarding prevention programs
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Catherine M. Baase, MD
Global Director of Health Services
The Dow Chemical Company
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| Global View: |
- The National Health Service’s approach to health and well-being to address rising chronic care expenditures
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- The use of regulation and policy making to impact health outcomes
- Tackling lifestyle disease – What is the measurable impact of the NHS prevention program thus far?
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Will Cavendish, PhD
Director, Health and Wellbeing
UK Department of Health
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| Government View: |
- The CDC’s view on health reform to focus on health status and overall outcomes, rather than the health care industry
- The CDC’s innovative approaches to prevention and initiatives to engage employers in the prevention movement, including how employers can earn a healthy employer designation
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Bradley Perkins, MD, MBA, Capt, USPHS
Chief, Officer of Strategy and Innovation, Office of the Director
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
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Karen Tumulty
National Political Correspondent
TIME
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9:00 am -
10:10 am
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| Government and private sector leaders share opportunities to achieve innovation through Federal and market-based initiatives for health IT |
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- Latest updates from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on new federal funding and timelines for a national health infrastructure
- Challenges of the public and private sectors collaborating on a unified infrastructure
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Charles P. Friedman, PhD
Deputy National Coordinator
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Department of Health and Human Services
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| Global View: |
- Lessons learned from the UK in building an EMR and the costly and avoidable investments that were made
- Applying the UK’s strategies and aligning incentives for physician adoption
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Professor Michael Thick, MA, MB, Bchir, FRCS
Chief Clinical Officer
National Health Service (United Kingdom)
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| Insider View: |
- Kaiser’s investments in health IT and an analysis of improved health care outcomes and efficiencies
- Identification of challenges for the fragmented system to build a health care infrastructure for the 21st century
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George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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| Stimulus View: |
- What have we learned about "Getting Health IT Right"
- What is the critical success path for stimulus investments in health IT
- What approach to health IT will support our broader health reform objectives
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Carol Diamond, MD, MPH
Managing Director, Health Program, Markle Foundation;
Chair, Connecting for Health
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William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA
Senior Advisor, Deloitte Consulting LLP and the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions;
former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
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11:00 am -
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| Experts explore discovery in medicine and the impact of innovation on health care outcomes and costs |
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- Insights from a leading provider CEO on the essential advances made within academic medical centers
- Current and future collaborations between and among providers, biotech and other players to make broad-scale medical advances
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Edward D. Miller, MD
Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine;
Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
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- Exploring innovative technologies that dramatically improve clinical precision at every point of patient care
- Technology innovations and centers that deliver a continuous stream of new clinical applications
- Balancing the affordability of new devices and therapies vs. the global market for new innovations
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Omar Ishrak
President & Chief Executive Officer
GE Healthcare Systems
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| Consumer View: |
- Empowering the consumer with genetic information
- Changing the research model by engaging consumers
- Personalizing medicine with genetics
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Anne Wojcicki
Co-Founder
23andMe
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Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Healthcare Correspondent
The Economist
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| Expert View: |
- Scaling to meet demand for services – optimizing resources and redefining access
- Managing information in the era of social networking – where Facebook meets electronic health records and genetic information
- Managing health – health coaches and experts
- Brand equity and care delivery
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Nicholas Augustinos
Senior Director, Global Healthcare Solutions, IBSG
Cisco
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- Space Lab Medicine – Challenges of the International Space Station through the eyes of an astronaut
- Demonstration of Aquarius, NASA's under sea research station 67 feet below the ocean's surface, for telemedicine techniques that can be used on the International
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Richard Williams, MD
Chief Health and Medical Officer
NASA
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