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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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