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Monday April 17, 2006

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Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer and SVP
CIGNA HealthCare

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Erik N. Steele, DO
Family Physician; Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems

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1:00 pm -
1:45 pm
Welcoming Keynote Address "The Global Perspective"
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
Delivering Value at the Point of Care: The Business Case for Applying Toyota Production System and Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Direct collaboration between purchaser, payer and provider to reinvent the delivery of care for corporations' most costly medical conditions
  • Integrating the Toyota Production System with evidence-based medicine to reduce cost and improve quality for corporate purchasers
  • Creating an efficient market through insurance carrier facilitating direct contact between purchaser and provider and providing information on costs and outcomes
  • Financing new health care delivery systems with savings recovered from reducing waste
  Annette King
Director of Benefits
Starbucks

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Robert S. Mecklenburg, MD
Chief of Medicine
Virginia Mason Medical Center

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Donald D. Storey, MD
National Medical Director for Aexcel
Aetna

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3:00 pm -
3:45 pm
Assessing the Value of Expensive Technology and Treatments for Chronic Care
  • Provider, payer and pharma/biotech perspectives on the value of new technology and other novel treatments in managing chronic disease
  • Addressing the challenges and opportunities of rising costs for technologies and the potential to improve outcomes
  • Strategies to deploy technology to improve outcomes for chronic care
    • Longitudinal interventions across continuum of care in DM
    • Integration of condition-specific HRAs and predictive modeling for member identification
    • Remote biomedical monitoring
    • Specialty pharma pricing
Sam Nussbaum, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
WellPoint, Inc.

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Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D.
President & Scientific Director
TGen
Charles Watts, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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3:45 pm -
4:15 pm
NETWORKING BREAK WITH MODERATED SPEAKER DISCUSSION GROUPS
4:15 pm -
5:00 pm
Personal Health Records — Transforming the Physician-Patient Relationship
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Case Study
  • Connecting patients with their health care team online
  • Providing data, knowledge, and tools for patients to manage their health
  • Transforming the patient experience
BCBS of IL Case Study
  • Building the PHR: A collaborative platform to facilitate communication across the care continuum for members, plans and providers to improve member health
  • Meeting consumer demand for targeted, personalized and interactive health care tools without compromising privacy
  • Extending wellness interventions, disease and case management insights to the entire population
  • Improving RN productivity and managing more members with the current medical management staff
Paul Tang, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Chair-Elect, AMIA
Chair, Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety
Institute of Medicine

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Stanley Borg, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

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5:15 pm -
6:00 pm
Keynote Address "Pandemics and Preparedness"
6:10 pm -
6:45 pm
Keynote Address "Microfinance - Improving Economic and Health Status in Developing Countries"
6:45 pm -
8:00 pm
Welcoming Reception With Executive Discussion Series (TBA)
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