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Tuesday, 12 April, 2011
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10:00 - 17:00
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17:00 - 19:00
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
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8:25 - 8:30
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8:30 - 9:20
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- Reducing the growth of health costs: Increasing the emphasis on prevention and clearly defining the public health insurance coverage standards
- Consistent supervision of the introduction of new health technologies into the healthcare reimbursement system
- Establishing international standards for provider quality, efficiency and safety
- Successfully adopting health quality initiatives emerging in other regions of the globe
- Forecast of 2020: Delivering consistently high quality, lower cost health care
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Dr James Reilly, TD
Minister for Health and Children
Department of Health and Children
Ireland

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9:20 - 10:10
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- Mastering the challenge of improving quality of care with limited funding - medical cost & risk management
- Employing successful medical management strategies to improve quality of care with limited funding
- Risk management strategies to mitigate the impact of volatility on health expenditures
- Long term outlook for health insurance
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Ron Buchan
Chief Executive Officer
Allianz Worldwide Care
Ireland

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Dr Christian Schneider
Head of Corporate Functions (Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategist), Member of the Board of Directors
Munich Health
Germany

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10:10 - 10:40
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10:40 - 11:30
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- Pharmaceutical industry's current initiatives to promote innovation while demonstrating value for patients, health systems and society
- The impact of financial pressures and budgetary constraints on the pharmaceutical sector
- VBP: definition, issues, opportunities - what it might be and what not?
- How can we define value and develop alternative pricing methods to the benefit of all stakeholders
- Innovation vs affordability: Reaching the optimal balance
- Successful innovative business and pricing models
- Assessing the added value of medicines: Reconciling the needs of payers, patients and innovators
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Angus Russell
Chief Executive Officer
Shire
United States

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Dr Andrea Rappagliosi
Vice President, European Government Affairs & Head of Brussels Office, GlaxoSmithKline Belgium;
Chairman of the Board, European Association of the Bioindustries (EuropaBio);
Co-Chair, Health Technology Assessment Task Force, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)
Belgium

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Ulf Staginnus
Head Pricing, Health Economics & Outcome Research, Oncology Region Europe
Novartis Farmacéutica S.A.
Spain

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Dr Rubin Minhas
Editor-in-Chief "Clinical Evidence", "Best Practice" & Clinical Director, British Medical Journal (BMJ) Evidence Centre;
Associate Editor, International Journal of Clinical Practice
United Kingdom

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11:30 - 12:30
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12:30 - 14:25
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Themed Roundtables Networking Luncheon |
Strategies for Health Financing and Funding |
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Innovative Business Management Models |
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Innovative Quality and Care Delivery Models |
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Hulda Gunnlaugsdottir
Chief Executive Officer, Akershus University Hospital;
Former Chief Executive Officer, Landspítali University Hospital-Iceland;
Former Chief Executive Officer, Aker University Hospital
Norway
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Innovative Major & Chronic Disease Management Models |
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eHealth & Telemedicine Solutions |
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14:25 - 15:20
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15:20 - 15:50
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15:50 - 16:45
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16:50 - 17:40
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- Collaboration of Member States’ authorities towards a sustainable framework to deliver cross-border health services
- Private sector innovations: Emerging opportunities from cross-border regulatory frameworks
- Replicable models to increase access to and ensuring quality and continuity of cross-border healthcare
- Innovative IT system deployment and reimbursement arrangements for cross-border healthcare delivery
- Mitigating the impact on patients, providers, health insurance policy holders and ministries of health
- Addressing challenges for making patient summaries and ePrescription interoperable
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Dr Milan Cabrnoch
Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
European Parliament
Czech Republic

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Flora Giorgio
Scientific Officer, DG Information Society and Media, ICT for Health Unit
European Commission
Belgium

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Dr Petra Wilson
Senior Director - Connected Health (Europe), Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems
Belgium

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17:40 - 18:35
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- Privatization, Competition and quality in European systems
- Privatization of health care and responding to citizens’ preferences: Analysing the national demand for private health care provisioning in Europe
- Emerging trends in the privatization of health care management, operations and investment in Europe
- Balancing the patient related factors that drive privatization vs. those that restrain it
- Successful models of a privatized health care system – Critical elements for implementation
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Thomas Bublitz
Chief Executive Officer
German Association of Private Hospitals (BDPK)
Germany

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Alistair How
Managing Director
Bupa International
United Kingdom

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Prof Gabriele Pelissero
Vice President, San Donato Hospital Group;
Professor of Hygiene and Health Organisation, University of Pavia;
Vice President, Italian Association of Private Hospitals (AIOP)
Italy
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Dr Paul Garassus
Member of the Board, European Union of Private Hospitals (UEPH);
Vice President, French Society of Health Economics
France
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18:35
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
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9:00 - 9:55
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- Exploring new paradigms to fund, organise and deliver integrated care
- Creating new models for improved health plan and health system collaboration
- e-Health in the European Digital Agenda and its impact on the realignment of market forces and innovation
- Addressing market forces in social health care systems: Lessons learned and ongoing challenges
- Key leadership recommendations to shape policy, transform the delivery of care and incentives
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Dr Zoran Stancic
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for the Information Society and Media (DG INFSO)
European Commission
Belgium

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9:55 - 10:50
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- Successful eHealth applications implementation
- Expediting the market's access to innovations and respective financing
- Building upon national strategies and experiences for creating sustainable and effective European cooperation
- Facilitating European cross border patient mobility through interoperable eHealth services
- Interoperability for Knowledge Management in health care and research
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Erwin Bartels
Senior Officer for eHealth in Europe
Federal Ministry of Health
Germany

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Frances V. Dare
Director, Global Healthcare Practice, Internet Business Solutions Group
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Hans B. Haveman
Senior Policy Advisor Innovation & IT, Economic Affairs and Labour Market Department
Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport
The Netherlands

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Dr Michèle Thonnet
Official Representative e-Health France
Ministry of Health
France
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10:50 - 11:20
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11:20 - 12:15
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12:15 - 13:30
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Themed Roundtables Networking Luncheon |
Patient Centric Care: Placing the Patient at the Core Centre First |
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Kajsa Wilhelmsson
Director, European Health Public Affairs
Edelman
Belgium
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Evidence-Based Innovations |
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Dr Gillian Leng
Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer for Evidence and Practice
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
United Kingdom

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Public-Private Partnerships |
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Driving Innovation During the Economic Downturn |
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Hulda Gunnlaugsdottir
Chief Executive Officer, Akershus University Hospital;
Former Chief Executive Officer, Landspítali University Hospital-Iceland;
Former Chief Executive Officer, Aker University Hospital
Norway
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Innovative Health Insurance Options |
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Ministerial & VIP Luncheon (By Invitation Only) |
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Dr Milan Cabrnoch
Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
European Parliament
Czech Republic

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13:30 - 15:20
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15:20 - 15:50
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15:50 - 16:45
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- Best practices in public-private partnerships that ensure access, quality and financial sustainability of health systems
- Lessons learned from industry and public sectors – and strategies for adaptation
- Integrated health care – Analyzing innovative partnerships between healthcare providers, health care payers and industry
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The Hon. Joe Cassar, MD, PDF Psych (Yale) Cert Psych (USA), MP
Minister for Health, the Elderly and Community Care
Ministry for Social Policy, Health, the Elderly and Community Care
Malta

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Santiago Delgado
Deputy CEO
Hospital del Vinalopó (Valencia Region)
Spain

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Corinne Duguay
Vice President Public Affairs Region Europe
sanofi-aventis
France

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16:45 - 17:40
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- The impact of financial crisis on health care and incentives
- Identifying viable incentive models for providers, medical groups, insurers, and ministries of health
- Understanding the potential gains and losses for sectors within health care
- Facing political challenges during the transition to aligned incentives within health care
- International perspectives on key challenges to overcome
- Revalidation and professionalism to empower actors and to best align incentives and ensure transparency
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Dr Anna Lilja Gunnarsdóttir
Permanent Secretary, Minister's Office
Ministry of Welfare in Iceland
Iceland

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17:40
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