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Tuesday April 18, 2006

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Chairperson
Janet Corrigan, PhD, MBA
President and CEO
National Quality Forum

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8:00 am
Keynote Address: Perspectives from Leading Purchasers
9:15 am -
10:00 am
Keynote Address "Wiring the Nation"
10:15 am -
11:00 am
Public Disclosure of Quality - Transparency for Improved Outcomes
  • Private sector initiatives to promote transparency and engage consumers in health care quality
  • CMS initiatives to improve transparency of provider quality measures and early results from CMS’ pay-for-performance demonstration
  • CMS' early results for innovative payment mechanisms to foster improvements in the quality of care through improved coordination and use of health information technology
  • Regional initiatives to disclose provider quality measures and impact on outcomes
Senior Official from CMS - TBA
Sir Michael Rawlins
Chairman
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK

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Barry M. Straube, MD
Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Marc Volavka
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

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11:15 am -
12:00 pm
National Efforts to Connect Health Information
  • Policies on certification, data standards, patient privacy and security
  • Review of system architectures
  • Comparison of funding models
  • Physician adoption and incentives to promote adoption
  • The role of RHIOs to advance national health IT
Moderator
Scott Myers
Managing Partner, Government Health and Life Sciences
Accenture
Carol Diamond, MD, MPH
Managing Director, Health Program
Markle Foundation

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Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc
Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Regional Informatics Programs
Vanderbilt University Center for Better Health

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12:00 pm -
1:30 pm
LUNCHEON WITH EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION SERIES IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
1:30 pm -
2:15 pm
New Models for Higher Quality, Economically Sustainable Health Care
  • Realigning incentives for all industry sectors to focus on prevention
  • Identifying sustainable business models that support preventive care and effective health care intervention
  • Creating an environment where health care remains progressive
  • Evaluating net gain to all industry sectors
Chris Viehbacher
President
US Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline

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2:15 pm -
3:30 pm
NETWORKING BREAK IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
2:30 pm -
3:30 pm
Keynotes: Corporate CEO Panel - Perspectives from Leading Purchasers
3:30 pm -
4:15 pm
Keynote Address "Innovation vs. Access"
4:30 pm -
5:15 pm
Keynote Address "Consumer Choice"
5:30 pm -
7:00 pm
GALA RECEPTION IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE

Wednesday April 19, 2006

7:00 am -
7:45 am
BREAKFAST IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
8:00 am -
8:45 am
Keynote Address "Leading Change"
9:00 am -
10:45 am
Executive Seminar Series
11:00 am -
11:45 am
Realizing Savings from Evidence-Based Formulary Guidelines — Implications for Medicaid and Medicare
  • Adoption of evidence-based formularies by 15 Medicaid programs and the private sector including Consumer Reports and AARP
  • How Medicare Part D will be pressured to adopt uniform guidelines
  • Results from international government bodies reviewing evidence-based research for new drugs that balance costeffectiveness and drug efficacy
  • Medicare’s evidence-based strategy for medical device coverage and medical societies’ clinical guidelines for reimbursement
  • Potential implications of evidence-based evaluation for Medicare Part D
Moderator
  Mark Gibson
Director, Center for Evidence Based Policy
Oregon Health Sciences

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Siri Childs, Pharm D
Pharmacy Policy Office Chief
Health and Recovery Services Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services

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12:00 pm -
12:45 pm
Debate on the Administration’s Health Reform Proposals – A Cure for the Nation’s Health Care Crisis?
  • Medicaid cost-shifting to employers
  • Employer restructuring of retiree benefits
  • How subsidization impacts employees’ total compensation
  • Review of the Aministration's proposals and feasibility of proposed solutions
  • Debate on HSAs and their ability to contain health care spending trend
Moderator
Henry Simmons, MD, MPH, FACP
President
National Coalition on Health Care

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Joseph R. Antos, PhD
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy
American Enterprise Institute
Len M. Nichols, PhD
Director, Health Policy Program
New America Foundation

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12:45 pm -
2:15 pm
LUNCHEON WITH EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION SERIES IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
2:30 pm -
3:30 pm
Impact on the U.S. Economy
3:10 pm -
3:40 pm
The Administration's Health Reform Plan
3:45 pm -
4:30 pm
Closing Keynote Address "The Politics of Health Care"
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