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Monday April 17, 2006

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Chairperson
Gail Boudreaux
EVP for External Operations
Health Care Service Corporation

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Co-Chairman
Larry S. Fields, MD
President
American Academy of Family Physicians

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1:00 pm -
1:45 pm
Welcoming Keynote Address "The Global Perspective"
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
Achieving Excellence through Communication and Collaboration
  • Leadership strategies to effectively manage a turnaround
  • Effective communication to ensure corporate strategies are carried out throughout the organization
Bruce M. Bullen
Chief Operating Officer
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

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Robert Pearl, MD
CEO
The Permanente Medical Group

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3:00 pm -
3:45 pm
Quality Initiatives That Engage Physicians and Foster Improvement
Premera Blue Cross - Best Practices for Physician Participation on Quality Initiatives
  • How evidence-based medicine is changing the market for health care
  • Working together gets results: How physician/health plan collaboration measurably increased quality
  • The quality carrot: Using quality data to drive performance improvement
  • Data on the desktop: Giving physicians and consumers actionable quality information
Alegent Health - Public Disclosure of Composite Scores derived from CMS and JCAHO
  • Development of a unique composite scoring methodology using quality measures reported to CMS and JCAHO
  • Proactively challenging physicians and clinical staff to improve quality through public disclosure of quality scores
  • Impact of public disclosure on the employer market
  • Managing physician relationships and developing a strategy to foster change and improve clinical outcomes
H. R. Brereton (Gubby) Barlow , MBA
President and CEO
Premera Blue Cross

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Wayne Sensor
Chief Executive Officer
Alegent Health

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3:45 pm -
4:15 pm
NETWORKING BREAK WITH MODERATED SPEAKER DISCUSSION GROUPS
4:15 pm -
5:00 pm
Connectivity for Improved Outcomes – Successful Payer and Provider Approaches
  • BCBS of TN $25M investment to create the community health information network
Case Study from Brown & Toland Medical Group
  • $12 million to build the data warehouse and related systems to integrate operations
  • Technology's role in extracting clinical outcomes data from 900 clinical protocols, disease management and case management programs
  • Clinical integration programs that measurably impact physicians' clinical approach to patient care and require patient-centered clinical collaboration
Gloria Austin
CEO
Brown & Toland Medical Group

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Jana Skewes
President and CEO
Shared Health

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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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