• Examine health spending as an important component of the fiscal outlook for both federal and state governments
• Explore promising approaches to reduce both the growth rate of health spending and the revenue lost to health care tax expenditures
• Discuss underlying, system-wide spending issues

• Explore critical success factors in delivering truly patient-centric care – Multi-sector innovation and collaboration
• Discuss critical pathways in transforming clinical practice to produce value – Increase quality, efficiency, and improve patient experience
• Highlight non-traditional partnerships that increase accountability and risk sharing to promote high quality care
• Analyze public and private sector leadership in driving to accountable care

• Listen to an update from leading industry experts on the latest M&A; activity deal-making trends
• Discuss what market opportunities will occur as a result of the Supreme Court Ruling and which sectors will experience the most opportunities and why
• Recognize key indicators on when to move forward with a deal and when to walk away
• Examine the impact of government reform on company valuations
• Evaluate the impact of Medicaid Expansion, including what type of joint ventures and acquisitions will occur as a result of this growing population

• Discuss what market sectors private equity investors are finding attractive and why
• Understand which strategic interests investors are focusing on
• Explore how to structure the financing to achieve the right valuation
• Learn more about innovative deals the private equity market are pursuing and the types of deals investors are trying to avoid and why

• What are the components of an effective transaction due diligence process?
• Hear about the different types of diligence issues usually uncovered and what needs to be done to resolve them?
• How do the outcomes of the financial and legal due diligence impact valuation?
• Understand what are the key regulatory and contractual considerations in a deal?

• Review key strategies to motivate healthy behaviors and engage consumers throughout the care continuum
  • effective methods to engage consumers in their daily health decisions
• Leverage the provider and health plan as key influencers to patient engagement
  • creating a culture of informed and shared decision making that works
• Understand what health care can learn from other industries that are leaders in consumer engagement
  • simplicity and engagement that lead to better outcomes and quality

• Discuss strategies to contain the cost of delivering health care amid rising demand
• Develop resilient funding models sustainable over the long-term
• Explore mechanisms to improve the efficiency and productivity of health care delivery
• Analyze the shift of health systems from a sickness to a wellness focus to reduce downstream health costs
• Learn from international health systems
• Understand the global role of technology in enabling the delivery of sustainable health care

• Why solutions won't come from the "system"
• Why solutions will be consumer driven and data driven

• Results that matter - The impact of Whole Foods’ clinic system on chronic disease progression and costs
• Key learnings, updates, and next steps to continue to reduce health care costs based on progress since 2011

• What steps must be taken to ensure both parties have the necessary time to conduct a detailed due diligence
• How to approach and work within a cultural framework that has very different boundaries
• Defining the parameters of the deal structure so it works for all parties
• Why it is critical to understand your target jurisdiction
• Recognizing the benefits of the cross border deal so you can define the right structure and price

• Learn how changing reimbursement structures in international joint ventures can improve the quality and lower the cost of health care
• Examine the challenge of managing high risk populations as payers become providers
• Hear how the implementation of disease management and care management protocols within international health systems has resulted in higher ROIs
• Explore strategies to leverage and apply these trends in the United States
• Discuss the various international opportunities that exist including hospital management, clinical consulting, disease management, and capitated risk contracting

MultiCare Health System and Good Samaritan Hospital affiliated in 2006 and since than have been doing additional acquisitions. The speakers played key roles in the process representing the two sides. This session discusses:

• Background leading up tthe affiliation
• strategic issues driving health system affiliations
• Assessment and pre-affiliation process
• issues tconsidering in affiliating versus going it alone
• governance, finance, structural, cultural and communication processes
• partner selection
• Affiliation and integration
• bringing the organizations together
• capturing economies of scale and skill, market dynamics
• Subsequent MultiCare Transactions: Building the System of Care
• acquisition of a for-profit hospital by a non-profit
• physician alignment and clinic networks
• unsuccessful acquisitions
• Market Consolidation in the Pacific Northwest
• unprecedented level of merger and acquisition activity
• putting the strategic pieces together
• Results and lessons learned

• Strategic issues that all parties have to consider when entering an agreement
• Implications of the acquisition on today’s business transactions
• Discuss how to overcome obstacles and hurdles to align and integrate the organization to capture economies of scale, skill, and market dynamics

• How is Health IT currently leveraged to create a connected, clinically integrated next generation care model?
  • EMR, HIE, Cloud, and analytics that improve the quality and affordability of care
  • remaining challenges in financing, scalability, and home-grown solutions
• What are the obstacles and opportunities around keeping health information secure?
• How can mobility solutions be used in this new model?
  • disruptive and social innovations that advance health care

• Building a network of innovation centers and agendas to provide better patient-centered care and improved outcomes
• Sharing a complete, online clinical library with real-time access to medical journals, textbooks, and care protocols
• Investing in future care including the world's largest DNA database to prevent, diagnose, treat, and research genetic-based diseases

• Understand strategic investments in health and differing approaches to employee coverage
  • commitments to coverage and shifts toward defined contribution
• Explore innovative wellness initiatives and outcomes
  • incentivize employees to take responsibility for their health care
  • gauge how greater access and on-site medical care impacts productivity

• What new activities are now occurring and why?
• How are the deals being structured?
• What types of partners are involved?
• What types of deals are occurring between payers and providers?

• What must the health care workforce look like to meet the needs of an integrated system?
• trends re-shaping the health care workforce (e.g., shift to more cost-effective outpatient care, emphasis on primary care physicians)
• policies, laws, and regulatory issues that prevent health systems from getting to the right size and avoiding overlap
• The mindset for a successful workforce – accepting the loss of autonomy
• fully leverage technology including better systems and smart devices
• increase comfort-level when collaborating in a team environment
• Define the role of academic medical centers in an integrated health care system
• AMC’s as training sites for a new workforce
• how should medical training evolve to meet needs?

• Confront the need to integrate care and deliver better outcomes in a matrix reimbursement and incentive environment
• Explore innovations at the point of care
• Discuss how radical new care, staffing, payment, and IT models break the mold and impact health care delivery

• Understand what PCMH and person-centric health can teach us about saving time, money, and lives
• Discover innovations that disrupt by getting the whole person, not just his or her skin, in the game
• Reduce costs by integrating smart technology to promote interaction between a person and his health care team
• Aggregate, structure, and share otherwise elusive behavioral, activity, and wellness information via the EHR
• Monitor and prescribe healthy behavior activities and solutions