The WHCC 12th Annual Hospital and Health System Summit

Workshop A: Cutting Costs in Employer-Sponsored Health Care

Workshop B: Preparing People and Organizations for the Challenge of Change: Seven Critical Success Factors

Workshop C: The Future of Interoperable Health IT: Direct, eHealth Exchange, and Beyond

Workshop D: Employee Engagement Strategies for HR Professionals

• How does patient churn between plans and provider networks affect the marketplace and patient-provider relationships, and what are possible approaches to overcome problems posed by churn?
• Evolution to a more sustainable Medicare payment system - Will Medicare Advantage replace traditional Medicare?
• What possibilities do employers and plans see in defined contribution and private exchanges?

• Hear how data is impacting traditional care methods
• Explore money-saving innovations that add value
• Apply science and big data to the bedside with genomic medicine

Market Insight A: Patients Take the Wheel: The Road Ahead

Market Insight B: Innovations in ePayment: The Evolving Face of the Virtual Card

Market Insight C: Your Communication Channels Are Broken: Here’s How To Fix Them

• Steps toward matching reality to the vision of value-based care
• Critical components to ease the transition from FFS to FFV including physician engagement and integration
  • align incentives and develop infrastructure to support behavior change
• Educate the medical team and align front-line caregivers to achieve the goals of patient-centric care
• Provider-led strategies to control cost and reduce waste in the health care system
• systemic approaches to acute care activities
• population health management and strategies to reduce unnecessary utilization

• Explore the trend toward virtual medicine and creating a consumer-driven medical home without walls
• Align processes to meet the new goal of preserving health rather than treating sickness
• Discuss impact of increasing convenience of care for patients (via telemonitoring, web-based visits, etc.)
• Develop strong product-oriented service lines

• Examine physician-led commercial, Pioneer, and MSSP models: Why physicians must lead this change
• Understand structural elements critical to succeed
• determine technology requirements and how groups are organizing their data and reporting systems
• Understand the challenges of an ACO in a rural, cost-based reimbursement environment
• Hear about measurable benefits and pitfalls to avoid

• Strategic insights from health system, plan, and other leaders transitioning from FFS to value-based care
• Why have some ACOs failed and others succeeded?
• Where is industry experiencing measurable benefits?
• How has the ACO model started disruptive processes for providers, payers, and hospital financing

• Perspective on how the business community can influence delivery reforms
• Approaches to reduce cost by equipping employees to partner in health care decisions
• Uptake and outcomes of financial incentive programs and cost transparency tools

• Economic determinants impacting provider, payer, employer, and supplier business strategies
• How could the ACA Marketplaces be reformed and expanded?
• The potential of market forces to affect pricing, overall cost, and innovation in health care

• Discuss levers that payers, providers, and employers can pull to impact health care cost
• Hear about Rosencare, an employer-led alternative to the ACA that is dramatically reducing cost while providing richer health benefits, and how it can apply to the broader U.S. health system
• Gain insight into trends impacting the cost curve including provider consolidation, utilization, and specialty drug pricing

Market Insight A: Bringing the Amazon Service Experience to Healthcare

Market Insight B: Demand-Driven Customer Engagement Strategies for Payers

Market Insight C: How Telehealth puts the Patient at the Center—Delivering Quality Care, Improving Access, and Reducing the Cost of Care for Everyone

Market Insight D: The Public Health Exchange Experience: A Closer Look at Pharmacy Benefit Use in the First Year

• Improve performance under risk-based payments
• Examine process of implementing reimbursement models that support transition from FFS to FFV with payers
• establish meaningful payer collaborations
• stay solvent while transitioning to new forms of payment
• System-wide clinical and financial integration
• necessary elements to achieve full, not partial, integration
• connecting siloed clinical and financial systems

• Impact of the many permutations of consolidation and integration on physicians and health systems
• Optimize positioning and leverage infrastructure to better manage patient populations
• Examine approaches to enhance negotiating power, improve overall care management, and extend service area

• Discuss a broader public health approach to population health that addresses issues where patients live, learn, work and play
• Harness data and analytics to manage populations
• Reconcile emr and claims data from multiple sources for a holistic view of patient
• Measure data in a way that informs treatment and impacts outcomes
• Improve quality and performance to increase patient safety

• The missing link in patient care – a focus on compassion
• The move toward a “System for Health” with patient-centered wellness and education

• Impacts of value-driven alliances and partnerships between payers, providers, employers, and suppliers
• Provider consolidation and the future of these affiliations
• The rise of the employed physician and how that changes health care delivery
• Vertical integration of plans and health systems: How is that working?

• Consumer engagement in an era of high-deductibles, narrow networks, and transparency
• Strategies to improve experience and influence choice throughout the consumer journey as purchaser, member, and patient
• Leveraging technology and data to effectively engage members, improve health outcomes, and enhance the member experience

• What does connected mean? Is it theory, tools, or the Consumer Electronics Market (CEM)?
• Explore results of implementing patient engagement tools and the effectiveness of wearables
• How does virtual medicine impact the provider-patient relationship? Where does responsibility begin and end?
• Can the current system adapt or is it poised for a revolution?

Market Insight A: Meet the Demands of Consumerism: The New Importance of Payments

Market Insight B: Creating Harley Davidson Loyalty in a Chronic Care World – What Retail Brands Can Teach Health Care about Consumer Engagement

Market Insight C: Digital and Multi-Channel Outreach: Acquiring, Retaining, and Engaging Consumers in Health Care