The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Value Congress

Featured Speakers

C. Matt Brandt, MD Chief Executive Officer MultiCare Associates	Allan Harold Goroll, MD,MACP Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital	Ryan Hayden Healthcare Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Edgewater Technology
Scott Leitz Assistant Commissioner, Health Care Minnesota Department of Human Services	Stephen Nuckolls Chief Executive Officer Coastal Carolina Health Care	Kavita Patel, MD, MS Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution
Neil Ravitz Chief Operating Officer for the Chief Medical Officer University of Pennsylvania Health Systems	Mark C. Shields, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President, Advocate Health Care; Senior Medical Director, Advocate Physician Partners	Eric Swain Vice President, Sales and Account Management United Healthcare
April Todd-Malmlov Exchange Director, Health Insurance Exchange Minnesota Department of Commerce	Michael Vittoria Vice President, Corporate Benefits Maine Medical Center	Charlotte S. Yeh, MD Chief Medical Officer AARP

The World Congress 10th Annual Health Care Value Congress convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the evolution of health care value by discussing such topics as  incentives, pay-for-performance, bundled payments, global reimbursement strategies, physician/hospital alignment, patient centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and measurement to improve the delivery of care.

The Congress agenda is designed to assemble over 150 representatives from all sectors of health care, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; society and coalition leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Issues to be addressed in 2012 include:

• Aligning meaningful use to improve with quality improvement
• Creating an IT infrastructure to support the Patient-Centered Medical Home
• What quality initiatives need to be in place to monitor specialists?
• Updated discussion on payment models
• Comparing the various quality methods that need to be in place to measure both hospitals and physicians 
• Data – what needs to be collected? How to measure it? Once you completed the collection and measurement process – what’s next?
• Measurements – what needs to occur so there is more standardization