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Monday, April 21, 2008

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8:00 am -
10:00 am
Implementation D: Corporate Activation and Management Program – An Action Plan for Leaders to Launch New Initiatives
  • Corporate Activation & Management Program’s activation mechanisms for stakeholders to use both internally and externally to launch successful new initiatives
  • Emphasis on the pre-launch and initial launch within the project lifecycle to achieve greater organizational effectiveness and efficiency
Sponsored By:
    
David A. Shore, PhD
Director, Forces of Change Program and Founding Director, Trust Initiative
Harvard School of Public Health

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Stephen Wunker
Partner
Innosight

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10:00 am -
10:55 am
Keynote 2: The Presidential Health Care Agenda
  • Hear U.S. presidential candidates’ platforms for health care reform
  • Compare proposals to address universal coverage and the fiscal stability of Medicare
  • Reactor panelists provide an in-depth critique by evaluating the economic and social impact of Democratic and Republican proposals
Presidential Candidates TBA
Moderator:
Joanne Silberner
Health Policy Correspondent, Science Desk
National Public Radio

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Reactors:
Peter R. Orszag
Director
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
former Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Economic Studies
Brookings Institution

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Professor Uwe Reinhardt
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

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George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals

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George P. Shultz
Former U.S. Secretary of State;
Author, A Citizen’s Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform

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11:00 am -
12:00 pm
Keynote 3: Innovation - Market Solutions to Improve Value
  • Gain insights into creating true innovation in health care
  • Highlights of new market solutions and technologies that build value and transform the industry
  • Reactor panelists bring real-world expertise and examples of innovation in both payer and provider realms
Sponsored by:
    
Clayton M. Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

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Reactor Panelists:
Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD
Chief Executive Officer and President
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

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Jack Lord, MD
Chief Innovation Officer
Humana, Inc.

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William (Bill) Shea
Client Partner & Practice Leader, Healthcare Industry,
Cognizant Technology Solutions

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1:20 pm -
2:20 pm
Track 9: (Health System and Hospital CEO/CFO/CMO Summit)
Innovations in Health Care Delivery – Identifying New Models of Sustainable Health Care Delivery
  • Is the current model of health care delivery sustainable?
  • New models of integration between physicians, hospitals and payers
  • Progress toward implementing systems and driving culture change to meet CMS, payer and employer quality measures
  • Forecasting how P4P and reimbursement linked to quality will evolve
  • Responding to pressures of quality, service delivery, and recruitment of physicians
Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA
President
Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Jerome H. Grossman, MD
Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Health Care Delivery Policy Program,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

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2:25 pm -
3:25 pm
Track 1: (Executive Congress)
Pushing the Care Management Envelope: Enhanced Strategies, Improved Results
  • Transforming care management strategies for improved chronic care management
  • A payer/employer collaboration to produce positive financial and clinical outcomes through improved care coordination
Lance Lang, MD
Vice President & Senior Medical Director
Quality Improvement & Clinical Informatics
Health Net, California

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David Wennberg, M.D., MPH
President & Chief Operating Officer
Health Dialog Analytic Solutions;
Chief Science & Products Officer
Health Dialog

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3:25 pm -
3:55 pm
Networking Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
Keynote 4: Achieving Accountable Care
  • Market solutions and strategies to foster and achieve accountable care
  • Insights from the Dartmouth Atlas Project and lessons learned for all industry sectors
  • Keynote panelists debate necessary changes in the payment system to create a powerful set of incentives
Moderator:
Ian Morrison
Futurist and Author; President Emeritus,
Institute for the Future

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Ronald M. Davis, MD
President
American Medical Association

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Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School

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Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Senior Fellow, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution

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6:00 pm -
7:00 pm
Welcoming Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge with Executive Discussion Series
Tuesday, April 22, 2008    ˆ Back To Top
8:00 am -
9:00 am
Keynote 5: Achieving a Consumer Focus
  • Understanding the evolving health care consumer – Identifying and interpreting the demand for health care information and services
  • Applying lessons learned from the retail consumers to health care consumers
  • How the retail market is shifting its operational and marketing strategies to meet the needs of health care consumers
  • Progress of the technology sector’s personal health records – Building trust and user-centric access to health information
Thomas M. Ryan
Chairman, President and CEO
CVS Caremark

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Peter Neupert
Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group
Microsoft

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9:10 am -
10:10 am
Track 4: (Public/Government Purchasers)
Minnesota's Informed Consumers - Impact and Results on Provider Quality Information Changing Behavior and Costs
  • Results from Minnesota demonstrating the impact of public disclosure on provider quality measures
  • Partnership impact of DHS and employers to inform consumers to change behavior and provider selection
Jim Chase
Executive Director
Minnesota Community Measurement

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Cal Ludeman
Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services
Chair, Governor's Health Council
Co-Chair, Smart-Buy Alliance

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10:10 am -
10:40 am
Networking Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
Executive Discussion Series
  • Quality
  • Pay-for-Performance
  • Access
  • Health care reform
  • Cost-Effectiveness
  • Transparency
  • Patient Satisfaction Metrics
  • Chronic Care
  • Medicare
  • Consumerism
  • Health IT
  • Benefit Design
  • Retail Healthcare - Using Medically Integrated Health & Fitness Centers to Improve Cash Flow while Improving the Health of the Community and Increasing Outpatient Service Revenue
10:40 am -
11:30 am
Emerging Trend Forum 4: The Business Case for Correct Diagnoses and Informed Consumers
Jennifer Davis
Director, Office of Management and Budget;
Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, State of Delaware

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Delia Vetter
Senior Director, Benefits and Programs
EMC Corporation

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11:40 am -
12:30 pm
Emerging Trend Forum 4: Successful Transparency Models - Results on Improved Quality, Cost and Engagement
Jim Chase
Executive Director
Minnesota Community Measurement

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Robin Downey
Senior Vice President and Head of Product Development
Aetna, Inc.

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1:45 pm -
3:45 pm
Best Practice Series F: Hard Wiring Quality Improvement by Leveraging Clinical Information to Reduce Variation in Care Panelists:
James Dilling
Senior Administrator
Mayo Clinic

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Steve Swensen, MD
Director for Quality
Mayo Clinic

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3:55 pm -
4:55 pm
Keynote 6: The Impact of Value-Based Purchasing and Next Steps for Reimbursement
  • Assessing the progress of DHHS’ focus on value-based purchasing
  • Gauging the scope and depth of performance measurement and reporting
  • Addressing the need to change the underlying architecture of reimbursement to focus on integrated, quality care
Moderator:
  Bernadine Healy
Health Editor, U.S. News & World Report;
President's Council, Advisors on Science and Technology;
Former Director, National Institutes of Health
Reactor Panel:
  James Robinson, PhD
Editor-In-Chief
Health Affairs
Andrew Webber
President and CEO, National Business Coalition on Health
Board of Directors for the National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence

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John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP
EVP and CEO
American College of Physicians

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5:00 pm -
6:00 pm
Keynote 7: Building a Vision for a Health Care System
  • Envisioning the key elements of a health care system that would provide cost-effective care
  • Requisite health reform changes for universal insurance coverage, coordinated care, value and payment reform
  • Reactor panelists outline how to affect change for market reform, technology implementation and transparency
Moderator:
Jacob Goldstein
Health and Medicine Reporter and Chief Health Blog
The Wall Street Journal
Denis Cortese, MD
President and CEO
Mayo Clinic

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Paul Speranza
Chairman of the Board of Directors, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Vice Chairman and General Counsel, Wegmans Food Markets

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6:00 pm -
7:30 pm
Gala Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge with Executive Discussion Series
Wednesday, April 23, 2008    ˆ Back To Top
8:30 am -
9:30 am
Track 9: (Health System and Hospital CEO/CFO/CMO Summit)
Evaluating the Impact of the CA and Federal Health Reform Proposals on Health Systems and Hospitals
  • Examining the outcome of the CA health reform program
  • Legislative changes proposed by the presidential candidates
  • How the election result will likely impact hospitals and health systems
  • Potential changes to Medicare Advantage and Part D
Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD
Executive Director, The Permanente Federation
Commissioner, MedPAC

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9:10 am -
10:10 am
Track 3: (Health IT for Technology Executives)
Achieving Interoperability and Integration of Disparate Clinical Systems
  • The EMR evolution in a 7-hospital integrated delivery network
  • Challenges in achieving interoperability in a best-of–breed environment
  • Drivers in creating a 'paperlight' hospital and migrating to an integrated suite of EMR products
Bill Spooner
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Sharp HealthCare

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10:40 am -
11:30 am
Brunch in the Executive Networking Lounge
11:30 am -
12:15 pm
Keynote 9: Personalized Medicine - Affordability vs. Innovation
  • Balancing the competing pressures of biomedical innovations with funding and distribution challenges
  • The impact of high cost, targeted therapies and diagnostic testing on payers, purchasers and consumers
Moderator:
Esther Dyson
EDventure Holdings
Board member, 23andMe
Investor in Medstory
Research Subject, Personal Genome Project

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Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, The National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

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12:20 pm -
12:35 pm
Keynote 10: A Call-to-Action from Employers: Employer Demands of the Health Care Industry
  • An employer coalition’s response to the federal and state health reform proposals
  • Insight into employers’ recommendations to resolve the nation’s health care crisis
  • Strategies for market-based reform, universal coverage with individual responsibility, and incentives for health promotion
Sponsored by:
    
Moderator:
Justin Fox
Editor At-Large
TIME
Steven A. Burd
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Safeway Inc.

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12:35 pm -
12:50 pm
Keynote 11: A Call-to-Action from Employers: A Progressive Approach to Employee Health
  • An employer approach to progressive (and controversial) health benefit design to ensure health promotion
  • Investments in onsite clinics, health risk assessments and interventions and a health-focused corporate culture
  • Highlights of practical and actionable employer strategies to ensure a healthy, productive workforce
Moderator:
John M. Clymer
President
Partnership for Prevention

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James Hagedorn
Chairman and CEO
Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

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World Congress welcomes our attendees celebrating the Passover holiday and is pleased to provide kosher meals throughout the conference.

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