The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress
Sunday, April 3, 2011
5:30 pm -
7:00 pm
Insider's Reception (for VIP Members, Speaker Faculty and Lead Sponsors)
Monday, April 4, 2011
8:00 am -
8:30 am
Keynote: The Cost Of Health Reform
Moderator:
8:30 am -
9:00 am
Keynote: Policies to Foster Sustainable Health Care
  • Addressing emerging regulatory implications for the delivery system for 2011 and beyond
  • The Administration's key initiatives to ensure successful reform implementation
Moderator:
9:00 am -
10:00 am
Keynote: The Economics Of Health Care
  • Understating the policy debate over health care spending and uncovering new and missed opportunities in health care that will reduce cost
  • Economists attack the root cause of cost-inflation and forecast the implications on the national economy and improving health
  • Employer 2014 benefit strategies and detailing the risks and opportunities that are made possible under health reform
Moderator:
Introductory Remarks:
10:00 am -
10:55 am
Keynote: Bending the Cost Curve—Our Collective Imperative
  • Key leaders respond to the industry's collective responsibility to address long-term health care spending growth
  • Identifying the industry’s necessary delivery and payment models that will improve cost, quality and access
  • Kaiser’s experience on integrating health care services and information to achieve efficiency improvements
  • Debating the need for choice and competition as a means to drive down costs and improve quality
  • Business model diversification as a strategy to achieve horizontal and virtual integration
  • HCA's approach to utilizing information flow to ensure quality and consistency in how medicine is practiced and allows for shared data
Mark T. Bertolini Mark T. Bertolini
Chairman, CEO and President
Aetna
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George C. Halvorson George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Kaiser Permanente (USA);
Board of Directors, AHIP
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Moderator:
Gary Ahlquist Gary Ahlquist
Senior Vice President, Global Health
Booz & Company
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11:00 am -
11:50 am
Emerging Trend Forum Series
Emerging Trend Forums are multi-disciplinary, forward thinking panel discussions that highlight the up and coming innovations that are transforming the delivery of care.
12:00 pm -
12:45 pm
Innovation Series
Innovations Series highlight market driven innovations and business strategies to advance quality, cost-effective care.
12:45 pm -
2:00 pm
Lunch in the Executive Networking Lounge
2:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Executive Summits
4:00 pm -
4:35 pm
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
4:35 pm -
5:30 pm
Keynote: Challenges With Reform Implementation
  • Interpreting federal legislation and outlining functions and regulations for state insurance exchanges
  • Replicable models for expanding access and key design elements to ensure a successful health insurance exchange
  • Lessons learned from eHealthInsurance.com for establishing insurance exchanges and future plans to build a consumer friendly portal for the government’s HealthCare.gov website
Moderator:
5:30 pm -
6:30 pm
Keynote: Innovation and Market Forces To Achieve Cost Effective Care
  • Perspectives on strategic innovation and integration to establish high quality, cost effective care
  • Analyzing key innovations in science and medical device technologies that will disrupt the cost-curve in health care
  • How UnitedHealth Care is leading a culture of innovation focused on redesigning how health care is delivered
  • Insights into Intermountain’s eight clinical programs including evidence-based practice and prevention that has demonstrated quality outcomes and lower costs
Charles W. Sorenson Charles W. Sorenson, Jr, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Intermountain Health Care
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Moderator:
6:30 pm -
7:30 pm
Welcoming Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
8:00 am -
9:00 am
Keynote: Delivering Transparency and Quality to Consumers
  • How a consumer-directed health system can foster high-quality, low cost care
  • Insights into the Cleveland Clinic's commitment to foster innovation, quality and transparency in health care
  • Community-wide approaches to health and wellbeing – Insight in to the Beach Cities commitment to creating healthier lives through the use of permanent, evidence-based environmental and policy changes to motivate residents to adopt and maintain healthier lifestyles
  • How investing in a social, environmental, economic and physical well-being can lower health care costs and improve overall community health
Moderator:
Ben R. Leedle Ben R. Leedle, Jr
President and Chief Executive Officer
Healthways
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9:00 am -
10:00 am
Keynote: Achieving Value through Industry-Wide Collaboration
  • Replicable strategies from the Rochester Business Alliance community-wide wellness initiative to improve cost and quality through innovative disease management and VBID principles
  • Insights into the CareFirst single payer medical home that provides physician incentives for an increased emphasis on caring for the sickest patients and rewards based on demonstrated improvements in quality and efficiency
  • Identifying the necessary collaboration between industry stakeholders to achieve improvements with cost and quality and aligning incentives through value-based reimbursement
Moderator:
David Lansky David Lansky, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health
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10:00 am -
10:40 am
Coffee Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
10:40 am -
12:35 pm
Executive Summits
12:35 pm -
2:00 pm
Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
Market Insight Series
Market Insights are market driven business strategies that are geared to innovations to advance health transformation.
2:50 pm -
3:45 pm
Executive Summits
3:50 pm -
4:35 pm
Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
4:35 pm -
5:35 pm
Keynote: Prevention—Economic Incentives for Consumers, Employers and the Health Care Industry
  • Detailing economic incentives and essential disease prevention programs that improve health and reduce costs including treatment programs aimed at problems such as tobacco use and obesity
  • Group Health Cooperative’s proven innovations to reinvent care delivery through its nationally recognized medical-home that emphasizes Information technology as a key to improving patients’ communication with their care team, engaging them in prevention and evidence-based care, and reducing fragmentation of services
Andrew Webber Andrew Webber
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health;
Board of Directors, National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence
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Moderator:
Craig Keyes Craig Keyes, MD
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Alere Health
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5:35 pm -
6:30 pm
Data Liberation—Information, Engagement and Discovery
  • Insights from Gov 2.0 and how an open source movement fosters innovation transparency and efficiency to ultimately improve our nation’s health
  • Details on DHHS' data liberation plans -- How and when HHS, CMS, and FDA data will be available
  • Exploring health 2.0's role in providing an innovative terrain for developers to launch new applications to improve health engagement and information
  • The Markle Foundation strategy to establish a framework for Networked Personal Health Information and appropriate handling of information flow
  • An expert's look at the struggle over health care information and how it will change health care
Todd Park Todd Park
U.S. Chief Technology Officer
The White House; former CTO, DHHS
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Moderator:
6:30 pm -
7:30 pm
Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
8:00 am -
8:30 am
Keynote: Employer Innovations and Incentives to Impact Health Status and Costs
  • Leadership to address diet and lifestyle choices to impact the underlying cause of health care costs
  • Curing the obesity epidemic through incentives and innovations to improve health status, diet and lifestyle
  • Whole Foods' innovative programs and strategies to change employees’ diet and lifestyle
Moderator:
Hampton Pearson Hampton Pearson
Washington Reporter
CNBC
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8:30 am -
9:00 am
Keynote: Call-to-Action for Health and Wellness
  • CIGNA's focus on keeping healthy people healthy through preventive care and wellness to lower costs and improve productivity
  • Reversing the trend toward chronic disease – Exploring the role and responsibility of health insurers and corporate America
  • Consumer-driven approaches to prevention and initiatives to improve health status and well-being while decreasing chronic care expenditures
  • Achieving wellness in chronic disease through better health and how pharmacy advisors can impact health status
  • Reactions to the business imperative to promote wellness irrespective of the Presidential election and the fate of health care reform bill
Moderator:
Hampton Pearson Hampton Pearson
Washington Reporter
CNBC
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9:00 am -
9:45 am
Brunch in the Executive Networking Lounge
9:45 am -
10:40 am
Keynote: The Era of Personalized Medicine
  • Driving improved patient outcomes using advanced diagnostics and innovations that personalize patient care
  • Detailing opportunities and challenges that might affect the pace of adoption of personalized medicine and advance therapeutics
  • NIH’s perspective on overcoming challenges to adopt personalized therapies in order to optimize prescribing, improve outcomes and reduce waste
  • The role of pharma to develop innovative theraputics, diagnostics and other treatments that inform physician decision-making regarding patient care and treatment
  • Molecular diagnostics as the driver to diagnose disease and direct more precise treatments
Emad Rizk Emad Rizk, MD
President, McKesson Health Solutions;
Author of The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and Payers;
2010's Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (Modern Healthcare) and 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives (Modern Physician)
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Moderator:
10:45 am -
11:30 am
Executive Summits
The 8th Annual Executive Congress
The 8th Annual Employer and HR/Benefits Summit
The 8th Annual Health Plan Summit
11:30 am -
12:00 pm
Our Nation's Obligation to Fight Obesity
12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
Ministerial Forum on Global Health Innovation: A Review of International Health Research & Perspectives
  • Thought provoking discussion with world health leaders on new global health study
  • Examine game-changing ideas for healthcare pertaining to improving country-wide access, quality and cost of care
Moderator:
1:00 pm -
2:00 pm
The Ageing of America—Consumer Needs, Care Delivery and Evidence Based End of Life Care
  • The Administration's priorities to establish partnerships with Federal, State, Community and private organization to better serve older populations and caregivers including comprehensive and coordinated system of home and community-based long-term care
  • Technology and the future of ageing – Future Innovations to ensure longer quality in life
  • AgeLab views 'successful aging' - Alignment of a complex system of three interrelated domains: infrastructure, information and institutions. Understanding how each of these, their overlap, and their impact on aging and quality living
  • Better understand why some people plan for end-of-life, including long-term care needs, funeral planning, while other do not
  • End-of-life care for diverse populations - Understanding the ethical considerations of patients and caregivers
  • Consumer view concerning decision-making at the end of life and the quality of clinical management of ageing populations and providing the necessary tools to make effective end-of-life planning for diverse populations
Moderator:
2:00 pm -
2:30 pm
Closing Keynote: Perspectives From Congress