Hospitals are often expected to coordinate patient care involving multiple providers and facilities. Without effective systems for relaying patient information between settings, a patient's continuity of care can be disrupted, resulting in readmissions, duplicative services, conflicting recommendations, greater potential for error and patient harm and higher overall costs.

The World Congress is excited to launch the Executive Forum on Optimizing Care Coordination for Hospitals taking place on November 15-16, 2011 in San Diego, CA. This conference showcases strategies implemented by leading hospitals and health systems to successfully coordinate patient care for improved quality at a lower cost.

The Conference Goal

The objective of this conference is to address and improve issues related to the coordination across various clinical departments in the hospital setting. After attendees leave the event, they are able to:

• IMPROVE communication strategies between all hospital departments for streamlined work flow
• IDENTIFY clear clinical pathways upfront to more effectively navigate patients and prepare staff
• REDUCE readmissions and medical error through well-coordinated delivered care
• LEARN to get leadership buy-in to turn an idea into an active care coordination program
• UNDERSTAND the role of the hospitalist, case manager, and nurse navigator to move the patient from admission to discharge to post-discharge effectively
• INTERGRATE the latest virtual integration technologies, including EMRs and cloud computing, into your hospitals
• ACHIEVE high quality, safety and customer satisfaction ratings with a better coordination of care strategy

Featured Speakers
Michael Becker, RN, MSN, CCRN Associate Executive Hospital Director & Chief Nursing Officer Penn Presbyterian Medical Center	Divya-Devi Joshi, MD MMM CPE FAAP Chief Medical Officer Miller Children’s Hospital
Kathie Olson, RNC, MSN Manager of Case Management Swedish Medical Center	David Paje, MD, FACP, FHM Associate Division Head, Hospital Medicine Henry Ford Hospital
Chaitanya Ravi, MD, SFHM Director of Hospitalists & UR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore	Leslie Zun, MD Chief of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital