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Sunday, April 11, 2010
World Health Innovation Summit
The World Health Innovation Summit is co-located with the International Health Summit at the World Health Care Congress (held Monday, April 12 – Wednesday, April 14, 2010.)
Grameen Creative Lab
World Health Care Congress is pleased to announce the Grameen Creative Lab (GCL) Sunday April 11, 2010 from 10:00am to 4:30pm.
Monday, April 12, 2010
8:00 am -
8:55 am
OPENING KEYNOTE: THE HEALTH CARE ECONOMY
  • Insight from CBO Director Elmendorf on budgetary requirements for health reform
Federal Government Perspective:
Douglas W. Elmendorf, PhD
Director
Congressional Budget Office

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Moderator:
Lizzie O'Leary
Washington D.C. Correspondent
Bloomberg Television

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8:55 am -
9:50 am
KEYNOTE: REBUILDING HEALTH CARE
  • Addressing the challenges facing the U.S. health care system and identifying comprehensive solutions to help improve the quality, accessibility and affordability of health care in America
  • Creating new models for improved health plan and health system collaboration
  • Paying for value: Creating a replicable model for health care value based on value, outcomes, safety, efficiency and better coordinated care
Health Plan Perspective:
Ronald A. Williams
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Inc;
Board of Directors, AHIP

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Provider Perspective:
Denis Cortese - Speaker Photo Dr. Denis Cortese, MD
Director Health Care Delivery and Policy Program; Foundation Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and School of Health Management and Policy, W. P. Carey School of Business;
Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic

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Moderator:
David G. Knott, PhD
Senior Partner
Booz & Company

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9:50 am -
10:40 am
KEYNOTE: ADVANCING THE CONSUMER'S ROLE IN HEALTH
  • Enhancing the role of the consumer – Identifying effective and appropriate incentives for consumer engagement
  • How a consumer driven system can deliver affordable, high-quality care while reducing costs
  • Assessing the role of technological platforms as frameworks for consumer communication and integration
Consumer Perspective:
Dan Buettner
New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest;
Founder, Blue Zones

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Public Purchaser Perspective:
John Berry
Director
U.S. Office of Personnel Management

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Employer Perspective:
Catherine M. Baase - Speaker Photo Catherine M. Baase, MD
Global Director of Health Services
The Dow Chemical Company

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Moderator:
Ben R. Leedle - Speaker Photo Ben R. Leedle, Jr
President and Chief Executive Officer
Healthways

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10:40 am -
11:30 am
KEYNOTE: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
  • Disruptive innovations required to reinvent health care
  • A comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care in this country and make it affordable
  • Analysis of the unsustainable business model of today’s hospital and what can be done
  • A forecast for disruptive innovations in the U.S. health care system and barriers to acceleration
  • Insights to show that debates of public vs. private funding options seek answers to the wrong questions.
Innovator Perspective:
Clayton M. Christensen - Speaker Photo Clayton M. Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

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Moderator:
Stephanie Dhue
Correspondent
PBS Nightly Business Report

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11:35 am -
12:35 pm
Emerging Trend Forum Series
The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress Emerging Trend Forum Series is an opportunity for CEOs and senior health executives to forecast the up and coming health care trends and strategies that are reshaping the market. The executive networking and content combines high-level panel discussions between health leaders and innovators who deliver expert opinion with the opportunity to network and collaborate actionable solutions with peers in an intimate setting.
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12:35 pm -
1:35 pm
1:35 pm -
3:20 pm
Co-Located Executive Summit Series
The 7th Annual Co-Located Executive Summit Series are designed for CEOs and senior health care executives to collaborate meaningful dialog for actionable solutions to improve health care affordability, coverage, quality and outcomes. The executive networking and content combines high-level panel discussions between health leaders who deliver expert opinions with the unique opportunity to network and collaborate in an intimate setting.
Show Details
3:20 pm -
3:50 pm
Break in the Executive Networking Lounge with a Book Signing by Clayton Christensen
3:50 pm -
4:30 pm
Innovation Series
The 7th Annual WHCC Innovation Insight Series showcases an organization's advancements and successes in transforming health care. The networking, panel discussion and case study presentations from health care leaders provide the unique opportunity to collaborate actionable solutions for next day implementation.
4:35 pm -
5:25 pm
KEYNOTE: PREVENTION AND INCENTIVES FOR HEALTH
  • Two CEOs efforts to develop new approaches and treatments to improve people’s health and well-being
  • Innovative approaches to prevention and initiatives to improve health status and well-being while decreasing chronic care expenditures
  • Johnson & Johnson’s commitment to improve wellness and disease prevention to reduce the need for prescriptive care
  • CIGNA's focus on keeping people healthy through preventive care and wellness to lower costs and improve productivity
Pharmaceutical Perspective:
William C. Weldon
Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Johnson & Johnson

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Health Plan Perspective:
David M. Cordani
President and CEO, CIGNA;
Board of Directors, National Association of Manufacturers

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Moderator:
Robert J. Gould, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Partnership for Prevention

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5:25 pm -
6:15 pm
KEYNOTE: HEALTH IT—ADVANCES IN DATA, SYSTEMS AND CLOUD COMPUTING TO ACHIEVE HEALTH
  • Kaiser's health information eco-system -- Understanding the advantages of data and establishing goals for data collection and connectivity
  • Addressing HCA's approaches to create systems to ensure quality and consistency in how medicine is practiced and allow for shared data
  • Creating chronic care technologies that are relevant for patients and the delivery of patient-centered care
  • Exploring cloud computing to collect and disseminate data inexpensively and achieve interoperability while meeting meaningful use standards
  • Establishing goals for health data collection -- The future of data to advance epidemiological care
IDN Perspective:
George C. Halvorson - Speaker Photo George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals;
Board of Directors, AHIP

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Provider Perspective:
Jonathan B. Perlin - Speaker Photo Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI
President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer
HCA, Inc. / Hospital Corporation of America

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Innovator Perspective:
Alfred Spector
VP of Research and Special Initiatives
Google, Inc.

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Moderator:
William Winkenwerder - Speaker Photo William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Winkenwerder Company LLC

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6:15 pm -
7:15 pm
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
7:50 am -
7:55 am
Awards Ceremony for Poster Session on Extremely Affordable Innovations in Health
8:00 am -
8:30 am
KEYNOTE: HEALTH REFORM IN AMERICA
  • Update from HHS Secretary Sebelius on the future of health care
Kathleen Sebelius
21st Secretary
United States Department of Health and Human Services
8:30 am -
9:00 am
KEYNOTE: TRANSFORMING HEALTH CARE NOW IN THE DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING WORLDS
  • International strategies to create sustainable health systems in an era of a economic uncertainty and increasing cost pressures
  • Grameen Health's progress toward improving health status through a microfinance approach applied to health care
International Perspective:
Muhammad Yunus - Speaker Photo Muhammad Yunus
Founder and Managing Director
Grameen Bank and Grameen Health (Bangladesh); (Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize)

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Pharmaceutical Perspective:
Patrick Soon-Shiong - Speaker Photo Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD
Executive Chairman and CEO
Abraxis BioScience

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Moderator:
Rhonda Schaffler
Anchor
Reuters

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Global Health Ministers TBA
9:05 am -
9:50 am
KEYNOTE: ACHIEVING HEALTH
  • Identifying the goals, policy requirements and private sector strategies to improve population health
  • PepsiCo's commitment to health through the introduction of healthier products that support consumer choice and healthier lifestyles
  • Experts discuss corporate responsibility and the critical need to address population health through diet and nutrition
  • Strategies to reshape how the health care industry can achieve population health goals
Introductory Remarks By:
Tom Underwood
Chief Executive Officer
Alere

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Employer Perspective:
Mehmood Khan - Speaker Photo Mehmood Khan, MD, FACE
Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer
PepsiCo, Inc.

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Employer Perspective:
Andrew Webber - Speaker Photo 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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Health Plan Perspective:
Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group

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Moderator:
Tracie Potts - Speaker Photo Tracie Potts
Correspondent
NBC News Channel

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9:50 am -
10:20 am
10:20 am -
12:05 pm
Co-Located Executive Summit Series (Cont.)
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12:30 pm -
1:30 pm
1:10 pm -
1:40 pm
KEYNOTE: GAME CHANGING BUSINESS MODELS IN HEALTH CARE
  • Health care business innovations to improve outcomes, patient experience and quality of life
  • Technological changes that are revolutionizing alternative models of care delivery for patients and consumers
  • Models that integrate patient experiences and demonstrate value across the spectrum of delivery
Consumer Perspective:
Nathan Estruth
Vice President, FutureWorks
Procter & Gamble

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Industry Perspective:
Roy Schoenberg - Speaker Photo Roy Schoenberg, MD, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Well Systems

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Moderator:
Gardiner Morse
Senior Editor
Harvard Business Review

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1:40 pm -
2:20 pm
Market Insight Series
The 7th Annual WHCC Market Insight Series showcases an organization's advancements and successes in transforming health care. The networking, panel discussion and case study presentations from health care leaders provide the unique opportunity to collaborate actionable solutions for next day implementation.
Show Details
For more information on how become involved in a Market Insight presentation, please contact Ron Trznadel, EVP of Business Development at Phone: 781-939-2432 or Email: [email protected]
2:25 pm -
4:15 pm
Co-Located Executive Summit Series (Cont.)
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4:15 pm -
4:45 pm
4:45 pm -
5:30 pm
KEYNOTE: A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR AFFORDABILITY AND HEALTH
  • Demonstrating how an integrated, systematic health management approach is the first step in improving our nation’s health and wellness
  • Methods to proactively analyze populations of consumers to improve health status – from healthy to chronically ill
  • Exploring how aligned economic incentives and systematic health management can drive unwarranted costs out of the healthcare system
  • Development of a health improvement plan accessible to providers and consumers and linking those improvements to value-based provider incentives
IT Innovator Perspective:
Phil Fasano
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Kaiser Permanente

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Provider Perspective:
Thomas A. Colacchio - Speaker Photo Thomas A. Colacchio, MD
President
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

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Industry Perspective:
Jeff Margolis - Speaker Photo Jeff Margolis
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
TriZetto

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Moderator:
Robert E. Nesse - Speaker Photo Robert E. Nesse, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare
Mayo Health System

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5:30 pm -
6:15 pm
KEYNOTE: THE REDESIGN OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE HEALTH SYSTEM
  • Identifying the transformation required by health care payers and providers to create a high performing and highly reliable care delivery system
  • Realizing a new era of provider reimbursement to pay for quality and value vs. quantity
  • Payment reform strategies to ensure quality improvement among providers and to create a more efficient reimbursement process for providers
  • Provider perspectives on the critical components of a high performing system to achieve access, quality and efficiency
Economist Perspective:
Uwe Reinhardt - Speaker Photo Professor Uwe Reinhardt
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

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Provider Perspective:
Gary L. Gottlieb - Speaker Photo Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Partners HealthCare System Inc.

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Health Plan Perspective:
Dijuana Lewis
President and CEO
WellPoint Comprehensive Health Solutions Business Unit

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Moderator:
Mary Alice Williams
Host, Daily Rounds, Discovery Health Channel;
former principal anchor, CNN and former anchor and correspondent, NBC News

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6:15 pm -
7:15 pm
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
8:00 am -
8:45 am
KEYNOTE: OBAMACARE—FROM PLAN TO ACTION
  • Weighing the possibilities and challenges ahead for the implementation of health reform
  • Conservative and liberal experts on health policy outline critical issues with health reform in political and health industry realms
Henry J. Aaron
The Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Brookings Institution

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Gail Wilensky
Senior Fellow
Project HOPE

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Moderator:
Thomas Burton
Reporter
Wall Street Journal

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8:45 am -
9:30 am
KEYNOTE: PRECISION MEDICINE
  • The role of precision medicine to dramatically reduce health care costs and change outcomes
  • Employing precision medicine to deliver on the promise of early diagnosis and personalized care
  • Molecular diagnostics as the driver to diagnose disease and direct more precise treatments
Provider Perspective:
Robert E. Nesse - Speaker Photo Robert E. Nesse, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare
Mayo Health System

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Health Plan Perspective:
Jeffrey L. Kang - Speaker Photo Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
CIGNA

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Industry Perspective:
Emad Rizk - Speaker Photo Emad Rizk, MD
President, McKesson Health Solutions;
Author of The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and Payers;
2009's Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare (Modern Healthcare) and 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives (Modern Physician)

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Edward Abrahams - Speaker Photo Edward Abrahams, PhD
President
Personalized Medicine Coalition

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9:30 am -
10:30 am
10:30 am -
11:55 am
Co-Located Executive Summit Series (Cont.)
Show Details
12:00 pm -
12:45 pm
KEYNOTE: INNOVATIONS FROM THE INSIDE
  • Strategies to improve quality, satisfaction, and efficiency by redesigning and reengineering the delivery of care
  • Continuous innovations in health care – Implications of the Geisinger experience
  • Identifying the elements of leadership that drive high performance
  • Strategies to move from basic process improvement to outcomes measurement to system measurement
IDN Perspective:
Glenn D. Steele Jr. - Speaker Photo Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Geisinger Health System;
Trustee, American Hospital Association

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Industry Perspective:
Susan DeVore
President and CEO
Premier

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Provider Perspective:
Mark A. Eustis
President and Chief Executive Officer
Fairview Health Services

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Moderator:
Julie Appleby
Correspondent
Kaiser Health News

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12:45 pm -
1:15 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE: STATE VIEWS ON HEALTH REFORM
Edward G. Rendell
Governor
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Keynote agenda sponsored by: Healthways, Alere, WellPoint, Trizetto, American Well, Booz & Co., Premier
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