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Tuesday April 18, 2006

Public/Private Sector Collaboration

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8:00 am
Keynote Address: Perspectives from Leading Purchasers
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Keynote Address "Wiring the Nation"
10:15 am - 11:00 am
Public Disclosure of Quality - Transparency for Improved Outcomes
  • Private sector initiatives to promote transparency and engage consumers in health care quality
  • CMS initiatives to improve transparency of provider quality measures and early results from CMS’ pay-for-performance demonstration
  • CMS' early results for innovative payment mechanisms to foster improvements in the quality of care through improved coordination and use of health information technology
  • Regional initiatives to disclose provider quality measures and impact on outcomes
Senior Official from CMS - TBA
Barry M. Straube MD
Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Marc Volavka
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

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11:15 am - 12:00 pm
National Efforts to Connect Health Information
  • Policies on certification, data standards, patient privacy and security
  • Review of system architectures
  • Comparison of funding models
  • Physician adoption and incentives to promote adoption
  • The role of RHIOs to advance national health IT
Moderator
Scott Myers
Managing Partner, Government Health and Life Sciences
Accenture
Carol Diamond MD, MPH
Managing Director, Health Care Programs
Markle Foundation

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William Stead MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Director, Informatics Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center;
Member Commission on Systemic Interoperability

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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
LUNCHEON WITH EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION SERIES IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Business Models to Transform the Industry from Acute Care to Prevention
  • Realigning incentives for all industry sectors to focus on prevention
  • Successful public and private sector initiatives to champion prevention programs
  • Identifying sustainable business models that support preventive care
  • Evaluating net gain to all industry sectors
Chris Viehbacher
President
US Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline

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2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
NETWORKING BREAK IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Keynotes: Corporate CEO Panel - Perspectives from Leading Purchasers
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Keynote Address "Innovation vs. Access"
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Keynote Address "Consumer Choice"
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
GALA RECEPTION IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE

Wednesday April 19, 2006

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7:00 am - 7:45 am
BREAKFAST IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Keynote Address "Leading Change"
9:00 am - 10:45 am
Executive Seminar Series
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Realizing Savings from Evidence-Based Formulary Guidelines — Implications for Medicaid and Medicare
  • Adoption of evidence-based formularies by 15 Medicaid programs and the private sector including Consumer Reports and AARP
  • How Medicare Part D will be pressured to adopt uniform guidelines
  • Results from international government bodies reviewing evidence-based research for new drugs that balance costeffectiveness and drug efficacy
Moderator
  Mark Gibson
Director, Center for Evidence Based Policy
Oregon Health Sciences

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David B. Matchar MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine; Director,
Evidence-Based Practice Center; Center for Clinical Health Policy Research;
Duke University

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Doug Porter
Assistant Secretary, Health & Recovery Services Administration,
Washington Department of Social & Health Services;
Executive Committee,
National Association of State Medicaid Directors

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12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Debate on the Administration’s Health Reform Proposals – A Cure for the Nation’s Health Care Crisis?
  • Medicaid cost-shifting to employers
  • Employer restructuring of retiree benefits
  • How subsidization impacts employees’ total compensation
  • Review of the Aministration's proposals and feasibility of proposed solutions
  • Debate on HSAs and their ability to contain health care spending trend
Moderator
Henry E. Simmons MD, MPH, FACP
President
National Coalition on Health Care

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Joseph R. Antos PhD
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy
American Enterprise Institute
  Len M. Nichols PhD
Director, Health Policy Program
New America Foundation
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
LUNCHEON WITH EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION SERIES IN EXECUTIVE NETWORKING LOUNGE
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
World Health Care Congress Awards Ceremony
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Impact on the U.S. Economy
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Closing Keynote Address "The Politics of Health Care"
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