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Monday October 23, 2006

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Julia Portale
Senior Director, Community and Senior Health
Pfizer Health Solutions
2:15 pm
Session 1 - Realizing the Promise of Disease Management: Key Findings for the Care Continuum
  • Demonstrate the elimination of disease specific silos and the integration of disease management with medical management by payors
  • Project disease management penetration to increase dramatically even in the absence of standard outcomes measurement methodology
  • Estimate disease management programs to employers will rise over 50% annually, but will hinge on the care management systems that payors deploy
David Matheson
Senior Vice President
Boston Consulting Group

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3:15 pm
Session 2 - Cost and Clinical Implication of Uncontrolled Asthma: Patient, Physician Education Needed for Successful Treatment
  • Recognize that successful outcomes at optimal costs are not being realized for asthma patients
  • Demonstrate effective use of disease management is needed to increase the success patients and their physicians achieve in treating Asthma in addition to decreasing costly adverse hospital and emergency room visits
  • Conclude true succesful asthma treatment is lacking because many patients treat their asthma with rescue medications only vs. daily use of maintenance
Michael Mellon, MD
Clinical Associate Professor Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine

Tuesday October 24, 2006

2:15 pm
Session 3 - Going Upstream with Care Management of Diabetes: Earlier Intervention & Integrated Technology
  • Decipher the principles of designing management programs, for insulin resistance, obesity and type 2 diabetes
  • Demonstrate that cardiovascular disease and pre-diabetes are part of the same pathophysiology
  • Assess how information technology tools can effectively integrate diabetes care across the care continuum (wellness thru end of life care)
  • Describe the clinical, technological and financial benefits and challenges to the adoption and integration of these tools
William H. Besterman, Jr., MD
Lowcountry Medical Group, Principal Investigator
Lowcountry Medical Group Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
James L. Rosenzweig, MD
Director, Disease Management
Joslin Diabetes Center;
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Karen Golden Russell, MA, MBA
Associate Director
Product Management and Marketing
Disease Management
Joslin Diabetes Center
Patricia Salber, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Pracital Health Reform

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3:15 pm
Session 4 - Applying Integrated Disease Management Principles to FFS at Green Ribbon Health's Medicare Health Support
  • Forge New Partnerships to Service the Medicare Market, a Unique Example
  • Assess Evolving Disease Management Models to Service the Medicare Market
  • Address the Importance of Community Integration in Addressing Socioeconomic and Psychosocial Issues in the Medicare Population
Jean Bisio
Chief Executive Officer
Green Ribbon Health
Heidi Margulis
Senior Vice President Government Relations
Humana
Julia Portale
Senior Director, Community and Senior Health
Pfizer Health Solutions

Wednesday October 25, 2006

12:45 pm
Session 5 - Can an Integrated Delivery System Provide Pro-active Services Across the Care Continuum?
  • Demonstrate the business case for pro-active health and disease management for health care providers
  • Evaluate information technology underpinnings of care management within an integrated delivery system
  • Assess dynamic trade-offs in service delivery models based locally (at point of care) and centrally (remotely).
Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH
Senior Scientist, Partners/MGH Institute for health Policy
Director, Partners Signature Initiative for Disease Management
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