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Monday, April 21, 2008
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1:20 pm - 2:20 pm
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- Balancing competitive and contractual issues between hospital and physician-driven specialty hospitals
- The growth of physician-owned diagnostic and therapeutic facilities
- Status of Congress regulating the use of imaging in physician-owned specialty hospitals
- Emergency Department coverage trends
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Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer Dean Health System

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2:25 pm - 3:25 pm
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- Defining the strategic imperative and forecasting ROI to build consensus for EHR implementation
- Overcoming ambulatory EHR challenges including an implementation sequence and plan
- Successes and challenges to date
- Technology’s unintended positive results of EMR and HIPAA on the environmental impact
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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9:10 am - 10:10 am
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- Partnership for home visits resulting in decreased costs, higher patient satisfaction and memorable employee benefits
- Delivering preventive care with measurable outcomes
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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9:15 am - 9:55 am
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- PQRI update – 12 month results on physician participation
- PQRI’s progress to establish meaningful financial incentives for quality reporting and future directions
- Operationalizing value-based purchasing metrics and partnering with payers to demonstrate outcomes
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10:00 am - 10:40 am
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- Evolving models of care that focus on complex co-morbidities
- Innovative focus on prioritizing conditions: How new predictive models prioritize the most critical set of interventions
- Kaiser’s approach to population-based care and disease combinations – Implementation of a combination of workflow, team composition and technology
- The momentum of large employers embracing the patient-centered medical home model for comprehensive care
- Comprehensive longitudinal vs. episodic care – Buying comprehensive prevention and chronic care management at the point of care delivery
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Paul Wallace, MD
Medical Director, Health and Productivity Management Programs;
Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and KP-Healthy Solutions, The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente

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Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM
Director of Healthcare, Technology and Strategic Initiatives, Global Wellbeing Services and Health Benefits, IBM;
Chairman, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative

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World Congress welcomes our attendees celebrating the Passover holiday and is pleased to provide kosher meals throughout the conference.
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