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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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12:55 pm -
1:45 pm
Consumerism – Recent Results and Future Directions
  • A CEO of the largest integrated delivery system shares views on how to design a health care system to support consumers as active participants in their health
  • Critical infrastructure and policies to create a patient-focused health care system
  • Reactions to Deloitte’s consumerism research report findings
George C. Halvorson - Speaker Photo George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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  • The anticipated role health care consumerism will play in health reform
  • Strategies and tactics to engage consumers more appropriately in self-care and cost management
  • Assumptions about consumerism in healthcare that should be challenged by industry leaders and policymakers
Steven A. Burd - Speaker Photo Steven A. Burd
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Safeway Inc.

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Moderator:
Paul Keckley, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

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1:50 pm -
2:40 pm
Disruptive Innovations in Health Care
Joshua Riff, MD, MBA
Medical Director, Clinics
Target Inc.

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  • Updates from Microsoft's Health Vault – Recent results on the adoption rate of the personal health record
  • Key functionality and consumer behavior findings
  • Reactions to other disruptive innovations in health care
David Cerino
General Manager, Consumer Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corp.;
former VP and General Manager, Orbitz LLC

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  • Telemedicine – An early, pioneering innovation that has significantly improved geographic access to quality care and provide real-time access to specialty information
  • Apollo Reach Hospitals – An endeavour to bring world class healthcare to smaller urban centres and rural India
  • Apollo Health Hiway – How to make patient health information and trend data available online to healthcare providers when and where they need it most
Sangita Reddy
Executive Director
Apollo Hospitals Group

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Moderator:
John T. Bigalke
Vice Chairman and U.S. National Industry Leader, Health Sciences & Government
Deloitte LLP

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3:10 pm -
4:00 pm
States as Labs for Innovation: The Front Line for Policy and Politics
  • Connector's view on states role in health reform
Jon Kingsdale - Speaker Photo Jon Kingsdale
Executive Director
Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector

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  • Highlights of policy and care reform in one of the most innovative states in the country
  • How Minnesota is leading the way in innovations in public policy,prevention, care delivery models and tackling the tough issue of costs and affordability
Patrick Geraghty
President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

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Paul Leon
Mayor
City of Ontario

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Moderator:
Robert N. Campbell III
US Government Leader
Deloitte LLP

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
10:40 am -
11:30 am
Comparative Effectiveness Implementation - A Strategic Framework for Payment, Quality and Care Delivery
  • Exploring how evidence based medicine, comparative effectiveness and value-based purchasing models are impacting the supplier industry
  • The use of evidence-based medicine methodologies to develop more cost-effective drugs, therapies and technologies early in the product life cycle
Stephen J. Boccuzzi, PhD, MBA, FAHA
Vice President - Evidence Based Medicine
sanofi-aventis - US

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Jeffrey L. Kang - Speaker Photo Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
CIGNA

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Moderator:
Paul Keckley, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

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11:35 am -
12:20 pm
Reducing Costs without Compromising Care
  • Employers' priorities in health reform to promote value
  • Aligning public and private sector policies
  • Infrastructure needs to improve value
Peter Lee - Speaker Photo Peter Lee, JD
Executive Director of National Health Policy
Pacific Business Group on Health

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  • Importance of keeping patients at the center of standards-based reform
  • Making effective health care trade-offs – The importance of value, the private market and consumer choice
  • Promoting and rewarding innovation – The keys to improving health care
Alex M. Azar II
Vice President, Business-to-Business and Puerto Rico, LillyUSA;
former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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  • A Chief Medical Officer's view of key strategies to improve the cost effectiveness of care delivered
  • Strategies to engage consumers to participate in health and wellness programs
Jeffrey L. Kang - Speaker Photo Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer
CIGNA

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  • Medical home pilot results – First year demonstration project results of Dartmouth-Hitchcock's medical home
  • Key findings of the medical home including clinical decision support and technology to support primary care physicians
  • Payment structure and incentives
Barbara A. Walters - Speaker Photo Barbara A. Walters, DO, MBA
Senior Medical Director, Southern NH Community Group Practices
Dartmouth-Hitchcock

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Moderator:
Kenneth H. Weixel, CPA
US Managing Partner, Health Sciences & Government
Deloitte & Touche, LLP

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