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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
8:00 am
Perspectives from Leading Purchasers
Issues:
  • The impact of rising health care costs on the competitiveness of the U.S. economy
  • Highlighting purchaser demands for the health care industry
  • Transparency of health care value for employers
  • Payer and provider sector initiatives to respond to employer demands
    
Moderator:
Ron Winslow
Deputy Editor, Health and Science;
Senior Medical and Health Care Writer,
Wall Street Journal

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Michael Critelli
Chairman and CEO
Pitney Bowes Inc.

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Ivan Seidenberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Verizon Communications

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Reactor Panel
George C. Halvorson - Speaker Photo George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals

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Edward Hanway
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CIGNA Corporation

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9:15 am -
10:00 am
Wiring the Nation
Issues:
  • The future of AHIC to adequately address needed improvements in quality, cost and access
  • Road maps to improve chronic care treatment, accelerate the adoption of health IT and reduce avoidable costs
  • Addressing challenges of funding, information privacy and interoperability
  • Exploring the unintended consequences of electronic medical records
  • Future prospects for individualized patient care and biomedical informatics
    
Moderator
Elizabeth McGlynn, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Research on Quality in Health Care
RAND

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Reactor Panel
David J. Brailer - Speaker Photo David J. Brailer, MD, PhD
Former and First National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Founder
Health Evolution Partners

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Robert Pearl - Speaker Photo Robert Pearl, MD
CEO
The Permanente Medical Group

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Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President and CEO
Geisinger Health System

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10:15 am -
2:15 pm
Concurrent Open Forums and By-Invitation-Only Summits
3:30 pm -
4:15 pm
Innovation Vs. Access
Issues:
  • The pursuit of innovation to shift from acute care delivery to chronic care and prevention
  • Balancing the rising costs of new technologies and demand for innovation
  • Societal challenges of health care spending - On access or on innovation?
    
Moderator
Robert Galvin, MD
Director, Global Health Care
General Electric

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Mark McClellan - Speaker Photo Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Visiting Senior Fellow, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Former Administrator, CMS
Former Commissioner, FDA

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Uwe Reinhardt - Speaker Photo Professor Uwe Reinhardt
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

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4:30 pm -
5:30 pm
Consumer Choice
Issues:
  • Innovations and information to improve consumer choice and improve patient outcomes
  • Lessons learned from Consumer Reports – How information for consumers has reformed markets without government intervention
  • Perspective from The Vanguard Group – Consumers’ investment strategies, obtaining service online and the convergence of health and financial services
Moderator
Michael Millenson
President, Health Quality Advisors
The Mervin Shalowitz, MD Visiting Scholar
Northwestern University

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William W. McGuire , MD
Chairman and CEO
UnitedHealth Group

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OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES:
John J. Brennan
Chairman and CEO
The Vanguard Group

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Jim Guest
President and CEO
Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)

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5:30 pm -
7:00 pm
GALA RECEPTION
5:30 pm -
5:35 pm
OrgDNA Survey Results following Keynote Address: Consumer Choice
Gary L. Neilson
Author of Results: Keep What’s Good, Fix What’s Wrong, and Unlock Great Performance;
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

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Invitational Dinner on Healthcare Information Technology & Innovations
    
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