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Monday October 23, 2006
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7:30 am - 8:30 am
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- Reveal survey results of the health and productivity of U.S. workers and of hospital executives from the Commonwealth Fund Health Policy & International Surveys
- Outline findings where medical care is worse such as with inefficiencies, medical errors, duplication, cost and lack of coordination and integration of care
- Assess the development of a longitudinal model where technology and integrated medical management improves communication, outcomes and expands patient centered models
- Leverage the care continuum as a new business model to eliminate redundancies, reduce costs and improve quality through integrated capabilities and structures
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8:30 am - 9:15 am
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David Wessel
Deputy Washington Bureau Chief & Capital columnist Wall Street Journal
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John C. Goodman, PhD
President National Center for Policy Analysis

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- Witness a major transfer of power and money from third-party-payer bureaucracies to individual patients
- Demonstrate when prices go down, quality goes up, and markets work better when patients manage their own health care dollars
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Alain C. Enthoven, PhD.
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management Stanford University School of Business
"Father of Managed Competition"

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- Analyze why the high deductibles approach will not moderate health expenditure growth, why it will not improve the market, and why it takes us in the wrong direction
- Evaluate the best way to connect informed cost conscious consumer choice to the health care delivery system is to present all consumers with a wide choice of health care financing and delivery plans, for the sponsor (government or employer) to earmark for health care a fixed dollar amount that does not exceed the price of the low priced plan, and to create competition for comprehensive coverage at the individual level
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9:15 am - 10:15 am
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10:45 am - 11:45 am
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- Describe the rationale and reach of the health reforms in the UK
- Highlight the lessons that can be learned from the UK experience in
devising and implementing major change programmes
- Suggest the likely future direction of health reform based on
technological, demographic, cultural and social change
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11:45 am - 12:45 pm
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12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
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- Evaluate the potential employer savings and increased employee productivity to businesses that invest in promoting an active and healthy workforce- Healthy Workforce Act
- Promote incentives that can be provided by the Federal Government to assist employers that are faced with rising health care costs through employer-provided health care plans
- Review successful workplace wellness programs and their positive economic impact on companies
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Susan Dentzer
Health Correspondent and Head of the Health Policy Unit
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS

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Senator Tom Harkin, (D-IA) U.S. Senate
Appropriations Committee-Ranking Member, Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee
Agricultural Committee - Ranking Member
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Small Business Committee
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Robert A. Ingram
Vice Chairman Pharmaceuticals GlaxoSmithKline
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Carey Jury
Senior Vice President, Health Division Principal Financial Group
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1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
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- Assess the value and practical aspects of measuring
behavioral health outcomes in real-world settings
- Analyze the separate/ added value of medical-behavioral integration on behavioral health, general health, productivity and wellness outcomes
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Dr. Thomas Hamlin
Medical Director-South West Care Management Center Magellan Health Services
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Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY; Psychiatrist in Chief New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
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David Whitehouse, MD, MBA
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
United Behavioral Health

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Tuesday October 24, 2006
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8:00 am - 9:15 am
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- How do people make decisions about necessary and unnecessary care?
- Are consumer directed plans reducing or shifting costs?
- Asses the scope and value of a retail based and consumer-centric
clinical delivery model
- Demonstrate how prescribing decision support tools at the right time can improve decision quality and the cost-effectiveness of care
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Molly Mettler
MSW, Senior Vice President Healthwise

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Annette Watson, RN,CCM,MBA
Chief Accreditation Officer Vice President & GM, Client Services URAC

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Glenn Pomerantz, MD, JD
Vice President
Senior Medical Executive
CIGNA
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Jim 'Woody' Woodburn, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer
MinuteClinic, Inc.
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10:15 am - 10:45 am
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11:45 am - 12:45 pm
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- Reveal why the current health care paradigm will not meet the future health care needs of the population with chronic disease
- What must the health care system must do to address the inadequacies of the current model?
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12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
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- Provide the framework for senior management focusing on the cost of healthcare to focusing on
the value of health
- Determine why the integration of disability management is a key component to a successful
population health management program and some of the obstacles surrounding the integration of
disability management into a population health management program
- Demonstrate the successful integration of medical, disability and workers’ compensation healthcare
management, including both the financial and human capital advantage of such an approach
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1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
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- Determine the size and opportunity for Medicare Disease Management
- Evaluate lessons learned in delivering fee for service Medicare Disease Management
- What are the Public Policy Implications and Business Implications for the Disease Management industry?
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Wednesday October 25, 2006
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8:00 am - 9:15 am
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- Outline the major parts in a health system that need to be integrated to support the delivery of the Care Continuum (Behavioral Health- End of Life Care)
- Discuss how IT has played such a role in health plans, regions, communities and outside the U.S.
- What are the challenges to technological integration, both policy and practical concerns?
- Lay out a vision, where it does not exist, for technology to support integration
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Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer
eHealth Initiative

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Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH
Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente; Chair, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
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J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute;
Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Data Standards Working Group, Connecting for Health
CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange

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10:15 am - 10:45 am
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1:45 pm - 2:15 pm
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2:15 pm - 3:30 pm
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- Outline employers’ expectations of health plans in the delivery of care coordination programs and on collaborative initiatives undertaken in California to permit better disease management
- Demonstrate how a consumer governed plan drives integration especially in the Medicare Advantage product
- Discuss the ROI of care management programs
- How much difference can a Care Continuums make?
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