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Monday October 23, 2006

7:30 am -
8:30 am
The Care Continuum - A New Business Model and Value Proposition
  • 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
Moderator/Panelist
Robin Osborn, MBA
Vice President and Director, International Program in Health Policy and Practice
The Commonwealth Fund

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Albert Bothe Jr., MD
Chief Quality Officer
Geisinger Health System
Brandon Savage, MD
Chief Medical Officer
GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions

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8:30 am -
9:15 am
Debate: Which Way is the Health Care Financing System Going and What Impact Will That Have on the Care Continuum?
Moderator for the Debate
David Wessel
Deputy Washington Bureau Chief & Capital columnist
Wall Street Journal
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
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
9:15 am -
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am -
11:45 am
Reforms from the UK National Health Service Impacting Integration of Care
  • 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
Moderator
Susan Dentzer
Health Correspondent and Head of the Health Policy Unit
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS

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Rt Honorable Alan Milburn, MP
Former Secretary
UK National Health Service
11:45 am -
12:45 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm -
1:45 pm
Implement Wellness Tax Credits for Business to Drive Integration of Prevention with Chronic Disease
  • 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
Moderator
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
Reactor Panel
Robert A. Ingram
Vice Chairman Pharmaceuticals
GlaxoSmithKline
Carey Jury
Senior Vice President, Health Division
Principal Financial Group
1:45 pm -
2:15 pm
Break
4:15 pm -
5:15 pm
Value of Integrating Behavioral Health Interventions on Improved Outcomes
  • 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
Moderator/Panelist
  Dr. Thomas Hamlin
Medical Director-South West Care Management Center
Magellan Health Services
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
David Whitehouse, MD, MBA
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
United Behavioral Health

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Tuesday October 24, 2006

8:00 am -
9:15 am
Medical Consumerism: Key to Containing Health Care Costs
  • 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
Moderator/Panelist
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
Jim 'Woody' Woodburn, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer
MinuteClinic, Inc.
10:15 am -
10:45 am
Break
11:45 am -
12:45 pm
Luncheon Keynote: New Models of Chronic Care for the Care Continuum
  • 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?
Moderator
Tracey Moorhead
Executive Director
DMAA
William Popik, MD
President-Elect
DMAA

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12:45 pm -
1:45 pm
Laying the Financial Groundwork for Integrated Benefit Design
  • 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
Moderator/Panelist
Thomas Parry, PhD
President
Integrated Benefits Institute

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Lawrence Becker
Director, Benefits
Xerox

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Donna Shenoha
Vice President, Health & Welfare
Wachovia
1:45 pm -
2:15 pm
Break
4:15 pm -
5:15 pm
Opportunities and Challenges in Medicare Disease Management
  • 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?
Christobel Selecky
President
Disease Management Association of America

Wednesday October 25, 2006

8:00 am -
9:15 am
Technological Integration of the Care Continuum: What Will it Take?
  • 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
Moderator/Panelist
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
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
Break
1:45 pm -
2:15 pm
Break
2:15 pm -
3:30 pm
Building a Care Continuum That Will Last
  • 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?
Moderator/Panelist:
Humphrey Taylor
Chairman, The Harris Poll
Harris Interactive

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Peter V. Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health

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Andrea Walsh
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Health Partners

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Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH
Executive Vice President
National Committee on Quality Assurance
Vince Kuraitis
Principal
Better Health Technologies, LLC
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