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Monday April 23, 2007

7:00 am -
8:00 am
Innovation Working Groups (Phase II)
World Congress Innovation Working Groups are multi-disciplinary and cross-sector discussion forums to brainstorm on innovations necessary for a range of current industry challenges. A group leader will guide the discussion to generate ideas, debate and develop a consensus around new innovations that deserve further investigation. Leaders from each Innovation Working Group will report findings on Wednesday, April 24 just prior to the first keynote.
  1. Employer Innovations Group - Benefit Design
  2. Health Plan Innovations Group - Consumerism
  3. Provider Innovations Group - Patient-Centered Care
  4. Provider Interest Group - Medicare Payment
  5. Topic TBD
7:30 am -
8:00 am
Breakfast in Conference Summit Foyer
8:00 am -
12:00 pm
Concurrent Tracks
There will be a networking break in the Executive Networking Lounge from 10:10am - 11:00am
* To view a tracks agenda, please click on the track title.
Open Forum to All
By-Invitation-Only Summits
12:00 pm -
1:30 pm
Luncheon with Executive Discussion Series in Executive Networking Lounge
  1. Quality
  2. Access
  3. Cost-Effectiveness
  4. Transparency
  5. Chronic Care
  6. Leadership
  7. Medicare
  8. Consumerism
  9. Health IT
  10. Benefit Design
1:30 pm -
2:30 pm
Keynote Address: Employer CEO and Purchaser Mandate - Delivering on Affordable, Quality Health Care
Sponsored by:
    
Moderator:
Paul E. Steiger
Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal;
Vice President, Dow Jones & Company

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Gerald L. Shaheen
Group President, Caterpillar Inc.;
Chairman of the Board of Directors, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Linda Springer
Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC)

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Industry Reactors:
Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD
Chief Executive Officer and President
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

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Larry Glasscock
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
WellPoint Inc.

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2:40 pm -
3:40 pm
Keynote Address: Impacts of CMS' Drive to Deliver Quality to Medicare and Commercial Populations
Payer CEO TBA
Industry Reactors
William D. Novelli
CEO, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP);
Board of Directors, National Coalition on Health Care
3:40 pm
Networking Break in Executive Networking Lounge
4:20 pm -
5:20 pm
Keynote Address: Delivering on Expectations for Transformative Health IT
Senior Official from Department of Health and Human Services TBA
Reactor Panel
William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
U.S. Department of Defense; Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC)
Linda Dillman
EVP, Risk Management, Benefits, and Sustainability (former CIO), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Fortune’s 2006 List of 50 Most Powerful Women

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Brent C. James, MD
Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Health Care

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5:15 pm -
6:00 pm
Keynote Address: In Pursuit of Transparency in Health Care Delivery
  Stephen J. Hemsley
President
UnitedHealth Group
Reactor Panel
Carolyn Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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6:00 pm -
7:30 pm
Gala Reception in Executive Networking Lounge
7:30 pm -
9:30 pm
Invitational Dinners
  • Invitational Employer Dinner
  • Invitational Payer Dinner
  • Invitational Pharma/Biotech Dinner
  • Invitational Provider Dinner
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