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The 10th Anniversary World Health Care Congress
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The WHCC 10th Annual Health Information Technology Summit convenes CIOs, CTOs, CMIOs, and other senior IT executives from the nation's leading health care provider and payer organizations to share strategies for advancing and leveraging health IT in an ever-changing era of accountable care. Through evidence-based case studies and dynamic panel discussions, participants will gain insight to efficiently store, capture, and analyze data, as well as implement and sustain EMR systems and virtual care models that improve the quality and delivery of care.

Monday, April 8, 2013
7:00 am -
7:00 pm
Registration Open and Morning Coffee
8:00 am -
8:10 am
Conference Welcome:
Susan Dentzer Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs
8:10 am -
8:40 am
Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father -- and How We Can Fix It
David Goldhill David Goldhill
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Game Show Network;
Author, Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father -- and How We Can Fix It
8:40 am -
9:10 am
Reactor Discussion
Moderator:
Susan Dentzer Susan Dentzer
Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs
Panelists:
Avik Roy
Senior Fellow
Manhattan Institute;
Author
The Apothecary
Forbes
9:10 am -
10:10 am
What Role Does Health Care Have in Federal Debt Reduction Strategies?
  • Examine health spending as an important component of the fiscal outlook for both federal and state governments
  • Explore promising approaches to reduce both the growth rate of health spending and the revenue lost to health care tax expenditures
  • Discuss underlying, system-wide spending issues
Moderator:
Ian Morrison Ian Morrison
Futurist and Author; President Emeritus,
Institute for the Future
Panelists:
Paul B. Ginsburg Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD
President
Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
Alice M. Rivlin Alice M. Rivlin , PhD
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program
Brookings Institution;
Co-Chair, Debt Reduction Task Force
Bipartisan Policy Center
Gail R. Wilensky Gail R. Wilensky, PhD
Economist and Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
10:10 am -
11:10 am
Partnering for Value – How Collaboration is Driving Change in our Health System
  • Explore critical success factors in delivering truly patient-centric care – Multi-sector innovation and collaboration
  • Discuss critical pathways in transforming clinical practice to produce value – Increase quality, efficiency, and improve patient experience
  • Highlight non-traditional partnerships that increase accountability and risk sharing to promote high quality care
  • Analyze public and private sector leadership in driving to accountable care
    Moderator:
    Susan Dentzer Susan Dentzer
    Editor-in-Chief
    Health Affairs
    Panelists:
    Gary Ahlquist Gary Ahlquist
    Senior Vice President, Global Health
    Booz & Company
    Victor Dzau Victor Dzau, MD
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University Medical Center and Health System;
    Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University (USA);
    Member, Board of Health Governors, World Economic Forum;
    Chair, Glogal Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine, World Economic Forum
    Omar Ishrak Omar Ishrak
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
    Medtronic
    John Noseworthy John Noseworthy, MD
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Mayo Clinic
    Member, Board of Health Governors, World Economic Forum
    Brad Wilson Brad Wilson
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBS NC)
    11:15 am -
    12:00 pm
    12:00 pm -
    1:15 pm
    Networking Luncheon in the Executive Networking Lounge
    1:15 pm -
    2:15 pm
    Creating an Innovation Culture
    • Understand the framework of the innovation lifecycle
    • Examples of innovations from Boston Children’s Hospital
    • Jumpstart and nurture innovation within your organization
    Naomi Fried Naomi Fried, PhD
    Chief Innovation Officer
    Children’s Hospital Boston
    2:15 pm -
    3:15 pm
    Harnessing the Power of Data for Population Health
    • Discuss the trends for HIT to improve population health
    • Outline opportunities and challenges
    • Highlight case studies that have overcome the challenges and the opportunities that they’ve discovered.
    Jonathan P. Weiner Jonathan P. Weiner, DrPH
    Professor of Health Policy & Management and of Health Informatics;
    Director, Center for Population Health Information Technology
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Case Studies
    Hadi Kharrazi Hadi Kharrazi, MHI, MD, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Assistant Director
    Center for Population Health IT
    Martha Sylvia Martha Sylvia, PhD, MBA, RN
    Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Joint Appointment School of Medicine
    General Internal Medicine
    3:15 pm -
    4:00 pm
    Refreshment Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
    4:00 pm -
    4:05 pm
    Afternoon Introductory Remarks
    T.R. Reid T.R. Reid
    Correspondent
    NPR, PBS, The Washington Post
    4:05 pm -
    5:05 pm
    Engaging the Consumer - Creating Awareness and Partnership in Health Care
    • Review key strategies to motivate healthy behaviors and engage consumers throughout the care continuum
      • effective methods to engage consumers in their daily health decisions
    • Leverage the provider and health plan as key influencers to patient engagement
      • creating a culture of informed and shared decision making that works
    • Understand what health care can learn from other industries that are leaders in consumer engagement
      • simplicity and engagement that lead to better outcomes and quality
    Moderator:
    Stan Nowak Stan Nowak
    Chief Executive Officer
    Silverlink Communications, Inc.
    Panelist:
    Mary R. Grealy Mary R. Grealy
    President
    Healthcare Leadership Council
    John Holcomb John Holcomb
    Vice President, Healthcare Operations
    Target
    Richard Popiel Richard Popiel, M.D., M.B.A.
    Executive Vice President, Health Care Services, Chief Medical Officer
    Regence
    5:05 pm -
    6:05 pm
    Meet the Global Challenge of Developing Sustainable, Affordable Health Care Systems
    • Discuss strategies to contain the cost of delivering health care amid rising demand
    • Develop resilient funding models sustainable over the long-term
    • Explore mechanisms to improve the efficiency and productivity of health care delivery
    • Analyze the shift of health systems from a sickness to a wellness focus to reduce downstream health costs
    • Learn from international health systems
    • Understand the global role of technology in enabling the delivery of sustainable health care
    Moderator:
    T.R. Reid T.R. Reid
    Correspondent
    NPR, PBS, The Washington Post
    Panelists:
    Dr. Jason Cheah Dr. Jason Cheah, MD
    Chief Executive Officer
    Agency for Integrated Care Pte Ltd, Republic of Singapore
    Patrick Jeurissen Patrick Jeurissen, PhD
    Chief Strategy and Knowledge Management Group
    Ministry of Health, Welfare & Sports, (The Netherlands); Head of Celsus Academy of Sustainable Healthcare,
    Raboud University Medical Center Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
    Steven J. Thompson Steven J. Thompson
    Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine International;
    Senior Vice President, Johns Hopkins Medicine
    Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus
    Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
    Founder
    Grameen Bank and Grameen Health
    6:05 pm -
    7:05 pm
    Opening Night Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
    7:05 pm -
    8:35 pm
    Invitation-Only Sponsored Dinners