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The WHCC World Health Care Congress assembles thought leaders and innovators from health care systems around the world. The summit brings these international experts together with US health care leaders to present the best global solutions to the pressing challenges of modern health care. The summit caters to a global audience but also remains essential to attend for delegates from all sectors of U.S. health care
Full Three Day Agenda
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Monday, April 8, 2013
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7:00 am -
7:00 pm
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8:00 am -
8:10 am
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8:10 am -
9:10 am
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152 Days Later - Moving Forward Post Election |
- How are plans, providers, and other stakeholders moving forward in today’s health care and political environment?
- How can providers best fulfill patient needs and advance health care?
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Avik Roy
Senior Fellow
Manhattan Institute;
Author
The Apothecary
Forbes
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9:10 am -
10:10 am
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What Role Does Health Care Have in Federal Debt Reduction Strategies?
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- 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
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Ian Morrison
Futurist and Author; President Emeritus,
Institute for the Future
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Alice M. Rivlin , PhD
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program
Brookings Institution;
Co-Chair, Debt Reduction Task Force
Bipartisan Policy Center
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10:10 am -
11:10 am
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Partnering for Value – How Collaboration is Driving Change in our Health System
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- 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
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Gary Ahlquist
Senior Vice President, Global Health
Booz & Company
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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
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Omar Ishrak
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Medtronic
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Brad Wilson
President and Chief Executive Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBS NC)
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11:15 am -
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm -
1:15 pm
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1:15 pm -
2:15 pm
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The Rise of Social Business Models in Global Health Care
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- Recognize the need for new economic models which bridge the chasm between public and private models of health care delivery
- Explore the developing international role of social entrepreneurship in health care
- Examine a range of global micro-finance initiatives and learn how they enable access to high quality health care for the poor
- Understand what traditional Western health care systems can learn from evolving social models of care
- Hear examples of social health care businesses from developing and developed nations
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Muhammad Yunus
Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Founder
Grameen Bank and Grameen Health
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2:15 pm -
3:15 pm
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Develop a Coordinated Approach to the Management of Chronic Disease
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- Track the epidemiological and lifestyle changes that are driving the global increase in chronic disease
- Develop a strategic approach to reduce the growing cost burden of treating chronic diseases
- Align organizational and financial incentives to better manage chronic disease
- Explore a range of chronic disease management strategies and tools – Where is the best evidence?
- Build integrated chronic disease care pathways which provide seamless care to patients
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Dr. Volker Amelung
CEO
Bundesverband Managed Care, Germany
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Jason Cheah, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Agency for Integrated Care Pte Ltd
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3:15 pm -
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm -
4:05 pm
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4:05 pm -
5:05 pm
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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
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Stan Nowak
Chief Executive Officer
Silverlink Communications, Inc.
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5:05 pm -
6:05 pm
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6:05 pm -
7:05 pm
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7:05 pm -
8:35 pm
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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7:00 am -
7:00 pm
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7:00 am -
8:00 am
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8:00 am -
8:10 am
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8:10 am -
8:15 am
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8:15 am -
8:45 am
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8:45 am -
9:15 am
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9:20 am -
10:05 am
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10:05 am -
10:40 am
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10:40 am -
11:40 am
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11:40 am -
12:45 pm
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Using Mobile and Connected Health Care to Transform Through Innovation
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- Understanding the opportunities that mHealth and telehealth present
- Assessing the scale of the savings available to health systems through the coordinated implementation of remote monitoring for chronic disease
- Leveraging the power of connected technologies to join up clinical professionals, enable care integration and innovation and deliver cost savings across health systems
- Understanding global health reimbursement landscapes and their evolving approaches to connected health
- Reviewing a range of global connected health implementations – what is the evidence to date?
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Mary Y. Lee, MD, FACP
Associate Provost
Tufts University;
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
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Zakiuddin Ahmed, MD
President, Healthcare Paradigm;
Medical Director, PharmEvo;
CEO, eHealth Services ;
COO, Smart Health Care;
President, OPEN Karachi;
Convenor, Health Chapter, QPSP
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Ting Shih
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
ClickMedix
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12:45 pm -
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm -
3:00 pm
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International Innovations in the Health Care Workforce
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- Understand the root causes of staffing issues in evolving economies
- Learn from nations that have overcome shortages of key clinical staff
- explore how employee ownership empowers health workers to act differently
- Develop new and innovative ways of meeting the increasing demand for health care workers
- enhance the capability of non-medical staff
- explore the positive effects of right staffing
- Understand the growing role of technology in enabling workforce innovation
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Tej Maini, MD, FACS
Dean, International Affairs
Tufts University School of Medicine; Former Chief Executive, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City; Former Chief Executive Officer, Fallon Clinic
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3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
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Strategic and Practical Responses to Global Public and Population Health Challenges
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- Exploring the impact of a range of global legislative and regulatory approaches to improving the health of populations
- Determining the role of industry in supporting consumers to make healthy choices and choose healthy lifestyles
- Developing patient responsibility - Striking a balance between the right of the individual to receive treatment and their responsibility to maintain their health
- Examining the role of incentives and disincentives in driving behavior change
- Delivering lifestyle change and preventative care in practice – exploring a range of successful international projects
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Laura Putnam
CEO and Founder
Motion Infusion, USA
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4:05 pm -
5:05 pm
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Health Care Transformation through Technology Innovation
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- How is Health IT currently leveraged to create a connected, clinically integrated next generation care model?
- EMR, HIE, Cloud, and analytics that improve the quality and affordability of care
- remaining challenges in financing, scalability, and home-grown solutions
- What are the obstacles and opportunities around keeping health information secure?
- How can mobility solutions be used in this new model?
- disruptive and social innovations that advance health care
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Joseph C. Kvedar, MD
Founder and Executive Director, Center for Connected Health
Partners HealthCare;
Past President and Board Member
American Telemedicine Association
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Susan D. DeVore
President and Chief Executive Officer
Premier healthcare alliance
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Geeta Nayyar, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, AT&T;; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
George Washington University
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Emad Rizk, MD
President, McKesson Health Solutions
Author of The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and Payers;
2011’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives (Modern Physician)
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Bryan Sivak
Chief Technology Officer
US Department of Health and Human Services
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5:05 pm -
5:35 pm
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Building Care Innovations for This Time and Place
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- Building a network of innovation centers and agendas to provide better patient-centered care and improved outcomes
- Sharing a complete, online clinical library with real-time access to medical journals, textbooks, and care protocols
- Investing in future care including the world's largest DNA database to prevent, diagnose, treat, and research genetic-based diseases
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George C. Halvorson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Kaiser Permanente
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5:35 pm -
6:35 pm
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6:35 pm -
8:00 pm
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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7:00 am -
2:00 pm
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7:00 am -
8:00 am
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8:00 am -
8:10 am
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8:10 am -
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Health Care as a Strategic Business Imperative
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- Understand strategic investments in health and differing approaches to employee coverage
- commitments to coverage and shifts toward defined contribution
- Explore innovative wellness initiatives and outcomes
- incentivize employees to take responsibility for their health care
- gauge how greater access and on-site medical care impacts productivity
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John Torinus
Chairman
Serigraph Inc.; Author, The Company that Solved Health Care; Co-Chair
Milwaukee Task Force on Health Care Cost Concerns
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9:10 am -
9:55 am
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9:55 am -
11:05 am
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11:05 am -
12:05 pm
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Reengineering of the American Health Care Workforce – Aligning with the Needs of an Integrated System
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- What must the health care workforce look like to meet the needs of an integrated system?
- trends re-shaping the health care workforce (e.g., shift to more cost-effective outpatient care, emphasis on primary care physicians)
- policies, laws, and regulatory issues that prevent health systems from getting to the right size and avoiding overlap
- Define the role of academic medical centers in an integrated health care system
- AMC’s as training sites for a new workforce
- how should medical training evolve to meet needs?
- Explore the value of non-medical, community health coaches and professionals
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Robert Pearl, MD
Executive Director and CEO
The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente
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Arthur Garson, Jr., MD, MPH
Director, Center for Health Policy, University Professor
University of Virginia;
Chairman, The Grand-Aides Foundation
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12:05 pm -
1:05 pm
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1:05 pm -
2:05 pm
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2:05 pm
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