• 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

• 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

• Learn about a new designation as a COE to spotlight your Gynecologic Surgery Department
• Ideal way to market your Minimally Invasive Surgery, including Robotic Surgery
• Enhance your Surgicenter’s commitment to Women’s Health
• Improve your ability to establish and track your Quality Measures

• Participate in a forum with executive leadership from different National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health around the country
• Discuss what the nationally designated centers are doing to promote and encourage excellence within their organizations
• Consider how to emulate best practices and strategies of the centers to encourage excellence in your service line

• Learn best practices, strategies, challenges, and opportunities faced by Orlando Health in the creation of their Women’s Institute, launching in 2013
• Ask what lessons have been learned and know what pitfalls to avoid when establishing new service lines in women’s health
• Gain key takeaways from the Orlando Health experience

• 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

• 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

• Why solutions won't come from the "system"
• Why solutions will be consumer driven and data driven

• Results that matter - The impact of Whole Foods’ clinic system on chronic disease progression and costs
• Key learnings, updates, and next steps to continue to reduce health care costs based on progress since 2011

• Identify key success strategies used in women’s health to develop leaders
• Note personal behaviors/attributes to enhance your ability to lead others
• Understand the different styles of leadership
• Learn tactics to use in a women’s health environment to advance the leadership skills in others

• Hear about Baby Friendly USA and Centering HealthCare Institute and how they impact prenatal and postpartum health of mom and baby
• Learn from hospitals that have implemented these initiatives for a real-life account of their stages of development
• Listen to a discussion of how these programs impact quality of care, cost of services and outcomes

• Explore EHR versatility for addressing various challenges within your organization
• Hear how health systems and hospitals have implemented and utilized EHR to improve operations and services
• Discuss outcomes and lessons learned with others who have gone through the process of implementation

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• How will women’s health be involved with the ACO model?
• Discuss how women’s service lines can administer population based management with an ACO like a regular hospital, creating the partnerships and community connections to make it work
• Hear about Texas Health’s work on creating a physician-led multidisciplinary model in women’s services

• Examine innovative wellness programs that engage varying demographics within the women’s population
• Identify the importance of heart health awareness for women and hear what others are doing to educate their patient population
• Analyze retail strategies that can be integrated into your wellness program to, improve the health of your population while enhancing your bottom line

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• The mindset for a successful workforce – accepting the loss of autonomy
• fully leverage technology including better systems and smart devices
• increase comfort-level when collaborating in a team environment
• 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?

• Confront the need to integrate care and deliver better outcomes in a matrix reimbursement and incentive environment
• Explore innovations at the point of care
• Discuss how radical new care, staffing, payment, and IT models break the mold and impact health care delivery

• Understand what PCMH and person-centric health can teach us about saving time, money, and lives
• Discover innovations that disrupt by getting the whole person, not just his or her skin, in the game
• Reduce costs by integrating smart technology to promote interaction between a person and his health care team
• Aggregate, structure, and share otherwise elusive behavioral, activity, and wellness information via the EHR
• Monitor and prescribe healthy behavior activities and solutions