• Policy updates and preliminary data based on implementation rollout
• Lessons from initial consumer enrollment
• Government initiatives to refine and optimize processes in the next six months

• Microeconomic impacts of reform and the growth of private insurance exchanges on the business of delivering health care
• Stakeholder approaches, levels of engagement/commitment, and success measures
• Important shifts in business and product design to succeed in an exchange-based environment and adjust to the movement of larger employers to private exchanges
• Effects on provider, public and private plan, employer, and life sciences organizations

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• Changes in health care funding and distribution via private exchanges
• Impacts on traditional risk pooling strategies
• Five year view of distribution landscape: Who will go away and who will enter?

• Move to “retail” design to meet the needs of a consumer-driven health care system
• New ways payers should be reaching consumers
• Next generation customer care and advocacy
• Changes to member experience: Make health care more convenient with self-service and online shopping
• Wellness and fitness applications and strategy to drive behavior change

• Manage the affordability of benefits that drive up cost
• Build transparent pricing into networks

• Next generation applications changing health care delivery
• How much health care can be delivered through a phone?

• The delicate interplay between government, vendor, provider, and patient goals in privacy and security
• Approaches to sharing clinical trial data to foster and drive scientific discovery
• Data analysis and connectivity at the patient, provider system, and reimbursement level to improve outcomes and support value-based care initiatives
• Requirements of privacy and security rules and their impact on industry, covered entities, and patients

• Examine the strategic thinking behind partnerships and collaborations: How are leaders from all sectors of health care positioning initiatives for optimal uptake and success?
• Understand current efforts between sectors to support the move toward value and quality

• Delivering on the promise of genomics and targeted treatments in clinical decision support
• Implementing next gen HIT cloud-based platforms for coordinated care, population management, and real-time data integration

• Approaches to reduce cost for employers, patients, providers, and payers
• Implementing (and paying for) money-saving measures
• Providing cost transparency in the system

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• Review current and needed payment innovations
• Explore product or service level capitation
  • what is the payment innovation journey?
  • where are we going in terms of assigning risk?

• Explore the current care redesign landscape including efforts toward clinic innovation and moving risk to the delivery system
• Examine the health plan role in the context of an accountable care model
  • how can health plans reign in costs? what methods are currently in use?
• Understand the impacts of market consolidation among and between plans and providers

• Financial and clinical alignment of physicians to change care practices
• Disruptive forces that provide alternatives to the trend of consolidation
• Thinning line between provider and payer groups
• Employment models and practice redesign to improve care

• Motivate consumers to engage with your brand by determining what results in reduced costs or improved outcomes
• Gauge the role of employers in driving behavior change
• Discuss how to differentiate your brand meaningfully as products become more standardized
• Examine retail segmentation, patient engagement, and wellness initiatives

• Strengthening the link between innovation and strategy
• Balancing innovation with need: Realizing the benefit of technology investments in increased outcomes or reduced costs
• Technology that enables sustainable and scalable, consumer-focused models of care
• Systems implementation and integration for truly connected care

• What is the ROI of wellness programs versus the cost of doing nothing?
• What parameters and culture support success?
• What can we learn from failed attempts?

• Capture the opportunity to serve the newly eligible
• Expand access and market share in the provider community
• Define the value proposition for a new population

• Parallels in innovation from life sciences and Silicon Valley
• Gauging the impact on the cost curve from investments in prevention versus treatment
• Leveraging personalized medicine to improve chronic disease treatment

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