• 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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• Explore the impact of the emergence of provider quality metrics
• Address the significance of cost transparency and the downward pressure on pricing
  • strategies to remain profitable amid squeezed margins
  • understand how supply chain strategy and transparent data can directly correlate to organizational trends and therefore better management of the bottom line
• Develop effective risk-sharing agreements with insurer networks
• Debate considerations for successful involvement the insurance marketplaces
  • provider rates in exchanges
  • impact on traditional provider role in Medicaid enrollment

• Partner with plans and directly with businesses on strategic initiatives that drive overall health care costs down
• Discuss how to craft wellness and prevention programs that achieve the greatest outcomes
• Explore population management
• In the ACO model, move from identifying patients through claims data to identifying risks and gaps in care
• Reduce readmissions rates and improve chronic disease management between visits

• Identify opportunities through better leveraging technology
• Evaluate home monitoring and other utilizations of mobile devices to enhance care delivery
• Ensure effective patient data collection and use: EMR and interoperability
• Consider the benefits and challenges of being a ‘connected’ hospital
• Embrace patient engagement approaches and consumerism

• Hear new thinking about the old cost base
• Open up access to make care available at the lowest possible costs through technology or strategic initiatives
• Implement a lean management culture with tools and strategies that drive quality improvements and reduce costs by creating greater efficiencies
• Reassess capital and operating costs to align with corporate strategy
• Adjust changing care practices with financial practices
• Develop population management at the system level

• 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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• Discuss when staying independent may be best for your organization
• Understand the changing demographics of physician practice patterns
• Hear about innovative partnerships and consolidations that streamlined operations and/or created additional leverage in the market
• Learn how expansion into growing/new geographic markets created new opportunities for hospitals and health systems

• Hear clinical and non-clinical views on the challenges and opportunities for improved physician engagement and integration
• Optimize physician expertise to maximize value to both the physician and the hospital/health system
• Increase quality and efficiency in physician workflow and patient care
• Correlate changing care and payment models with workforce behavior
• Evaluate change management programs and initiatives that weigh various employment models, compensation models, and practice redesign
• Forge new relationships with providers and understand the benefits of creating a ‘Physician Cabinet’
• Assess how best to communicate the benefits of an ACO to patients and ways to connect with PCP practices

• 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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