The Hospital and Health Systems Summit on Improving Patient Safety and Clinical Outcomes

In this exclusive gathering, top executives from hospitals, health systems, and integrated delivery systems convene to discuss and debate the top trends and issues in health care quality. The role of the C-suite executive has evolved to reflect the tremendous market changes instituted by health reform and technology. In this intimate meeting, C-Suite executives discuss the industry’s biggest challenges, issues unique to their C-Suite role, strategic vision, and the next steps for health care organizations in a post-reform world.

• Discuss rapid market changes and challenges specific to C-Suite roles
• Explore the interdependence of quality and cost, and long-term strategy to unite the two entities
• Share best practices for creating, evaluating, and measuring the success, return, and cost of quality programs
• Understand and evaluate the concepts of innovative and transformational health care
• Prepare and share solutions that create added value within your organization and address declining reimbursement rates
• Examine the addition of a Chief Clinical Officer, Chief Quality Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, and Chief Patient Experience Officer to the C-Suite
• Outline the use of technology as an industry disrupter that has significant impact on long and short term costs
• Identify the opportunities and consequences of internal and external transparency
  • Will it last? How has it changed care? Has it influenced standards? How was it shifted priorities? Has it affected brand value? Should you be more involved?

For many health care providers, quality has always been at the center of their organization’s core mission values. However for others, the transition from volume to value is a difficult shift. To make this transition easier, introducing the role of a Chief Quality Officer is vital. However, not all organizations have this quality advocate in their executive leadership team. In this in-depth workshop, learn how to effectively communicate the importance of a strong quality program to senior leadership and outline ways quality can contribute to overall success.

• Learn how to best communicate the vitality of a quality program to executive leadership teams
• Identify how quality can positively influence other areas, such as marketing and branding, finance, etc.
• Partner with IT, finance, clinical units, supply chain, and other departments for research, support, and implementation planning
• Outline the interdependence of quality and costs
• Discover innovative ways to measure ROI and other intangible measures of success and profitability
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration that puts quality and patient experience at the center of the organization’s mission
• Build dashboards and metrics to report on the progress of your program and measure results
• Effectively build a case for continued and growing investments into quality programs over the next five to ten years, despite reimbursement cutbacks and budget restraints – staffing, system improvements, infrastructure, etc.