The WHCC 9^th Annual Hospitals and Health Systems Summit convenes over 200 CEOs and senior executives focused on transitioning into an ACO business model, fostering innovation in the delivery of care, care coordination, physician engagement and reinventing primary care. Hospital, Health System, Physician Group Practice and Integrated Delivery Network CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, CFOs and Administrators gather to exchange strategies with their peers on replicable and innovative delivery models, physician alignment and reimbursement, and efficient resource utilization to achieve operational excellence and successful reform implementation.

• The financial implications of reform in transforming health care from a cottage industry to a national competition on cost and quality
• Technology investments needed to meet increasing consumer demand for transparency, convenient access to facilities and information, and demonstrating high-value health care
• A new hospital model for delivering care under reform through leadership, cultural change, and a focus on quality and integration to support new reimbursement models

• Develop a robust information infrastructure to support alignment with internal and external stakeholders
• Implement a cohesive, comprehensive system of quality criteria, measurement and improvement processes
• Leverage quality metrics for physician engagement, care coordination, cost reduction and true clinical integration

• Creating organizational alignment around accountability and the performance management agenda
• Leverage incentives, goals and IT infrastructure to lead cultural change and the transition to high value care

• Understanding the “Innovation Life Cycle” and role of the “o-gap” in healthcare innovation
• Fostering a culture of innovation
• Examples of how Children’s Hospital Boston’s Innovation Acceleration Program supports the development of novel products, processes and technology
• How Summa Health System is accelerating clinical performance and quality outcomes through multi-disciplinary, patient-centered innovation and tight physician and health system collaboration

• Streamline patient throughput and promote the use of evidence-based protocols to control variabilities in care processes and improve operational efficiency
• Combine operational, clinical and financial processes to improve outcomes and better align around organizational goals of improving quality and reducing costs
• Analyze different models for improving operational efficiencies with specific case examples from industry