World Congress
  
The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress
ETF A: mHealth Innovations – Transforming the Health Care Delivery Paradigm
  • Mobile EHRs and the next frontier in health information sharing
  • Empowering consumers and providers to improve health status with remote monitoring and innovative apps and devices
  • Leveraging wireless technologies to greatly improve the quality of care and lower the costs for all stakeholders
Donald Jones Donald Jones
Vice President, Wireless Health
Global Strategy & Market Development
Qualcomm Life, A Qualcomm Company
Farris Timimi Farris Timimi, MD
Medical Director
Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media
Moderator:
Charles Parker Charles Parker
Executive Director
Continua Health Alliance
ETF B: Consumerism and Engagement - Innovative Strategies for Empowering, Educating and Engaging Consumers
  • Multi-stakeholder approaches to establish and sustain consumer engagement in health
  • Explore communication strategies and tools that elegantly assess consumer perceptions of their healthcare
  • How to reinvent the customer experience and empower consumers to be more active participants in their health choices
Meg McCarthy Meg McCarthy
Executive Vice President, Information, Technology and Service Operations
Aetna
Joan Kennedy Joan Kennedy
Senior Vice President
Medco Health Solutions
Moderator:
Alexandra Drane Alexandra Drane
Founder, Chief Visionary Officer, and Chair
Eliza Corporation
ETF C: Hospital Business Models for Life in the Gap - Transitioning to Value Based Care While Maintaining Current Operating Model
  • Moving beyond structure and finance to focus on changing the way care is delivered in ways that improve care and reduce cost
  • Risk sharing and savings sharing models that align stakeholders to deliver value in a FFS model
  • Analyze alternate models to the pioneer ACO and how each will support the transition to value-based care
Francis J. Crosson Francis J. Crosson, MD
Senior Fellow, The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy;
Founder and Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices
Founding Executive Director, The Permanente Federation
Lonny Reisman Lonny Reisman, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Aetna
Moderator:
Stuart Guterman Stuart Guterman
Vice President, Payment and System Reform;
Executive Director, Commission on a High Performance Health System
The Commonwealth Fund
ETF D: Tackling the Value in CER—Analyzing Cost of Care for Value-Based Decisions
  • Understand how CER is used in making decisions on medical necessity for populations and subpopulations
  • Strategies for generating evidence when randomized clinical trials are not possible
  • The intersection of CER and personalized therapies for the next frontier in value-based care
Joe V. Selby Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH
Executive Director
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Mark Gibson Mark Gibson
Director, Center for Evidence-Based Policy
Oregon Health and Science University
Robert McDonough Robert McDonough, MD, JD
Head, Clinical Policy Research & Development
Aetna
Felix W. Frueh Felix W. Frueh, PhD
President, Medco Research Institute
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
Moderator:
J. Lyle Bootman J. Lyle Bootman, PhD
Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean, College of Pharmacy
The University of Arizona
ETF E: Improving Patient-Focused Care – The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Chronic Care Management
  • An update from the CMS innovation center on initiatives to improve chronic care delivery models in the areas of patient care, coordination of care, and community and population health
  • Certification for medical homes and looking for plan consistency for payment for preventive services and medical home
  • AHRQ's research results on evidence and evaluation on the patient-centered medical home
David Meyers David Meyers, MD
Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical
Partnership, Agency for Health Research and Quality
Ellen-Marie Whelan Ellen-Marie Whelan, NP, PhD
Senior Advisor
CMS Innovation Center
Moderator:
Thomas Graf Thomas Graf, MD, FAACP
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Population Health
Chairman, Community Practice Service Line
Geisinger Health System
ETF F:Leveraging the Nationwide Health Information Highway to Improve the Quality and Safety of Care
  • Understand how open source is enabling the public and private healthcare communities of providers, patients, payors, states and other health stakeholders to connect securely and efficiently over the internet using Nationwide Health Information Network standards and governance and the CONNECT solution
  • Learn how organizations are using the CONNECT solution to create health information exchanges and tie into the Nationwide Health Information Network
  • ONC's health IT agenda: A strategy for achieving a nationwide, interoperable health information exchange to improve health care delivery, make benefits administration faster and develop a speedier process of identifying and addressing public health emergencies
Lauren Thompson Lauren Thompson, PhD
Director, Federal Health Architecture
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Moderator:
Josh Smith Josh Smith
Staff Reporter, Technology Policy
National Journal
ETF G: Disruptive Innovations in Retail Care – Establishing Next Generation Primary Care Networks
  • Insights in to scope and expansions of retail care – How can convenient, retail care providers integrate with the delivery system
  • The growth of retail clinics and analyzing the future role in medical homes, ACOs and other innovative payment models
  • Employers view on the economic benefit of in-house medical care by increasing health and productively, reducing absenteeism and cut employers' medical bills for outside doctors and emergency room visits
  • How to make convenient care, more convenient – The role of eVisits and telemedicine to bring care to the home
John Holcomb John Holcomb
Vice President, Healthcare Operations
Target
Gregory Long Gregory Long, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Senior Vice President, Systems of Care
ThedaCare
Moderator:
Larry S. Boress Larry S. Boress
Executive Director
National Association of Worksite Health Centers (NAWHC)
ETF H: Healthcare Utilization and Spending Patterns for the Privately Insured Segment Under Age 65
  • Novel insights into the characteristics and drivers of healthcare utilization and cost
  • Identifying healthcare spending variation across members with specified chronic conditions, cancers, and auto-immune or other conditions treated with specialty medications
  • Empowering constituents across the entire healthcare system through a deeper understanding of members who have the greatest impact on healthcare costs in order to effectively design and implement care management programs, manage costs and price services
Murray Aitken Murray Aitken
Executive Director
Institute for Healthcare Informatics, IMS
ETF I: Tackling the Obesity Epidemic Through a Clinically-Proven and Sustainable Weight Loss Program
  • Review of results from the NHLBI-sponsored Johns Hopkins Power Trial, the basis for Innergy
  • Multi-faceted approach to achieve a healthy weight by through the use of behavioral strategies to achieve changes in eating habits and physical activity
  • Launching a physician-directed sustained weight loss program and the delivery of Innergy to physicians and health systems, employers, health plans, and governments
Gerald J Jerome Gerald J Jerome
Instructor
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Nathan King Nathan King
Senior Product Portfolio Manager
Healthways