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The 2<sup>nd</sup> Annual Chronic Care Summit

The WHCC 2nd Annual Chronic Care Summit will convene over 150 senior level executives focused on improving chronic care outcomes through improved diagnosis, decision support, chronic care and disease management, population health programs and consumer engagement. Case studies and innovations on models to mitigate the cost of chronic disease, next generation population health programs, treatment and prevention programs to impact the obesity epidemic, behavior change models and retail chronic care services are presented. Corporate Medical Directors, Chief Medical Officers and Medical Directors of health plans, provider and employer organizations, as well as VPs of Disease Management, Clinical Programs, Quality Improvement, Evidence-based Care and Outcomes Management, exchange strategies with their peers on effective prevention and wellness programs, consumer engagement for better chronic disease management, behavioral economics and mitigating the fiscal impact of preventable illness and chronic disease.

Chair: Tracey Moorhead
President and Chief Executive Officer
Care Continuum Alliance
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Monday, April 4, 2011
2:00 pm -
2:55 pm
Next Generation Health Risk Appraisals—Challenging the Burden of Economic Disease
  • Transforming health strategies into economic strategies through next generation population health programs
  • Developing a roadmap to improve population health at the corporate and community level
  • Conducting a cost/benefit analysis of targeted prevention programs vs. traditional disease management for chronic conditions
Dee W. Edington Dee W. Edington, PhD
Director, Health Management Research Center, University of Michigan;
Author, ZERO TRENDS: Health as a Serious Economic Strategy
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George J. Isham, MD, MS
Chief Health Officer and Plan Medical Director
Health Partners
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3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
New Payment Models to Mitigate the Cost of Chronic Diseases
  • Evaluating the fiscal impact of preventable illness and chronic disease
  • The role of novel insurance products to promote wellness and lessen the costs of chronic disease
  • Assess how a scalable clinical managed care model can reduce the long-term costs associated with chronic disease
Chester Burrell
President and CEO
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
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Susan M. Kosman, RN, BSN, MS
Chief Nursing Officer
Aetna
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
10:40 am -
11:35 am
Reversing Trends in Obesity and Diabetes—The Necessary Intersection of Treatment and Prevention
  • Sophisticated diagnosis tools to better manage and monitor obese and diabetes patients
  • Insight into treatment and prevention programs that are needed to impact the obesity epidemic
  • Results from an EMC case study that engages patients and affects change behavior for hypertension patients, a common symptom of obesity and diabetes n environment that engages patients and affects change behavior
Gary Deverman, CFRE
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Building Healthier America
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Delia Vetter Delia Vetter
Senior Director, Benefits and Programs
EMC Corporation
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11:40 am -
12:35 pm
Interventions in Chronic Care—Strategies to Affect Real Behavior Change and Improve Outcomes
  • Learn different clinical approaches to changing health behavior
  • Compare these different approaches and determine which approach is appropriate for different situations
  • Analyze programs and tools that incorporate behavioral interventions to achieve measurable improved outcomes
Richard Safeer Richard Safeer, MD, FAAFP
Medical Director of Prevention and Disease Management
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
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Scott S. Young Scott S. Young, MD
Senior Medical Director and Co-executive Director
Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente
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2:50 pm -
3:45 pm
Consumer-Driven Delivery Models to Treat Chronic Disease
  • Launching programs to bring more affordable, convenient chronic care services to consumers to improve management of chronic conditions
  • Expanding the pharmacist's and retail clinic's roles and establishing new touch points to help manage long-term illness patients
  • Exploring the integration of specialty pharma and complex care coordination
Troyen Brennan, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
CVS Caremark Corporation
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