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The 8<sup>th</sup> Annual Hospital and Health System Summit

The WHCC 8th Annual Hospital and Health System Summit convenes over 200 CEOs and senior executives focused on developing ACOs, medical home models, disruptive innovations and business models, replicable integration strategies and accountability frameworks. Hospital, Health Systems 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, managing operational costs and successful reform implementation.

Chair: John Toussaint,MD
CEO Emeritus, ThedaCare;
CEO, ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
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Monday, April 4, 2011
2:00 pm -
2:55 pm
Delivering High Value Care—Payment and Delivery Models That Produce Results
  • New business models that provide more coordinated, higher quality and cost-effective care
  • Transforming the delivery and financing system to achieve improvements in the quality of care
  • The Scott & White perspective – How the system received Dartmouth ranking of top 10 performer in the areas for highest quality and controlled cost
  • Strategic development of a provider business model to deliver high value care
Alfred B. Knight, MD
Chief Executive Officer
Scott & White Memorial Hospital/Foundation and Scott & White Health Plan
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Moderator:
Stuart Guterman Stuart Guterman
Assistant Vice President and Director, Program on Payment System Reform
The Commonwealth Fund
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3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Hospital and Health System Strategies to Establish an ACO—An In-Depth Comparison of Key Models
  • Defining ACO – Outlining critical ingredients, incentives and structure to function as a true ACO
  • Comparison of key models including integrated and non-integrated institutions
  • Identifying payment models most compatible with ACOs including Bundled, Shared
  • Savings and Capitation
  • ACO tool-kits and determining readiness of entering agreements
Joachim Roski, PhD, MD
Managing Director, High-Value Health Care Project
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution
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Moderator:
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
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
10:40 am -
11:35 am
The Focused Hospital—Defining Core Competencies and Delivering Excellence
  • Evaluating the disruptive hospital business model – Cleveland Clinic’s hospital redesign creating “institutes” as focused solutions shops for specific services
  • Creating centers of excellence within hospital environments to develop continuously hone outcomes
  • Models to optimize diagnosis, therapeutic recommendation and care coordination across the care setting
  • Preliminary evidence linking the new hospital business model to improve patient satisfaction and experience
Delos  (Toby) Cosgrove Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD
Chief Executive Officer and President
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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James Merlino, MD
Chief Experience Officer
Cleveland Clinic, Office of Patient Experience
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David Whelan David Whelan
Staff Writer
Forbes
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11:40 am -
12:35 pm
Advances in Virtual and Clinical Integration to High Performance Health Systems
  • Overcoming the barriers to clinical integration in hospitals and key strategies toward collaboration
  • Identifying the potential for greater clinical integration between hospitals, group practices, labs to improve patient outcomes and cost savings
  • Case study from Advocate Health System: - Key clinical and virtual integration strategies for improved outcomes
Mary Brainerd
President and CEO
Health Partners
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Lee B. Sacks, MD
Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Advocate Health Care;
Chief Executive Officer, Advocate Physician Partners
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2:50 pm -
3:45 pm
Value Reporting and Transparency—Establishing Comparative Performance Metrics for Public Reporting and Health System Change
  • The formation of a data driven organization around ACO principles
  • Developing well defined value performance metrics that can be compared across organizations
  • Bridging the gap between data and driving complex patient decisions
  • Pilot program case studies on comparative healthcare value measurement for public reporting
Craig E. Samitt Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dean Health System
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Kenneth C. Wilson Kenneth C. Wilson, MD, MS, CPE
Associate Vice President of Clinical Affairs
Norton Healthcare
Thomas W. Burke, MD
Executive Vice President and Physician-in-Chief
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Moderator:
David Whelan David Whelan
Staff Writer
Forbes
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