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World Health Care Congress Emerging Trend Forums

Monday, April 4, 2011
ETF A: Forecasting Health Reform's Impact on Providers, Payers and Employers
Who should attend this forum?
  • Forcasting how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will impact various health care sectors
  • Detailing the economic implications reform will have on health care spending and what the health care industry can do to remain competitive
  • Recommendations for a 2014 action plan -- Understanding the 2014 outlook and the dynamic landscape for all industry sectors
David Lansky David Lansky, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health
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Joachim Roski, PhD, MD
Managing Director, High-Value Health Care Project
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution
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Moderator:
Ceci Connolly
Senior Adviser, McKinsey Center for Health Reform;
Former Health Policy Reporter, Washington Post
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ETF B: Successful Medicaid Agency Financing Strategies to Expand Access
Who should attend this forum?
  • Overcoming federal-state implementation issues to successfully expanding access
  • Strategies to maximize federal matching of state medicaid programs
  • Utilizing Medicaid funding for statewide HIE development
Speaker Photo Unavailable Maureen Milligan, PhD
Deputy Medicaid/CHIP Director for Program Evaluation and Planning
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
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David N. Sundwall, MD
Executive Director, Utah Department of Health
Commissioner of Health, State of Utah
Vice Chair, MACPAC
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ETF C: Best Practices for Prevention and Population Health
Who should attend this forum?
  • Critical measurement and reporting standards needed to quantify the impact of health services on population health
  • Determining gaps in access to care and developing system wide incentives to close them
  • Identifying proven intervention strategies to improve population health
George J. Isham, MD, MS
Chief Health Officer and Plan Medical Director
Health Partners
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Susan M. Kosman, RN, BSN, MS
Chief Nursing Officer
Aetna
Scott S. Young Scott S. Young, MD
Senior Medical Director and Co-executive Director
Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente
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Moderator:
Christopher Queram Christopher Queram
President and Chief Executive Officer
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ)
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ETF D: Achieving Meaningful Use—Critical Criteria to Meet Requirements and Qualify for Incentives
Who should attend this forum?
  • Identify key technologies and expected financial rewards and incentives for meaningful use implementation
  • Best practices to connect providers through HIEs to achieve meaningful use
  • Understand the relationship between meaningful use criteria and the principles to be a successful ACO
Pamela McNutt
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Methodist Health System (Dallas, TX);
Chair,
CHIME Policy Steering Committee
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Gina B. Perez
President
Delaware Health Information Network
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ETF E: Personalized Medicine and Integrating Genomics into Plan Design
Who should attend this forum?
  • Embarking on a new era in diagnostics to identify high risk patients early and to identify appropriate therapies
  • System strategies to better predict which interventions will deliver the optimal treatment to the appropriate patient
  • Establishing a framework to cover or exclude specific genetic tests based upon clinical validity and evidence to promote value
  • Advances in improved cataloging and analysis of treatments and procedures to determine the most appropriate treatment paths
Sharon Levine, MD
Associate Executive Medical Director, The Permanente Medical Group;
Board Member, Patient Center Outcomes Research Institute
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Lee N. Newcomer, MD, MHA
Senior Vice President, Oncology, Genetics and Women’s Health
UnitedHealthcare
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ETF F: Deploying a Consumer Driven Model—Imperatives of Effective Engagement and Communications to Drive Improvements in Health
Who should attend this forum?
  • Examine the "Ostrich Index" – Issues that people say impact their health and wellbeing that the healthcare industry isn’t addressing
  • Understand the link between health and productivity, and some of the triggers we can leverage to increase both (bringing The Unmentionables to life)
  • Explore communication strategies and tools that elegantly assess consumer perceptions of their healthcare – and opportunities to deliver on these findings
Ingrid Lindberg Ingrid Lindberg
Customer Experience Officer
CIGNA
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Moderator:
Alexandra Drane
President and Co-Founder
Eliza Corporation
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ETF G: Setting the ACO Framework—Outlining Strategic Designs and Incentives
Who should attend this forum?
  • Strategic design of ACOs -- Determining the "who, how and what ifs" of equitable funding decisions
  • Ensuring adequate funding for providers both inside and outside of an ACO
  • The role of the state and public purchasers in facilitating ACO development
Bob Kocher Bob Kocher, MD
Principal, McKinsey and Company;
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Engleberg Center for Health Reform, Brookings Institution ;
Former member, National Economic Council
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Martin E. Hickey, MD
Managing Director
Navigant
Former Chief Accountable Care Officer
Alegent Health Clinic
ETF H: Value Based Pharmaceutical Pricing and Purchasing Strategies
Who should attend this forum?
  • Utilizing comparative effectiveness and evidence-based research to make improved purchasing decisions
  • Employer strategies for making pharmaceutical purchasing and coverage decisions based on demonstrated value and outcomes
  • How value-based pricing approaches can gain strong competitive advantage and dominate market share
Andrew Gold
Executive Director, Global Benefits Planning
Pitney Bowes
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Joshua J. Ofman Joshua J. Ofman, MD, MSHS
VP, Global Coverage & Reimbursement, Global Government Affairs; VP, Global Health Economics and Global Development
Amgen
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ETF I: Catalyzing Innovation and Health Care Investment—Perspectives from Wall Street
Who should attend this forum?
  • Tracking private equity’s contributions to the healthcare economy and detail post-reform investment opportunities
  • Key attributes of health care business models that are attracting venture capitalist and private equity funding
Carl McDonald, CFA
Director
Citi Investment Research
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Moderator:
Debra Richman Debra Richman
Vice President, Healthcare Strategy
Harris Interactive Inc.
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