The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress and Exhibition

The 2011 AHCC Hospitals and Physicians Summit

The 2011 AHCC Hospitals and Physicians Summit convenes CEOs and senior executives focused on developing ACOs, physician/hospital integration strategies, innovative business and care delivery models, achieving full utilization of EHRs and leveraging data analytics for clinical intelligence. Hospitals, Health Systems, Integrated Delivery Networks and Physician Groups CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, CFOs, Chief Physicians and Administrators gather to exchange strategies with their peers on innovative and replicable models for alignment, integration, health IT implementation and strategies to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Chair: Bill Gil Bill Gil
President and CEO
Facey Medical Foundation
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Hospitals and Physicians—Integration and ACOs
2:15 pm -
3:00 pm
Part 1: Alignment and Integration—The Building Blocks for an ACO
  • Engaging physicians as leaders to overcome multi-stakeholder alignment barriers
  • Redesign the delivery of care through physician collaboration to deliver value based health care
  • Innovative payment models and strategies for changing payment methodology to advance clinical and physician integration
Martin Serota, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
AltaMed Health Services
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3:00 pm -
3:45 pm
Part 2: Synergy and Alignment - Sharing Core Competencies and Delivering Value through Risk Sharing Partnerships
  • Understand, embrace and overcome the unique challenges in a solo and small practice dominated environment with physician integration and collaborative partnerships between physicians and hospitals
  • Align provider risk sharing models for innovative approaches to preserve and improve the value proposition in a declining revenue era
  • Streamline the sharing of quality data, improve accuracy of data and use the data to drive the value arbitrage
Michael Hunn
Senior Vice President, Chief Executive, California Region
Providence Health & Services
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4:30 pm -
5:15 pm
Part 1: Clinical Integration Strategies for Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs
  • Develop robust infrastructures and mechanisms to improve quality and reduce cost through collaboration among physicians, other providers, and staff throughout the organization
  • Foster clinical integration across the care continuum to align utilization management and case management for seamless, coordinated care delivery
  • Emphasize appropriateness of care, reduction of inappropriate variation, and lean approaches to care processes
Douglas L. Strong, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers ;
Chair, Michigan Health & Hospital Association Board of Trustees and Executive Committee
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5:15 pm -
6:00 pm
Part 2: Aligning Physician Hospital Incentives for a High Performance Health System
  • Promoting accountability through multi-payer/multi-provider integration and physician led governance
  • Assessing core physician values and trade-offs to develop true alignment of incentives
  • Physician employment and pay-for-value compensation models that contain costs while delivering high quality care and patient satisfaction
Robert W. Pryor, MD, MBA, FAAP, FCCM, FCCP
Chief Executive Officer
Scott & White Healthcare
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Hospitals and Physicians—IT and Analytics
10:55 am -
11:40 am
Clinical Intelligence—The Necessary Intersection of Business Intelligence and Clinical Data to Revolutionize Performance Improvement
  • Key strategies to increase efficiency by streamlining care processes throughout the clinic
  • Managing populations through analytics and comprehensive decision support to translate data in meaningful, actionable information
  • Best practices for collaborating with payers to improve intracase utilization
Darren Dworkin
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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11:40 am -
12:25 pm
Meaningful Use Road Map and Demonstrating Excellent Care—Stage 2 and Stage 3
  • Ensuring communication and buy-in of all stakeholders as a key element for successful EHR/HIT rollout
  • Aligning meaningful use metrics with system goals of improved health outcomes and operational efficiency
  • Lessons learned from an early adopter and strategies for meeting the three stages of meaningful use requirements before the 2015 deadline
  • The VA’s role in moving the health IT needle and current initiatives to advance adoption
Tim Cromwell, RN PhD PMP
Director of Standards and Interoperability for the Office of Informatics and Analytics
Veterans Health Administration
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Elizabeth O. Johnson, RN, BSN, MS, FHIMMS, CPHIMS
Vice President of Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI), Tenet Healthcare;
Member, DHHS HIT Standards Committee
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