The 8th Annual American Health Care Congress and Exhibition

Market Insight Series

The 2011 AHCC Market Insight Series showcases an organization's advancements and successes in transforming health care. The networking, panel discussion and case study presentations from health care leaders provide the unique opportunity to collaborate actionable solutions for next day implementation.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Confronting Reform—Innovate or Fail
  • Leading "accountable" care
  • New methods for harnessing data assets, reducing complexity and eliminating unwarranted care variation
  • Establish a viable roadmap to clinical integration
    
Speaker Photo Unavailable Alyson Powell Erwin
Sr. Solution Architect
WhiteCloud Analytics
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Samantha Collier, MD
Vice President and System Chief Quality Officer
St. Luke's Health System
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Integrating and Sharing Patient Data Real-time—The Key to Health Plan Transformation
  • Understand what is driving the need for health plans to make more real-time data available to a broader constituency than ever before, such as health care reform, the continuous escalation of healthcare costs for consumers, and the call for improved member outcomes
  • Determine the key factors crucial to the consistency and reliability of the member/patient data which ultimately determines its value
  • Learn how integration and sharing of data real time impacts healthcare gaps
  • Learn how the true integration of clinical, pharmacy and administrative data, delivered real-time, presents a single 360 degree member view, leading to quality member outcomes
    
Diana Rappa-Kesser
Business Solutions Executive, Care Management Division
DST Health Solutions
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Janice Young
Program Director, Payer IT Strategies
IDC Health Insights
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Chronic Care Management Programs—Contracting Strategies to Ensure Quality Care and Reduced Costs
  • Intensified primary care strategies to improve the quality of care and reduce expenditures for the highest cost percentile of the employee population
  • Incentive strategies for consumers and providers to drastically lower per capita spending
  • Innovative care delivery models to effectively control chronically ill populations
Joshua Riff Joshua Riff, MD, MBA
Medical Director, Clinics
Target Inc.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Top Health Industry Issues for 2012—Health Reform Prompts Industry Players to Undergo Makeovers
  • Discuss the top 2011 health trends
  • Make predictions about the top ten health trends and the top ten implications for 2012
    
Jeffrey Gruen Jeffrey Gruen, MD, MBA
Partner
PwC's PRTM Management Consulting
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Navigating the Nationwide Health Information Highway
  • Detailing how this new and digital infrastructure for healthcare will yield profound and lasting economic and social benefits for our nation
  • Defining economic and organizational benefits of the Nationwide Health Information Highway for the healthcare industry
  • Demonstrating how the Nationwide Health Information Highway provides the interoperability necessary for medical records to safely and securely travel on this new digital highway to health
    
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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Richard I. Stephenson
Founder and President
RISARC Healthcare Consulting, LLC
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