The World Health Care Congress Inaugural Chief Medical Officer Summit convenes Chief Medical Officers from the nation's largest hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks and health plans with a focus on prevention and wellness business and care delivery models, innovative care management strategies and decreasing utilization. Case studies and innovations on models to mitigate the cost of chronic disease, next generation population health programs, treatment and prevention programs, behavior change models and emerging payment methodologies are presented.

• Explore how to develop a comprehensive approach to designing a health and wellness strategy
• Learn what innovative programs are being utilized to promote prevention, such as patient-centered medical homes, value-based benefit design, and outcomes-based incentives
• Analyze health reform’s mandate to shift reimbursement for evidence-based preventive services and screenings including lung cancer screenings
• Development of a cancer control center to assess cancer rates through registries and cancer-related behaviors

• Strategies to drive value based purchasing through improvements in quality, safety and added efficiency
• Strategies to reduce preventable risk factors – Behavior modification to reduce costs
• Identifying and reducing clinical waste and defensive medicine practices - Unnecessary procedures and costly testing
• Reducing operational waste that does not improve the value of care provided

• How organizations are utilizing bundled care strategies to address care episodes and chronic disease to improve outcomes and address cost
• Leveraging bundled payments and standardized regimens to reduce errors, decrease overuse of expensive drugs, remove unaligned incentives and generate value-based standards of care
• Utilizing technology for bundled payments for care episodes to reduce fragmentation in health care delivery
• Business and care management competencies to create and implement an automated scalable episode management strategy
• Strategies for episode definition and initiation, episode resolution and financial management, clinical care management and process improvement, and analytics

• Leverage ACO payment methodologies to engage physicians in improving patient population health
• ACO models that focus on high-quality care and collaboration amoung physicians and the health plan with an enhanced focus on preventative care and chronic care management
• Employer strategies for disease specific management programs within an ACO

• Novel methodologies for understanding the entire patient experience to identify the crucial events in transitions of care that lead to unnecessary readmissions
• Incorporate evidence-based approaches for behavior change to engage patients and improve patient satisfaction
• Improve care coordination and care transitions in disparate settings to reduce utilization in key disease states for a dramatic reduction in health care costs