The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress

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- GENERAL SESSION AGENDA
- BREAKOUT INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE SUMMITS
- BREAKOUT EMERGING TREND FORUMS
- BREAKOUT INNOVATION SERIES
- BREAKOUT MARKET INSIGHT SERIES

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ETF A: mHealth Innovations – Transforming the Health Care Delivery Paradigm

Mobile EHRs and the next frontier in health information sharing
Empowering consumers and providers to improve health status with remote monitoring and innovative apps and devices
Leveraging wireless technologies to greatly improve the quality of care and lower the costs for all stakeholders

	Donald Jones Vice President, Wireless Health Global Strategy & Market Development Qualcomm Life, A Qualcomm Company View Biography
	Farris Timimi, MD Medical Director Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media View Biography
Moderator:
	Charles Parker Executive Director Continua Health Alliance View Biography

ETF B: Consumerism and Engagement - Innovative Strategies for Empowering, Educating and Engaging Consumers

Multi-stakeholder approaches to establish and sustain consumer engagement in health
Explore communication strategies and tools that elegantly assess consumer perceptions of their healthcare
How to reinvent the customer experience and empower consumers to be more active participants in their health choices

Meg McCarthy
Executive Vice President, Information, Technology and Service Operations
Aetna

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	Joan Kennedy Senior Vice President Medco Health Solutions View Biography
Moderator:
	Alexandra Drane Founder, Chief Visionary Officer, and Chair Eliza Corporation View Biography

ETF C: Hospital Business Models for Life in the Gap - Transitioning to Value Based Care While Maintaining Current Operating Model

Moving beyond structure and finance to focus on changing the way care is delivered in ways that improve care and reduce cost
Risk sharing and savings sharing models that align stakeholders to deliver value in a FFS model
Analyze alternate models to the pioneer ACO and how each will support the transition to value-based care

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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Lonny Reisman, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Aetna

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Moderator:
	Stuart Guterman Vice President, Payment and System Reform; Executive Director, Commission on a High Performance Health System The Commonwealth Fund View Biography

ETF D: Tackling the Value in CER—Analyzing Cost of Care for Value-Based Decisions

Understand how CER is used in making decisions on medical necessity for populations and subpopulations
Strategies for generating evidence when randomized clinical trials are not possible
The intersection of CER and personalized therapies for the next frontier in value-based care

	Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH Executive Director Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) View Biography
	Mark Gibson Director, Center for Evidence-Based Policy Oregon Health and Science University View Biography
	Robert McDonough, MD, JD Head, Clinical Policy Research & Development Aetna View Biography
	Felix W. Frueh, PhD President, Medco Research Institute Medco Health Solutions, Inc. View Biography
Moderator:
	J. Lyle Bootman, PhD Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Dean, College of Pharmacy The University of Arizona View Biography

ETF E: Improving Patient-Focused Care – The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Chronic Care Management

An update from the CMS innovation center on initiatives to improve chronic care delivery models in the areas of patient care, coordination of care, and community and population health
Certification for medical homes and looking for plan consistency for payment for preventive services and medical home
AHRQ's research results on evidence and evaluation on the patient-centered medical home

David Meyers, MD
Director of the Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical
Partnership, Agency for Health Research and Quality

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Ellen-Marie Whelan, NP, PhD
Senior Advisor
CMS Innovation Center

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Moderator:
	Thomas Graf, MD, FAACP Associate Chief Medical Officer, Population Health Chairman, Community Practice Service Line Geisinger Health System View Biography

ETF F:Leveraging the Nationwide Health Information Highway to Improve the Quality and Safety of Care

Understand how open source is enabling the public and private healthcare communities of providers, patients, payors, states and other health stakeholders to connect securely and efficiently over the internet using Nationwide Health Information Network standards and governance and the CONNECT solution
Learn how organizations are using the CONNECT solution to create health information exchanges and tie into the Nationwide Health Information Network
ONC's health IT agenda: A strategy for achieving a nationwide, interoperable health information exchange to improve health care delivery, make benefits administration faster and develop a speedier process of identifying and addressing public health emergencies

Lauren Thompson, PhD
Director, Federal Health Architecture
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Moderator:
	Josh Smith Staff Reporter, Technology Policy National Journal View Biography

ETF G: Disruptive Innovations in Retail Care – Establishing Next Generation Primary Care Networks

Insights in to scope and expansions of retail care – How can convenient, retail care providers integrate with the delivery system
The growth of retail clinics and analyzing the future role in medical homes, ACOs and other innovative payment models
Employers view on the economic benefit of in-house medical care by increasing health and productively, reducing absenteeism and cut employers' medical bills for outside doctors and emergency room visits
How to make convenient care, more convenient – The role of eVisits and telemedicine to bring care to the home

John Holcomb
Vice President, Healthcare Operations
Target

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Gregory Long, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Senior Vice President, Systems of Care
ThedaCare

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Moderator:
	Larry S. Boress Executive Director National Association of Worksite Health Centers (NAWHC) View Biography

ETF H: Healthcare Utilization and Spending Patterns for the Privately Insured Segment Under Age 65

Novel insights into the characteristics and drivers of healthcare utilization and cost
Identifying healthcare spending variation across members with specified chronic conditions, cancers, and auto-immune or other conditions treated with specialty medications
Empowering constituents across the entire healthcare system through a deeper understanding of members who have the greatest impact on healthcare costs in order to effectively design and implement care management programs, manage costs and price services

Murray Aitken
Executive Director
Institute for Healthcare Informatics, IMS

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ETF I: Tackling the Obesity Epidemic Through a Clinically-Proven and Sustainable Weight Loss Program

Review of results from the NHLBI-sponsored Johns Hopkins Power Trial, the basis for Innergy
Multi-faceted approach to achieve a healthy weight by through the use of behavioral strategies to achieve changes in eating habits and physical activity
Launching a physician-directed sustained weight loss program and the delivery of Innergy to physicians and health systems, employers, health plans, and governments

Gerald J Jerome
Instructor
Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Nathan King
Senior Product Portfolio Manager
Healthways

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