The 3rd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality and Pay-for-Performance Contracting presents the nation's best practices in achieving and rewarding provider quality. The conference agenda is designed to address the market forces and specific challenges of employers and other purchasers, provider organizations (health systems, hospitals and group practices) and health plans and payers.

Industry thought leaders participate in panel discussions and detailed case studies to report on the most progressive quality improvement programs and the structure of and results from successful pay-for-performance contracts.  The conference features authoritative keynote speakers, executive networking receptions and luncheons and three industry-specific conferences addressing implementation challenges for employers, providers and payer executives.

Two Exciting New Tracks

• Best Practices in Pay-for-Performance Contracting
• IT Implementation for Improved Quality

At this executive summit you will:

• Discover new ways to foster accelerated adoption and move the marketplace toward collaboration on performance principles
• Determine how to make the business case for stakeholder investment in quality improvement and pay-for-performance
• Prove the validity of care experience measurement/patient satisfaction and setting the standard for data measurement
• Analyze the implications of IT implementations, electronic medical records, and e-prescribing on systematic quality improvement efforts
• Measure the impact of public disclosure and certification penalties on provider performance improvement
• Debate standardization measures and the processes needed to change provider behavior for effective implementation

Featured Speakers
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H. President and CEO National Quality Forum (Chairman)
Featured Speakers To Date
Douglas Allen, MD, MMM Chief Medical Officer Greater Newport Physicians IPA	Charles D. Baker President and CEO Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
Howard Beckman, MD, FACP Medical Director, RIPA; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester	Christine Cassel, M.D. President and CEO American Board of Internal Medicine
Richard Chung, M.D. Senior Vice President, Health Services Division Hawaii Medical Service Association	Carolyn Clancy, MD Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Barbara Crim, RN, MBA, CNOR Healthcare Administrator Trinity Workplace Learning	Kathleen Curtin Senior Vice President for Client Services MedVantage, Inc; former Vice President for Practitioner Performance Excellus Health Plan
Tom Davies Chairman, IHA Board of Directors Integrated Healthcare Association	Robert Galvin, MD Director, Global Health Care General Electric
Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health	Bruce Hamory, MD EVP, Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health System
Katy Henrickson Senior Analyst Forrester Research	Brent C. James, MD Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare
Jeff Kamil, M.D. Chief Medical Officer Blue Cross of California VP and Regional Medical Director WellPoint Health Networks	Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, MACP Director, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative; Immediate Past Chair, Board of Regents American College of Physicians
Tom Lee, M.D. CEO Partners Community Heathcare Inc. Network President Partners HealthCare System	Antonio Legorreta, M.D., MPH President and CEO, Health Benchmarks, Inc
Jeff Levin-Scherz, M.D., MBA Chief Medical Officer Partners Healthcare	Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative and Foundation
Robert Margolis, M.D. President Health Care Partners Medical Group	John C. Nelson, MD, MPH Immediate Past President American Medical Association
Jonathan M. Niloff, M.D., MBA President and CEO MedVentive	Richard Norling President and CEO Premier
Margaret E. O'Kane President National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)	Dennis O'Leary, M.D. President and CEO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
J. Marc Overhage, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Regenstrief Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Data Standards Working Group, Connecting for Health CEO, Indiana Health Information Exchange	Mark C. Rattray, MD Consultant, CareVariance; former National Medical Director, UnitedHealthcare
Meredith Rosenthal, PhD Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health	Jonathan Scheff, MD Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer HealthNet Inc.
David Schutt, M.D. Associate Medical Director Thomson/Medstat	Janice A. Singer Director of Operations Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
Barry M. Straube, MD CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Standards & Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	Micky Tripathi, PhD President & Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
Tom Williams President Integrated Healthcare Association	Scott Young, MD Director for Health Information Technology, Health and Humans Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality