Care Continuum Congress

We are pleased to announce the Care Continuum Congress to be held October 23-25, 2006, in Washington, D.C.

Care Continuum: Transform and grow disease management strategies into integrated and cost-effective wellness, behavioral health, worker's compensation, case management and long term/end of life care programs

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Co-Sponsored with The Wall Street Journal and
Tufts University School of Medicine

For Employers, Health Plans, Providers and Government

As disease management companies purchase wellness firms and provide disability and worker's compensation services to meet market demands and as organizations move toward more integrated staffing models, the Care Continuum emerges as the entity to unite health states and expand into more lines of business. The Care Continuum Congress explores a new value proposition and business model where wellness, behavioral health, disease management, case management, disability, worker's compensation and end-of-life care all converge. National trends show that management of various health states is in a dynamic period of transition. A key development is technology transforming structures, capabilities and outcomes. Tailored services, reduced overhead, costs and improved quality are some of the results. Additionally, consumerism, with its emphasis on personal accountability, care coordination, evidence-base, prevention and health coaching has been brought to the forefront by employers. Insurers bring their directive for a longitudinal model that intervenes only when necessary.

The World Congress is pleased to announce its Care Continuum Congress (CCC) October 23, 24, 25 in Washington, DC. The CCC will bring together leading industry experts to address critical and turning point issues along the Continuum spanning Wellness, Behavioral Health, Disease Management, Case Management, Worker's Compensation, Disability and End-of-Life Care. New developments and practices will assist stakeholders to work productively and advance the health care industry through the experience of care management in the private and public sectors.

Plan on attending this dynamic event:

Ten Keynote Presentations
Employer, Health Plan and Provider Stakeholder Seminars
Five Health State Tracks
Invitation-only Executive *Employer, *Health Plan, *Technology and *Hospital & Health System Summits

Featured Disease Management Speakers

Oct. 24, 11:45 am - 12:45 am Luncheon Keynote: "New Models of Chronic Care for the Care Continuum"

William Popik, MD
President-Elect
DMAA

Oct. 24, 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm Opportunities and Challenges in Medicare Disease Management

Christobel Selecky
President
Disease Management Association of America

Oct. 25, 9:15 am - 10:15 am The Care Continnum for Employers: Where is the ROI?

10:45 am - 11:45 am The Care Continuum for Health Plans: Creating a Strategy

Alfred Lewis, JD
Executive Director
Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International

Distinguished Thought Leaders

Keynote Address: Implement Wellness Tax Credits for Business to Drive Integration of Prevention with Chronic Disease
	Senator Tom Harkin, (D-IA) U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee-Ranking Member, Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee Agricultural Committee - Ranking Member Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Small Business Committee
The Healthy Workforce Act of 2006, introduced by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) would help businesses offer a range of opportunities to assist employees in leading healthier lives, including incentives to offer onsite health promotion programs. This bill supports programs that are proven to promote wellness and prevent lifestyle related health conditions. Workplace wellness programs are economical, averaging $30-$200 per employee. This compares to the average $5000 that employers spend annually on health care for one employee. In fact, research shows that for every dollar employers invest in wellness programs, they on average yield three dollars back. Health insurance premiums have risen at a double-digit pace for four consecutive years. Last year alone, premiums rose 11 percent. Keeping workers healthy in the first place can go a long way to reducing the growth in health care costs to employers. What Does the Bill Do? Provides a 50 percent tax credit to businesses that offer comprehensive wellness programs to their employees. To receive the 50 percent tax credit, employee wellness programs must provide health education, health risk assessments as well as behavioral change components to encourage employees to lead a healthy lifestyle through counseling, seminars, on-line programs, or self-help material. Such components could include programs on nutrition, stress management, and smoking cessation. To encourage employee participation in workplace wellness programs, employers must also offer an meaningful incentive to participating employees, such as a reduction in health insurance premiums.
Debate: Which Way is the Health Care Financing System Going and What Impact Will That Have on the Care Continuum?
	John C. Goodman, PhD President National Center for Policy Analysis Father of HSAs
	Alain C. Enthoven, PhD. Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management Stanford University School of Business "Father of Managed Competition"
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Reforms from the UK National Health Service Impacting Integration of Care
	Rt Honorable Alan Milburn, MP Former Secretary UK National Health Service
As Secretary of State for Health (1999-2003) in Prime Minister Blair's Government Rt Hon Alan Milburn, MP oversaw the development and implementation of the largest reforms to the National Health Service since its creation in 1948.These reforms involved modernizing services, addressing capacity shortages, improving quality and reducing waiting times with: New integrated care pathways underpinned by new IT systems and partnerships between health and social care services New rights for patients to choose provider underpinned by a payment by results incentives system with individual budgets for older and disabled peoples services New national standards for prevention, cancer, heart disease, elderly care and mental health New systems of inspection and transparency on local health service performance and quality of care New independence for NHS hospitals As a consequence the NHS is being transformed from a monolithic monopolistic service where patients had little power to one where there is diversity in provision, incentives for improvement and choice for patients.

Featured Speakers

	Lawrence Becker Director, Benefits Xerox

	Shawn M. Bloom President and Chief Executive Officer National PACE Association

	Larry S. Boress President Midwest Business Group on Health

	Gabriela Cora-Locatelli, M.D., M.B.A. President The Executive Health & Wealth Institute, Inc.

	Kay R. Curling, SPHR Director, Work Life Solutions SRA International, Inc.

	Karen Armacost, RN, BC, MSA Director, ElderPlus Program Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

	Paula Allen Vice-President Health Solutions & Product Development FGI World

	Blake T. Andersen, Ph.D. President & CEO Chronic Care Group/HealthSciences Institute

	Dennis A. Batey, MD Vice President & Chief Medical Officer Fallon Community Health Plan

	Kevin F. Benz Senior Manager, Human Resources Operations Avaya Inc.

	William H. Besterman, Jr., MD Lowcountry Medical Group, Principal Investigator Lowcountry Medical Group Cardiovascular Center of Excellence

	Jean Bisio Chief Executive Officer Green Ribbon Health

	Patricia Bomba, MD Vice President & Medical Director Geriatrics Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield

	Albert Bothe Jr., MD Chief Quality Officer Geisinger Health System

	Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine

	Hayley Burgess, Pharm.D., BCPP Director of Medication Use and Safety Healthcare Corporation of America

	Susan Christensen, J.D. Senior Advisor Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

	Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente; Chair, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

	Jodie Cunningham Solutions Consultant Press Ganey Associates, Inc.

	Charles M. Cutler, MD Chief Medical Director, National Accounts Aetna, Inc.

	Adam Darkins, MB, ChB. MPHM, MD, FRCS Chief Consultant for Care Coordination Department of Veterans Affairs

	Susan Dentzer Health Correspondent and Head of the Health Policy Unit The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS

	Timothy G. Ferris, MD, MPH Senior Scientist, Partners/MGH Institute for health Policy Director, Partners Signature Initiative for Disease Management

	JoAnne Foster, RN, BSN, MSHA, CCM Supervisor Transistion of Care & Ancillary Team Commerical Health Services

	Barbara Gennello Director of Nursing Temple University Hospital/Episcopal Campus

	Arlene Guindon Manager, Health Outcomes Mayo Clinic

	Robert T. Harris, MD Sr. Vice President, Healthcare Division & Chief Medical Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina

	John Haughton, MD, MS CEO / Chief Medical Officer Docsite. Inc.

	Robert A. Ingram Vice Chairman Pharmaceuticals GlaxoSmithKline

	Daniel Johnson, MD, FAAHPM Chief, Palliative Care Department Kaiser Permanente - Colorado

	Carey Jury Senior Vice President, Health Division Principal Financial Group

	Thomas R. Kosten, MD Professor of Psychiatry Deputy Chief of Psychiatry Research VA Connecticut Healthcare System

	Vince Kuraitis Principal Better Health Technologies, LLC

	Heidi Lattig Health and Wellness Program Manager American Standard Companies

	Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN Executive Director Case Management Society of America

	Peter V. Lee President and Chief Executive Officer Pacific Business Group on Health

	Margaret Leonard, MS, RN, C, FNP, Cm Vice President, Clinical Services Hudson Health Plan

	Debra J. Lerner, MS, PhD Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Director of its Program on Health, Work and Productivity; Associate Professor of Medicine

	Linda Levesque Vice President, Benefits Unum Provident

	Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY; Psychiatrist in Chief New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

	Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative

	Heidi Margulis Senior Vice President Government Relations Humana

	David Matchar, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research Duke University

	David Matheson Senior Vice President Boston Consulting Group

	Michael Mellon, MD Clinical Associate Professor Pediatrics University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

	Molly Mettler MSW, Senior Vice President Healthwise

	Elaine Mischler, M.D. Chief Medical Officer Fiserv Health, Inc.

	Tracey Moorhead Executive Director DMAA

	Judith Neary Clinical Care Manager SecureHorizons

	Mike Nelson, MD Senior Medical Director for Quality Presbyterian Healthcare System, Albuquerque, NM

	Robin Osborn, MBA Vice President and Director, International Program in Health Policy and Practice The Commonwealth Fund

	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

	Thomas Parry, PhD President Integrated Benefits Institute

	Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH Executive Vice President National Committee on Quality Assurance

	Judi Lund Person, MPH Vice President, Division of Quality End-of-Life Care The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

	Michael Pignone, MD Associate Chief, Division of General Medicine University of North Carolina School of Medicine School of Medicine's Division of General Internal Medicine

	Glenn Pomerantz, MD, JD Vice President Senior Medical Executive CIGNA

	Julia Portale Senior Director, Community and Senior Health Pfizer Health Solutions

	Juan Prieto Program Manager Health Benefits IBM

	Dr. Dena Puskin Director, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth HRSA (invited)

	Steve Reeder Senior Vice President Branch Banking and Trust Co.

	Susan Rogers, RN, BSN, CCM National President Case Management Society of America 2005-06

	James L. Rosenzweig, MD Director, Disease Management Joslin Diabetes Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

	Karen Golden Russell, MA, MBA Associate Director Product Management and Marketing Disease Management Joslin Diabetes Center

	Richard Safeer, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. Medical Director, Preventive Medicine CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

	Patricia Salber, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer Center for Pracital Health Reform

	Michael H. Samuelson Vice President, Health & Wellness Services Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island

	Brandon Savage, MD Chief Medical Officer GE Healthcare Integrated IT Solutions

	Joshua Seidman, PhD President Center for Information Therapy

	Donna Shenoha Vice President, Health & Welfare Wachovia

	Nancy Skinner, RN, CCM President Riverside Healthcare Consulting

	Holly Snyder President of Health and Productivity Nationwide

	Erik A. Sossa Director, Benefits The Pepsi Bottling Group

	Alan P. Spielman President Chief Executive Officer URAC

	Alan Spiro, MD Chief Medical Officer, National Accounts WellPoint

	Gary Spurrier, PhD Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer Avidyn Health

	Bruce H. Taffel, MD Chief Medical Officer Government Business and Emerging Markets Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee

	Humphrey Taylor Chairman, The Harris Poll Harris Interactive

	Paul J. Wallace, MD Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs; Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and KP-Healthy Solutions The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente

	Andrea Walsh Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer Health Partners

	Annette Watson, RN,CCM,MBA Chief Accreditation Officer Vice President & GM, Client Services URAC

	David Wessel Deputy Washington Bureau Chief & Capital columnist Wall Street Journal

	David Whitehouse, MD, MBA Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer United Behavioral Health

	Jim 'Woody' Woodburn, MD, MS Chief Medical Officer MinuteClinic, Inc.