PSYMEET

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Co-sponsored by the Wall Street Journal.

Topics:

• The 2008 Presidential Election and the impact on health care policy for payers, providers and employers
• Results from value-based benefit design proven to contain costs and to improve health status
• Comparative effectiveness methodologies and policy implementation for new therapies Delivery and service innovations that disrupt the health care market
• Next generation value-based purchasing and the escalating impact of performance-based payment for providers
• Models to achieve consumer engagement through targeted information and incentives for consumers
• Advances in health IT that improve the quality of care and produce a measurable ROI
• Pilot results of payment reform and future directions for regional roll outs
• Prevention programs offering valuable incentives to track health status and demonstrate ROI
• Chronic care models that prioritize disease interventions and produce a measurable return
• Post market surveillance strategies for new therapies
• Advances in personalized medicine and market developments
• Effective implementation of EMRs and PHRs to improve clinical and financial outcomes

Featured presentations:

• Healthcare and Money
  • Angela F Braly, President and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint, Inc
• Evidence-Based Care
  • Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• The Employer
  • Robert S Galvin, MD, Director, Global Healthcare General Electric Company
• Health Care and the Consumer
  • Jim Guest, President and CEO, Consumers Union
• Prevention
  • Clarion Johnson, MD, Global Medical Director, Medicine and Occupational Health Department, Exxon Mobil Corporation
• Emerging Health IT Solutions Changing the Face of Health Care
  • Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD, Chairman, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology [CCHIT]
• Discovery
  • Edward D Miller, MD, Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
• Lessons Learned for Government and Industry from California’s Failed Experiment in Health Reform
  • Mark D Smith, MD, MBA, President and CEO, California HealthCare Foundation
• The Educated Patient
  • Charles W Sorenson, Jr, MD, EVP and COO, Intermountain Health Care
• Payment
  • Andrew Webber, President and CEO, National Business Coalition on Health; member, Board of Directors, National Quality Forum; member, Board of Directors, Leapfrog Group; member, Board of Directors, Bridges to Excellence
• Health Care and the Consumer
  • Anne Wojcicki, Co-Founder, 23andme.com
• Personalized Medicine
  • Linda Avey, Co-Founder, 23andMe.com
• Leveraging Health IT to Close the Gap in the Variation in Care
  • John Glaser, PhD, Vice President and CIO, Partners HealthCare
• Innovations to Deliver Patient-Centered Care
  • Robert J Henkel, FACHE, President, Healthcare Operations; COO, Ascension Health
• UK’s Lessons Learned to Improve Physician Compliance and Quality
  • Bruce Keogh, MD, Medical Director, National Health Service [NHS]
• Strides in Quality Disclosure for Consumers
  • Peter Lee, Executive Director of National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health
• The Educated Patient
  • Dan Ariely, PhD, James B Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Visiting Professor, Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]

Submission deadline for abstracts or proposals: 2008-07-11

EVENT CONTACT:

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Nicole Garratt

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(The above was supplied by Nicole Garratt on 24 JUL 08.

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