Description:
This keynote session explores how today's e-health tools and the national framework for HIT are enabling quality improvement across the healthcare continuum. What is the impact on Providers, Payors, Employers and Consumers, and what are the new roles and responsibilities of each? By bridging the Quality Improvement movement with the national framework for Healthcare IT, can we create a more information-rich, consumer-centric system and better healthcare for all?

Speaker Information:
Robert Kolodner, MD
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services

Location:
Convention Center

Room:
209 B

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Description:
The attendee will: understand the transformation in health care payment that is occuring in the Medicare Program; understand the impact of this transformation on their clinical practice; and understand the impact on payment at the physician and system level

Speaker Information:
Daniel Green, MD, FACOG
Medical Officer, OCSQ, CMS

Objectives:

• Provide an overview for the Tax Relief and Healthcare Act (TRHCA)
• Examine the PQRI quality measures
• Review the form and manner of the claims-based quality reporting
• Explore PQRI measures in the practice work flow processes

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Description:
This session is a "Case Study" addressing key issues successful payor organizations must manage in order to acquire, standardize, "clean", aggregate and analyze expanding sources of health data for purposes of quality reporting. How are payors obtaining this data and how do they aggregate with existing, "traditional" sources of data?

Speaker Information:
Daniel Green, MD, FACOG
Medical Officer, OCSQ, CMS

Objectives:

• Review "lessons learned" in managing data, using reporting tools, and submitting reports
• Discover what mistakes were encountered and how to avoid them
• Learn how to translate reports into meaningful, actionable information to providers
• Examine what this information means to patients, purchasers
• Explore potential quality measures

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Description:
In the US we live in an era of epidemic preventable disease, skyrocketing healthcare costs, and an aging baby boomer population poised to overwhelm the healthcare delivery system. In addition, these boomers are using new criteria to identify how and by whom they want their care delivered and that they want to focus on maintaining their health. Incentives have been put into place to drive clinician behavior toward evidence based medical practice, however, the provider's influence over patient behavior is limited to a static and asynchronous pattern. We will address the questions: Can we design and implement incentive programs to encourage healthcare consumers to make healthy behavioral changes? Can the next generation of PHRs be designed to support the national goals of decreasing costs and improving the quality of healthcare in the US, while meeting the healthcare consumers demands?

Speaker Information:
Holly Miller, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Information Officer, University Hospitals

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Description:
Where is the "consumer" in the cycle of improving quality and value of healthcare? This session will examine innovative tools for consumers as they take an increasingly active role in the management of their healthcare using tools provided by payors, employers, and other consumer-facing entities.

Speaker Information:
Janice Singer
Director of Operations, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

Objectives:

• Explore an overview of the critical issues facing payors as they implement innovative ways to improve healthcare delivery via consumer engagement
• Provide insight into what consumers see as key elements of health care quality
• Review the need for a new framework to engage consumers

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Description:
Every health industry stakeholder group -- consumers, providers, purchasers and suppliers -- has an integral role to play in improving the overall quality of healthcare services. Yet the achievement of high quality care remains more of a goal than a reality on many levels because of differing definitions, measurements, and improvement processes and tools. Indeed, the concept of quality healthcare can almost be described as a "conundrum;" that is, a paradoxical, insoluble or difficult problem. This closing session features two well-known and respected industry experts who have conducted extensive research and consulting work in the field of healthcare quality. The speakers will present their observations on the multi-faceted issues facing quality improvement in today's care delivery and payer environments. They will also discuss what developments are on the horizon and how organizations can best prepare for the future.

Speaker Information:
Hindy Shaman, MBA
Director, Health Research Institute, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Peter Kongstvedt, MD, FACP
Senior Executive, Accenture Health & Life Sciences Consulting

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