BULLETIN for current and past attendees of Healthcare Web Summit events

|  December 13, 2006  |  Healthcare Web Summit  |  Phone 209.577.4888  |  e-mail infohws@healthwebsummit.com |

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Patty Jamison
Healthcare Web Summit
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pattyj@mcol.com

Future Care 2007 Healthcare Web Summit Event

January 16th-19th, 2007

The fifth annual web summit on the key trends shaping the business of health care for 2007 and beyond. This year's web summit package includes 32 on-line presentations, four 'live' audio conference session, five podcasts, plus video clips and much more all for one low package price.

Web Summit Tracks include: Trends and Hot Topics; Consumerism; Provider and Care Management Issues; Technology; Archived Presentations; and Live Audio Conferences.  Specific Topics include: Price Transparency, Medicare Part D, P4P, Disease Management, RHIOs, Globalization, Consumer driven care, and much more!

Future Care 2007 'Live' Audio Conference Sessions:

• The Democratic Congress and Consumer Driven Care, Bill Boyles, Editor & Publisher of Consumer Driven Market Report and Health Market Survey
• Price Transparency Audio Forum, Moderator: Michael Nugent; Associate Director, Navigant Consulting
• Healthcast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Future, Sandy Lutz; Director, Health Research Institute; PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Disease Management Megatrends 2007, Vince Kuraitis, Principal, Better Health Technologies

Live "Audio Conferences/Webcasts" of selected presentations are available during the web summit. The Audio conference/Webcasts involve a live audio conference with the companion on-line presentation. The Live Audio conference/Webcasts are part of your Healthcare Web Summit package, and require no additional fee to participate. However, you may choose to participate in just one of the Audio Conferences, and not the entire Web Summit package.

Complete Future Care 2007 Web Summit Package Price: $395; Web Summit CD-ROM: $20 for attendees; $415 after January 19th.

Separate Single Audio Conference Event Price: $195. 

 

Site License and Group Discounts available for Complete Summit Package and Individual Audio Conferences: Call MCOL at: 209.577.4888.

 

To register, go to: https://www.managedcarestore.com/summit.htm.

AGENDA

The summit includes a package of 32 online presentations plus four scheduled audio conferences and five podcasts. The Agenda is organized into the following Tracks: Web Summit Tracks Consumerism Provider and Care Management Issues Trends and Hot Topics Technology Archived Presentations Live Audioconferences

 

 

Web Summit Track: Consumerism
	The Democratic Congress and Consumer Driven Care William Boyles, Editor and Publisher Consumer Driven Market Report and Health Market Survey, Washington, DC
Bill Boyles provides analysis and insights into the potential impact of the new Democratic Congress on Consumer Driven Care, including perspectives shared from various stakeholders. This presentation is also available as a live audioconference
	HSAs 2007 Ashley Gillihan, Partner Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
Ashley Gillihan, partner with the national law firm of Alston & Bird, LLP  identifies and discusses current HSA guidance issues, as well as major traps and pitfalls of HSA establishment and maintenance, that  impact employers, employees, HSA custodian/trustees, and HSA administrators alike.
	Engaging Consumers in Healthcare - The Secret Sauce to Success Phillip L. Polakoff, M.D., Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs ACS Healthcare Solutions, San Francisco, California
Dr. Polakoff's presentation addresses the following topics: The Turbulent Times Ahead; Is Consumer Engagement Achievable?; The Complexity of Consumer Decision-Making; Proven Tactics/Strategies for Increasing Consumer Engagement
	Providers and Consumer Driven Care in 2007 Clive Riddle, President MCOL, Modesto, California
This presentation addresses the future implications and impact of consumerism on providers including: increased patient cost sharing; the under and uninsured' price transparency; discount cards; report cards and decision tools; and consumer driven plans. This presentation is also available in Provider and Care Management Issues. An interview with Mr. Riddle is available as a downloadable podcast.

Web Summit Track: Provider and Care Management Issues
	Disease Management (DM) Megatrends Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA Better Health Technologies, LLC, Boise, Idaho
Chronic disease management has gone mainstream. Learn about the critical trends and issues facing DM companies, health plans, care providers and others involved in the care management process: Topics discussed include: Growth opportunities; Make, assemble, buy? Will health plans and providers outsource to DM companies? ; Integration vs. specialization -- what's more important?; Medicare's plans for DM -- Medicare Health Support and other demos; Technology and DM; Outcomes: Does DM have ROI? Will outcomes measurement become more standardized?; Behavior change approaches; and Provider involvement in DM.    This presentation is also available as a live audioconference
	Pay for Peformance Janice Young; Research Director, Healthcare Payer Market;  Health Industry Insights; Framingham, Massachusetts
Janice discusses results from recent surveys of healthplans, providers and consumers providing insight into pay for performance adoption, spending, business and IT challenges and enablers. The presentation also develops future scenarios of Pay for Performance execution.
	Lessons in RHIO Implementation: Constituents, Communication and Cooperation Cheryl Stephens, Executive Director, Community Health Information Collaborative, Duluth, Minnesota
In this session, Cheryl Stephens discusses current requirements for launching a successful Regional Health Information Organization. She reviews the strategies deployed and experiences to date of the Community Health Information Collaborative in Minnesota. Topics addressed include: How to achieve buy-in from constituents; The importance of communicating with all members of the network to meet performance objectives; and How to encourage cooperation amongst competing members of the network.   This presentation is also available in Technology
	The Ultimate Hack: Disease Management Meets the Digital Lifestyle Laurie Gelb, Director, Market Research & Planning HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
What do software mashups, the Music Genome Project, social bookmarking and texting money with a cell phone have to do with health decision-making? Organizations seeking to shape and influence care choices will need to present offerings appropriate to the "N=1" context, which in turn dovetails with pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, as well as more sophisticated population surveillance and predictive modeling.  This presentation is also available in Technology. An interview with Ms. Gelb is available as a downloadable podcast
	Providers and Consumer Driven Care in 2007 Clive Riddle, President MCOL, Modesto, California
This presentation addresses the future implications and impact of consumerism on providers including: increased patient cost sharing; the under and uninsured' price transparency; discount cards; report cards and decision tools; and consumer driven plans. This presentation is also available in Consumerism. An interview with Mr. Riddle is available as a downloadable podcast
	TelaDoc - Non-Urgent Medical Care Whenever and Wherever You Need It Cathy Fogliano, Executive Vice President Sales TelaDoc Medical Services, Dallas, Texas
Telemedicine benefits and services are presented using TelaDoc as a case study.

Web Summit Track: Trends and Hot Topics
	Healthcast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Future Sandy Lutz; Director  Health Research Institute; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Dallas, TX
Sandy Lutz looks at solutions and responses from around the world to the globalization and industrywide convergence of healthcare. What insights, best practices and policy lessons can be learned from experiences in various countries to create a globally sustainable health system? Who, or what, is driving the solutions? This presentation is also available as a live audioconference
	Medicare Part D for Employers: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here? Troy M. Filipek, FSA, MAAA, Actuary - Health Practice Milliman, Inc., Brookfield, Wisconsin
Troy Filipek discusses Medicare Part D experiences and issues for Employers, including: Employer Obligations and Options Under Medicare Part D; Lessons Learned in 2006; and the Decision Timeline for 2008
	Health Insurance State-of-the-State - Tomorrow's Business Drivers Lindsay Resnick; Chief Marketing Officer Finelight; Chicago, Illinois
The landscape is changing! New products, new business partners and new health care delivery systems are complicating traditional approaches to health insurance. And as competition intensifies, topline growth for health plans won't come easy. Health insurance companies own banks, and banks have healthcare business units. Retail stores have medical clinics and, technological advances mean customer communication is more and more complex. It used to be that cost, quality and choice drove business decisions. Today, inside health plans it's just as common to hear terms such as convergence, consumerism and confidentiality. This session will explore the "state-of-the-state" inside the health insurance sector by examining external pressures, competitive landscape and critical business trends. An interview with Mr. Resnick is available as a downloadable podcast
	Additional presentation by: Mark Lutes; Partner Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.; Washington, DC

Web Summit Track: Technology
	Lessons in RHIO Implementation: Constituents, Communication and Cooperation Cheryl Stephens, Executive Director, Community Health Information Collaborative, Duluth, Minnesota
In this session, Cheryl Stephens discusses current requirements for launching a successful Regional Health Information Organization. She reviews the strategies deployed and experiences to date of the Community Health Information Collaborative in Minnesota. Topics addressed include: How to achieve buy-in from constituents; The importance of communicating with all members of the network to meet performance objectives; and How to encourage cooperation amongst competing members of the network.   This presentation is also available in Provider and Care Management Issues.
	The Ultimate Hack: Disease Management Meets the Digital Lifestyle Laurie Gelb, Director, Market Research & Planning HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
What do software mashups, the Music Genome Project, social bookmarking and texting money with a cell phone have to do with health decision-making? Organizations seeking to shape and influence care choices will need to present offerings appropriate to the "N=1" context, which in turn dovetails with pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, as well as more sophisticated population surveillance and predictive modeling.  This presentation is also available in Provider and Care Management Issues. An interview with Ms. Gelb is available as a downloadable podcast
	Telemedicine - Non-Urgent Medical Care  Cathy Fogliano, Executive Vice President Sales TelaDoc Medical Services, Dallas Texas
Telemedicine benefits and services are presented using TelaDoc as a case study.

FACULTY
The 2007 Future Care Faculty includes:

• William R Boyles; Editor and Publisher; Consumer Driven Market Report and Health Market Survey; Washington, DC
• Troy M. Filipek, FSA, MAAA; Actuary - Health Practice; Milliman; Brookfield, WI
• Cathy Fogliano; EVP Sales; TelaDoc; Dallas, TX
• Laurie Gelb; Director, Market Research & Planning; Healthcore, Inc.; Wilmington, DE
• Ashley Gillihan; Partner; Alston & Bird LLP; Atlanta, GA
• Vince Kuraitis; Principal; Better Health Technologies; Boise, ID
• Mark Lutes; Partner; Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.; Washington, DC
• Sandy Lutz; Director, Health Research Institute; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Dallas, TX
• Michael Nugent; Associate Director; Navigant Consulting; Chicago, IL
• Phillip L Polakoff, MD, MPH; National Leader, Lifetime Health Solutions; Buck Consultants; San Francisco, CA
• Lindsay Resnick; Chief Marketing Officer; Finelight; Chicago, IL
• Clive Riddle, President, MCOL, Modesto, CA
• Cheryl Stephens; Executive Director; Community Health Information Collaborative; Duluth, MN
• Janice Young; Research Director, Healthcare Payer Market; Health Industry Insights; Framingham, MA

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Attendees at the Future Care 2007 web summit will be able to:

• Gain an overall sense of the major trends and issues shaping the business of health care for the coming year and beyond, and predications from leading sources.
• Obtain a detailed understanding of current issues and developments regarding issues including Disease Managment, Pay for Performance, Health Savings Accounts, Regional Health Information Organizations, Employer Medicare Part D considerations, Price Transparency and more.
• Experience e-learning at the attendees' convenience, with faculty presentations, podcasts, video clips and web summit resources available 24/7
• Engage in interactive learning and networking through e-inquiries with faculty, and live audio conferences.
• Obtain reference resources for ongoing use including Key Facts presentation and Survey Results.

PRICE

Complete Web Summit package: $395.  Web Summit CD-ROM: $20 for attendees; $415 for non-attendees after January 19th;

Separate Single Audio Conference event price: $195;

 

Site License and Group Discounts available for Complete Summit Package and Individual Audio Conferences: Call MCOL at: 209.577.4888.

REGISTRATION

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