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A Healthcare Web Summit Event featuring the seventh annual web summit on the key trends shaping the business of health care for 2009 and beyond, with Live Webinar faculty: Peter Kongstvedt, M.D. Principal, P. R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC; Robert L. Scavo, President, Core Administration Solutions, TriZetto; and Sandy Lutz; Managing Director, Health Research Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers; and , plus five faculty Podcasts with companion presentations, and additional web summit features.

Live Future Care Webinar
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific)
With a deepening economic crisis, a new Democratic President and Congress set to address health care reform, changing technology and standards, and numerous other significant emerging health care trends, prognostications for the business of health care for 2009 are packed with peril and promise. Position yourself for the coming year by attending Future Care 2009.  The web summit includes a featured webinar, additional faculty podcasts plus supplemental features addressing key business trends and issues.

Webinar Agenda: (Eastern Time)

  • 1:00 pm - 1:05 pm Introductions and logistics
  • 1:05 pm - 1:35 pm Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Health Care Industry - Peter Kongstvedt, M.D. Principal, P. R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC
  • 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm ICD-10 Conversion Impact on the Health Care Industry  - Robert L. Scavo, President, Core Administration Solutions, TriZetto
  • 2:05 pm - 2:30 pm Top Nine Trends for 2009 - Sandy Lutz; Managing Director, Health Research Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • In addition to a thorough discussion of their presentations, the Webinar will include ample time for audience questions and answers.
  • Attendees will receive dial-in instructions shortly before the event, and have two options to view the companion presentations: they can logon to view the live webinar online, or simply link to download and view or print the presentation offline.

Podcasts

  • Five downloadable Podcast recordings will be available 24/7 to attendees, each approximately ten minutes to twenty minutes in length.
  • Companion presentations related to each Podcast discussion are also available for downloading.
  • Vince Kuraitis, Principal, Better Health Technologies, will discuss Chronic Disease Management Megatrends
  • Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, Executive Director, Convenient Care Association, will discuss Convenient Care 2009
  • Dmitriy Kruglyak, CEO, Trusted.MD Network, will discuss the Impact of Health Care Social Media
  • Jeffrey C. Greene, President and CEO, MedEncentive, LLC, will discuss Health Care Incentives 2009
  • William DeMarco, DeMarco and Associates, will discuss Performance Based Medicine, an update on the new transition to Value Based Purchasing

Additional Web Summit Features

  • A Library of selected recent articles on upcoming health care business trends is available to attendees
  • Attendees can link to faculty web pages and click to send them follow up questions
  • Attendees can take the Future Care e-poll on which are the most significant trends impacting health care, and receive a summary of the survey results
  • Attendees will be given the opportunity to provide immediate feedback after the webinar event
  • The Summit web site, including podcasts, faculty presentations, article library, faculty pages, e-poll and results, and more, will be available 24/7 for three months following the event.
  • Attendees will receive a complimentary 30-day paid MCOL membership
  • A Summit CD-ROM with full webinar and podcast recordings, faculty presentations and additional materials is also available to attendees for an extra $40.

 

Participants will:

  1. 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.
  2. Obtain a detailed understanding of current issues and developments regarding issues including the Recession's affect on the Health Care Industry, ICD-10 Conversion, Disease Management, Convenient Care, Health Care Social Media, Health Care Incentives and more.
  3. Experience e-learning at the attendees' convenience, with faculty presentations, podcasts, articles and web summit resources available 24/7
  4. Engage in interactive learning and networking through e-inquiries with faculty, and the live webinar.
  • Health Plans, Hospitals, Pharmaceutical Companies, Insurance Companies, TPAs, Employers, Provider Networks, Medical Groups, Government, Utilization and Health Management Companies, PBMs, Consultants, Solutions Providers, Vendors, Financial Institutions, policy organizations, and Media.
  • C-Suite Executives, and administrative staff
  • Sales and Marketing executives
  • Strategic, planning, policy, legislative and regulatory staff
  • Employee Benefit Managers
  • Consultants, Analysts, Research, and other interested parties

Peter Kongstvedt, M.D. Principal, P. R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC advises health care companies and executives on strategy, operations and effective decision making to enhance corporate, institutional, and executive success. Peter is the editor and primary author of three seminal works on managed care: The Managed Health Care Handbook; The Essentials of Managed Health Care; and Managed Care: What It Is and How it Works. He also co-authored Best Practices in Medical Management with David Plocher, M.D. Peter began his career by practicing general internal medicine and then launched a successful career as an executive in the managed health care industry, before becoming a direct-admit partner at Ernst & Young LLP, and continued his consulting career with global firms such as CapGemini and Accenture until 2008 when he formed the P.R. Kongstvedt Company, LLC.. 
   

Robert L. Scavo, President, Core Administration Solutions, TriZetto is overall responsible for product management of TriZetto’s overall core administration suite of solutions, including the Facets®, QNXT™ and FACTS product lines. In this role, Rob manages all aspects of the product lifecycle and is responsible for each product’s P&L. Previously; he was senior vice president and chief information officer of TriZetto’s Hosting Services unit. He also was responsible for providing corporate IT services to TriZetto’s 1,500-plus employees across nine locations. Scavo has significant payer business operations and management experience and, during his 19-year career in IT and managed healthcare, has led some of the country’s largest system implementations. Before joining TriZetto in 1997, Scavo worked for PacifiCare Health Systems (now owned by WellPoint, Inc.), one of the nation’s largest managed care companies. He previously spent seven years in the Health Services group of Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), helping clients define and implement IT strategies. Scavo graduated with honors from the University of Colorado at Boulder.    

Sandy Lutz, Managing Director, Health Research Institute, PricewaterhouseCoopers leads national and global thought leadership and research initiatives for the firm and clients. HRI is a dedicated research group that provides new intelligence, perspective, and analysis on major health-related business issues. Based in Dallas , Sandy speaks extensively on healthcare trends and the future of healthcare. She also consults with healthcare systems, corporations, private equity funds, trade associations, policy groups, and health plans on strategic planning, trends, forecasting, and research initiatives.  Prior to joining PwC, she was a healthcare equity analyst for an investment bank and the Dallas bureau chief for Modern Healthcare. Ms. Lutz has written four books on the business of healthcare.

Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA,  Principal; Better Health Technologies has 20+ years health care experience in multiple roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations, management consultant, and marketing executive. His consulting and work projects span 100+ different health care organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management, e-Health, IT, and others. Since 1997 Vince has worked as founder and Principal of Better Health Technologies, LLC (www.bhtinfo.com), a strategy and business development consulting company. BHT creates value for patients and shareholders by leveraging technology, business models and partnerships in areas relating to e-health and chronic disease management. 

Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, Executive Director. Convenient Care Association, has over ten years of experience in executive management in the health care field and led a non-profit corporation supporting nurse-managed health care. T Tine publishes in many peer-review professional journals and is a regular presenter at local, state and national health care conferences. Tine received her BA from Slippery Rock University and her Master’s in Government Administration from University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute. She is a 2007 Juris Doctor candidate from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Tine is the first director of the CCA and has extensive experience in growing an association from infancy to national and international magnitude. 

Dmitriy Kruglyak, CEO, Trusted.MD Network, was among the first people to recognize and analyze the impact of social media on health and wellness. He speaks, writes and consults to health and wellness enterprises on advanced Internet opportunities, strategies and tactics. This includes search engines, social media and other forms of online performance marketing. Dmitriy runs Trusted.MD Network (http://trusted.md), dedicated to empowering trust-based relationships between healthcare consumers, professionals and organizations. As a milestone to that vision, Trusted.MD Network has already become the world’s largest community of independent health bloggers. He also created Healthcare Blogging Summit (http://trusted.md/conference), the first forum devoted to examining the impact of the new media on consumer health and healthcare industry, convened three times in 2006 and 2007.

Jeffrey C. Greene, President and CEO, MedEncentive, LLC, co-founded and served as President/CEO of CompONE Services, Ltd. from 1987 until 2004, at which time MedEncentive was spun-off as a free-standing company. Under his leadership, CompONE grew to become one of the nation’s leading providers of practice management, patient financial services, and technology services. Prior to CompONE, Jeff held management positions with Procter & Gamble, Shaklee Corporation and Professional Office Management. Jeff is a Certified Executive through the American College of Medical Practice Executives. Jeff holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Oklahoma where he attended on an athletic scholarship. Jeff served as a reserve officer in the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for 14 years. 

William DeMarco, DeMarco and Associates, has more than 20 years experience in marketing to unions, public employers and private industry in the competitive HMO environment of Minneapolis-St. Paul. He has assisted numerous HMOs, IPAs, PSOs and medical groups in developing better relations with buyers of health care. His broad national exposure to employers' needs, combined with his hands-on experience in developing products and strategies, offers clients an up-to-date perspective on what purchasers want in health care today. Mr. DeMarco is a nationally recognized speaker on the areas of organizational strategy formation, physician capitation and physician-owned health plans. He frequently addresses such organizations as the National Managed Health Care Congress, the Medical Group Management Association, as well as various private forums of providers and employers.  
           
Individual Registration Fee: $295. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $355 for non-attendees after the event.

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