Hospitals, attending physicians and other providers have been focusing on reducing preventable readmissions, initially due to Medicare policy and payment changes in this regard. Health plans, employers, care management organizations and other stakeholders also have a significant vested interest in managing readmissions for all applicable patient populations. While a plethora of data is now available on the scope and components of the readmissions problem, available information is certainly more limited to-date with respect to stakeholders that have already enacted solutions: implementing proactive initiatives, approaches and processes to manage readmissions.
The First Annual Readmissions Web Summit features a 90 minute webinar with national experts that will share their experience, insights and strategic approaches in reducing preventable readmissions. Amy Boutwell MD, President of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies will discuss specific successful approaches taken in different communities by working across care settings. Doctor Boutwell was co-founder of the STAAR (State Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations) Initiative during her former role as the co-principal investigator of the $5 million STAAR grant with IHI. Next, Doctor James (Larry) Holly, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA) will talk about SETMA's major initiative involving care transitions to reduce preventable readmissions, hospital follow-up calls and deployment of readmissions analytics. Carol Levine, Director of the Families and Health Care Project at United Hospital Fund will conclude by discussing strategies to involve family caregivers in care transitions.
The event also includes three downloadable pre-recorded sessions, with Regence Executive Medical Director discussing the way forward in managing readmissions from a health plan perspective; Guy D'Andrea, President of Discern Consulting explaining a Financial Incentives Model for Minimizing Readmissions; and Mount Sinai Medical Center's Doctor Jill Kalman and Maria Basso Lipani discuss their experience in prediction and targeted intervention of patients at risk of readmission.
Position your organization for 2012 and beyond in the quest to manage hospital readmissions. Join us for the First Annual Readmissions Web Summit on Thursday August 23rd, 2012, and participate in the live national webinar, additional downloadable pre-recorded faculty sessions, readmissions e-poll and more, featuring national experts providing key insights, trends, strategic recommendations, actionable intelligence and more on these critical topics, plus receive a three month trial subscription to Readmissions News for no additional cost.
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern (10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Pacific)
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- 1:00 pm - 1:05 pm Introductory Comments - Raymond Carter, Senior Editor, Readmissions News; Webinar Moderator
- 1:05 pm - 1:30 pm Reducing Readmissions By Working Across Settings: Insights from Communities Across the U.S. - Amy E. Boutwell, MD, MPP, President, Collaborative Healthcare Strategies
- 1:30 pm - 2:00
pm SETMA's Initiative to Reduce Preventable
Readmissions -
James (Larry) Holly, MD
CEO, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA); Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Clinical Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine - 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Involving Family Caregivers in Care Transitions-- Carol Levine, Director, Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund
- Hospital Readmissions, Where to Go from Here, by Joe Gifford, MD, Executive Medical Director, Regence
- Financial Incentives Model for Minimizing Readmissions-- Guy D'Andrea, President and Founder, Discern Consulting
- Predicting Risk of Readmissions for Targeting Patient Intervention - Jill Kalman, M.D., Director, Cardiomyopathy Program, Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center; and Maria Basso Lipani, LCSW. Coordinator, PACT (Preventable Admissions Care Team), Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Plus other Web Summit features including a Readmissions Article Library, an exclusive Readmissions e-poll, and a three month trial subscription to Readmissions News
- Gain an overall sense of selected applicable strategies, processes, challenges, resources required and results to-date in managing hospital readmissions.
- Consider the approaches undertaken by selected communities in managing readmissions by working across care settings.
- Explore how a prominent medical group addresses management of readmissions through care transitions, hospital follow-up calls and analytics.
- Ascertain the importance of the role of family caregivers in care transitions, and the potential to improve readmissions management by leveraging their role.
- Obtain relevant case experience and lessons learned offered by the faculty, with insights provided from multiple perspectives.
- Experience e-learning at the attendees' convenience, with downloadable pre-recorded sessions, article library, and other online Summit features available 24/7.
- Engage in interactive learning through live webinar providing online question submission, attendee surveys, feedback and opportunity for follow up questions, and networking with attendees, faculty and other professionals through dedicated LinkedIn group.
- C-Suite Executives
- Medical Directors
- Hospitalists and Other Clinicians
- Provider Contracting Executives and Staff
- Care Management Executives and Staff
- Case Management Executives and Staff
- Nursing Executives
- Discharge Planning Managers
- Managed Care Executives and Staff
- Network Management Executives and Staff
- Health Benefit Managers
- Planning and Strategic Executives and Staff
- Business Intelligence Staff
- Other Interested Partie s
Attendees would represent organizations including
- Hospital Systems
- Health Plans
- Medical Groups
- Provider Networks
- Other Providers
- Government
- Third Party Administrators
- Care Management Organizations
- Pharmaceutical Organizations
- Employers
- Solutions Providers
- Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
- Media
| Individual Registration Fee: $295. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $335 for non-attendees after the event. Registration includes a three month trial subscription to Readmissions News for no additional cost. | |||||
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Amy Boutwell, M.D., M.P.P., founded Collaborative Healthcare Strategies to pursue work aligned with the opportunities created by the Affordable Care Act, the CMS Center for Innovation and the Partnership for Patients, specifically with the goal of engaging thousands of communities across the nation to work across settings and sectors to improve healthcare delivery. With the creation of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies, Dr. Boutwell works at the intersection of all best practices and approaches to improve care transitions, without exclusive adherence to one particular model – taking the best from what is known to be effective, practical and efficient in improving care transitions. Dr. Boutwell is the co-founder of the STAAR (State Action on Avoidable Rehospitalizations) Initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Since 2008, Dr. Boutwell has been deeply immersed in the clinical, operational, policy, payment and political aspects of approaches to reduce avoidable rehospitalizations and improve care transitions. The STAAR initiative currently engages over 150 hospitals in four states, over 500 community providers through “cross-continuum teams” and over 75 state-level public and private-sector leadership entities through state steering committees. In her former role as the co-principal investigator of the $5 million STAAR grant at IHI, Dr. Boutwell was responsible for the state strategy, policy, clinical integrity and thought leadership for the program. As a result of her work, Dr. Boutwell has served as an expert panelist or advisor to CMS, the National Governor’s Association, and the Academy Health State Quality Improvement Institute. Dr. Boutwell serves as a senior physician consultant to the National Coordinating Center for the CMS QIO Care Transitions Theme and is thus engaged in community-based care transitions mobilization efforts in all 50 states. Additionally, Dr. Boutwell is co-leading an AHRQ-funded effort to test and adapt best practices to improve transitions to ensure applicability to the Medicaid/safety-net population. Dr Boutwell was a founding board member of the Long Term Quality Alliance, and co-chaired the development of the Long Term Quality Alliance’s Innovative Communities Initiative. She is an active advisor to health systems in the United Kingdom and the United States on designing and /or updating strategies to improve care across settings and reduce avoidable rehospitalizations. Dr. Boutwell is a graduate of Stanford University, Brown University School of Medicine and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she received a master’s degree in public policy and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service. Dr. Boutwell is a practicing physician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, attends on the medicine teaching service at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an Instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. |
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James (Larry) Holly, MD CEO, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA); Adjunct Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Clinical Associate Professor, Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine |
In 1976, Dr. Holly established his private office for the practice of family medicine. Dr. Holly was one of two partners who founded SETMA in 1995. Formed from the practices of four physicians with 21 employees, SETMA has grown into a mid-size multi-specialty group with 32 providers and more than 250 employees. In February, 2006 SETMA received the HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence for the use and implementation of healthcare information technology. Dr. Holly is a member of the HIMSS Patient Safety and
Quality Outcome Committee, the Patient Centered Primary Care
Collaborative, and the National Quality Forum. |
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 Carol Levine, MA Director, Families and Health Care Project United Hospital Fund |
Carol Levine directs the United Hospital Fund's Families and Health Care Project, which focuses on developing partnerships between health care professionals and family caregivers, especially during transitions in health care settings (www.nextstepincare.org). Before joining the Fund in 1996, she directed the Citizens Commission on AIDS in New York City from 1987 to 1991, and The Orphan Project, which she founded, from1991 to 1996. As a senior staff associate of The Hastings Center, she edited the Hastings Center Report. Ms. Levine is the editor of Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers (2nd ed., Vanderbilt University Press, 2004) and, with Thomas H. Murray, co-editor of The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground Among Families, Health Professionals and Policy Makers (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). In 1993, Ms. Levine was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in AIDS policy and ethics. She was named a WebMD Health Hero in 2007. In 2009, Ms. Levine was named a Purpose Prize fellow, an honor for social entrepreneurs over 60 who are using their experience and passion to take on society’s biggest challenges. |
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 Joe Gifford, MD Executive Medical Director, Regence |
Doctor Gifford is a frequent speaker on innovation in health care at national conferences and leadership events. He has executive experience in the information technology sector as well as on both the provider and payer side of health care services. Prior to joining Regence, Dr. Gifford co-founded QuickCompliance, a health care Internet media company now part of the Discovery Channel, and served as director of product management at ChannelPoint, a software company founded by engineers from Sun Microsystems now controlled by Trizetto. Dr. Gifford has authored a variety of publications in clinical research and health care services, and has created online training programs for many large organizations, including CMS and the Department of Defense. He received his clinical training at the University of Washington Hospitals after receiving his M.D. degree from the University of California at San Diego. |
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 Guy D’Andrea President and Founder, Discern Consulting
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Guy D’Andrea founded Discern in 2004. Since that time, Mr. D’Andrea has worked with leading health care organizations nationwide – including The Leapfrog Group, Bridges to Excellence, and the National Business Coalition on Health – to design, implement and evaluate pay-for-performance and value-based purchasing strategies. Mr. D’Andrea specializes in assessing the return on investment from these programs and has built ROI models for several clients. Projects undertaken by Discern include the design and development of hospital and physician pay-for-performance programs, value analysis for HIT adoption, an interactive P4P decision tool for health care purchasers, quality standards for wellness programs and payment structures and quality measures for patient-centered medical home programs. Before starting Discern, Mr. D’Andrea spent seven years as Vice President at URAC, where he was responsible for the development of URAC’s accreditation programs, including quality standards for PPOs, utilization management organizations, case management organizations and consumer-directed health care. Prior to URAC, he spent five years working on managed care regulatory and policy issues with the American Association of Health Plans (now AHIP) and the Maryland Association of HMOs. Mr. D’Andrea has co-authored several papers on health care reform, including: “Should Health Care Come with a Warranty?” featured in Health Affairs, “Physicians Respond to Pay-for-Performance Incentives: Larger Incentives Yield Greater Participation” in The American Journal of Managed Care, and “Sustaining The Medical Home: How Prometheus Payment Can Revitalize Primary Care” for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mr. D’Andrea received an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Cornell University. He earned dual Master of Business Administration degrees from Columbia University and the London Business School, where he graduated as the valedictorian of his program. He is a member of the American Association of Health Care Consultants, the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Mid-Atlantic Business Group on Health. |
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Jill Kalman, M.D. Director, Cardiomyopathy Program, Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center |
She began in the specialty of Heart Failure at Mount
Sinai, and then started and developed the Heart Failure
Program at Beth Israel Medical Center from 1998-2005. She
was subsequently recruited to as Director of the
Cardiomyopathy Program and Chief of the Cardiac Service of
Tisch Hospital. In 2007, she was recruited back to as the
Director of the Program to further develop and expand the
Heart Failure and Transplant Program. |
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 Maria Basso Lipani, LCSW Coordinator, PACT (Preventable Admissions Care Team), Mount Sinai Medical Center |
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