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HealthMart 2003
Quality Improvement Initiatives Conference

"Making the Business Case for Quality Improvement: Perspectives of Employees, Employers, Providers, Government, and Health Insurers"

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7:30 - 8:00		Exhibitor Displays / Coffee / Registration
8:00 - 9:45		Introductions / Welcome Elliot M. Stone - Executive Director & CEO, Mass. Health Data Consortium Marylou Buyse, MD, Massachusetts Association of Health Plans Slides Keynote Presentation "Making the Business Case for Quality Improvement: the Economist's Perspective" Discussants Prof. Joseph Newhouse - Harvard Medical School Prof. Stuart Altman - Brandeis Slides Moderator Gloria Cordes Larson - Foley Hoag
9:45 - 10:00		Exhibitor Displays
10:00 - 11:00		Track 1: Expert Session & Vendor Workshops Meet-The-Expert A "A Vision for Establishing an Affordable, Integreated Delivery System for Acute Care" Speaker Ronald P. Preston, PhD - Secretary, Executive Office of Health & Human Services Moderator John Fromson, MD - Vice President for Professional Development, Finance, & Policy, Mass Medical Society Vendor Workshop 1 "Patient Education For Your Hospital" Vendor Workshop 2 "Accounting for Disclosures - Do I Really Need To?" Vendor Workshop 3 "The Infrastructure Behind e-Prescribing" Vendor Workshop 4 "Predictive Modeling: real savings, real safety or just hype?"
11:00 - 12:15		Track 2: Sessions Session 1 "Local Quality Initiatives: EMPLOYERS & INSURERS Incenting PROVIDERS" Speakers Kelly Conroy, Project Leader, Health Care Benefits, GE - "Bridges to Excellence" Barbra G. Rabson - Executive Director, MHQP - "MHQP's Rewarding Results Initiative" Slides Reactor Roberta Herman, MD - Chief Medical Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Slides Moderator Kathleen M. Reinhardt - Director of Benefits, Analog Devices, Inc. Session 2 "Local Initiatives on Patient Safety" Speakers Paula Griswold - Director, MA Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors Slides Lawrence Gottlieb, MD - Alliance for Health Care Improvment Slides Diane L. Dick - Asst. Vice President, Quality & Case Management, Northeast Health Systems Slides Moderator Nancy Achin Audesse - Executive Director, Board of Registration in Medicine Session 3 "HIPAA Community Solutions Update" Speakers Privacy: Debbie Mikels - Partners Slides Security: Deb Stevens - Tufts Health Plan Transactions & Code Sets: Natalie Cunningham, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Moderator Keith Van de Castle, MD, MBA, MPH - Medical Director, PatientEDU
12:15 - 12:30		Exhibitor Displays
12:30 - 1:30		"Investing in Information" Award Luncheon Presentation This year's award honors three technologically innovative programs that allows for secure, electronic communications between physicians and their patients and physicians and pharmacies. These applications will reduce medical errors, increase efficiency of physicians and medical staff, and enhance overall quality of care. The recipients are: PatientSite - John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup HealthCare System Patient Gateway - John Glaser, PhD, Vice President & CIO, Partners HealthCare System PocketScript - Stephen Burns, Vice President & General Manager, PocketScript Service Introduced by David P. Smith, Senior Director, Health Data Analysis & Research, Massachusetts Hospital Association Lunch sponsored by
1:30 - 1:45		Exhibitor Displays / Dessert Dessert sponsored by
1:45 - 2:45		Track 3: Expert Session & Vendor Workshops Meet-The-Expert B "Patient Safety - State Perspectives" Speaker Nancy Ridley, MS - Asst. Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Health Quality Management Moderator Gregory L. Sarno - Administrator, MA Coalition of Taft-Hartley Funds Vendor Workshop 5 "e-Prescribing" Vendor Workshop 6 "Maximizing Your IT Spend" Vendor Workshop 7 "Identity Access Management & Single Sign On - Addressing Convenience, Compliance & Cost" Vendor Workshop 8 "Improving the Web Experience for Patients and Administrators"
2:45 - 3:00		Exhibitor Displays
3:00 - 4:15		Session 4 "Making the Business Case for Quality Improvement: Medical Director's Perspective" Speakers Philip R. Boulter, MD, Sr. Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Tufts Health Plans James Fanale, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Slides Annette Hanson, MD, Medical Director, Division of Medical Assistance (Medicaid) Thomas H. Lee, MD, Medical Director, Partners Healthcare System Slides Moderator Dolores L. Mitchell - Executive Director, Group Insurance Commission