THE ELEVENTH POPULATION HEALTH & CARE COORDINATION COLLOQUIUM
As we prepare for our 11th Population Health and Care Coordination Colloquium, we are closer than ever to realizing our goal of creating and implementing meaningful new changes in American health care. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the stage has been set for changes in health care delivery and coordination.
More Americans are gaining or retaining access to care, and there is a new focus on health promotion, wellness and prevention strategies as the way to improve the quality of life for citizens of every age and at every stage of life.
Population health is no longer an unfamiliar term. In order to create appropriate patient-centered solutions to the health care crisis in America, we will need to move on multiple fronts -- educating health care leaders about system-wide changes that will improve the quality and safety of health care; teaching patients to make better decisions regarding the health care services they require; making health information personal, accessible and useful while retaining individual privacy; and finding new ways to motivate Americans to make healthy changes in their diet and lifestyle behaviors. Prevention and wellness are at the heart of population health, and will bolster efforts to prevent illness and help to mitigate or better manage chronic conditions (diabetes, asthma, heart disease, cancer) that do arise.
The Colloquium is proud to build on its tradition of providing forward thinking, meaningful continuing education for health care professionals to prepare them to meet the myriad challenges in improving health care.
The structure and delivery of health care is changing. Patients are becoming more active partners and participants in their health care decisions and, along with payers, are expecting medical providers to be accountable for the quality and cost of services. The move toward patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations will require tremendous planning, effort and teamwork among all members of the health care team. How will changes in health care delivery affect primary care physicians? How will the growth of retail medicine affect the concept of the medical home? How can we use technology to improve the quality of care and its delivery? What programs and initiatives are working?
The Population Health and Care Coordination Colloquium, with its innovative sessions and prominent faculty, will address these issues. We are pleased to once again co-locate our event with the Medical Home Summit, and a new program, the Palliative Care Summit, to bring together a diverse group of individuals who share the goal -- and responsibility -- of transforming the health care system.
We hope you will join us for this exciting program!
Who Should Attend:
- Presidents/CEOs/CFOs/COOs
- Medical Directors
- Medicare/Medicaid Directors
- Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device Manufacturers
- Managed Care Executives (Medical Directors, Pharmacy Managers)
- Directors and Deputy Directors, State Departments of Public Health
- CIOs, CTOs, Vice Presidents and Directors of Information Systems
- Directors of Programs in Asthma, Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Oncology, Women's Health
- Quality Assurance and Improvement Managers
- Case Managers
- Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
- Directors and Managers of Health and Wellness Plans
- Directors, Disease Management
- Physicians and Physician Assistants
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Alternative Medicine Providers
- Pharmacy Managers
- Pharmacists (retail, chain and convenient care)
- Community/Independent Pharmacists
Issues Addressed:
- Key issues regarding health care reform and the need for preventive medicine
- Why fixing the health care system is a national priority
- The role the economic environment plays in transforming the health care system
- National health promotion and disease prevention initiatives
- The complexity of managing chronic conditions
- Exploring models of care delivery within the current system and beyond
- The financial burden of chronic illness and how care is affected by the economy
- Retail medicine and its role in population health
- Managing chronic illness in special populations
- Understanding comparative effectiveness and its impact on health care
- The importance of educating current and future leaders in quality and safety initiatives
- Consumers' growing role in managing disease prevention and wellness
- The implementation of EHR's and how physicians are being incentivized
