Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium
Population Health Colloquium



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AGENDA: PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIA
Monday, March 17, 2014


(Registration optional; Choose only one; Preconference I is required for Population Health Training Program)

7:00 a.m. Registration Opens
PRECONFERENCE I: POPULATION HEALTH TRAINING -- UNDERSTANDING AND PREPARING FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (Required for Population Health Training Program)

This interactive session will explore the issues and challenges surrounding the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Given the difficult rollout, this session will explore the following: What changes will need to be made to the Health Insurance Exchanges (HIEs)? How will the actual enrollment demographics impact healthcare delivery, the cost of care, and future premiums? What innovative practices can help patients become better consumers of health care? A panel of experts (including faculty from the Jefferson School of Population Health and contributors to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Field Clinic blog) will provide their insights on how the key stakeholders (patients, employers, health plans, care providers and policy makers) can prepare for and shape the changing environment.

8:00 a.m. Overview and Introductions: Population Health and the ACA

David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dean, Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

    Speaker Bio

    David B. Nash, MD, MBA is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health where he is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. He is a board certified internist and is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals, edited 22 books, and is editor-in-chief of four major national journals.
Drew A. Harris, DPM, MPH
Program Director, Health Policy, Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA

    Speaker Bio

    Dr. Drew Harris is an Assistant Professor and Program Director for Health Policy at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health (JSPH) in Philadelphia, PA. His academic interest is the complex interplay between public health, medical care and public policy. He oversees JSPH's MS in Health Policy and graduate Certificate in Population Health programs and teaches the Population Health and Health Policy core courses.

    He founded the NJ Public Health Institute and served on the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. He is an active public health advocate who testifies regularly on health policy issues. Through his op-eds and essays in the Philadelphia Inquirer Field Clinic blog, Wall Street Journal's Experts Panel and other publications, he informs the public by telling the stories behind the health research.
8:30 a.m. The ACA and the Triple Aim (Government/Policy Perspective)

Barbara J. Connors, DO, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, CMS Region III, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
9:00 a.m. Access to Care Consumer Perspective

Adam Penna, JD
PA Regional Organizing Lead, Enroll America, Philadelphia, PA
Presentation Material (Acrobat)
9:30 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Understanding Prevention from an Employer/Wellness Perspective

Ron Loeppke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM
Vice-Chairman, US Preventive Medicine, Jacksonville, FL

    Speaker Bio

    Ron Loeppke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM is Vice-Chairman of U.S. Preventive Medicine (USPM), and serves as co-Chair of the company's International Advisory Board. Dr. Loeppke has over 30 years of experience in healthcare and was the Founder, CEO and President of the Health and Productivity Corporation of America (HPCA). HPCA was acquired by CorSolutions where Dr. Loeppke became Chief Health Officer. CorSolutions was then acquired by Matria (a publicly traded healthcare company) where he became Chief Strategy Officer. Matria was then acquired by Alere (also a publicly traded healthcare company). He is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine and Fellowship trained in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Loeppke is President of American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). He is also Chairman of the Diabetes at Work group (http://www.diabetesatwork.org/ as part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Diabetes Education Program (http://ndep.nih.gov/).
    Presentation Material (Acrobat)
10:30 a.m. Understanding the Economics of the Law

Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, MPH
Professor of Law and Professor of Health Management and Policy, Earle Mack School of Law and School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

    Speaker Bio

    Robert I. Field is professor of law at the School of Law and professor of health management and policy at the School of Public Health at Drexel University. He is also a lecturer in health care management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow of Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He is the author of the recently released Mother of Invention: How the Government Created Free-Market Health Care and Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromises. He also writes and edits a blog on health policy for the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled The Field Clinic.
    Presentation Material (Acrobat)
11:00 a.m. Speaker Panel Discussion and Question and Answers

Drew A. Harris, DPM, MPH
Program Director, Health Policy, Jefferson School of Population Health, Philadelphia, PA (Moderator)

    Speaker Bio

    Dr. Drew Harris is an Assistant Professor and Program Director for Health Policy at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Population Health (JSPH) in Philadelphia, PA. His academic interest is the complex interplay between public health, medical care and public policy. He oversees JSPH's MS in Health Policy and graduate Certificate in Population Health programs and teaches the Population Health and Health Policy core courses.

    He founded the NJ Public Health Institute and served on the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association. He is an active public health advocate who testifies regularly on health policy issues. Through his op-eds and essays in the Philadelphia Inquirer Field Clinic blog, Wall Street Journal's Experts Panel and other publications, he informs the public by telling the stories behind the health research.
12:00 p.m. Adjournment

PRECONFERENCE II: OUTCOMES/ROI MEASUREMENT FOR DUMMIES...AND SMARTIES -- LEARN THE SECRETS TO WRITING AND READING OUTCOMES REPORTS

Whether for medical homes, disease management or employer-based clinics, outcomes report-writing and report-reading are skills which few have mastered. Eighteen years after the invention of care management outcomes reporting, roughly 80% of outcomes and ROI reports still contain fundamental errors invalidating their results...right in the reports themselves, requiring no extra confirming analysis to invalidate. Increasingly though, people are finding these flaws in outcomes reporting, using the Critical Outcomes Report Analysis (CORA) skills developed in these sessions. Learning how to find these flaws is the agenda for this highly interactive case-based CORA seminar.

If you write these reports, it is critical to spot these errors before the customer does. If you read these reports, it is imperative to spot these errors before you accept the findings.

8:00 a.m. Session Introduction, Presentation and Q&A

Al Lewis
President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc.; Founder and Past President, Disease Management Association of America, Wellesley, MA

    Speaker Bio

    Al Lewis, ironically the founder and the first president of the Care Continuum Alliance, has become wellness's Dean Vernon C. Wormer, following his smackdowns of various wellness programs. Just in 2013 he's been on Fox News, in Harvard Business Review, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. The wellness vendor frat party ends when he quotes from his books, Why Nobody Believes the Numbers and Cracking Health Costs, which hilariously deconstruct vendor and consultant fuzzy math, imaginary savings and outright lying. He's proven that some wellness programs can be hazardous to your financial health and even your employees' physical health. Call Al a stickler for details, but he would prefer it if vendors stopped playing doctor and instead encouraged HR departments to put the "well" back in wellness, and until they do, he's going rogue.

    Presentation Material (Acrobat)
9:45 a.m. Adjournment

PRECONFERENCE II EXAMINATION: CRITICAL OUTCOMES REPORT ANALYSIS CERTIFICATION TEST

The optional CORA certification examination is provided following this session, either on a practice basis or to achieve certification. Individual certification is valid for life and does not need renewal when one changes jobs. Corporate CORA certification allows the organization which produces outcomes reports to claim certification right in the report, thus adding immensely to credibility.

CORA certification is the only professional credential validating expertise in outcomes reporting. Join the hundreds who have achieved certification, and see firsthand why the reviews are so enthusiastic...and why people say "I will never look at data the same way again."

Note: If you would like to take the test and also attend Preconference III you may defer the test and complete it on a take-home basis. However, to get the Colloquium-discounted CORA Certification rate ($390) you must sign up for the test now.

10:00 a.m. Critical Outcomes Report Analysis (CORA) Certification Examination
12:00 p.m. Exam Complete

PRECONFERENCE III: WHY POPULATION HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS HAVE FAILED...AND HOW YOURS CAN AVOID A SIMILAR FATE

It became clear in 2013 that conventional population health programs have failed. While no negative article ever appeared in the lay media before 2012, no positive article has appeared since. Further, the media is right: wellness programs have failed on every level -- cost savings, engagement and even health improvement itself. Yet the overall success of new care models depends to a large degree on keeping people out of the hospital, so learning how to do that is key.

This session will cover:

  • Why programs as currently configured don't -- and can't even theoretically -- save money ? and will probably increase costs instead
  • How and why these programs may harm participants
  • Why people refuse to engage, for very good reasons

Then, attendees will learn how to avoid these fates?and create programs often called "Wellness 2.0", programs that will engage patients, improve health, and save money -- basically by doing the opposite of what programs currently do.

All attendees of Preconference III will receive an electronic pre-publication copy of How to Survive Workplace Wellness--with Your Dignity, Finances and Organs Intact.

10:00 a.m. Session Introduction, Presentation and Q&A

Al Lewis
President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc.; Founder and Past President, Disease Management Association of America, Wellesley, MA

    Speaker Bio

    Al Lewis, ironically the founder and the first president of the Care Continuum Alliance, has become wellness's Dean Vernon C. Wormer, following his smackdowns of various wellness programs. Just in 2013 he's been on Fox News, in Harvard Business Review, Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. The wellness vendor frat party ends when he quotes from his books, Why Nobody Believes the Numbers and Cracking Health Costs, which hilariously deconstruct vendor and consultant fuzzy math, imaginary savings and outright lying. He's proven that some wellness programs can be hazardous to your financial health and even your employees' physical health. Call Al a stickler for details, but he would prefer it if vendors stopped playing doctor and instead encouraged HR departments to put the "well" back in wellness, and until they do, he's going rogue.
12:00 p.m. Adjournment


AGENDA: DAY I
Monday, March 17, 2014


OPENING JOINT PLENARY SESSION WITH THE SIXTH MEDICAL HOME SUMMIT
1:00 p.m.

Welcome and Conference Overview

David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dean, Jefferson School of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (Co Chair)

    Speaker Bio

    David B. Nash, MD, MBA is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health where he is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. He is a board certified internist and is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals, edited 22 books, and is editor-in-chief of four major national journals.
Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
Executive Director, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, Washington, DC (Co Chair)

    Speaker Bio

    Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH, is Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative's Chief Executive Officer and in her role works with our Board of Directors, Executive Committee, membership and staff to advance a health system built on a strong foundation of primary care and the patient-centered medical home.

    She previously served as Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Associate Professor within the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where she was twice awarded Professor of the Year by her students. She served on the Board of Directors of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, TransforMED LLC, and the MidAmerica Coalition on Health Care. Her research and teaching is focused on health system reform at the federal and state level, the relationship between socioeconomic disparities and health, access to primary care and the patient-centered medical home, and public health.
1:30 p.m.

NYS and the Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Glimpse into the Future of Health Care

Nirav Shah, MD, MPH
Health Commissioner, New York State, New York, NY

    Speaker Bio

    Dr. Nirav R. Shah is the 15th Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health. He graduated with honors from Harvard College, and has an M.D. and M.P.H. in medicine and chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Dr. Shah heads one of the world's leading public health agencies with an annual budget of more than $58 billion. During Dr. Shah's tenure, the Department led the transformation of the state's Medicaid program, which resulted in more than $4 billion in savings in just the first year while improving population health and quality of care. The Department also spearheaded the creation of a health benefit exchange that will give 1.1 million New Yorkers health insurance coverage and drafted an evidence-based Prevention Agenda for improving the health of all New Yorkers.
2:10 p.m.

Building New Plan and Provider Partnerships for Better Health

William Copeland, Jr.
US Life Sciences and Health Care Leader, Deloitte LLP, Philadelphia, PA

    Speaker Bio

    Bill Copeland is the Vice Chairman, U.S. Life Sciences and Health Care Leader for Deloitte LLP and the sector leader of the practice's health plans group. A 27-year veteran with Deloitte, Bill has advised some of the organization's largest health care industry clients on their most strategic and transformative events, including mergers, affiliations, new business initiatives and financial and operational turnaround plans. During his career, Bill has served more than 50 health plans in 40 different markets. Bill's previous experience includes starting a national physician practice management company through venture capital funding and strategic partner investments of over $100 million and serving as chief executive officer of a major health care provider. Bill has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor's degree in psychology and economics from the University of Dayton.
2:50 p.m.

Managing Populations: The Role of a Large Health System

P. Terrence O'Rourke, MD
Executive Vice President, Clinical Transformation, CHE-Trinity, Inc.; Unified Clinical Organization (UCO), Livonia, MI

    Speaker Bio

    Dr. O'Rourke is the Executive Vice President Clinical Transformation for CHE Trinity Health and responsible for advancing clinical effectiveness, quality and patient safety.

    Dr. O'Rourke was the Chief Medical Officer at Centura Health and a practicing general surgeon in Colorado.

    After graduating from Georgetown University and the University of Michigan, he was Chief of Surgery at the US Army Hospital in Colorado.

    Dr. O'Rourke is a member of several medical and surgical associations. He has served on numerous boards of healthcare organizations.

    He was recognized with the Sword of Hope Award from the American Cancer Society in 1992 and the "Best Doctor in America" award in 2000.
    Presentation Material (Acrobat)
3:30 p.m. Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
4:00 p.m.

Beyond the Medical Neighborhood -- Collaboration for Healthier Communities

Martin J. Sepulveda, MD, MPH, FACP
IBM Fellow and Vice President, Health Systems and Policy Research, IBM Corporation, Southbury, CT

    Speaker Bio

    Martín J. Sepulveda, MD, FACP is an IBM Fellow and Vice President of Integrated Health Services for the IBM Corporation. He leads a global team with responsibility for health care policy, strategy and design, as well as the management system and services supporting the health and well-being of IBM's workforce and work environments. He was recently appointed to the highest level of technical achievement in the IBM Corporation, an IBM Fellow, by the Chairman and CEO of the IBM Corporation. He is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
    Presentation Material (Acrobat)
4:40 p.m. Closing Remarks
4:45 p.m. Networking Reception


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