CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Monday, November 17, 2008
6:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:30am Welcome and Introductions
-- Arthur I. Broder, MD, CHCQM, Chairman of the Board, ABQAURP
7:35am Perception of Quality from the Experts - How Can We do a Better Job?
-- Arthur I. Broder, MD, CHCQM, ABQAURP
-- Joel V. Brill, MD, AGAF, CHCQM, Predictive Health, LLC
-- Garry Carneal, JD, MA, Schooner Healthcare Services, LLC
- Results of ABQAURP Survey of Quality Health Care Professionals
- How can members identify the tools to help them be successful with this rapidly changing process?
- How can members prepare for external requests for transparency in reporting quality of care?
8:25am Keynote Speaker - “The Need for Value and Accountability in Healthcare”
-- Nancy Wilson, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality & United States Department of Health and Human Services
- What are the initiatives regarding value and accountability?
- How can members implement systems in their practice settings to enable reporting of quality metrics?
- How can physician payment be structured to address quality initiatives?
9:00am Keynote Speaker - “Provider Accountability and Health Care Reform”
-- Ana Maria Osorio, MD, MPH, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Identify the methods for notifying physicians, hospitals, and providers about product and drug recalls.
- Discuss the financial, legal and social responsibility of providers, manufacturers, and insurers to remove defective devices from patients.
- Address the consumer need for ‘protection’ when new devices and drugs come to the marketplace.
9:30am Networking Break
10:00am Panel Discussion - The Genetic Implications of Patient Care
10:00am Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN, Case Management Society of America
10:45am Shirley P. Morrigan, Esquire, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Discuss how social and clinical needs differ amongst different generations that currently are, and will be, using the health care system, and identify specific communication strategies.
- Identify how personalized medicine will affect patient care and selection of treatments.
- Discuss provider and insurer obligations under the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act.
- Moderator: Joel V. Brill, MD, AGAF, CHCQM, Predictive Health, LLC
- Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN, Case Management Society of America
- Shirley P. Morrigan, Esquire, Foley & Lardner LLP
- Louis Hochheiser, MD, Humana, Inc.
- Ana Maria Osorio, MD, MPH, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1:00pm Panel Discussion - New Technologies: Responsibility & Risks
1:00pm Louis Hochheiser, MD, Humana, Inc.
1:45pm Vincent Bufalino, MD, Midwest Heart Specialists and Edward Heart Hospital
- Understand physician, provider, and purchaser obligations for providing care under clinical trials.
- Understand physician, provider, insurer, and purchaser accountability and obligations when a new technology is determined to be defective.
- Understand the process by which a health plan makes medical necessity determinations for new products and procedures.
- Moderator: Richard F. Kaine, MD, Quality Management Resources
- Louis Hochheiser, MD, Humana, Inc.
- Vincent Bufalino, MD, Midwest Heart Specialists and Edward Heart Hospital
- Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN, Case Management Society of America
3:30pm Panel Discussion - "The Perception of Quality" and its Impact on Providers
3:30pm David Sayen, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
4:20pm Sandra Festa Ryan, RN, MSN, CPNP, Convenient Care Association and Take Care Health Systems
- Understand the rationale behind non-payment for ‘never events’, and why certain events are avoidable – or not.
- Address how IT can be used to provide access to patient records across multiple provider systems and geographic locales.
- Learn how convenience care clinics can provide ongoing care of chronic conditions and address preventive and screening initiatives.
- Moderator: Garry Carneal, JD, MA, Schooner Healthcare Services,LLC
- David Sayen, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Sandra Festa Ryan, RN, MSN, CPNP, Convenient Care Association and Take Care Health Systems
- Louis Hochheiser, MD, Humana, Inc.
7:00am Sign In and Continental Breakfast
8:00am Panel Discussion - Assessing the Injured Worker: An Overview of Workers' Compensation
8:00am Arthur I. Broder, MD, CHCQM, Physician Advisors to Disability Managers and ABQAURP
8:15am Richard L. Wilson, Jr., MD, FAAPMR, CIME, Ability Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Inc.
8:55am Edward A. Peck, III, PhD, ABPP-CN, Neuropsychological Services of Virginia
9:35am Michael Del Bueno, Esquire, Whitt & Del Bueno
- Understand the coordination of benefits between worker compensation and traditional health insurance.
- Address the goals of worker compensation programs.
- Review the legal obligations of worker compensation programs.
10:05am Networking Break
10:45am Panel Discussion-Q&A
- Moderator: Arthur I. Broder, MD, CHCQM, Physician Advisors to Disability Managers, ABQAURP
- Edward A. Peck, III, PhD, ABPP-CN, Neuropsychological Services of Virginia
- Richard L. Wilson, Jr., MD, FAAPMR, CIME, Ability Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Inc.
- Michael Del Bueno, Esq, Whitt & Del Bueno
*Schedule is tentative and subject to change.
