Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Dinner Buffet

Keynote Speaker: Glenn D. Steele, MD, PhD
Geisinger Health System Overview and Innovations Health Care Delivery and Design

Henry Hood Center for Health Research (HHCHR) Multipurpose Foyer

Attendees (.pdf)

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Welcome

Glenn D. Steele, MD, PhD

Ronald A. Paulus, MD
Howard Grant, MD

Fred Bloom, MD
Tammy Anderer, CRNP, PhD

Lee M. Myers

Raymond Nungesser, MD

Evan Norfolk, MD

Jean Adams

Participants are provided an opportunity to have “Lunch with an Expert” to hear a brief overview, have a conversation with a key leader and network with others interested in this area.

Lunch 1: Clinical Enterprise Structure
This session will provide insight into the day-to-day management integration between the service line structure and the platform structure.  Representatives of Platform and Clinic leadership will discuss how these matrix relationships are effectuated on a daily basis to operate efficiently as well as the interaction with employed and private medical staff.

Lynn Miller
John Buckley
Sue Hallick, RN
Ken Holdren

Lunch 2: Quality: Striving for Perfection
This session will provide details about how the Geisinger model for improvement infuses quality and safety into clinical care.

Al Bothe, MD
Scott Berry

Lunch 3: Research at Geisinger: Integrating Research, Innovation and Care Delivery
This will be an interactive session to review Geisinger's model for the role of research in a health care system. It will include some specific examples of research we are doing that influences clinical care, as well as Geisinger's 10-year strategic plan for research.

Walter ‘Buzz’ Stewart, PhD
Peter Berger, MD

Lunch 4: Retail Health & Ventures
This session will explore the strategic considerations for health system operated retail clinics. Understand the unique challenges and opportunities for launching retail clinics through the perspective of Geisinger Ventures.

Dean Lin
Denise Prince
James Peters

Lunch 5: ProvenCare Acute
This session will be an interactive discussion on the benefits of developing and implementing systems for reliable delivery of evidence-based care around acute and episodic events. Challenges, pit-falls and innovative solutions will be highlighted.

Alfred Casale, MD
Darrin Michalak, PA-C

Lunch 6: EHR: Leveraging Health Information to Transform Care Delivery - for organizations with a fully implemented EHR
This session will provide details on the Geisinger organization strategy to enable transformation of healthcare processes. The discussion will focus on transformation oversight and structure as well as staff attributes.

Evan Norfolk, MD
Jean Adams
Joan Topper

Lunch 7: EHR: Leveraging Health Information to Transform Care Delivery - for organizations early in the journey of implementing an EHR
This session will discuss how to optimize your organization to make meaningful use of health IT - including EHR, PHR, and health-information exchange (HIE).

James Walker, MD
Frank Richards

Lunch 8: Medical Home
This session will provide an overview of how ProvenHealth Navigator creates value by raising quality and lowering costs for the entire population while improving patient experience and professional satisfaction. The combined efforts of GHP and Community Practice Service Line (CPSL), leveraging population based information flows, proactive team delivered care, embedded case managers, and best practice driven EHR supported chronic disease management and preventive care optimization, will be discussed.

Duane E. Davis, MD
Janet Tomcavage, RN
Rick Martin, MD
Rick Gilfillan, MD

Lunch 9: Physician Practice
This session will provide an overview of the Geisinger Health System and the key elements driving its success.  Included in the discussion will be the physician compensation plan with built-in incentives for finance and quality, organizational structure, including service lines, physician leadership and accountability, as well as importance of a physician alignment strategy for non-employed physicians.

Lee M. Myers
Raymond Nungesser, MD
Bruce Hamory, MD
Nancy Rizzo

Lunch 10: Transitions of Care Initiative
This session will provide details on the Geisinger TOC initiative monitoring readmission through a broad based inpatient and outpatient system approach.

Kenric Maynor, MD
Seth Frazier

Lunch 11: Chronic Disease Management
This session will provide details on the Geisinger systems of care for the early recognition and management of chronic disease. Workflow redesign for patients with diabetes and for adult prevention will be discussed.

Fred Bloom, MD
Tammy Anderer, CRNP, PhD