The Quality Colloquium: Agenda: Day 2

Pre-Conference

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Agenda: Day 2 Tuesday, August 23, 2005
8:00 a.m. - Noon	Comprehensive Healthcare Quality Enhancement and Medical Errors Reduction (Choose One Track Only)
Track IIA: Providing Incentives for Quality, including Pay for Performance: How Are We Doing and What Are We Learning?
8:00 a.m.	Introduction Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA (Colloquium Co Chair)
8:10 a.m.	What (Little) We Know about the Importance of Incentives from Formal Studies R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care & Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
8:50 a.m.	Lessons Emerging from Current Healthcare Incentive Projects Cheryl L. Damberg, Ph.D. Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Principal Investigator, IHA Pay for Performance Evaluation Principal Investigator, Blue Cross of California Physician Quality Incentive Program (PQIP) Santa Monica, CA Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy Harvard School of Public Health Cambridge, MA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint) Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint) Gary J. Young, Ph.D. Principal Investigator, Rewarding Results National Evaluation Team Co-Director, Program on Health Policy and Management Boston University School of Public Health Associate Director, Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research Department of Veterans Affairs Boston, MA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint) Beau Carter Senior Health Policy and Strategy Consultant Med-Vantage, Inc. San Francisco, CA (Moderator)
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Bridges to Excellence: A Bridge for Some, a Bridge Too Far for Others, and New Bridges to Come Jeff Hanson Regional Healthcare Manager, Verizon Communications Officer and Director, Bridges to Excellence New York, NY Jeffrey Levin-Scherz, MD Chief Medical Officer, Partners Community Health Care, Inc. Boston, MA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
11:15 a.m.	Early Results from the Premier-CMS Hospital P4P Demonstration Program Stephanie C. Alexander Senior Vice President, Premier, Inc. Charlotte, NC
Noon	Networking Lunch

Track IIB: The Role of Health Information Technology in Quality
8:00 a.m.	Introduction Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative and Foundation Executive Director, Connecting for Health Washington, DC (Colloquium Co Chair)
8:15 a.m.	A National Healthcare Information Infrastructure: Are we Making Progress? Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative and Foundation Executive Director, Connecting for Health Washington, DC
9:00 a.m.	Innovative Massachusetts Partnerships in Health Information Technology Barbra G. Rabson Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners Watertown, MA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint) Carl J. Ascenzo Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Member, Board of Managers, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Waltham, MA Craig D. Schneider, Ph.D. Manager, Medicare Financial Management Branch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Region I Boston, MA Micky Tripathi Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) Boston, MA T. Louis Gutierrez Chief Technology Strategist, Commonwealth Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA (Moderator)
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Marrying Technology with the Chronic Care Model Neil A. Solomon, MD President, NAS Consulting San Francisco, CA Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
11:15 a.m.	The Future of Health Technology: Errorless Healthcare with Bionic Hugs and No Need for Quality Control Renata Bushko Chair, Future of Health Technology Institute Hopkinton, MA
Noon	Networking Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Introduction to Afternoon of Day II - Healthcare Quality and Medical Error Reduction Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH Faculty, Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA (Colloquium Co chair)
1:30 p.m.	Paying for Quality: What Medicare Is Doing Trent T. Haywood, MD, JD Deputy Chief Medical Officer Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Washington, DC
2:15 p.m.	Quality of Care Return on Investment on Pay for Performance Leonard D. Schaeffer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WellPoint Health Networks Former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration Thousand Oaks, CA
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Point/Counterpoint: Will Consumer Directed Healthcare Improve Quality of Care and System Performance? Michael Parkinson, MD Executive Vice President and Chief Health & Medical Officer, Lumenos Alexandria, VA Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH Senior Vice President, The Commonwealth Fund Former President, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare of New England New York, NY Presentation Material (Acrobat) Presentation Material (Powerpoint)
4:15 p.m.	Creating Accountable Partnerships Between Providers and Consumers: What Does IT Have to Offer? Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH Faculty, Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA Peggy E. O'Kane President, National Committee on Quality Assurance Washington, DC
5:15 p.m.	Adjournment
5:15 p.m.	A Special Preview of a PBS Documentary "Good News ..... How Hospitals Heal Themselves" that will be broadcast on PBS in the Fall: Clare Crawford-Mason, producer of the one-hour long PBS program on healthcare and Bob Mason, Executive Producer, will make a brief introductory comment before the video is shown.

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