Don Seymour, President, Don Seymour & Associates
Given the intense focus on board performance, accountability, and transparency, it is now more important than ever for board members to understand their fiduciary duties and core responsibilities. This session provides an update on those topics and explores recent research from The Governance Institute on recommended practices for boards.

Thomas C. Dolan, Ph.D., FACHE, CAE, President & CEO, American College of Healthcare Executives
James A. Rice, Ph.D., FACHE, Vice Chairman, The Governance Institute
Developed by a panel of experts, Futurescan™ highlights key trend areas that are impacting the nation's healthcare organizations, such as economic outlook, payment reform, physician-hospital integration, genomic medicine, information technology, and nursing. This interactive session will demonstrate how to use Futurescan™ insights in new strategic visioning charrettes.

Thomas A. Atchison, Ed.D., President & Founder, Atchison Consulting Group, LLC
This session will show attendees how to use effective communication to engage various groups in your strategy, ways to avoid conflict and manage it when it happens, and why teamwork is critical today.

Robert M. Wachter, M.D., Professor & Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Rationing was a hot button issue during the healthcare reform debate. Dr. Robert Wachter, a leading expert on health policy, safety, and quality, discusses the ethical and pragmatic arguments for and against rationing, and offers a vision of where rationing will fit into our continuing debate over healthcare needs and wants.

Nathan S. Kaufman, Managing Director, Kaufman Strategic Advisors
Under healthcare reform, Medicare reimbursement per unit of service will not keep pace with cost inflation and may actually be reduced. Traditional means of subsidizing the under-funding will not be sufficient to achieve optimal performance in the future. Hospitals and physicians must collaborate in new ways through employment and clinical integration to provide more and better care at lower cost.

Nathan S. Kaufman
Mr. Kaufman will discuss critical success factors for successful managed care negotiations—specific steps, financial modeling, appropriate targets, and planning for term. Best practices for employing physicians will be delineated including organizational structure, compensation, and other key elements. Learn pros and cons of physician engagement tactics including directorships, joint ventures, and ED call pay.

James A. Rice, Ph.D., FACHE
As the pressure builds for more transparent and accountable performance, boards and CEOs are exploring new approaches for "enhanced performance at the intersection" of board, CEO, and physician leaders. New insights will be shared about best practices for executive leadership development, appraisal, succession and continuity initiatives, and pay-for-performance incentive compensation.

David L. Klatsky, Esq., Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Increased collaboration among hospitals and physicians in controlling costs and improving clinical outcomes is widely viewed as necessary to meaningful healthcare reform. Mr. Klatsky will discuss the principal legal and regulatory issues that hospitals must consider in structuring physician cost efficiency and quality incentives and will offer practical examples of how these challenges can be addressed.

Thomas A. Atchison, Ed.D.
Dr. Atchison will examine the different and complimentary roles of leadership and management, why a strong culture of performance is critical to success, how to align physician leadership in a culture of performance, and what can go wrong.

Thomas A. Atchison, Ed.D.
Leaders inspire followers to achieve their potential for the good of the patient and the community. This session will present elements of effective leaders, provide simple assessments of an individual’s leadership skills, and show why leadership is the single most important determinant of success.

Maria A. Friedman, D.B.A., President, Brookside Consulting Group
New legislation, federal mandates, and state activities will soon require hospitals and health systems to implement health information technologies and policies in a very short time frame. This presentation will explore the policy and implementation landscapes and what providers need to follow to be well positioned for the future.

 

 

James A. Rice, Ph.D., FACHE
Boards and CEOs are developing more creative and expansive strategies to protect their tax exemption status and build productive relations with their communities for growth in both philanthropy and market position. Explore findings from a study of successful alliances and arrangements observed by Dr. Rice during his association with the Foster G. McGaw Award Program.

Richard L. Clarke, D.H.A., FHFMA, President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association
As healthcare reform proposals were debated during the past year, a myriad of payment strategies and tactics were constructed, and deconstructed. Now the fundamental shift is clear, and the movement from fragmented, volume-based payments to a unified, quality-driven payment system is under way. Mr. Clarke will discuss strategic imperatives for healthcare organizations to succeed under payment reform.

Michael R. Irwin, M.B.A., Managing Director, Healthcare Finance Group, Citi Markets & Banking
The capital markets have shown remarkable resiliency as the credit crisis has waned. However, challenges to capital access remain for many healthcare organizations. This session will look at the "new normal" for rating agency analysts and investors and the implications for not-forprofit hospitals and health systems.

Michael R. Irwin, M.B.A.
Even before considering the implications of comprehensive healthcare reform coming from Washington, healthcare providers were confronting challenges which support greater scale and a higher degree of integration. This session will evaluate the rationale for consolidation and discuss how some healthcare organizations are strategically adapting.

Maria A. Friedman, D.B.A.
E-prescribing is the "low-hanging fruit" of health information technology implementation. This presentation describes how it works, government mandates for its use, its multiple benefits for providers and patients, and opportunities for the future.

  

 

Richard L. Clarke, D.H.A., FHFMA
Every organization must outline unique strategies and actions to succeed under payment reform. Learn how to assess your organization’s readiness for success, and understand how to enhance the key competencies of integration, risk management, and pricing to help your organization position itself for sustainable success in an era of payment reform.

Guy M. Masters, M.P.A., Senior Vice President, The Camden Group
Turbulent times create chaos for some organizations and opportunity for others. What makes the difference? Will your organization simply survive, or thrive? Mr. Masters will explore strategic planning processes that capitalize on opportunities created by payment changes, market shifts, competitor activities, and new delivery models. You will never look at your strategic and financial operating plans the same way again.

Anne M. McGeorge, National Managing Partner, Health Care Practice, Grant Thornton LLP
This session will discuss governance imperatives to help your hospital thrive in the current economy. The Governance Institute’s survey on governance structures and practices will be discussed with recommendations regarding increasing revenue streams, cost containment strategies, assessing capital capacity, realigning debt, and reexamining strategic plans.