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The Medical Home: The New Primary Care Model
Implications for Provider Networks, Health Plans and Hospitals

A Webinar & Audio Conference with Paul Keckley, PhD, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and William DeMarco, CEO, DeMarco and Associates

Thursday, June 26th, 2008, 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Pacific)
http://www.healthwebsummit.com/medhome08.htm 

 

Led by nationally recognized thought leader Paul Keckley, PhD, this session will explore the Medical Home model in depth with respect to trends and issues driving the need and demand for such disruptive innovation; the components, critical features, stakeholders and key topics relating to the model; the impact of the model on chronic care management and major stakeholders; and financial considerations of the model. William DeMarco, a national expert on healthcare delivery system redesign and transformation for provider organizations, health plans and hospitals, will expand upon the strategic, financial and operational implications for these organizations.

A growing shortage of primary care physicians and the growing prevalence of chronic disease has accelerated demand for a new model of care delivery. The Medical Home, as a new model for primary care, has emerged, evolved and gained considerable traction, even being embedded in Medicare pilot programs enabled under the Tax Relief and Health Care Reform Act of 2006. The new Medical Home model has significant implications for primary care delivery and compensation, chronic care management, evidence based medicine, personal health records, and related initiatives. 

Learning Objectives

Attendees of this session will be able to:

Who Should Attend

C-Suite, Medical Directors, Physicians, Provider Relations and Contracting, Medical Affairs, Strategic Planning, Care and Quality Management, Employee Benefits, Consultants, Solutions Providers and other interested parties from organizations including:

Faculty

Paul H. Keckley, PhD, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
Washington, DC
Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (the Center), a part of Deloitte LLP (Deloitte). He provides strategic guidance on the development of Center research and thought leadership. Paul has had 30 years of experience in academic medicine and the private sector. He is well-regarded for his knowledge of health care economics, health policy and trend analysis.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Paul served in several key roles at Vanderbilt University. He was the executive director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM), associate professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an associate professor of Health Management at the Owen Graduate School of Business. He oversaw many clinical outsourcing ventures involving care team training, clinical information technology, data management, and evidence-based pathway construction and integration. Paul also has engaged in several joint ventures, including specialty hospitals in the United Kingdom, development of primary care delivery systems in Botswana, partnerships with two Fortune 100 companies pursuing innovative approaches to chronic care management and others that are in early-stage development.

Before joining Vanderbilt, Paul served as chairman of the board of a large California dental practice management company; chief executive officer (CEO) of an enterprise business management solutions firm; a developer of evidence-based guideline software; CEO of a community medical management firm and principal of The Keckley Group, a strategic planning consulting practice that served 1,200 U.S. provider organizations and health plans.

Paul is an active member of several societies and editorial boards, and has authored numerous articles and three books. He has been profiled by ABC's "20/20," CBS's "60 Minutes," CNN, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal; he also has been a keynote speaker at several national industry meetings. Paul has testified for state Medicaid Review Committees in Utah and Tennessee about the potential impact of evidence-based standards on benefits for enrollees.

He received a bachelor of arts degree from Lipscomb University, a master's degree and a doctorate degree from Ohio State University, and he completed a fellowship in economic policy at Oxford University.
 

 
William DeMarco, CEO, DeMarco and Associates
Rockford, IL

William J. DeMarco MA CMC is the President & Chief Executive Officer of DeMarco & Associates, Inc., a national, independent healthcare consulting firm specializing in healthcare delivery system redesign and transformation.

The firm specializes in research and strategy development, organization development of successful provider owned  enterprises and marketing management including product design and promotion.

Mr. DeMarco is recognized as a leader in the research, design and implementation of community based healthplans. Since his involvement in several startup health plans in Minnesota in the early 1970s Bill and his team of management consultants clinical specialists and reimbursement analysts have assisted employers and physicians in developing better relationships with insurers up to and including developing local solutions to deliver and finance care.  He is currently involved with assisting special needs plan startups and expansions as well as other Medicare and Medicaid program development.

Using Health Services Research from its affiliate Pendulum HealthCare Development Corporation www.pendulumhealth.com DeMarco and Associates assists both provider and employer clients in addressing prospective payment approaches in order to build Pay for Performance models to develop direct employer/provider contracting entities, benchmarking collaboratives under the new value purchasing legislation  as well as single specialty centers of excellence.

 

Registration

Individual Registration Fee: $225.  Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event. Corporate Site Licensing Available.
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