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Care Management Webinar & Web Summit: Thursday, November 15th, 2007

at 1PM Eastern

http://www.healthwebsummit.com/caremanagment.htm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
at 1PM Eastern
http://www.healthwebsummit.com/caremanagment.htm

Please join us! Webinar faculty: Peter Kongstvedt, M.D., Partner, Health & Life Sciences Accenture and Joseph Gifford, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, The Regence Group. Web Summit package includes live webinar, plus three faculty Podcasts with companion presentations, from Mercer, Reden & Anders, and DST Health Solutions, along with additional web summit features.

Day-to-day member care management is still the backbone of health plan operational, financial and quality performance. While new products, programs, markets, regulations, and concepts often command a health plan's or network's attention, it is critical that the organization keep their "eye on the ball" and maintain a focus on the daily care management of their member population. This web summit provides a detailed discussion of current trends, tools, strategies, techniques, benchmarks and critical issues involved with care management in today's environment.

Participants Will:

Understand the benchmarks and metrics, and processes to measure and evaluate care management performance.
Gain a sense of the current current trends, strategies, operational challenges and critical issues in today's care management environment.
Explore various tools, techniques, and best practices currently being implemented for care management.
Find out about Total Health Management approaches and frameworks for health plans and employers.
Address the application of care management with a focus on improvement in care delivery with respect to Oncology.
Receive an introduction to combining predictive modeling techniques with HEDIS methodology in order to differentiate high risk and low risk groups and communicate the impact of chronic illness and associated cost to employers.

Faculty:


	Peter R. Kongstvedt, M.D., F.A.C.P., Senior Executive, Accenture, Health and Life Sciences Consulting Services - is a senior executive with Accenture in their Reston, VA office. He has fifteen years of consulting experience and fifteen years of operational experience at the senior-most levels of health plans, including managed care, health insurance, and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. In addition to his industry experience, Dr. Kongstvedt’s primary client focus is in strategy. He has also created and led industry benchmarking studies of financial and operational metrics in high performing health plans, worked in medical management, and keeps a regular focus on trends and issues in the marketplace.

	Joseph Gifford, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, The Regence Group, - a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate serving 3 million members in the Pacific Northwest/Mountain region. Dr. Gifford is a frequent speaker on innovation in health care at national conferences and leadership events. He has executive experience in the information technology sector as well as on both the provider and payer side of health care services. Prior to joining Regence, he co–founded QuickCompliance, a health care Internet media company, and served as director of product management at ChannelPoint, an insurance software company founded by engineers from Sun Microsystems. He has authored a variety of publications in clinical research and health care services, and has created online training programs for many large organizations, including CMS and the Department of Defense.

	Susan K. Willette, National Practice Leader, Health & Productivity Management, Mercer - Susan is a principal and Mercer’s national health and productivity management specialty practice leader. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Sue brings specialized expertise designing, implementing and evaluating integrated programs that address the health of an employer’s population. Sue is strategic leader for many of Mercer’s largest and most complex clients across the country. Prior to joining Mercer, Sue held several senior positions with a vendor of health promotion and employee assistance programs. Sue assisted public and private sector employers, health plans and pharma organizations identify solutions to address their needs.

	Marybeth Regan, PhD, Global Managing Partner, Reden & Anders - is an expert in disease and care management. She recently completed her dissertation titled, Disruptive Innovation: The Acceptance of Technology by Physicians focused on EMR, PHR, ePrescribing and Telemedicine. Marybeth has over twenty years experience in healthcare consulting, disease management, and e-health. She has held senior sales and marketing positions, most recently was the subject matter expert for Accenture in Disease Management. Earlier she was the Vice President of Marketing for Mayo Collaborative Services in Rochester, Minnesota. Marybeth holds a PhD in Philosophy and a Doctorate in International Business from the International School of Management in Paris, France.

	Amy Salls, Business Solutions Executive, DST Health Solutions - Ms. Salls has over 17 years experience in healthcare data analysis. Currently, Ms. Salls has operational responsibility for DST Health Solutions’ predictive modeling and decision support products, including DSTHS CareAnalyzer™ and The Johns Hopkins University ACG System®. She is responsible for interfacing with DST Health Solutions’ claims engines, developing analytic approaches, customizing and evaluating statistical models and distributing web-based reporting software used by managed care organizations to improve client performance in clinical and operational efficiency. Ms. Salls participates in NCQA's HEDIS certification program and has supported multiple commercial and Medicaid plans through the audit and data submission process.

Detailed Information: The web summit provides a package consisting of a live webinar/audioconference session, companion faculty slide presentations that you can view 24/7 on the web and ask e-mail questions, downloadable faculty podcasts, e-poll, article library, attendee feedback and participation and more. Detailed information is available at: http://www.healthwebsummit.com/caremandetails.htm.

Individual Registration Fee: $295. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $355 for non-attendees after the event.
Corporate Site licensing also available. To register, visit: https://www.managedcarestore.com/summit.htm or call 209.577.4888. Click here for a downloadable order form you can fax or mail.

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