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Convenient Care continues to proliferate and attract significant interest from consumers and health care stakeholders. While the majority of Convenient Care clinics are retail pharmacy sponsored, a growing number of Convenient Care operations have been directly sponsored and operated by hospital systems, or are offered under partnerships and alliances between retail pharmacies and hospitals. Please join us on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 as industry experts Mary Kate Scott, Scott & Company, Inc., Dr. Chris Kersey, Chief Business Development Officer and Chief Medical Officer, RediClinic, and Patricia Shea, Partner, K&L Gates, address the current financial, legal and marketplace issues for hospital involvement in convenient care.
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Mary Kate Scott is the Principal of Scott & Company, a strategy consulting firm for health care providers, health technology firms, their investors, and leading healthcare organizations including the Gates Foundation and The California Health Care Foundation. Her interests lie at the intersection of consumers, health technology, new delivery and business models. Her recent publications included the CHCF reports on retail healthcare clinics; the future of remote health services, and shifting consumer healthcare incentives. Mary Kate delivers workshops and presentations for healthcare providers to determine their response to retail clinics, technological advances, and consumerism in health care. Mary Kate is an Adjunct Professor at USC teaching New Business Models in Healthcare. Previously she was with McKinsey & Company and Procter & Gamble. |
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Dr. Kersey serves as Chief Business Development Officer and Chief Medical Officer of RediClinic, the largest private operator of convenient care clinics in the country. Prior to RediClinic, Dr. Kersey distinguished himself in the health care venture capital industry by serving as Founding Managing Director of Cogene Ventures, the largest health care and life science venture capital firm headquartered in the Southern tier of the United States. Dr. Kersey serves as the Past President of the Houston Venture Capital Association and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Memorial Hermann Hospital Foundation. Dr. Kersey received a B.A. degree from Stanford University, an M.D. degree from Emory University School of Medicine, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. |
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Ms. Shea is a partner with the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP where she advises corporations and non-profit organizations on a wide array of business and regulatory issues. Her primary focus has been the representation of entities in the health care, insurance and consumer service industries. In particular, Ms. Shea regularly counsels employers, health care providers, and health plans about their obligations under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") and the implementing regulations, as well as other state laws governing the use and disclosure of private health information. She regularly advises health plans about ongoing federal and state regulatory mandates such as claims payment, provider participation agreements, reserve requirements, and board of director membership requirements and obligations, and privacy requirements. She works with employer plans to evaluate regulatory obligations and risks associated with implementing employer-sponsored convenient care clinics. |
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