2011 Fall IDN Summit & Expo

Sept. 13 - 15, 2011

Arizona Biltmore

Phoenix, AZ


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CLINICAL INTEGRATION TRACK

This group of sessions will address key issues erupting from the intersection of clinical initiatives and the business side of healthcare. These sessions will explore effective strategies utilized to better engage physicians, clinical staff, pharmacists and others using data to drive clinical buying needs and support the best business decisions for operating your health system more efficiently . This track is designed for executives with responsibility in value analysis, clinical resource management and pharmacy services.

Tuesday, Sept. 13

Monday, Sept. 12

  
 5:00 pm — 9:00 pm Registration Open
 6:30 am — 7:00 pm Registration Open 
Main Foyer - Conference Center
 7:30 am — 11:15 am Team Building 
MacArthur Salon 5-7

Explore the true meaning of collaboration and giving back during the Fall Team Building Challenge. Invest the first morning of your IDN Summit experience building bikes for needy and deserving children of local Phoenix area charities.  This year VHA has challenged the IDN Summit attendees to go beyond the 30 bikes that were built and donated last year by building 50 bikes in 2011! You’ll be placed in a collaborative environment to learn new strategies on working together to meet challenges you face on a day-to-day basis. Breakfast, lunch and beverages will be provided and comfortable clothing is strongly recommended.
11:00 am — 12:00 pm First-Time Attendee Lunch
Sedona

Is this your first time attending an IDN Summit & Expo? Don't miss your chance to get together with other first-time attendees and learn more about how to get the most out of your IDN Summit Experience.
12:00 pm — 1:15 pm Clinical Integration Track: How to Bridge the Gap Between Clinical Outcomes and Financial Objectives
Flagstaff

Presenters:  L. David Harlow, Director of Pharmacy, Carilion Clinic; Brian Romig, VP, Pharmacy Services & Supply Chain, Cone Health; Dennis Robb, Senior VP, Supply Chain Management, UC Health

The historical struggle between quality clinical outcomes and the need to meet financial goals is giving way to a new era where high-quality patient care brings with it financial reward, and meaningful data analysis can help to bridge the gap between supply chain and quality care objectives. This evolution spurs the desire for new methods of aligning financial goals with clinical ones in an effort to maximize synergies, and develop a culture of stronger collaboration and cross-accountability.

Achieving a clinically integrated supply chain is a journey often relying on a strong value analysis process and evidence-based practices. Engaging physicians and management, and the use of data and other means of evaluating product selection and utilization, can play key roles. This session will provide examples of practical approaches for finding common ground between financial and clinical interests, as three healthcare system leaders describe their pathways to successfully building necessary relationships for integration. Dave Harlow, director of pharmacy, Carilion Clinic, will provide a pharmacy perspective. Listen as he and his fellow presenters describe the models they used to achieve balance and a truly successful clinically integrated supply chain.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Describe the differences between clinical outcomes and financial objectives.  
2. Evaluate ways to align your organization’s clinical and financial goals.  
3. Compare three strategies for achieving quality clinical outcomes while maximizing available resources.  
 1:15 pm — 1:30 pm Break
 1:30 pm — 2:30 pm Clinical Integration Track: Using Effective Evidence Based Decision Making for Supplies and Equipment
Flagstaff

Presenters:  Anthony Montagnolo, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, ECRI Institute

Clinical evidence and long-term experience with hands-on testing and evaluation is at the foundation of sound decisions regarding supplies and equipment, particularly in an environment of Healthcare Reform. The first critical step in effectively using evidence-based decision making to support the supply chain is to ensure that the data you are using is unbiased and accurate. Comparative Effectiveness Research provides evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of various treatment options and can be an effective tool in the process. Information can be generated from research that compares medical devices, drugs, medical tests, procedures, supplies, equipment and ways of delivering healthcare. 

The use of meaningful, clean data is an absolute imperative to managing the decision-making process and can facilitate well-informed technology decisions that are consistent with your organization’s strategic visions. In this session, you will hear from Anthony Montagnolo, chief operating officer and executive vice president, ECRI Institute, on how to gather relevant data for evidence-based decision making, as well as learn about examples of how faulty data affected decision making and outcomes. Learn how your organization can utilize effective evidence-based decision making to lower costs while improving care.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Identify resources and issues to consider when gathering data. 
2. Explain how faulty and biased data can affect outcomes. 
3. Describe how to use evidence-based decision making when selecting supplies and equipment.

 2:45 pm — 4:00 pm

 Clinical Integration Track: Utilization of Data to Engage Physicians 
Flagstaff

Panelists: Susan Widhalm, Senior Contract Portfolio Manager, Mayo Clinic; Gregg Yocum, Executive Director of Materials Management, Saint Francis Health System; Chris Toomes, VP, Professional Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Moderator: Steve Huckabaa, Network VP, Supply Chain Management, Biomedical Services & Center for Innovation & Research, Kettering Health Network 

As they prepare for payment reform, health system supply chain executives will seek out innovative ways to communicate with and engage physicians in the drive to reduce costs. Physician preference items (PPIs), such as implants, stents, and pacemakers, can present a challenge to cost reduction strategies, though such devices can account for as much as 60 percent of total supply expenditures. But oftentimes, their acquisition bypasses the organization’s usual purchasing process. 

Using accurate clinical data can be your greatest ally when engaging hospital physicians in the process of improving patient care while holding down costs. Meaningful involvement of physicians in supply chain decisions can improve communication throughout clinical, financial and operational areas. This improved relationship fosters mutual trust and a better understanding of the challenges faced by the supply chain department. 

In this session, hear from Chris Toomes, director, professional services, supply chain management, System Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System; Susan Widhalm, senior contract portfolio manager, Mayo Clinic; and Gregg Yocum, executive director of materials management, Saint Francis Health System, on how certain actions and processes can contribute significantly to creating ongoing, successful relationships while lowering costs and improving patient care. Learn how they formulated goals, identified and compiled the most relevant data available, and presented this business intelligence to physician leaders.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Identify supply chain goals that are key in cultivating physician involvement.
2. Plan how your organization will devise a strategy to compile accurate data.
3. List specific ways to engage physicians in achieving shared goals.
 4:00 pm — 6:00 pm







 Vision Sessions
Invitation for Providers Only
Vision sessions are in-depth educational forums providing opportunity for discussion of current issues impacting the healthcare supply chain. They are neither a sales pitch nor a research study, but rather provide the chance for honest and open discussion about strategies, problem-solving and informed decision making, as well as frank analysis of hard-hitting industry issues. Led by industry leaders, these provider-only sessions are designed to be interactive and to provide you with access to experts in a number of specific topic areas. Each session will afford you with ample opportunity for open dialogue with the presenting companies. Session content begins at 4:30 pm.

Cook Medical Vision Session
ArjoHuntleigh Vision Session
TECSYS Vision Session
TriMedx Vision Session
VHA Vision Session
 6:00 pm — 7:30 pm
 GPO Receptions
Amerinet
HealthTrust
MedAssets
Novation
Premier healthcare alliance

Wednesday, Sept. 14

  
 7:00 am — 5:00 pm Registration Open
Main Foyer - Conference Center
 7:00 am — 8:30 am New Product Showcase and Breakfast
Gold, Grand Ballroom and Aztec

Get your day off to a great start and learn about some of the most innovative new products and services available to the industry. Launched at the 2011 Spring IDN Summit, the New Product Showcase features emerging innovations in products and services providing solutions to healthcare systems. Grab your meal while also grabbing some new ideas and solutions for your organization.
 8:00 am — 9:00 am General Session
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Lessons Learned from Joplin
Sisters of Mercy Health System (Mercy)--through its supply chain division, ROi--will share the remarkable story that has unfolded since May 22, 2011, after Mercy's St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, suffered a direct hit from the most deadly tornado to trike the U.S. since 1947.You’ll hear how Mercy had the St. John’s Mercy field hospital, a 60-bed, high-tech unit, up and running within seven days following the tornado—providing medical care so deeply needed by the citizens of Joplin. Learn from executives how this incredible feat was handled with movement of supplies amidst recovery efforts after the tornado hit. Healthcare industry leader Chuck Lauer will open this session with a video highlighting some of the personal interviews and stories from those touched by this disaster.

IDN Summit will honor Joplin with a silent auction and raffle during the Summit to benefit the Mercy Tornado Relief Fund established to help those who face hardship and loss due to this tragedy. The Relief! Silent Auction and Raffle will kick off on Tuesday morning when registration opens and run until the winners are announced Wednesday evening at the Relief! Reception to Honor Joplin event. IDN Summit is committed to raising $25,000 through the effort. This is a great way to help your industry colleagues in need, and enjoy the fun and competition of an auction and raffle as well.
 9:00 am — 9:15 am Break
 9:15 am — 10:15 am General Session
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Keynote Presentation: Leading and Leveraging the Links in Your Supply Chain

Presenter:  U.S. Army Major General (Ret.) Vincent E. Boles

When healthcare leaders gather for the 2011 Fall IDN Summit, it will have been just past the 10-year anniversary of 9-11, the attack that changed U.S. history forever. A decade ago, U.S. Army Major General (Ret.) Vincent E. Boles had just assumed command of the Army’s War Reserve equipment and was now leading the massive effort to flex it into operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other areas around the globe. As a career Army officer with 33 years of experience in supply chain management, General Boles has a wealth of experience to share with today’s healthcare industry leaders on the challenges he has faced and what it takes to become a “team of teams” in supply chain management. There will be ample time during the session for question and answers on supply chain management, the U.S. military and Gen. Boles’ experiences and insight.  
 10:15 am — 10:30 am Break
 10:30 am — 12:00 pm General Session
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Thought Leadership Panel Discussion with Chuck Lauer
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Panelists: Charlie Martin, Chairman and CEO, Vanguard Health Systems; Michael Means, CEO, Health First; James Ramsey, President, University of Louisville; and Don Wegmiller, Chairman and Co-Founder, C-Suite Resources

Moderator: Chuck Lauer, healthcare business and policy expert, former publisher of Modern Healthcare

Merger and acquisitions continue to dominate healthcare industry headlines, but what long-term impacts will these changes have on the face of the industry? Chuck Lauer moderates this panel of the top leaders in the nation’s healthcare industry as they engage in a thought-provoking discussion of the changing realities of today’s healthcare industry. Listen as they share insight on how they think new partnerships and alliances are shaping the industry. You’ll also hear their forecasts for the future of healthcare and how these executives believe the supply chain can be used to improve healthcare delivery.
12:15 pm — 1:30 pm New Product Showcase and Lunch
Gold, Grand Ballroom and Aztec

Before you head off to the Reverse Expo, stop for lunch and some food for thought on solutions for your organization from the New Product Showcase. Participating companies will be on hand to display and describe some of the latest products and services in healthcare. Launched at the 2011 Spring IDN Summit, the New Product Showcase features emerging innovations in products and services providing solutions to healthcare systems.
 1:30 pm — 2:00 pm Provider and Sponsor-Only Access Reverse Expo 
Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom
 2:00 pm — 5:30 pm Reverse Expo 
Frank Lloyd Wright Ballroom
 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm Relief! Reception to Honor St. John's Hospital of Joplin, Missouri
Grand Ballroom and Squaw Peak Terrace

Wrap up a productive afternoon of relationship building during the Reverse Expo and take time to enjoy a beautiful Arizona evening as the IDN Summit honors the victims of the Joplin tornado. On May 22, 2011, St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, MO, took a direct hit from an EF-5 deadly tornado. Five patients and a hospital visitor lost their lives, and the hospital sustained significant damage. Workers at St. John’s suffered injuries and losses to their homes and other possessions. The 2011 Fall IDN Summit will hold a silent auction and raffle in honor of Joplin to benefit the Mercy Co-worker Tornado Relief Fund, culminating in the announcement of auction and raffle winners at the reception. The 2011 IDN Summit is committed to raising $25,000 to benefit the Relief Fund. Don’t miss this opportunity to relax at the end of the day while also seizing the opportunity to honor and assist our industry colleagues in need.

Thursday, Sept. 15 

  
 7:00 am — 8:30 am New Product Showcase and Breakfast
Gold, Gold Patio and Aztec Patio

It’s your last chance to enjoy breakfast at the Summit and visit with some of the companies showcasing new products and services before heading over to the general session. Missed talking with one of these innovators earlier in week? This is your chance. Drop by the New Product Showcase for some breakfast and you’ll be sure to take home some fresh ideas for your organization.
 8:30 am — 9:30 am General Session
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Transforming the Healthcare Supply Chain – Lessons from Two Big Brands 

Presenter:  Eric O'Daffer, Research Director, Gartner AMR Research

Moderator: Ed Hisscock, CEO, The Optime Group       

Healthcare can learn a lot from other industries. Our complexity is unique just as aerospace is unique or the chemical industry is unique -- just in different ways.  

In this session, Gartner AMR Research shares their research from Consumer and Technology businesses that directly relate to the supply chain transformation journey in healthcare. These examples illustrate wide scale change from large well known national brands that transformed their supply chain into a strategic advantage. These examples provide the background to explore how the healthcare can evolve into a more end to end value chain than the siloed one we live in today. 

Supply Chain transformation, of course, occurs in stages. We will discuss the stages and the collaboration needed between suppliers, provider supply chain and clinicians to make the next large scale improvements in the efficiency of the value chain. Supply chain sits at the intersection of patient outcomes, cost and reimbursement for most healthcare providers. This critical intersection and how it relates to supply chain transformation provides the background to set up the Chief Medical Officer panel discussion that follows.  

Learning Objectives:
1. Compare two well known brands and their supply chain transformation. Relate these transformations to healthcare providers.
2. Identify the stages of transformation in supply chain and the challenges inherent to healthcare providers in this evolution.
3. Outline the intersection of patient outcomes, cost and reimbursement and the challenges the healthcare value chain faces in incorporating these critical data points.
 9:30 am — 9:45 am Break
 9:45 am — 11:15 am General Session
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom

Panelist: David DiLoreto, MD, CMO, Resurrection Health Care; and Dr. Tom Krejcie, Chief Medical Technology Officer, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Moderator: Ed Hisscock, CEO, The Optime Group

CMO Discussion on Achieving Supply Chain Success

Supplies have grown to become the second largest healthcare system cost after labor. Emphasis has evolved from transactions and order fulfillment to integration into the organization’s overall business strategy. But lack of leadership, inadequate understanding of the supply chain and worry about costs can all slow collaboration. Identifying shared goals between the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the Chief Supply Chain Officer can forge a foundation of mutual trust and collaboration.

This panel discussion will bring you the unique opportunity to gain insight from CMOs of the nation’s leading healthcare systems as they discuss their roles within the organization and the day-to-day challenges they face. You’ll hear how the decisions they make can impact the supply chain department. Listen as they share their insight and applicatory data targeted toward establishing better relationships among supply chain, physicians and clinical staff, and then use what you’ve learned to take away new strategies for collaboration toward mutual end goals in your own organization.

Learning Objectives: 
1. Describe the transformation of supply chain management from one of operation to strategic, and the significant role that relationship building plays in the process.
2. Identify challenges faced by CMOs, understand the impact on supply and learn how to find common ground in solutions.
3. Evaluate how to strengthen and better manage the CMO/supply chain relationship for increased efficiency and effectiveness.
 11:15 am — 11:30 am Open Forum Discussion
Arizona Biltmore Ballroom
 11:30 am Meeting Adjourned