2010 FALL IDN SUMMIT & EXPO CONFERENCE AGENDA

Strategic Management Track Financial Operations Track Market Strategies Track Pharmacy Track Value Analysis Track Continuing Education Conference PowerPoints

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FINANCIAL OPERATIONS TRACK

Discover proven financial strategies and contracting models that will improve your organization’s supply chain and produce sustainable fiscal health and superior patient outcomes. This track will also take a closer look at how to streamline and tie your financial operation functions to the supply chain to achieve greater financial gains. Participants will examine supply chain managerial and contracting strategies to maximize revenue generation, decrease costs, improve expense controls for greater organizational efficiency and improved quality of care.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

6:30 am - 7:00 pm  Registration Open

7:00 am - 12:00 pm  IDN Summit Golf Tournament Sponsored by ArjoHuntleigh

Kick off the day golfing with your peers through the majestic beauty of Arizona's South Mountain Park, a protected natural desert preserve. Dramatic elevation changes and breathtaking mountain vistas highlight this diverse and challenging course which compliments the grandeur of the spectacular Sonoran desert. To further this unique experience, try to hold your own against inspirational golfer Butch Lumpkin. For more information about this course please visit: http://www.arizonagrandresort.com/arizona-golf-courses.php.

For more information and to register contact Chris Nolan or call him at 859.523.5701. 

7:30 am - 11:30 am  Team Building with PossibiliTEAMS Sponsored by VHA

Explore the true meaning of collaboration as you spend the morning building bikes for deserving children in this unique, fun and worthwhile indoor team building event. Participants will be placed on teams who will proceed to work together to assemble bicycles that will be donated to a local Boys & Girls Club Charity. Cool, comfortable dress strongly recommended.

For more information and to register contact Lisa Ponssa or call her at 813.928.0414.

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  Financial Operations Track: The Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project 

Presenters: Gary L. Whittington, CFO Region Services, Baptist Health System

Moderator: Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium, W.P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University

The nation's new health reform law includes a test of what is known as "bundled payment." This demonstration project, slated to start in 2013, will test whether hospitals and physicians are able to share a single payment per episode of inpatient care and deliver higher quality, more cost-efficient care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced five sites for the project, known as the Acute Care Episode (ACE) demonstration. The program will focus on select orthopedic and cardiovascular inpatient procedures. ACE goals are to improve quality for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries; produce savings for Medicare, providers and beneficiaries using market-based mechanisms; improve price and quality transparency for improved decision-making; and increase collaboration among providers.

In this discussion, health system executives from Baptist Health System San Antonio, who have been participating in the ACE demonstration project since 2009, will discuss the program, outline their results, and explore how bundled payments could affect the supply chain.

Learning Objectives:
1. Determine the factors that comprise a bundled payment program.
2. Explore the challenges and opportunities of bundled payment for the healthcare supply chain. 
3. Evaluate how a bundled payment program would benefit an organization. 

*NASBA
Delivery Method: Group Live
Program Level: Basic
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite required
No Advanced Preparation Required

1:15 pm - 1:30 pm  Break

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm  Financial Operations Track: A Redesigned Purchasing Model for Healthcare 

Presenters: Amy Newman, Purchasing Director, The Healthcare Authority for the City of Huntsville and Robert Simpson, CEO, LeeSar

Moderator: Nicholas Toscano, Senior Partner, Appleseed Healthcare Resources

Learn how four IDNs worked together to design a new purchasing model that brought costs under control and added value to the healthcare systems. The model has completely changed how these systems purchase to include the way that vendors sell into them which benefits both sides of the business. Hear directly from a purchasing professional of a participating health system how this new initiative has had a positive impact on her organization.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about the new purchasing model.
2. Understand how this new model can have a positive impact on a member organization. 
3. Learn how to report to senior management and gain their support for purchasing initiatives.

*NASBA
Delivery Method: Group Live
Program Level: Basic
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite required
No Advanced Preparation Required 

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm  Break

2:45 pm - 4:00 pm  Financial Operations Track: Savings Strategies 

Presenters: Dawn Cole, Assistant Vice President of Surgical Services, Medical Center of Central Georgia; Gregg Lauder, Senior Director, Capital Equipment, Banner Health System and Peggy Styer, Senior Director, Supply Chain Operations and Contract Management, Catholic Healthcare West

Moderator: David Hesson, CEO, Hesson Consulting

Health systems are constantly being pressured to find savings across the enterprise. This session will explore three different models for savings in three different areas: capital equipment contracting, purchased service contracting and safe-patient-handling initiatives. Learn directly from health executives about how they found success in these areas and how your organization can adapt these practices to achieve savings.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify savings opportunities in the area of capital equipment contracting.
2. Learn how to better contract for purchased services. 
3. Explore how patent safety initiatives can better quality of care and increase savings within your health system.

*NASBA
Delivery Method: Group Live
Program Level: Basic
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite required
No Advanced Preparation Required

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  Vision Sessions and Refreshments

Vision Sessions are in-depth education or research opportunities discussing current topics impacting the healthcare supply chain. The Vision Sessions are led by industry leaders and are designed to be interactive and to provide you with a hands-on experience with experts in the specific areas. Each session will afford you with ample opportunity for an open dialogue with the presenting companies. Session programming will begin at 4:30 pm with the first few minutes devoted to a networking break with light snacks.

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  GPO Receptions: Make it a Blockbuster Night!

Join the National GPOs as they celebrate some of the most memorable movies of our time. Each of the participating GPOs will host their own hospitality suite complete with refreshments and fun. After a full afternoon of education, unwind with your peers with a night at the movies.                                       

GNYHA & Premier Healthcare Alliance	Palm 2A	Star Wars
The Broadlane Group	Palm 2B	Cocktail
Amerinet	Palm 3A	Grease
Novation	Palm 3B	Blues Brothers
MedAssets	Palm 3C	Caddyshack
HealthTrust	Palm 3D	Indiana Jones

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm  Sponsored Receptions

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

7:00 am - 5:00 pm  Registration Open

7:00 am - 8:00 am  Welcome to Phoenix Breakfast

8:00 am - 9:15 am  Welcome and Opening Keynote: Butch Lumpkin

In the 1950's and 1960's there were between ten and twenty thousand "Thalidomide Babies" born after their mother's took the drug to combat morning sickness.  Butch Lumpkin is one of the approximately 5,000 survivor's world-wide.  Born with what he calls "short arms," he really has what amounts to no functional arms at all.  Three fingers extend from his left side in a flipper like manner, and his right arm ends before the elbow with three fingers that point backward toward his body.  If you ask Butch he'll tell you he is blessed and after this inspiring opening session you'll understand why.

Join the IDN Summit as we welcome Butch Lumpkin as he shares his incredible life story. One that has taken this extraordinary man through life as a high school soccer star, university soccer and tennis champion, golf pro, motivational speaker with appearances in front of high school groups to a recent ESPN Espy Awards show.

Butch will discuss why he feels blessed, how much modern healthcare has enabled him to progress through life, his life of stories and how each of us can make a difference because it is only a matter of choice. This is one talk you will not want to miss!

9:15 am - 10:15 am  Keynote Presentation: John Hofmeister

Perhaps no one in America can offer such a unique, real-world perspective on leadership, knowledgeable commentary on the recent BP oil spill, future energy solutions and thoughts on improving healthcare delivery than John Hofmeister.  During his career he has held executive leadership positions in General Electric, Nortel, AlliedSignal and finally at Shell Oil as President. These corporate positions as well as his service on leading organization's boards have given him insights on crucial issues impacting healthcare delivery.

As the leader of large, multinational human resources departments John is well versed in the demands being placed on the US healthcare delivery networks and is keenly aware of the challenges we all face in improving healthcare delivery. John will discuss how corporate behaviors of all kinds are being scrutinized much more closely today than they were in the past and how everyone in an organization becomes the public face an organization presents. After recent high-profile incidents, we all understand why corporate behavior has never been more crucial to organizations long-term fortunes. He will also elaborate on what he felt was the most important lesson he learned as Shell Oil president — leaders need to take their own messages seriously, so that others will as well.

John will provide his insights on these issues and more as he addresses critical issues we all must deal with if we are to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Come prepared with your questions as John will entertain them at the conclusion of his talk.

10:15 am - 10:30 am  Break

10:30 am - 11:45 am  Thought Leadership Panel Discussion with Chuck Lauer

Join Chuck Lauer, noted healthcare leader and former publisher of Modern Healthcare, as he engages industry thought leaders in a high level panel discussion on the state of today's healthcare system and the daily trials these leaders face in trying to positively impact their organizations. Dialogue will surround the challenges of implementing recent healthcare reform legislation, the current state of healthcare delivery in the U.S. and future trends that will impact all healthcare stakeholders.

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  Networking Lunch 

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm  Peer-to-Peer Lunch Series 

P2P Exchange is designed to go in-depth on four key challenges impacting supply chain management. Participants will be provided research on each topic area prior to the IDN Summit for their review. The P2P research, along with moderator questions will aim to stimulate active discussion among participants. These discussions will be condensed and attached to the P2P research paper and electronically delivered to each IDN Summit attendee after the conclusion of the Summit.

1. Purchased Services Contracting: Facilitator: Tina Norris, Senior Director, Purchased Services, VHA 
Download PDF Research
2. Reform Survey Results: Facilitator: Nick Gaich, CEO, Nick Gaich and Associate, Partner, Appleseed Healthcare International, Executive Director COO, Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research 
Download PDF Research
3. Service Line Analytics: Facilitator: Brent Petty, Director of Supply Chain, Wellmont Health System
Download PDF Research
4. Capital Management: Facilitator: John Sdanowich, Administrator, Capital Administration Unit, Johns Hopkins Health System  
Download PDF Research 
For more information and to register contact Lisa Ponssa or call her at 813.928.0414.

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Provider and Sponsor Only Access Reverse Expo 

2:00 pm - 5:30 pm  Reverse Expo

Spend the afternoon cultivating business partnerships and connecting with other industry stakeholders as senior supply chain executives from leading IDNs/Health Systems welcome you to their exhibit booths. 

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  Island Nights at The Oasis

Against the backdrop of the beautiful South Mountain Preserve, enjoy a perfect Arizona evening as you build upon business partnerships cultivated in the reverse expo. Join your friends in the ideal outdoor setting for drinks and dinner. And after the Phoenix sun goes down, heat up the dance floor with the exciting sounds of the best Video DJ in town!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

7:00 am - 11:00 am  Registration/Info Center Open

7:30 am - 8:30 am  Breakfast

8:30 am - 9:30 am  Collaboration: A Key to Supply Chain Efficiency and Cost Reduction

Presenters: Jean Chenoweth, Senior VP, Center for Performace Improvement, Thomson Reuters and Eric O'Daffer, Research Director, AMR Healthcare & Life Sciences Supply Chain, Gartner Research
Moderator: Ed Hisscock, President, The Optime Group

Join two of the nation's leading healthcare strategists as they discuss their analysis concerning collaboration and its impact on supply chain improvement. Jean Chenoweth, who directs Thompson-Reuters Performance Improvement and Top 100 Hospitals Programs, will illustrate that midwestern states have displaced hospitals in the Northeast and South in setting the national benchmarks. Analysis is now showing that the 100 Top benchmark hospitals show significantly lower supply usage than peers at the patient level.  Ms. Chenoweth will discuss how collaboration has played a critical role in changing performance.

Eric O'Daffer who provides research and strategic advice to the Gartner AMR Provider and healthcare manufacturer clients has uncovered examples from other industries to support the value of collaboration for significant healthcare supply chain improvements. Eric will share these 'outside of healthcare' examples to support his analysis.

9:30 am - 10:30 am  Healthcare at a Crossroads: A Discussion Among Leading IDN Executives  

Panelists: Steve Huckabaa, Network VP, Supply Chain Management, Retail Pharmacy & Center for Innovation, Kettering Health Network and Joe Sheil, Director of Contracting, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Moderator: Ed Hisscock, President, The Optime Group

Hear from health system purchasing executives from across the nation on what they are doing in their health systems to prepare for healthcare reform. This session will take an honest look at what choices health systems should make when faced with healthcare at a crossroads.

10:30 am - 11:00 am  Where Do We Go From Here Interactive Forum

Moderator: Ed Hisscock, President, The Optime Group

Reflecting the collaborative learning nature of the IDN Summit and Expo, the floor will be opened to the attendees of the IDN Summit, who will have an opportunity to ask questions of each other and share their knowledge and best practices for improving the healthcare supply chain.

11:00 am   Meeting Adjourned