2011 Fall IDN Summit & Expo

Sept. 13 - 15, 2011

Arizona Biltmore

Phoenix, AZ


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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TRACK

As Healthcare Reform provisions begin to take effect, healthcare leaders are preparing for change. It will be an imperative to analyze and utilize good data to drive strategic decisions that foster alignment of your IDN/health system with the goals mandated by the recent Healthcare Reform legislation. During the strategic management sessions, we’ll provide you with the ‘big picture’ of how senior healthcare executives are proactively confronting the ever-challenging strategic initiatives and the respected opinions of leading industry analysts. This track is designed for senior executives who have operational responsibility for their supply chains, senior level GPO and supplier executives.

Tuesday, Sept. 13
12:00 pm — 1:15 pm Strategic Management Track: Enhancing the Supply Chain Partnership Casa Grande Presenters:  John Donnelly, Administrative Director, Supply Chain, Virginia Mason Medical Center; and John Sdanowich, Capital Administrator, Johns Hopkins Health System John Donnelly is the administrative director of supply chain for Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He has been certified as a Lean workshop leader and has led many kaizen events to improve supply chain. His certification includes training with Shingijutsu in Japan. VMMC includes a 336-bed hospital, multi-specialty group practice of more than 440 physicians, including a network of clinics and the Benaroya Research Institute. VMMC’s focus is on quality in both clinical and service components of the patient experience. In 2002, Virginia Mason embarked on an ambitious, system-wide program to change the way it delivers health care and in the process, improve patient safety and quality. It did so by adopting the basic tenets of the Toyota Production System (TPS), calling it the Virginia Mason Production system, or VMPS.   John Sdanowich has been with the Johns Hopkins Health System for the past 17 years, 10 of those as the capital administrator, responsible for the financing and negotiations of all health system medical equipment. His focus is the technology, life-cycle-management and obsolescence risk of the medical equipment. Mr. Sdanowich’s approach includes reviewing the changes in vendor’s medical equipment, evaluating products at the factory, and with senior management in research and development. He has also worked in the Department of Emergency Medicine as the assistant administrator and as a management engineer, working on the re-engineering of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The main focus of the restructuring was in the departments of Surgery and Medicine.
1:30 pm — 2:30 pm Strategic Management Track: Exploring the Role of Supply Chain to Maximize Physician Alignment Casa Grande Presenter:  Jean Chenoweth, Senior Vice President, Center for Performance Improvement, Thomson Reuters Jean Chenoweth is senior vice president, Center for Performance Improvement, Thomson Reuters. She is nationally and internationally known for her efforts to improve hospital management and clinical outcomes through measurement of performance. Ms. Chenoweth is responsible for development of the first national benchmarks for health systems to assess adherence to mission and relative value delivered to communities they serve. She leads research, in collaboration with academic and research institutions, to identify best practices in leadership, clinical quality and business practices in top performing hospitals. In conjunction with the King’s Fund, she led research on national measurement of hospital performance in the United Kingdom and served on the Board of Trustees of CHKS, Ltd., a company founded to provide hospitals with business and clinical information for improvement of performance. She has served as president of the American Association of Healthcare Data Systems and on a variety of AHA, HHS, CMS and NCVHS advisory committees during her career. Ms. Chenoweth is a graduate of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (BA, Psychology) and the University of Illinois at the Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois (BS, Health Information Management).
2:45 pm — 4:00 pm Strategic Management Track: Analyzing Reform: The Payer's Perspective Casa Grande Presenter: Herb K. Schultz, Regional Director, Region IX, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Herb K. Schultz was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Region IX. In this role, he represents the federal government on a wide range of health and social service issues. Previously, Mr. Schultz was senior advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and served as a principal advisor on health care reform. From 2005-2006, he served as vice president of government programs for McKesson Health Solutions, where he oversaw the company’s disease management and nurse advice programs for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. Mr. Schultz also previously served as a member of former Governor Gray Davis’ Cabinet. Prior to that, he was deputy director of external affairs for the California Department of Managed Health Care. Mr. Schultz received his BA in Political Science and International Studies from The American University in Washington, DC and has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, also in Washington, DC.