The Implications of Healthcare Reform Will Be Examined in Annual Conference

"Re-forming Healthcare: Excelling in a Transforming System," the sixth annual conference presented by the Yale School of Management, will be held on Friday, April 9, at the Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple St

“Re-forming Healthcare: Excelling in a Transforming System,” the sixth annual conference presented by the Yale School of Management, will be held on Friday, April 9, at the Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple St

This year’s conference will focus on how restructuring the U.S. healthcare system will have significant implications for how healthcare is delivered, financed and regulated. The event aims to illuminate changes key stakeholders will face and expand on how excellence can be fostered in a system in transition.

Dr. Robert Galvin, director of health services and chief medical officer for General Electric, will present the morning keynote. The afternoon keynote will be given by Gail Wilensky, economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, which works to make healthcare available to people across the globe.

An executive panel of industry and academic leaders will discuss “Bending the Cost Curve the Right Way.” The panelists are Dr. Sam Ho, executive vice president and chief medical officer, UnitedHealthIcare; Michael E. Chernew, professor of health care policy, Harvard Medical School; Dr. Harlan Krumholz, the Harold J. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Health Scholars Program; and Wendy Warring, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Galvin will moderate.

Throughout the day, industry practitioners will lead a series of 16 breakout sessions on topics such as pay for performance; the future of long-term care as baby boomers age; care for uninsured and underserved populations; increasing patient involvement through personal health records and social media; employer programs that ensure healthy workers and reduce the cost of care; and how community hospitals will fit into the new healthcare system.

The conference is sponsored in part by Emergent Biosolutions, Anthem, Aetna, the Chartis Group, CIGNA, Fidelity Biosciences and Fallon Community Health Plan.

For a full conference agenda and registration, visit www.yalehealthcare.com.

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