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Health Policy Forum, Friday Nov. 14, 2003.........................................(Printable Version)
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
A Call to Action: Quality Healthcare for All
9:00 a.m. - 9:30a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Welcome & Forum Introduction…….
Paul Simon, Director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern
Illinois University; Retired U.S. Senator from Illinois;
Board Member, Signature Healthcare Foundation
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Opening Address
Cost Comparisons between the United States and Canadian
Healthcare Systems
Stephanie J. Woolhandler, M.D.,
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Medical
School
Dr. Woolhandler is lead author of the recent study, published
in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing the cost
of processing healthcare related paperwork in the U.S. as
three times the cost of that function in Canada. Dr. Woolhandler
will summarize the study research and findings and discuss
implications for the United States system.
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10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Panel
on Governmental Actions
Missouri State Senator Patrick Dougherty
Missouri Representative Sam Page
Illinois State Medical Society Vice President Joyce Nardulli
12:00 p.m. Lunch Keynote: "One More Turn of
the Wrench"
James H. Herndon, MD
President, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Partners Health Care System Chairman of Orthopedic Surgeons;
William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Herndon will address applying Six Sigma to medicine,
as well the need for physicians to exert leadership in quality
improvement in healthcare.
1:45 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. Concurrent Workshops
(participants choose two)
A. Making Health Care Performance Reports More Effective:
Evidence from an Experiment in the State of Wisconsin.
Judith Hibbard, DrPH, University of Oregon,
Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management,
Eugene, OR
Dr. Hibbard will discuss the barriers to effective
public reporting and the strategies for increasing the impact
of reports on both consumers and on providers. Drawing on
her recent research she will delineate key features that
can make a public report effective. One of her recent studies
showed that making performance public stimulates quality
improvement activities in the areas where performance is
reported to be low. Study findings from the consumer side
of the evaluation indicate that reporting did in fact affect
area hospitals' reputations.
B. Population Based Disease Management Under Fee-For-Service
Medicare
Sandra Foote
Director, Health Insurance Reform Project at The George
Washington University
Ms. Foote will discuss current plans in Congress
and in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to
adopt population-based disease management programs under
fee-for-service Medicare. She will lead a discussion of
key opportunities and issues to consider in adapting such
programs for use in the fee-for-service Medicare context.
C. Clinical and economic potential of minimally invasive
knee surgery
Dr. Schroer; Signature Health Services, Inc.
Dr. Shroer will discuss the potential clinical advance
of minimally invasive total knee surgery and the financial
incentives and disincentives to "building a better
mousetrap".
D. Shifting Focus - Cost Control Alternatives to Managed
Healthcare
R. Jeffrey Davis, Vice President, Aon Consulting, In.
With the promise of managed care fading, where benefit plan
sponsors must turn to arrest double digit cost escalation.
4:25p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Reception
This program is approved for 5.7 contact hours for nurses
by the SIUE School of Nursing, which is an approved provider
of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurse Association
which is an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center.
Other scholarship support available by calling 618-791-8737
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