AHA Leadership Summit 2014

General Information & Travel/Accommodation

General Information

Attendees will include:

• Senior Executives
• Governing Board Members
• Clinical Leaders
• Quality Improvement Leaders
• Risk Management Executives
• Patient Safety Leaders
• IT Leadership Teams
• Marketing Executives

Learning Objectives:

• Learn strategies for transforming care delivery to be more integrated and coordinated, resulting in enhanced physician alignment, improved population health outcomes, and greater efficiencies.
• Gain insights into the factors influencing the development of new partnerships between providers, physicians, and health plans for care delivery and financing solutions.
• Leverage leadership and team-based strategies to transform the organization for more greater accountability for quality and cost.
• Explore the potential of health information technology and the utilization of data to facilitate high quality care delivery and manage risk effectively across the care continuum.

Travel/Accommodation

Sunday, July 20th
1:00 pm

America’s National Security Challenges—Abroad and at Home Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense (2006-2011)

As secretary of defense under two presidents, Robert Gates shares his candid insights on global politics and world affairs, US intelligence and defense strategies, leadership and leading change in a large institution and the global challenges of the 21st century. Considered “The Soldier’s Secretary” for his commitment to placing the men and women in uniform as his top priority, Gates is a three-time recipient of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest award. A nonpartisan senior-level official, Gates’ leadership and guidance earned him the National Security Medal, the Presidential Citizens Medal and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal.

Sunday, July 20th
2:45 pm

The Volume-to-Value Revolution Adrian Slywotzky, partner, Oliver Wyman and author ofDemand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It

Noted strategy expert Adrian Slywotzky offers an analysis of the business, economic, social, psychological and sociological reasons that cause demand for a product or service to rise, fall, or never happen. A frequent speaker on creating new areas of value growth, Slywotzky provides a radically different way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications—not just for people in business but also for social activists, governmental leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. In this presentation, he shares his perspectives on how patient-centered leaders will win patient loyalty while transforming the quality and value of health care services they provide.

Monday, July 21st
8:30 am

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author and staff writer for the New Yorker

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers—The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and now, his latest,David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIMEmagazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. He has explored how ideas spread in the Tipping Point, decision making in Blink, and the roots of success in Outliers. With his latest book, David and Goliath, he examines our understanding of the advantages of disadvantages, arguing that we have underestimated the value of adversity and over-estimated the value of privilege.

Monday, July 21st
2:00 pm

Lessons from the Line of Scrimmage Peyton Manning, Super Bowl-Winning quarterback and five-time NFL MVP

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has earned his place among the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks and stands alone as the active leader in nearly every statistical passing category. The recipient of the Byron “Whizzer” White Humanitarian Award as well as the NFL’s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award in 2005, Manning formed the PeyBack Foundation to promote future success of disadvantaged youth through various youth programs. Manning continues to maintain a strong relationship with St. Vincent’s Children’s Hospital, which was renamed the “Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent.”

Monday, July 21st
4:00 pm

An Insider's View of Washington, D.C. Cokie Roberts, political commentator, ABC News and NPR

Long-time ABC Congressional Correspondent and leading political pundit, Cokie Roberts is one of the most esteemed and brilliant broadcast journalists of our time. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. Ms. Roberts is the best-selling author of several books including We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. With unmatched authority she brings a practiced political eye and keen perspective to the issues currently facing lawmakers.

Tuesday, July 22nd
10:00 am

Gifted Hands Benjamin Carson, MD, renowned pediatric neurosurgeon and New York Times best-selling author

As the son of a single mother in a tough urban neighborhood, Benjamin Carson was running with the wrong crowd and failing in school—feeling as though he had no way out. He could easily have spiraled downward, but he chose another path. Driven by a passion for science and helping those less fortunate, Carson pursued medicine and he would ultimately become one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world. In this enlightening presentation, Dr. Carson draws on his own real-life anecdotes to demonstrate the impact of making the right choices when presented with the many dilemmas of life.

Educational Sessions

The 2014 Leadership Summit will address the challenges of managing care for patients and populations in a new era characterized by evolving relationships between providers, payers and purchasers. Industry experts and senior executives will present successful strategies for achieving financial sustainability while delivering greater value through examples of operational excellence, emerging cross-industry partnerships, new delivery models and payment mechanisms, and advances in clinical integration, information technology, and quality improvement.

Educational Tracks:

Effective Models of Clinical Integration

Focused on physician-hospital alignment and collaboration, clinically integrated networks, and redesign of care processes for enhanced integration and governance of physician-hospital models.

Leading Strategies for High Value Health Care—Better Quality, Lower Costs
Promising practices and innovative approaches for providers competing to deliver the highest quality, safest care, and best value to patients.

New Delivery Models to Achieve Cost-effective and Coordinated Population Health Improvement
Managing risk and coordinating care with partners along the continuum including other providers, payers, employers/purchasers, and physician groups through emerging delivery models such as patient-centered medical homes.

Succeeding in the Business of Accountable Care through Emerging Payment Methodologies
Early results of pilots and demonstration projects for new payment methodologies including value-based purchasing, bundled payments, shared savings, capitation, accountable care arrangements and associated measures; the required capabilities and infrastructure to account for costs and manage the key cost drivers.

Creative Partnerships Forged Between Hospitals/Health Systems and Payers
Examine new trends in hospital owned or licensed health plans and internal and outsourced insurance capabilities, and explore how payers are developing new relationships with providers to build out insurance capabilities through networks, payment arrangements, case management, and other evolving strategies.

Deploying and Leveraging Health Information Technology in an Integrated System of Care
The role of HIT and utilization of data within a clinically-integrated model; deployment across the care continuum; and utilizing IT to manage risk effectively.

The Best Approaches in Team-based Health Care
Leadership and team-based strategies to transform the organization and the workforce for more integrated care delivery and greater accountability for quality and cost; approaches to creating a culture of participation, measurement and improvement.