Press Release: CD-ROM and Video iPOD of the Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit Available
  • CD-ROM which includes video and synchronized PowerPoint slides for all plenary sessions and audio and PowerPoint slides for all concurrent sessions
  • Video iPOD preloaded with conference plenary sessions and concurrent sessions audio
  • Summit is the Leading Forum on the Implications of Consumer Choice and HSAs, HRAs and FSAs for Providers, Pharma, Plans and Employers
  • Sponsored by Health Affairs and Harvard Health Policy Review
  • September 13 - 15, 2006
  • Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
  • www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com


WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- OCTOBER 3, 2006: The National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit (the Summit), www.ConsumerDrivenSummit.com, which was held September 13 - 15, 2006 in Washington, DC announced today that two media platforms are available with the full content of the Summit:

  • A CD-ROM which includes video and synchronized PowerPoint slides for all plenary sessions and audio and PowerPoint slides for all concurrent sessions, and
  • A video iPOD preloaded with conference plenary sessions and concurrent sessions audio.
CD-ROM OF ALL PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE:

The CD-ROM offers plenary session video with synchronized PowerPoint slides and concurrent sessions audio.

Easily navigate using your computer to the presenter and the exact content you wish to view.

VIDEO iPOD AUDIO OF ALL PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE:

Alternatively receive a new Video iPOD preloaded with Summit content.

Get Apple's Video iPOD yet, pre-loaded with the complete video of the Plenary sessions from the Consumer Driven Summit held on September 13 - 15, 2006 (please note that the video on the iPODs does not include synchronized PowerPoint slides).

PRICING FOR CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTHCARE SUMMIT MULTIMEDIA:

Order both the CD-ROM video content and the Video iPOD.

SUMMIT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Karen Davis
President, The Commonwealth Fund
Former Chairman, Department of Health Policy and Management
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Washington, DC
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.
President, Center for Studying Health System Change
Founding Executive Director
Physician Payment Review Commission
(now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)
Washington, DC
John Goodman, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Center for Policy Analysis
Author, Patient Power: Solving America's Health Care Crisis
Washington, DC
Regina E. Herzlinger. Ph.D.
Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Author, Consumer-Driven Healthcare, r.e. Herzlinger, Jossey Bass, 2004
Cambridge, MA
Karen Ignagni, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
America's Health Insurance Plans
Former Director, AFL-CIO Department of Employee Benefits
Former Professional Staff Member
U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Washington, DC
JoAnn Laing
President, Information Strategies, Inc.
Parent company of HSAfinder.com
Palisades Park, NJ
Ron Pollack
Founding Executive Director, Families USA
Founder and Chair, Health Assistance Partnership
Washington, DC
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute, Washington, DC

SUMMIT CO CHAIRS
Beth Bierbower
Vice President
Product Design and Development
Humana
Louisville, KY
William Boyles
Editor & Publisher
Consumer Driven Market Report
Washington, DC
John Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs
National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine
Washington, DC
Doug Kronenberg
Chief Strategy Officer
Lumenos, a WellPoint Company
Alexandria, VA
Clive Riddle
President, MCOL
Modesto, CA
Greg Scandlen
President and Founder
Consumers for Health Care Choices
Hagerstown, MD
Michael Showalter
Vice President, Consumerism, Cigna
Hartford, CT
Maureen E. Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Strategic Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Chicago, IL
CONTINUING EDUCATION
The following continuing education credits for the Summit are offered in partnership with the Medical Education Collaborative: ACCME, AMA PRA, ACPE, ANCC, CA BRN, ACMPE, AHIMA, MCLE and NASBA. Click here for more information.

FEATURING THE FOLLOWING TRACKS
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Providers
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Prescription Strategies 
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Strategies for Plans and Employers
  • The Role of Financial Institutions, Including Banks, Credit Unions and Money Management Firms, in HSAs
  • The Role of Health Information Technology in Consumer Driven Healthcare
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare and HSA Legal Issues
  • Consumer Driven Healthcare Policy Issues

HOW TO ORDER CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTHCARE SUMMIT MULTIMEDIA

Order the CD-ROM, Video iPOD or both online at www.consumerdrivensummit.com/cdrom/cdinfo.html.