NATIONAL PAY FOR
PERFORMANCE SUMMIT
PRESS RELEASE:
2007 National Pay for Performance Summit Announces Keynote Speakers
  • The Leading National Forum on Pay for Performance to Enhance Healthcare Access, Quality and Efficiency
  • Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association, Bridges to Excellence, Leapfrog group and National Business Coalition on Health
  • February 14 - 16, 2007
  • Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
  • www.PFPSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.PFPSummit.com

LOS ANGELES, CA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- OCTOBER 19, 2006: The Integrated Healthcare Association, www.IHA.org, announced today the scheduling of the 2007 National Pay for Performance Summit, www.PFPSummit.com, February 14 - 16, 2007, to be held at the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA. The P4P Summit is featured by a number of other associations and publications, including Bridges to Excellence, Leapfrog group and National Business Coalition on Health.

P4P SUMMIT PROPOSED PRECONFERENCE SESSIONS:
  • Aligning Incentives for Hospital Performance Excellence
  • Sponsored by the Leapfrog Group
  • Targeted to purchasers, health plans, and hospitals

  • Improving Quality and Paying for Excellence: P4P and Prometheus
  • Sponsored by Bridges to Excellence
  • Targeted to purchasers, health plans, and physicians

  • Creating a Community Collaboration to Support Data Collection and Performance Measurement
  • Sponsored by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)
  • Targeted to hospitals, purchasers, health plans, physician groups, physicians, and community leaders
P4P SUMMIT PLENARY SESSIONS:

  • Efficiency Measurement in P4P
  • Physician Engagement in P4P
  • Government P4P Programs
  • Measurement and Data Collection

P4P SUMMIT TRACKS:

  • Employer and Health Plan P4P Programs
  • Efficiency Measurement in P4P
  • Government P4P Programs
  • P4P and Information Technology
  • P4P Financial Incentives and Gain-Sharing
  • Quality Performance Measurement and Data Collection
  • Legal Issues in P4P
  • Advanced P4P Case Studies

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Francois de Brantes
Officer and Director, Bridges to Excellence
Fairfield, CT
Suzanne Delbanco, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group
Washington, DC
Andrew Foster, CBE
Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust
Former Director of Workforce, Department of Health
National Health Service
United Kingdom
Robert S. Galvin, MD, MBA
Director, Global Healthcare, General Electric Company
Founding Member, The Leap Frog Group
Vice Chair, Washington Business Group on Health
Fairfield, CT
Michael O. Leavitt (Invited)
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services
Former Governor of Utah
Washington, DC
Peter V. Lee, Esq. President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA
Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer, eHealth Initiative
Foundation, Executive Director, Connecting for Health
Washington, DC
Robert Margolis, MD
Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer
HealthCare Partners
Chair, NCQA
Los Angeles, CA
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
U.S. Heathcare Thought Leader, Mercer Health & Benefits
Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA
Peggy E. O'Kane
President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Washington, DC
James Robinson, Ph.D., MPH
Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics
Chair, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
California HealthCare Foundation
Oakland, CA
Tom Williams
Executive Director, Integrated Healthcare Association
Oakland, CA

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EXHIBIT AND SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:

For sponsorship and exhibit information review the Promotional Opportunities pages on the Summit website: www.pfpsummit.com/promotional/index.html or contact:

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

For further registration info, go to the Summit website at www.pfpsummit.com/registration.html, call 800-684-4549, email: registration@hcconferences.com, or write:

    P4P Summit Office
    7790 Barberry Ave.
    Yucca Valley, CA USA 92284