Featured Speakers

Thursday, November 6 – 8:55 am – 9:45 am
Controlling Cost Drivers: Necessity or Empty Rhetoric?

Stuart H. Altman, PhD
Dean of The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University.

Dr. Stuart H. Altman is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state health policy. Modern Healthcare, Celebrating 30 years, listed Altman among the 30 people who have had the most influence on healthcare over the past 30 years; and, for the past five years, they named him among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.  Altman is also chair of The Health Industry Forum which brings together diverse group leaders from across the health care field to develop solutions for critical problems facing the health care system. 

 

Friday, November 7 - 9:30 am – 10:15 am       
Health Care Reform: Back to the Future or a New Paradigm

Karen Ignagni
President and CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans

Karen Ignagni is the voice of health insurance plans, representing members that provide health care, long-term care, dental and disability benefits to more than 200 million Americans.  Washingtonian named her one of the Top Three “Top Guns” of all trade association heads. Modern Healthcare magazine routinely ranks her among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare. Ignagni regularly testifies before Congress on key federal legislation. In recent years, she has appeared before Senate and House committees on matters ranging from health insurance plans’ role in homeland security to Medicare reform to patient protection issues and access to health care coverage issues.

 

Friday, November 7 – 10:15 am – 11:15 am
Changes in the Political Landscape: What do the Elections Mean for Health Care Reform?

Norman J. Ornstein
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute and Election Analyst, CBS News

In addition to serving as an Election Analyst for CBS News, Norm Ornstein writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and other major publications, and regularly appears on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. 

 

Featured Sessions

This year’s Forum also hosts speakers addressing the leading issues in our health care system – from personalized medicine and medical homes to transparency and health IT. Be a part of the discussion with the leaders and decision-makers in health care.

Sessions in this year’s program include:

Respondents: Making Health Care More Affordable

The Changing Landscape of Health Benefits

Value-based Payment Reform: Linking Payment with Quality

Transparency and Validating Public Reporting

Patient-centered Medical Homes: Redesigning the Care Delivery Model

Off-label Use of Drugs: Improving Care or Unnecessary Expense?

Personalized Medicine: Health Care on the Frontier

Simplifying Administrative Processes for Clinicians