4th Forum: Agenda

8am – 11am

Pre-conference workshop (internal – not open to guests)

11am

Forum registration commences

12pm

Flying lunch snack & stage warm-up – please take your seats

12.15pm – 12.30pm

Brief Welcome

Katharina Janus – Chair and Host (Professor and Director, Center for Healthcare Management, Germany, and Columbia University, New York, USA)

12.30pm – 1pm

Keynote: Making health systems friendly for Innovation

David Blumenthal (President, the Commonwealth Fund, New York, USA and former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for President Obama, Washington D.C., USA)

1pm – 1.30pm

Introductions

  • Katharina Janus – Chair and host (Professor and Director, Center for Healthcare Management, Germany, and Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Lawrence Brown – Co-Chair (Professor, Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Martina Kaplanek – Host (Project Manager, Bosch-Foundation, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany)

Acknowledging our sponsors: the Robert-Bosch-Foundation, the Krupp-Foundation, the German Scholars Organization, Kaiser Permanente USA, Columbia University, Dentons LLP and Fresenius Medical Care North America.

1.30pm – 3pm

Keynote panel “Ready for descent” – moving from the bird’s eye perspective to country-specific comparisons

Moderated by Katharina Janus (Professor and Director, Center for Healthcare Management, Germany and USA) and Federico Lega (Professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)

  • Cross-national health policy and management – learnings from our past forums (Lawrence Brown, Professor, Columbia University, USA)
  • How do international healthcare organizations interact and how do they relate to different healthcare systems? (Walter Kopp, President, Medical Management Services, USA)
  • International best practice versus tailor-made solutions for organizations and countries – what’s the future’s compromise? (Bruce Fried, Managing Partner, Dentons LLP and former head of the Health Care Financing Administration, Washington D.C., USA)
  • Mapping the healthcare framework of different countries – what works and what cannot work? (Murray Ross, VP and Director, Institute for Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente, USA)
3pm – 3.30pm

Snack & Stretch break

3.30pm – 4pm

Keynote chat on global healthcare innovation

What does the innovation game look like? Who defines the playing field and can we enable innovation in medicine?

  • Theo Poiesz (Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Arthur Klein (President, Mount Sinai Health Network, New York, USA)
4pm – 4.30pm

Keynote chat on implementation in policy & practice

“How do incentives play out on the ground? What’s the secret for implementing P4P/value-based payment in practice?”

  • Michael Sparer (Professor and Chair, Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Susan Browning (VP Neurosciences, ENT/Head & Neck and Ophthalmology Service Lines, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, New York, USA)
4.30pm – 5.30pm

Interactive panel including audience Q&A following the keynote chats

Moderated by Peter Zweifel (Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Katharina Janus (Center for Healthcare Management, Germany and USA)

5.30pm

Wine & Cheese Reception

Sponsored by the Department of Health Policy & Management, Columbia University, New York, USA

9am – 9.30am

Introduction to the discussion format & brainteasers

The Care-Tank members

9.30am – 12pm

7 parallel roundtable discussions (including a rolling coffee break) – participants switch tables during break and can benefit from two tables

Our internationally renowned experts from academia and practice will join you in roundtable discussions on one of seven tables that relate to innovation & implementation in healthcare from different perspectives. The four innovation roundtables will deal with the following topics:

  • Medical innovation – how can we put international best practices into a national/organizational context? (moderated by David Roye, Professor and Executive MD, New-York-Presbyterain Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Columbia Cerebral Palsy Center, New York, USA)
  • Policy innovation – Can health policy and management enable innovation and if so, how? Can we move beyond politics through cross-national learning? (moderated by Michael Sparer, Professor and Chair, Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Technological innovation – What’s the impact of (economic) evaluation of technologies? (moderated by Lise Rochaix, Professor, Hospinomics, Paris, France)
  • Complex innovation – How can we respond to multiple chronic diseases at once? (moderated by Murray Ross, VP, Institute for Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente, USA)

The three implementation roundtables will deal with the following topics:

  • What is the optimal skill mix of providers and what kind of incentivesshould be employed to support performance and care coordination? (moderated by Federico Lega, Professor, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, and Yann Bourgueil, Director, IRDES, Paris, France)
  • What could a framework to assess the impact of change look like? Is there an optimal recipe for getting things done on the “shop floor”? How do policies affect day-to-day operations? (Theo Poiesz, Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • How can we monitor the effects of implementation? Is big datamanageable? (Walter Kopp, President, Medical Management Services, USA, and Peter Zweifel, Professor, Emeritus, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
12pm – 1pm

“Currywurst” (Curry Sausage) luncheon – the famous Berlin dish to revitalize your brain power

1pm – 1.30pm

Keynote: “The Challenges of Developing a Sustainable Network for the Care of the Chronically Ill: A Call to Arms for the Health Care Community”

Ronald Kuerbitz (CEO, Fresenius Medical Care North America, USA) and Benjamin Kornitzer (Medical Director, Network Development, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA)

1.30pm – 3pm

The roundtables report back actionable results

Interactive panel with

  • David Roye (New-York-Presbyterain Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital Columbia Cerebral Palsy Center, New York, USA)
  • Michael Sparer (Columbia University, New York, USA)
  • Lise Rochaix (Hospinomics, Paris, France)
  • Murray Ross (Kaiser Permanente, USA)
  • Federico Lega (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)
  • Theo Poiesz (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Walter Kopp (Medical Management Services, USA)
3pm – 3.15pm

Snack & Stretch break

3.15pm – 4.45pm

“Healthcare leaders talking live” – keynote panel on take-aways for global healthcare markets (from Asian, Eastern and Central European, Middle Eastern and US perspectives)

  • Bruce Fried (Managing Partner, Dentons LLP, and former head of the Health Care Financing Administration, Washington D.C., USA)
  • Ronald Kuerbitz (CEO, Fresenius Medical Care North America, USA)
  • David Roye (Professor and EMD, New York Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and IHL China)
  • Dominik Wehner (Management Board Member for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, Fresenius Medical Care)
4.45pm – 5.15pm

Getting ready for takeoff & good-bye (Katharina Janus)

Take the opportunity to meet & greet the experts in the hall if you don’t have to run to catch your next flight…