Speakers Express Topics - System Issues

  • The "Corporation" of Health Care
  • Medical Group Practice Integration and Development
  • Integrated Systems Strategic Development
  • Governance for the New Millennium
  • Strategic Alliance/Partnership Formation
  • Physician Recruitment and Retention
  • Acute Care Facilities Management
  • Trustee/Physician/Administrator Relations

Javon R. Bea, F.A.C.H.E

  • Developing Visionary Strategies for Boards
  • Ethical Challenges of Boards
  • Developing Physician Partnership Models
  • Revitalizing Your Culture
  • Exceptional Customer Service
  • Leadership Models
  • Turnaround Strategies
  • Employee Satisfaction
  • Patient Satisfaction

David L. Bernd, F.A.C.H.E

  • Strategic Development of Integrated Systems
  • Quest for Quality in Healthcare
  • Cultural Changes Necessary for Patient Safety
  • Health System Leadership in the 21st Century
  • Board and Leadership Roles in Improving Quality and Patient Safety
  • Strategic Execution, Competition and Driving Results
  • Integrating Physicians into the System
  • Information Systems as a Strategic Driver
  • Cost Benefit of Information Systems

Joseph J. Bujak, MD

  • Health Futures
  • Restoring Joy to the Workplace
  • Physician Healthcare Org. Relationships
  • Establishing and Building Trust
  • Physician Culture
  • Organizational Adaptability and Sustainability
  • Physician-Physician Relationships
  • Patient Safety
  • Enhancing Mutual Understanding Among Board Administration and Physician
  • Clinical Performance Improvement
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Executive Renewal

David Burik

  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for North Carolina Providers
  • New Rules, New Roles: Health System Leadership in the 20th Century
  • Scan of the Healthcare Environment
  • Who is the Customer?
  • Competing & Collaborating with Niche Players
  • Health Care 2000 Crisis: Danger or Opportunity
  • Moving Beyond the Historical Approach to Physician Partnerships
  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for South Carolina Providers
  • Integration - Lessons Learned
  • Leadership in the New Millenium
  • The Effect of Single Specialty Carveouts on Nonprofit Health Care
  • Maximizing Product Lines in a Consumer-Driven Market

Lawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA

  • Physician-Hospital Relationships
  • Integrated Health Care
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Vertical Integration
  • Hospital Mergers
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Payer-Provider Contracting
  • Managing Physicians
  • Hospital Bankruptcy
  • Group Purchasing Organizations
  • Hospital of the Future

Martin Buser

  • Designing and Enhancing Hospitalist Programs
  • Emergency Department Call Panel Issues
  • Solving the ED Backup Panel Problem

J. Christopher Cutler, FACHE

  • Governance Performance Evaluation
  • Governance Structures and Practices
  • Trustee Education
  • Healthcare Delivery System Design
  • Merger Feasibility
  • Restructuring
  • Organizational and Program/Service Strategic Planning
  • Facilitated Retreats for Trustees, Medical Staff/Senior Management
  • Creative Thinking Workshops
  • The New Consumers
  • Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • Future of Health Care
  • Transparency and Public Reporting
  • Quality and Excellence
  • Baldrige Award
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Leadership on the Front Lines
  • Strategic Planning
  • New Questions to Strengthen Strategic Plans and Position
  • Board’s Role in Quality: Courageous Questions to Ask
  • Governance and Community Accountability
  • Board Retreats

Bill G. Felkey

  • Technology Solutions
  • Health Outcomes
  • Patient-Focused Services
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Practitioner Order Entry
  • E-Commerce
  • Strategic Planning
  • E-Health
  • Computer Literacy
  • Telemedicine
  • Website Development
  • PDAs
  • Enterprise Solutions
  • Bootcamps
  • Efficiency and Effectiveness
  • Point-of-Care
  • Infrastructure

Sam Friede

  • Board Compentencies
  • Board Development
  • Board Orientation
  • Board Self-Assessment
  • Continuing Governance Education
  • Governance Audit
  • Governance Improvement Planning
  • Governance Redesign
  • Retreat Facilitation
  • Physician – Hospital Relations
  • System- Hospital Relations

Emily Friedman

  • Ethics
  • Future of Health Care Leadership & Strategy
  • Governance
  • System Issues
  • Quality Improvement
  • Workforce Issues
  • Community and health care
  • Current Issues in health care ethics
  • Demographic (population) change and its impact on health care
  • End-of-conference summary and perspective (written on site)
  • Ethics of health care leadership and organizations
  • Health care costs: causes, impact and prospects
  • Health care history (various topics)
  • Health insurance, the uninsured and the future
  • Health policy: How and why it is (and is not) made
  • Power shifts in health care and society
  • Rationing and resource allocation in health care
  • Trends that are reshaping the health care system
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Physician Relations
  • System Issues

Jeff Goldsmith, PhD

  • Future of the Health System
  • Biotechnology & Genomics
  • Health Politics and Policy
  • Health Care Organizations and Management Trends
  • Health Information Technology/Internet

Alice G. Gosfield

  • Rethinking the Role of the Medical Staff in the New Quality Era.
  • The Board, the Administration and the Medical Staff; New Collaborations for Quality.
  • Fraud and Abuse Under Federal Law (All issues including but not limited to the following): The Stark Statute, including compensation formulas and diagnostic services supervision; reassignment of benefits; Anti-kickback statute implications; False claims liabilities; Exclusions and civil money penalties for quality and otherwise.
  • All Medicare Part-B reimbursement issues for physicians, non-physician practitioners and groups.
  • The Quality Compliance Nexus
  • Quality in Clinical Culture: The Critical Role of Physicians in Accountable Health Care Organizations.
  • The Doctor/Patient Relationship as the Business Case for Quality.
  • Report Cards, Performance Measures and their Implications.
  • Compliance Issues in Physician Employment Contracts.
  • Understanding Managed Care Contracts.
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines: Applications and Implications.
  • Non-physician Practitioners and Physicians Working and Billing Together.
  • Clinical Integration Under the Antitrust Laws: Hospitals, Physicians and Systems Coming Together for Quality and Payment.
  • Pay for Performance Programs.

Paul R. Hofmann, DrPH

  • Clinical Ethics
  • Institutional, Organizational, Business and Management Ethics
  • Value Conflicts
  • Moral Dilemmas and Economic Realities
  • Use and Abuse of Power
  • Rationing of Health Care
  • Provision of Unlimited Care
  • Ethics of Managed Care
  • Decisions Near the End of Life
  • Ethics and the Technological Imperative in Health Care
  • Accelerating Performance Improvement in Hospitals
  • Defining, Identifying and Addressing Management Mistakes in Health Care
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Physician Relations
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • System Issues
  • Joint Ventures
  • Hospital Performance 

Paul H. Keckley, PhD

  • Evidence-based Medicine: The Basis for Care Management
  • The Quality Imperative: How Purchasers and Consumers Evaluate Care
  • Crossing the Quality Chasm: the IOM Mandate
  • The New Age of Healthcare Consumerism: New Demands, Old Expectations, Better Tools
  • The Huge and Growing Gap Between Evidence and Practice
  • Member Empowerment: Keys to Health Plan Success

John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA

  • Future of Health Care
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement
  • System Issues
  • Workforce Issues
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement
  • System Issues
  • The Board’s Role in Quality and Safety
  • Physician Employment
  • The N.Q.F. “Call to Responsibility” for Healthcare Boards and its Ramifications

Scott A. Mason, DPA, FACHE

  • Strategic Planning
  • IDN Development
  • Board Development
  • Technology and Patient Safety
  • The Culture of Health Care

Martin D. Merry, MD

  • 21st Century Leadership for Health Care
  • Physician Leadership - Characteristics and Development
  • Leading Change in Health Care Organizations
  • Creating cultures of trust for administrations and Medical Staff
  • "Physicians 101" for Administrators, Board Members
  • Understanding and addressing "root cause" issues surrounding medical errors, patient safety
  • Quality and performance improvement for board members
  • Medical staff (re)organization and leadership
  • Effectively managing peer review systems
  • Managing professional behavioral issues
  • Leadership for Quality
  • Leadership for Safety
  • Developing Physician Leaders
  • The Business Case for Quality
  • Complex Adaptive Systems and Health Care Leaders
  • Board Retreats--Planning
  • Senior Management Retreats--Leadership System Development
  • Physician Staff Retreats--Practicing all the Science we Know (Evidence-Based Medicine)
  • Health Care Market Redesign/Reform

Steven Valentine

  • Future of Healthcare
  • Physician/Hospital Relations
  • Managed Care Environment & Strategies
  • Board Retreat Facilitation

Don Wegmiller

  • Compensation Planning for Health Care Executives
  • Performance Appraisal Systems for CEOs and Senior Executives
  • Incentive Compensation Planning For Health Care Executives
  • Environmental Assessment of the Health Care Industry 2002-2006
  • Design of Today's CEO Employment Agreements
  • Current Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • Executive Compensation
  • Succession Planning for CEOs-Development of a Leadership Transition Plan
  • Board Compensation in Not-For-Profit Health Care Organizations