Hospital executives and health care industry experts gathered in the nation’s capital Nov. 2-4 to take part in the fourth annual U.S. News & World Report health care forum, rebranded this year into the Healthcare of Tomorrow Conference.
“The new name underscores the industry’s commitment to developing a robust continuum of patient-centered care,” U.S. News Executive Editor Margaret Mannix told the conference attendees.
Speakers and moderators provided plenty to discuss at the conference’s keynotes and breakout sessions, during which public policy, medicine and data experts offered their insights into the challenges that hospitals and health care providers will face in the future and the impact that the 2016 presidential election might have on health care.
See below for recaps of each conference session and videos of the keynote sessions and panels, and search for #USNHoT16 for tweets from the conference.
J. Craig Venter of Human Longevity, Inc., gave the featured keynote address:
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U.S. News Editor and Chief Content Officer Brian Kelly moderated the subsequent panel discussion that included former Sen. Tom Daschle, Dr. Redonda Miller of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Eugene Woods of Carolinas HealthCare System:
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THURSDAY, NOV. 3
The day’s luncheon keynote session featured remarks from Ed Park of athenahealth, followed by a panel (Yumin Choi, HLM Venture Partners; Stephanie Tilenius, Vida Health; and Laura Wallace, Microsoft) moderated by NPR’s Scott Hensley:
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Recaps from each of the day’s conference sessions are below:
8:45-10 a.m.
— Implementing a Population Health Model
— Hitting the Sweet Spot With Predictive Analytics
— Stepping Up Pediatric Patient Safety
— Case Study: Bringing Ideas to Life: Creating a Culture of Innovation
10:45 a.m.-12 p.m.
— Interoperability Progress Report: Building an Effective Health IT Infrastructure
— Enhancing the Patient Experience
— Focused Factories: The Advantages of the Specialized Approach
— Keeping the Pediatric Population Healthy
— Case Study: Healthcare Learning Networks: Tapping the Power of Working Together
2:15-3:30 p.m.
— Breaking the Mold: Fostering In-House Innovation
— The Medical School Startup: Reshaping Graduate Medical Education
— A Package Deal: Laying the Groundwork for Bundled Payments
— A New Blueprint for Children’s Hospitals: Strategic Partnerships
— Case Study: Healthcare Innovation in the Cloud
4-5:15 p.m.
— The Retail Clinic Phenomenon
— The Community Hospital: A Lesson in Surviving and Thriving
— Re-Engineering the Hospital: Taking a Systems Approach
— Inside the U.S. News Children’s Hospitals Rankings
— Case Study: Driving Performance in a Patient-Centric Era
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
8:45-10 a.m.
— A Roundtable With Regulators
— Fortifying Against Cyberthreats
— Charting a New Course in Pediatric Genomic Medicine
— Case Study: Engaging Patients to Expand Your Market
Following those sessions, two keynote panels concluded the conference. The first, titled A U.S. News Colloquium on Quality Measures, included Cynthia Barnard, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare; Dr. Susannah Bernheim, Yale-New Haven Hospital; Dr. Helen Burstin, National Quality Forum; Nancy Foster, American Hospital Association; Dr. Ashish Jha, Harvard Global Health Institute; and Dr. Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins Medicine. Brian Kelly of U.S. News moderated the discussion.
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A second panel, The Future of U.S. News Best Hospitals Rankings and Ratings, featured U.S. News’ Avery Comarow and Geoff Dougherty as well as Murrey Olmsted of RTI International. U.S. News Managing Editor and Chief of Health Analysis Ben Harder moderated the panel discussion to close out the conference.
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Photos: 2016 Healthcare of Tomorrow Conference
U.S. News Healthcare of Tomorrow 2016 Conference Recap originally appeared on usnews.com
