AMGA 2014 Annual Conference - Grapevine, TX
 

Friday, April 4, 2014

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.


Leveraging Lean Strategies to Innovate and Improve Organizational Performance [More Info]
Gayle McGinnis, Senior Director of Care Improvement, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

Non-traditional Partners When Academic- and Community-Based Provider Groups Merge: A Match Made in Heaven? [More Info]
Richard D. Rolston, MD, FAAP, Senior Vice President, Alegent Creighton Health, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alegent Creighton Clinic, and Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Creighton University School of Medicine; and Donald R. Frey, MD, Vice President for Health Sciences, Creighton University

Innovation on the Front Lines: Engaging Physicians and Advancing Value with an Innovation Contest [More Info]
Jonathan Nasser, MD, Co-Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, and G. Varuni Kondagunta, MD, Crystal Run Healthcare LLP

How to Put Your Meaningful Use Program into Auto Pilot [More Info]
Teresa Hall, PT, MBA, MHA, Quality Initiatives Reporting Manager, Intermountain Medical Group; and Beth Houck, MBA, Vice President, Client Services, SA Ignite Inc.

Be Careful What You Ask For: A Predictive Model That Really Works [More Info]
Rod Christensen, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Cheryl Hermann, RN, MBA, Vice President, Operations and Patient Care Services, and Karen Tomes, RN, MA, PHN, Vice President, Care Management and Patient Experience, Allina Health

From Data to Delivery: Making Clinical Analytics Work for You toward Better Patient Outcomes [More Info]
Dennis Schneider, MD, Chief Medical Officer, and Deborah Chandler, MBA, CMPE, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Springs Health Partners, PC

It Takes Two to ACO: A Unique Management Partnership [More Info]
Alan B. Bernstein, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, and Scott D. Hayworth, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Kisco Medical Group, PC; and Peter Kelly, Director, Corporate Strategy, Universal American

The Use of Advanced Practice Clinicians in a Physician Support Role Ordered Towards Improving Physician Efficiency, Productivity, Patient Access and Job Satisfaction [More Info]
John Gisla, MD, Family Medicine Department Chair, Site Medical Director, and Khuram Arif, MD, Pediatrics Department Chair, Site Medical Director, Mercy Medical Group

Hospitalists: On-boarding New Partners to Aid in Retention Efforts [More Info]
Rick Birkner, Vice President, Operations, Hospital-Based Specialties, and James Duff, MD, Section Chair, Hospitalists, Mercy Clinic

AMGA Federal Legislative and Regulatory Update [More Info]
Chester A. “Chet” Speed, JD, LLM, Vice President, Public Policy; Karen S. Ferguson, Senior Director of Public Policy; Christina Lavoie, JD, Assistant Director of Public Policy and Operations; and Garrett Eberhardt, Manager for Government Relations, American Medical Group Association

Friday, April 4, 2014

3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.


You Can’t Pick Your Family, but You Can Pick Your Friends: Choosing Wisely When Building Strategic ACO Collaborations [More Info]
Barbara A. Walters, DO, MBA, Executive Medical Director for Accountable Care, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Chief Medical Officer, OneCare Vermont; and Lynn M. Guillette, MBA, Director of Contracting, Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Director of ACO Finance, OneCare Vermont

Out of Many, One: Leading Culture Change through Physician and Staff Engagement in Strategic Planning and Implementation [More Info]
Sharon Crowell, MD, Chair, Board of Directors, and Duane Lucas-Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, The Vancouver Clinic, Inc., P.S.

A Prospective Comparison of Two Commercially Available Hospital Admission Risk Scores [More Info]
Dale Eric Green, MD, MHA, FCCP, Chief Medical Information Officer, Cornerstone Health Care

Leveraging Virtual Desktops: A Consistent Experience on Desktop, Laptop, iPad or Other Device [More Info]
Brent Moseng, Health Operations System Consultant, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Population Health: Turning Data into Information, and Information into Transformation [More Info]
Sylvia Meltzer, MD, Medical Group Operations and Optimization Director, and Laura Spurr, Medical Group Operations, Aurora Health Care

The Design and Implementation of Commercial ACOs in Colorado [More Info]
Ruth Benton, Chief Executive Officer, and Kenneth Cohen, MD, Chief Medical Officer, New West Physicians, PC

Improving Quality and Reducing Total Cost of Care in the PGP Demonstration and Pioneer ACO [More Info]
Dan Trajano, MD, Senior Medical Director, Population Health and Care Innovation, HealthPartners

Three C’s of Change in the Value-Based Economy: Competency, Culture, and Compensation [More Info]
Kevin McCune, MD, Chief Medical Officer, and Peg Stone, Vice President of Physician Compensation, Advocate Medical Group; and Paul Esselman, Executive Vice President, Managing Principal, Cejka Executive Search

The Supported Physician Is a Retained Physician: Physician Wellness, Health, and Mentoring [More Info]
Richard Lang, MD, MPH, Vice Chair, Wellness Institute, Katherine O’Brien, Med, Program Manager, Staff Mentorship Program, Susan Rehm, MD, Executive Director, Physician Health, and Andrea Sikon, MD, Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Director, Staff Mentorship Program, Cleveland Clinic

Communication Strategies for Effectively Marketing an ACO [More Info]
Pam Zippi, Director of Marketing, and Jean Sullivan, MBA, Manager of Marketing and PR, Baylor Healthcare System/HealthTexas Provider Network