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Innovation and Health Reform As providers, managed care organizations and pharmaceutical makers adapt to a reformed health care industry, they will face sustained challenges, including increasing costs, changing regulations and the daily challenge of keeping up with new innovation. All are facing tough decisions about how to adapt to a rapidly changing market and what innovations they should pursue. As the nation’s first health information technology czar, Dr. David Brailer brings both expertise and insider perspective on the health care policy landscape. He will lay out the key drivers of innovation and focus on how to take advantage of the trends. Dr. Brailer’s approach will generate deep thinking about how to take advantage of financial and policy shifts. Examples of changes he will discuss include: - Information technology and changes in care delivery - The telemedicine movement – disrupting geographic cartels - Shifting primary care into the home/work environment - The emergence of health care super-consumers Surfing the Health Information Technology Revolution Physicians and hospitals are on the front line of the health information revolution. They will face enormous changes in the pace of health information innovation and many challenges in choosing a path to follow. Health information adoption will change how providers think about clinical decisions, how patients are engaged in their care, and how the financial side of care delivery is managed. Drawing from his experience as an entrepreneur, policymaker and investor, Dr. Brailer will illuminate how physician or hospital audiences can best develop health IT strategy, navigate through complex policy changes and use information technology to their best advantage. Key topics include: - Understanding health information technology policy - Investing in health information technology - Bringing physicians and patients into the health information revolution - Choosing vendors and partners to make information technology an asset New Directions in Health Care What areas are hot now, what is needed most and what are the areas in which we can expect to see real change in the near term? How do you invest your time and money into the complex health care industry? How do you know which trends matter and which ones don’t? When is it time to drive fundamental change and when do you focus on incremental change? Investors, major companies, physicians, hospitals and many others face these questions on a daily basis. Dr. Brailer’s broad experience enables him to analyze these complex issues from multiple vantage points. Tapping his experience as an entrepreneur, policymaker and as Chairman of Health Evolution Partners, one of the nation’s leading health care investment firms, Dr. Brailer guides his audience through these pivotal issues. Key questions he will address include: - What are the trends that you should follow? - How will reform play out? About David Brailer, M.D.A physician, entrepreneur, policymaker, health care advocate, teacher and researcher, Dr. David Brailer is one of the most well-known leaders in the health care industry.
Known worldwide as a leader of innovation and reform, Dr. Brailer is at the forefront of change in the health care industry. David Brailer is the father of the modern health information technology movement and was the first U.S. health information technology czar. Having spent his career transforming the health information industry, Brailer helps audiences understand the nuances of innovation in the health care system and what employers, patients, the Obama administration and other policymakers can do to adapt. Dr. Brailer has a unique view: he is Chairman of Health Evolution Partners, the nation’s leading health care investment fund. He has a front-row seat on major changes playing on in hospitals, physician and ambulatory care, pharmaceuticals and consumer’s homes. Dr. Brailer earned his MD at West Virginia University, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and earned his PhD in health economics at the Wharton School before teaching in the MBA program at Wharton for 10 years.
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