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WASHINGTON, DC USA -- MEDICAL HOME UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- OCTOBER 8, 2019: It is just weeks away from the 2019 PCPCC Annual Conference November 4 - 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Below are a few items to take note of in preparation for this year's conference.

• Today is the last day to make your hotel reservation at the discounted rate!
  
  
• Conference registrants receive FREE participation in the PCCC tech preconference, Digital Disruption: Activating Primary Care, to learn about innovations that better integrate, coordinate and customize care and strengthen critical relationships.
  
  
• Our conference features panels with dynamic speakers to evaluate advanced primary care models, discuss ways to address prevailing challenges, as well as updates on Federal and State efforts to elevate primary care. View the details and speakers for other panels on the conference agenda.

Technology is increasingly changing the way that clinicians deliver care and patients engage with the healthcare system, and nowhere is this more evident than in primary care settings. Technology can also contribute to unfortunate consequences, including burnout and fragmentation of care and the patient-clinician relationship.

Join us for the pre-conference, Digital Disruption: Advancing Primary Care will focus on innovations that are intended to better integrate, coordinate and customize care as well as strengthen relationships.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: James Weinstein, Senior Vice President for Microsoft Health Care, and will examine how technology can support the Shared Principles, a vision of primary care adopted by over 330 diverse organizations.

OTHER SPEAKERS:

• Emily Fletcher, MPH, Ambulatory Program Manager, MercyOne
• Ivan Javier Murcia Muņoz, CMO, Keralty/Sanitas USA
• Thomas Mason, MD, CMO of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• Adrienne White-Faines, Former CEO, American Osteopathic Association
• Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD, Vice Chair, Health Transformation Alliance
• Carlos Reines, President, and Co-Founder, RubiconMD
• Aaron Sin, MD, Group Product Manager, Innovaccer

Join us for educational panels and engaging discussions on disruptions and innovations in primary care!

*Please note that pre-conference participants must be registered for the 2019 PCPCC Annual Conference in order to attend.

FEATURED PANELS:

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HEALTH PLANS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRIMARY CARE:

A year out from the 2020 election, the healthcare platforms for major presidential candidates are beginning to firm up. In this session, attendees will hear the potential implications for primary care and how the community can influence the direction of these platforms.

Grace-Marie Turner President, Galen Institute

Len Nichols Director, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics & Professor of Health Policy George Mason University

Mary Agnes Carey (Moderator) Partnerships Editor and Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News

WHOLE-PERSON CARE: DEMONSTRATING WHAT WORKS WITH INTEGRATION OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE:

After a nearly 100-year rise, U.S. life expectancy has plateaued and even dropped over the last three years. Experts attribute this unfortunate trend to increased suicide rates, drug-related deaths, among other issues. This panel will illuminate what is working in integrated primary care - behavioral health practices and discuss how successful models can be spread.

Karinn Glover Director of Adult Behavioral Health, Montefiore Medical Center	Caitlin Barba Practice Administrator, Westminster Medical Clinic
Jordan Siebert Patient Advisor	Michael Thompson (Moderator) President and CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions