RICHMOND VA USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE(TM) -- OCTOBER 8, 2005: Consumerism and health technology individually are industry-transforming forces. The convergence of the two is creating unprecedented pressure, momentum and opportunity for the healthcare delivery system to re-engineer itself. Market forces and national policy are driving consumer healthcare initiatives. Technology and innovation are both the catalyst and the fuel for enabling consumers and for enabling the responses from the healthcare delivery system. In a consumer centric marketplace, it won't be business or practice as usual for providers, practitioners, payers, employers or technology solutions providers who need to act now or risk losing ground.

The Consumer Directed Healthcare Conference (CDHCC) and The Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations Congress (TETHIC & Beyond), which will be co-located from December 7-9, 2005 in Washington, DC, have assembled an impressive faculty of speakers who will be presenting in general sessions and in audience specific track sessions for providers, payors, and employers.

Keynote Sessions

• The Convergence of Consumerism with Healthcare Innovation and Technology, by Steve Case, Chairman of Revolution LLC; Founder and former Chairman of AOL Time Warner
  
  
• Reducing Costs, Improving Health and Saving Lives, by John Engler, President of the National Association of Manufacturers and a former Governor of Michigan
  
  
• Technology & the Consumer Changing the Physician Practice, by J. Edward Hill, MD, President of the American Medical Association
  
  
• Technology Adoption and Greater Information Are Driving the Consumer's Healthcare Expectations, by William D. Novelli, Chief Executive Officer of AARP
  
  
• Consumers, Legislation and Innovation Are Transforming Hospitals, by Charles N. Kahn III, President of the Federation of American Hospitals
  
  
• Re-Engineering the Healthcare Model. Joining the panel discussion featuring Hill, Novelli and Kahn, will be Charles Jarvis, Chairman and Chief Executive, United Seniors Association. Moderator: John Goodman, PhD, President of the National Center for Policy Analysis and Co-Chairman of the Conferences
  
  
• Picturing the Future of Healthcare, by Louis Burns, Vice President and General Manager, Digital Health Group, Intel Corp.
  
  
• Top Technologists Share Their Predictions on the Transformation of Healthcare, a panel discussion featuring Burns; Bill Crounse, MD, Global Health Industry Manager for Microsoft Corporation; Ken Anderson, Commercial Director, Department of Health/NHS; and Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD, Director of the AgeLab, Engineering, Systems Division at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moderator: Clement Bezold, PhD, Co-Founder and President of the Institute for Alternative Futures and Co-Chairman of the Conferences.

Pre-Conference Workshops

• Pre-Conference Workshop -- CDHPs for Employers: Practical Considerations for Employers, chaired by Karen Kirkpatrick, Subject Matter Expert, Infinisource. Speakers: John M. Prince, Senior Vice President, Head of Healthcare Business Development & Strategy, JPMorgan Chase; JoAnn Laing, President, Information Strategies / HSA Finder.
  
  
• Pre-Conference Workshop -- CDHPs for the Agent/Broker: Agent/Broker Issues For the Implementation of Consumer Directed Healthcare Plans, chaired by Janet Trautwein, Executive Vice President and CEO, National Association of Health Underwriters. Speaker: Scott Stevens, Employee Benefits Specialist, NP Dodge Insurance
  
  
• Pre-Conference Workshop -- Choosing the Plan Combination That's Right for You, chaired by Karen Kirkpatrick and Janet Trautwein. Speaker: Laureen Feinman, Benefits and Compensation Manager, Colonial Pipe Co.
  
  
• Pre-Conference Workshop -- RFIDs and Other Mobile Wireless Devices. Presenters: Tim Stettheimer, PhD, Chief Information Officer of St. Vincent's Hospital; John Wade, Chief Information Officer of Saint Luke's Health System; Ken Bobis, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale; and Mike Mosquito, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technologies at McKesson. It will be chaired by Mark Blatt, MD, Manager of Healthcare Strategies, Intel Corp.
  
  
• Pre-Conference Workshop -- ShareShop - Delivering Knowledge at the Point of Need (A Series of Case Study Vignettes), chaired by Doug Goldstein, President, Medical Alliances. Workshops and presenters include Knowledge Exchange from the Air Force Medical Service - The Power of Conceptual Research by Major J.D. Whitlock, MPH, MBA, USAF, MSC, Chief, Knowledge and Content Management; Ascension Health Exchange - The Leading Intranet in Healthcare by Jeff Stolte, Program Manager, Ascension Health; BSHSI Quality First - Combining the Power of Faciliated Knowledge Transfer & Six Sigma for Pay for Performance by Douglas Sears, Director Performance Improvement and Knowledge Transfer, Bon Secours Health Systems; and William Varani, MD, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Bon Secours Health Systems; Quality through Health Technology Sharing - A Public Perspective by Peter Groen, Director, Health Information Technology Sharing, Veterans Health Administration; Marc Wine, Program Analyst, General Services Administration; and Infobutton from Micromedex - Delivering Clinical Knowledge at the Point of Care , with presenters to be announced.

Thursday, December 8

Keynote Sessions

• Pharma's Perspective of Consumer Directed Healthcare and the Convergence of Technology (CDHCC / TETHIC Keynote Session) - J. Patrick Kelly, President, Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals
  
  
• Debating the Future of Consumer Directed Healthcare vs. A One-Payor System - John Goodman, PhD, President, National Center for Policy Analysis; Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Track Sessions

CDHCC

• A Look at Consumer Directed Healthcare Products & Solutions for 2006 and Beyond (Plenary Session) - Panelists: Robin Downey, Vice President and Head of Product Development, Aetna; Tom Richards, Senior Vice President, Product, CIGNA Healthcare; Mary Scanlon, Senior Vice President of Product Management and New Business, Wellpoint/Anthem; Kyle Rolfing, President, Definity Health
  
  
• Leading Organizations Share CDHP/HSA Forecasts - Panelists: Susan Relland, Health Policy Legal Counsel, American Benefits Council; Jeff Munn, Legal Consultant, Hewitt Associates; Katie Himes, Washington Manager of Government Affairs, Caterpillar, Inc.; Meredith Baratz; Vice President of Market Solutions, Definity Health/United Health Group. Moderator: Neil Trautwein, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Policy, National Association of Manufacturers
  
  
• Measuring the Connection Between Employee Behavior and Wellness Program Outcomes- This session focuses on a CIGNA Healthcare case study of client firms who implemented wellness and preventive case programs into their CDHPs.
  
  
• Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Case Study: Comparing 3 Years of CDHP Results Including Employee Satisfaction with CDHP & Corporate Wellness Programs - Presenter: Fred Williams, Director of Benefits and Strategic Alliances, Quest Diagnostics, Inc.
  
  
• Pharmacy and CDH Plans - Presenter: Irfan Ahmad, Senior Manager of Consumer Directed Healthcare, Medco
  
  
• Challenges of Cost and Quality Disclosure For Payors, Providers and Consumers - Panelists: Bob Dufour, Director of Pharmacy, Wal-Mart; David Saltzman, SmartBenefits Consultant, Humana; Jim Dowrick, Broker Marketing Manager, Ameriflex, LLC; Diana Revell, Chief Financial Officer, Tennessee Urgent Care Associates. Moderator: Lawrence Goldman, MD, Vice President, Employee Equity Health Plan
  
  
• State Issues Surrounding HSAs - Panelists: Richard Popper, Director, Maryland State Insurance Plan; Mary Beth Lynch, Division Chief for Health Insurance Group III of the Office of Insurance Programs, U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Michael Bond, PhD, Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy, The Buckeye Institute. Moderator: Merrill Matthews, Director, Council for Affordable Health Insurance.
  
  
• Legal and Banking Compliance Issues Associated with HSAs - Panelists: John Hickman, Partner, Alston & Bird; J. Kevin A. McKechnie, Assistant Director, American Banking Insurance Asociation
  
  
• How to Deliver an Integrated HSA Product - Presenter: Katy Henrickson, Senior Analyst, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Forrester Research
  
  
• Global Choices for American Consumers - Panelists: Mike Eaton, Senior Vice President, Global Health Direct; and representatives of the Royal Thai Embassy and Embassy of India
  
  
• Case Study with SHPS, Inc. and Kaiser Permanente - Panelists: Chris Ryan, Vice President of Market Strategy & Research, SHPS, Inc.; and a Kaiser representative
  
  
• Shopping for Healthcare - Panelists: Vern Cherewatenko, MD, President, Simple Care; John Casillas, Founder, Medical Banking Project. Moderator: Greg Scandlen, Founder, Consumers for Health Care Choices.
  
  
• Price and Quality Transparency - Panelists: Gwendolyn Lohse, Project Director for Administrative Simplification Initiatives, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare; Ron Bangasser, MD, Immediate Past President, California Medical Association. Moderator: Greg Scandlen, Founder, Consumers for Health Care Choices.

Healthcare Direct-to-Consumer and Retailization

• The Rapid Emergence of Direct-to-Consumer & Retailization. Why and How Big? - Panelists: William K. Sullivan, MD, Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies, and Founder of Dr Office; Herschel Q. "Buzz" Peddicord III, President and CEO, Honeywell HomMed; Mark Blatt, MD, Manager of Healthcare Strategies, Intel Corp. Moderator: Robin Felder, PhD, Executive Director, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia.
  
  
• Top 10 Healthcare Consumer Demands and Preferences. An Analysis of Consumers' Healthcare Behavior, Attitudes, and Preferences - Presenter: Katy Henrickson, Senior Analyst, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Forrester Research.
  
  
• Retailers Providing Healthcare Services & Products - Panelists: Robert Thompson, Vice President, Pharmacy Business Development, Rite Aid; Peter Miller, Co-Founder, President and CEO, Take Care Health Systems; James Woodburn MD, Chief Medical Officer, Minute Clinic. Moderator: Sandy Kennedy, President, Retail Industry Leaders Association.
  
  
• Healthcare Direct (Direct-to-Consumer Track Session) - Panelists: Herschel Q. "Buzz" Peddicord, III, President and CEO, Honeywell HomMed; Don Hackett, General Manager, myDNA.com; J. Patrick Kelly, President, Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals.

TETHIC

• The Impact of Direct to Consumer Technologies, Products & Services on Traditional Healthcare Providers (Plenary Session) - Panelists: Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, Director, Partners Healthcare System and Vice Chairman of the Dermatology Department at Massachusetts General Hospital; Arthur Klein, MD, Chief Operations Officer of New York-Presbyterian Health System; Joseph Coughlin, PhD, Director of the Age Labs, Engineering, Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ivo Stirovic, Chief Technology Officer, Bodymedia. Moderator: Jonathan Weiner, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center for Health Policy
  
  
• Transforming Healthcare through Distinctive Innovation, Collaboration and Open Solution - Panelists: Douglas Goldstein, President, Medical Alliances; Peter Groen, Director, Health Information Technology Sharing Program, Veterans Administration; Barbara Boykin, Chairman, VistA Software Alliance; and Scott Shreeve, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Medisphere Systems Corp.
  
  
• Biomonitors: Today's Reality, First Applications and the Next Five Years - Presenters: Ivo Stirovic, Chief Technology Officer, Bodymedia; Mark Blatt, MD, Manager of Healthcare Strategies, Intel Corp., Robin Felder, PhD, Executive Director, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia. Moderator: Clement Bezold, PhD, Co-Founder and President, Institute for Alternative Futures
  
  
• Technological Innovations to Enable Digital Healthcare: What You Need to Know About for the Next Five Years - Presenters: Roland Garcia, Chief Information Officer, Baptist Medical Center South in Jacksonville, FL; Ken Bobis, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale; David Ellis, Corporate Director of Planning and Future Studies, Detroit Medical Center; Tim Stettheimer, PhD, Chief Information Officer, St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, AL.
  
  
• Leapfrog and Bridges: Where We've Been and Where We're Going - Panelists: Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, The Leapfrog Group; Margaret O'Kane, President, National Committee for Quality Assurance; Dennis O'Leary, MD, President, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Moderator: Jay Srini, Vice President of Emerging Technologies, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
  
  
• Physician Adoption of Healthcare IT: Why You Should Do It - Presenter, William Bria, MD, President, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Clinical Information Systems Director Healthcare, UMH Medical Center Information Technology
  
  
• Clinical Change Management in the Introduction of the Electronic Health Record - Presenter: Diane Gilbert-Bradley, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Eclipsys Corp.
  
  
• Sharing Information of Medical Research - Presenter: Charles Jaffe, MD, Senior Global Strategist, Digital Health Group, Intel Corp.
  
  
• Decision Support in Application: What's Out There to Incorporate into My Practice? - Presenter: Donald Rucker, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Siemens Medical Solutions USA
  
  
• Hill Call: Legislative Staffers Weigh In on Value-Based Purchasing and Pay-for-Performance - Panelists: Madeleine Smith, PhD, Professional Staff Member, House Ways & Means Committee's Health Subcommittee; Diana Birkett, Health Policy Advisor, Senate Finance Committee (Minority); Melissa Bartlett, Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee. Moderator: David Schulke, Executive Vice President, American Health Quality Association
  
  
• A Case Study in Wellness and IDM Response - Presenter: William Fera, MD, Medical Director, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's St. Margaret Wellness Center
  
  
• Integrating Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations - Presenter: Scott Endsley, MD, Medical Director, System Designs, Health Services Advisory Group.

Plus

• CDHCI's The Rise of The Consumer: A Healthy Change for Health Care

Friday, December 9 (Keynote Sessions and Workshops

• The CDHP Selection: Three Plan Providers Develop and Present CDHP Proposals to HR Execs at the "XYZ Corp" - Panelists: Laureen Feinman, Benefits and Compensation Manager, Colonial Pipe Company; Fred Williams, Director of Benefits and Strategic Alliances, Quest Diagnostics, Inc.; Sheila Forsberg, Director of Global Rewards, Motorola; Gary Climes, Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operations Officer, Weyco, Inc.
• A View of 2006 from the Capital - Panelists: Roy Ramthun, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; Joel White, Staff Director, House Ways & Means Committee's Health Subcommittee (Majority); John O'Neill, Tax and Pension Counsel, Senate Finance Committee (Majority); Judy Miller, Professional Staff Member, Senate Finance Committee (Minority). Moderator: Neil Trautwein, Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Policy, National Association of Manufacturers.
• Are RHIOs Right for Your Community? Who Will Benefit? - Panelists: Micky Tripathi, PhD, President, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative; Peter Reuschel, President, InterComponentWare AG; Sumit Nagpal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Wellogic; Dan Garrett, Senior Vice President, Computer Sciences Corp.; David Gardner, Chief Executive Officer, ProviderLink. Moderator: Russ Ricci, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer, Healthstar Communications, Inc. and Member, eHealth Initiative Leadership Council.
• From a Regional to a National Healthcare Information Infrastructure - Speaker: Sarah Knoop, Researcher, Health Informatics Project, IBM Almaden Research Center.
• As President of the United States, I Would ... (Keynote Luncheon Session Sponsored by the Wye River Group on Healthcare) - Panelists: Kelly Stanley, Former Chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; John Nelson, MD, Immediate Past President, American Medical Association; Aaron Shirley, MD, Physician and Member, Citizens Health Care Work Group. Moderators: Jon Comola and Marcia Comstock, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operations Officer, respectively, of the Wye River Group on Healthcare
• Legislators Discuss Key CDHC and Healthcare IT Issues (Keynote Sponsored by The Galen Institute) - Key lawmakers from Capitol Hill will discuss what they expect to see on next year's healthcare agenda. Moderator: Grace-Marie Turner, Founder and President of the Galen Institute.
• Are We on the Same Page on Healthcare for the Company? The CEO/CFO/HR/Benefits Consultant Perspectives! - Panelists: Howard Weyers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Weyco, Inc.; Sheila Forsberg, Director of Global Benefits, Motorola; Tracy Watts, Senior Consultant, Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Moderator: John Goodman, PhD, President, National Center for Policy Analysis
• Conference Workshops (Friday Morning) - HSAs for Employers; HSAs for Payors; HSAs' Impact on Providers - Participants: JoAnn Laing, President, Information Strategies, Inc.; Scott Stevens, Employee Benefits Specialist, NP Dodge Insurance; Phil Micali, Founder, bWell International; Larry Goldman, MD, Vice President, Employee Equity Health Plan; Terry Hunter, ConnectYourCare

REGISTER NOW & SAVE:

Check www.cdhcc.com or www.tethic.com for details and to register. Early registrants can save hundreds of dollars on a variety of admissions, including a Combo Pass to attend all CDHCC, TETHIC & Beyond and CDHCI events, as well as those hosted by a third co-locating conference, the Consumer Directed Healthcare Institute (CDHCI).

Corporate Sponsors

Media Sponsors

Organization Sponsors

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Regina Amos
Phone: 804.266.7422 Ext. 7407
Email: Regina@cdhcc.com
Websites: www.cdhcc.com or www.tethic.com

EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:

For sponsorship and exhibit information contact:

Brian Ferrier, Associate Director of Sales
Phone: Phone: 804-266-7422 Ext. 7402
Fax: 804-225-7458
Email: brian@tethic.com
Website: www.tethic.com

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