Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Executive Conference
March 11-13, 2010
Orlando, Florida
The Healthcare Imperative:
Improving Quality While Driving Down Costs
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) is convening leaders from across the country so that we can, together, pursue ways to improve care and control costs.
Hospitals with demonstrated results, including Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Health Care, Rush University Medical Center, Arden Health Services, Carilion Medical Center, and Scott & White Healthcare will explain how they do it. In addition, Harvard Economist David Cutler, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Maureen Bisognano, and Standard & Poor’s Martin Arrick will discuss real changes organizations can make now for sustainable results.
If you have best practices to share, questions to ask of your peers, and a commitment to substantive change, come and be part of this critical conversation on how we can deliver better, safer, lower-cost care.
HFMA’s Executive Conference Featured Speakers
Maureen Bisognano, Executive Vice President and COO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Maureen Bisognano is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is responsible for day-to-day management of the Institute's many programs designed to improve the delivery of health care. Ms. Bisognano oversees all operations, program development and strategic planning for the Institute. She also advises senior leaders around the world on improving healthcare systems. Ms. Bisognano is on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a member of the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System. Prior to joining IHI, she served as Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital and Senior Vice President of The Juran Institute.
David M. Cutler, PhD, Economist, Health Care Advisor to President Obama, Former Member of the Council of Economic Advisors and Harvard Professor of Applied Economics
David Cutler was Senior Health Care Advisor to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign and served on the Council of Economic Advisors and National Economic Council under President Clinton. Cutler works closely with members of Congress, state governments, corporations and private interest groups to formulate strategies for healthcare reform and has done pioneering research on the value of medical innovation and strategies to improve the return on our healthcare dollars. He is the author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System which was the subject of a feature article in The New York Times Magazine. Dr. Cutler focuses on value creation: taking a healthcare system that is haphazard in quality and too costly and focusing it on the core mission of value enhancement. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University and is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Martin Arrick, Managing Director in Corporate and Government Ratings, Standard & Poor’s
A managing director in Corporate and Government Ratings at Standard & Poor's, Martin Arrick is the sector leader and group spokesman for the not-for-profit healthcare group. He manages a team of healthcare analysts throughout the country and is actively involved in all aspects of Standard & Poor's healthcare practice, including criteria development and serves as chair for many health care committees. He is also active in Standard & Poor's long-term care practice. He is the primary analyst for a number of national and regional health systems including Partners HealthCare System, Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Ascension Health, as well as a number of public and privatized hospital systems such as New York City Health and Hospital Corp. He chairs many of Standard & Poor's international healthcare credits as well. Martin was recently ranked 21st in the Modern Healthcare list of the 100 most influential people in the healthcare sector, as well as being named to Smith's all-star research team. He has authored numerous publications and special reports on the health care sector and is a member of the Health Care Finance Forum, a cross sector "think tank" of professionals in healthcare finance.
Who Should Attend
Hospital and health system chief financial officers, chief operating officers and other senior finance, administrative and clinical leaders responsible for developing and executing financial strategies and improving collaboration between financial and clinical areas.