Healthcare Quality:
The New Frontier

Measuring it, Improving it, and Being Paid for it,
Is Your Organization Ready?

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Our distinguished panel of speakers…..

James Conway, CHE, Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Senior Consultant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Andrew Dreyfus, Executive Vice President of Health Care Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Lucian Leape, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health

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The Conference

This conference is designed for Leaders of Healthcare Organizations including Administration, Medical Staff Leaders and Quality Managers.

Government and Healthcare Leaders and consumer advocates across the country have made the safety of patients and improvement of healthcare quality in the United States a top priority. The need to monitor, track, access, and improve the safety of inpatient and outpatient care is at the top of many agendas. However, there is little evidence that patient safety and quality have improved in recent years.

During his keynote speech at the “Annual Session of the American College of Physicians”, leading patient safety expert and co-author of the five year old institute of medicine “IOM” report “To Err is Human,” Dr. Lucien Leape noted that he has not seen a “big improvement” in patient safety since the publication of the IOM report. In this report it is estimated that there are 98,000 preventable deaths each year due to medical errors alone. This is despite the fact that the United States spends the most money on healthcare of all the advanced industrialized Nations.

Please join our distinguished faculty to hear how your organization can position itself to deal with the growing requirements and expectations of patients, business, government and payers to continuously improve, demonstrate, measure and report evidence of high quality healthcare and safe practices.

As an officially designated Chapter of ACHE, HCMA is authorized to award 2.5 hours of Category II (non-ACHE) Continuing Education credits.

Agenda

Location

Crowne Plaza
2 Forbes Road
Woburn , MA 01801
781-932-0999
directions

Conference Fee

registration form (pdf)

Questions call Donna Powell
HCMA Administrator
978-692-3548

Program Sponsored By:

ARAMARK Healthcare Management
DiGiorgio Associates Inc./Monitor Builders Inc.
Fidelity Investments Tax-Exempt Services Company
Nixon Peabody LLP
sodexo HEALTH CARE
Zurick Davis & Zurick Davis Physician
Executive Search, LLC