**** MONDAY APRIL 20, 1998 ****
S-1 $ 25.00 The Basics of Managed Care S-2 $ 25.00 Managing Change in Managed Health Care - Integrating People, Process, Organization, & Technology S-3 $ 25.00 Risk Assessment of the Elderly - Manage the Care of the Aging Population to Retain Your Members S-4 $ 25.00 Building & Operating a PSO - What are the Roadblocks to Look Out For? S-5 $ 25.00 Tying the Knot - Life After Merging/ Partnering to Form an IDS S-6 $ 25.00 Strategies to Understand the Mental Health Needs of Children & Their Families S-7 $ 25.00 Integrating Alternative Medicine & Managed Care: Where Do You Start? - Uncover Quality & Cost Saving Opportunities in Alternative Medicine S-8 $ 25.00 Manage & Prevent Complications Associated with Women's Health Care Programs S-9 $ 25.00 Quality & Consumer Driven Health Care CI-1 $ 25.00 Federal Legislation & Managed Care - How the Latest Trends Will Effect Your Strategic Role as a CIO CI-2 $ 15.00 Walk Away With Smarter Techniques to Compete & Propel Your Healthcare Organization for Success CI-3 $ 15.00 Why Recreate the Wheel? How Healthcare Can Adopt Quality Initiatives from Other Industries CI-4 $ 15.00 Re-Examining the Role of the Healthcare CIO
**** TUESDAY APRIL 21, 1998 ****
CE-1 $ 15.00 Recent Fraud & Abuse Developments - What You Need to Know to Keep Yourself & Your Institution Out of Trouble CE-2 $ 15.00 Bridging the Buyer-Provider-Payor Gap - Developing Innovative Managed Care Programs CE-3 $ 25.00 Luncheon - Part I & 2 -Technology Driven Healthcare - Why Top Leadership Must Contribute in the Progress ES-1 $ 15.00 'Total Value" Purchasing of Health Benefit Plans ES-2 $ 15.00 Work Environment & Onsite Prevention of Chronic Pain ES-3 $ 15.00 Productivity & Cost Management - Proactive Programs for Large Employers MD-1 $ 15.00 Innovative Programs to Improve Women's Health MD-2 $ 15.00 Update on Migraine Pathophysiology & Management - New Dynamics MD-3 $ 15.00 Medical Update on Parkinson's Disease Including Family Adjustments & Caregiver Support ALT-1 $ 15.00 Integrate Alternative Medicine Programs into Disease Management Strategies APP-2 $ 15.00 Maximizing Your Data Warehouse Toward End User Applications BHC-1 $ 15.00 The Behavioral Health Care Industry - Updating a Year in Review & What Will the Future Hold BHC-2 $ 15.00 How to Implement Affordable & Practical Integrated Primary Care/Behavioral Healthcare Solutions CME-1 $ 15.00 Case Management Certification & Accountability - What is the Importance? CME-2 $ 15.00 Re-Engineering Case Management to Address Strategies in Disease State Management DCM-2 $ 15.00 Why Synchronizing Your Data is Key to the Integrity of Your Database DIS-1 $ 15.00 Disease Management - Where Do We Go From Here? DIS-2 $ 15.00 Show Me the Money! Is Disease Management Paying Off? EMP-1 $ 15.00 Astra Merck - NMHCC Partnership Award Recipient Presentation EMP-2 $ 15.00 A Time for Change - Empowering Employers to Take Charge of Their Health Care Expenditures Through Direct Contracting & the Provision of Health Care Services IDS-1 $ 15.00 To Be Acquired or Not to Be Acquired - What to Look for in a Partner & What to Expect Once You've Been Acquired IDS-2 $ 15.00 Fitting the Pieces Together - How to Achieve a Successful Post Merger Integration INT-2 $ 15.00 What Is the Internet's Role in Increasing Value to It's Customers? ITH-2 $ 15.00 Expand & Implement I/T Strategies to Track Indicators for Profitability ITM-1 $ 15.00 Managed Care 2001 - I/T Solutions - NMH/IT Plenary Session ITM-2 $ 15.00 Finding a System that is Applicable to Your Managed Care Needs MCO-1 $ 25.00 Build the Managed Care Physician of Tomorrow - Partnering with Managed Care, Physicians, & Academic Medical Centers to Ensure Quality Care for Consumers - Part I & II PHM-1 $ 15.00 How Will New Drug Developments Impact Managed Care? PHM-2 $ 15.00 Breaking the Barriers with Generic Drug Innovation & the Narrow Therapeutic Index PPO-1 $ 15.00 Provider Sponsored Organizations & Managed Care - How Will State & Federal Legislation Impact Managed Care? PPO-2 $ 15.00 PSOs - What Do They Really Mean for PPO Networks? PSO-2 $ 15.00 What are the Financial Opportunities, Challenges & Implications for PSOs?
**** WEDNESDAY APRIL 22, 1998 ****
D-1 $ 15.00 Who is Going to Manage the Care? The Primary Care Physician, vs. the Specialist, vs. the Hospitalist D-2 $ 15.00 Health Care Fraud - A Collision of Values, Ethics & Regulations D-3 $ 15.00 Uninsured Children - Who is Responsible for the Care of this Population? D-4 $ 15.00 Patient Records on the Internet - What are the Rights of the Consumer? D-5 $ 15.00 The Future Role of Employers - Should Employers Stay the Course, Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way? CE-5 $ 15.00 Success & Quality in Managed Care CE-6 $ 15.00 Working with Your Board of Directors - Building Strategies for Financial Success in Changing Markets CE-7 $ 15.00 Patient Safety - Joint Session for Employer, Medical Director & CEO Summit Attendees ES-4 $ 15.00 Confidentiality of Employee Medical & Pharmacy Records - What Employers Need to Know ES-5 $ 15.00 Attaining & Attracting the Best Employee with a Corporate Benefit Package Which Shares the Power & Vision of Commitment to Success MD-4 $ 15.00 Alzheimer's Disease & Managed Care - Advances for a New Millennium MD-5 $ 15.00 Treatment Options for Controlling Costs in Patient's with Diabetic Gastropathy PD-1 $ 15.00 The Impact of Migraine on Patient, Job & Health Care PD-2 $ 15.00 Coding, Measuring & Billing for Pharmaceutical Care Services PD-4 $ 15.00 Legislative Challenges Facing Managed Care Pharmacy RS-1 $ 15.00 Digital Revolution in Radiology - Problems & Promise of Digital X-Ray RS-2 $ 15.00 Mathematics of Utilization Management - Large HMO Populations ALT-2 $ 15.00 Panel Discussion - Uncover the Network Issues in Alternative Medicine & Managed Care Integration APP-3 $ 15.00 Who is Accountable For the Year 2000 Conversion Issue in Your Organization? APP-4 $ 15.00 Client/Server & Object Oriented Computing - Their Role in Healthcare APP-5 $ 15.00 Creation of the Master Patient Index BHC-3 $ 15.00 Eli Lilly & Co. - NMHCC Managed Behavioral Healthcare Leadership Award Recipient Presentation CME-3 $ 15.00 Intuitive Software Solutions that Support Integrated Case Management CME-4 $ 15.00 Managing the Care Continuum - Utilizing Informatics in Case Management at the Duke University Medical Center & Health System - Part I CME-5 $ 15.00 Managing the Care Continuum - Utilizing Informatics in Case Management at the Duke University Medical Center & Health System - Part II DCM-3 $ 15.00 Create a Seamless Information Exchange - Between Payors, Providers & Medical Groups - Part I DCM-4 $ 15.00 Create a Seamless Information Exchange - Between Payors, Providers & Medical Groups - Part II DCM-5 $ 15.00 Working Toward Standardization of Industry Wide Health Care Information DIS-3 $ 15.00 If You Build It - Will They (Physicians & Patients) Come? Achieving "Buy-In" to Your Disease Management Program DIS-5 $ 15.00 Meeting the Impending Vaccine Revolution! - an HMO-Specific Tracking & Registry System EMP-3 $ 15.00 Motorola Moves from a Managed Care Mentality to a Partnership with Private Health Care Systems, Providers & Patients EMP-4 $ 15.00 Managing Depression In the Workplace - Reducing Absenteeism & Lost Productivity Costs EMP-5 $ 15.00 Evaluating Managed Behavioral Health Program Proposals - The Purchaser's Perspective HOS-3 $ 15.00 Advancing Your Payor/Provider Relations to Successfully Serve Your Capitated Members - A Report Card From The West Coast HOS-4 $ 15.00 Case Study - A Provider's Perspective on Medicare Risk HMO's - 4 Years & 14000 Lives Later HOS-5 $ 15.00 Incorporate Physician & Hospital Interests - How Can the Most Vital Components of an IDS Work Together? INT-3 $ 15.00 Maintain Data Confidentiality on the Internet INT-4 $ 15.00 Develop & Implement Effective Internet Security INT-5 $ 15.00 Mayo Clinic's Approach Towards Implementing Electronic Commerce (EC) Case Study ITH-4 $ 15.00 Case Study of a Merger/Acquisition of a Hospital/IDSs - Part II ITH-5 $ 15.00 Risk Management 101 For the Healthcare I/T Executive ITM-3 $ 15.00 Surviving Mergers & Acquisitions - Integrating I/T & the Newly Merged Organization to Work Together Successfully - Part I ITM-4 $ 15.00 Case Study of a Health Plan Merger - Integrating Business & Technology Goals - Part II ITM-5 $ 15.00 Staff Recruitment & Retention Strategies - Where Do You Find the Right Talent to Support Your I/T Plan in the Rapidly Changing Managed Care Environment? MCO-4 $ 15.00 How Exposed Are You & Your Providers to Liability? Identifying Strategies to Reduce Your Exposure & Increase Patient Satisfaction MCO-5 $ 15.00 Preparing for the New Age of Managed Care "Re-Regulation" - How to Use Compliance as Your Best Defense PHM-3 $ 15.00 Coffee Talk - A Drug Town Meeting PHM-4 $ 15.00 Empower the Pharmacist's Role to Enhance Physician Care & Improve Delivery of Patient Care PHM-5 $ 15.00 Utilize Electronic Prescribing to Enhance Pharmaceutical Care PHY-3 $ 15.00 Prevent & Manage Adverse Outcomes - Improving Patient's Perspective of Clinical Care PHY-4 $ 15.00 If You Can't Measure It - You Can't Improve it! Integrating Clinical Data Management Along the Continuum of Care to Improve Patient Management PHY-5 $ 15.00 Connect the Docs - Put Internet & World Wide Web Technologies to Work for You! PPO-3 $ 15.00 Merger Mania & Accessing PPO Networks - Where Do You Start? PPO-4 $ 15.00 Proven Techniques to Control Access in an "Open Access" Specialists Capitated Enviroment PPO-5 $ 15.00 Managing Performance Measurement to the Level of Clinical Appropriateness - Systems That Work PSO-3 $ 15.00 The Aches & Pains of Operating a PSO - What are the Operational Realities? - Part I PSO-4 $ 15.00 The Aches & Pains of Operating a PSO - What are the Operational Realities? - Part II PSO-5 $ 15.00 Playing in the Big Leagues - Why You Must Pay Attention to Risk When Direct Contracting
**** THURSDAY APRIL 23, 1998 ****
KN-3 $ 15.00 Consumer Driven Care in Tomorrow's Managed Care Arena - Shoshanna Sofaer, Paul Starr RS-5 $ 15.00 Quality & Utilization Management RS-6 $ 15.00 Practice Guidelines & Imaging Services - Adding Value to Managed Care Contracting RS-7 $ 15.00 Practice Management Tools APP-6 $ 15.00 Integrate Telemedicine Into Your Organization to Improve the Delivery of Healthcare Services APP-7 $ 15.00 What are Your Options When Selecting Your Processing Power & Applications? (Panel Discussion) BHC-6 $ 15.00 Estimating Financial Risks Under Capitation & Other Risk-Sharing Arrangements BHC-7 $ 15.00 Emerging Requirements of Behavioral Healthcare Performance Measures & Report Cards CME-6 $ 15.00 Evaluating Case Management Across the Post Acute Care Continuum CME-7 $ 15.00 Implementing a Successful Partnership Between Case Management & Home Care DCM-6 $ 15.00 Incorporate Community Health Population Data Into Your I/T Plan to Gain A Compititive Advantage DCM-7 $ 15.00 Examining the Pros & Cons of Working with a Clearinghouse - Panel Discussion DIS-7 $ 15.00 Develop an Effective Population Based Prevention & Intervention Program EMP-6 $ 15.00 Measuring Health Plan Performance - What Employers Really Need to Know About Their Managed Care Plan EMP-7 $ 15.00 Legal, Ethical & Operational Issues to Considered when Employers Contract Directly or Contract with Health Plans for Employee Health Care Services HOS-6 $ 15.00 Capitation Re-Examined - A Treatment Plan for Capitation Deficit Disorder HOS-7 $ 15.00 Partner with a PPM - How to Find the Best Practice Management Company Match for Your Group IDS-7 $ 15.00 Information Systems - Driving a Successful IDS Transition INT-6 $ 15.00 Web-Enabled Human Resource Services & Applications INT-7 $ 15.00 Maximize Your Internet Potential to Enhance Your Patient/Provider Relationship ITH-6 $ 15.00 Information Systems to Support Medicare Risk Contracts ITM-6 $ 15.00 Using Technology to Ensure that Your Customer Service & Marketing Initiatives are on the Cutting Edge ITM-7 $ 15.00 Make Outsourcing Work For You - Avoid the Major Pitfalls MCO-6A $ 15.00 Retention Fever - What Win Back Strategies Can You Implement to Retain Your Commercial Consumers? MCO-6B $ 15.00 Retention Fever - Strategies to Increase Your Medicare Member Retention & Loyalty MCO-7 $ 15.00 Open Access HMOs - A Consumer's Dream, or a Utilization Nightmare? PHM-6 $ 15.00 The Consumer Connection in Medicare - How to Interface Medical Care Programs with Your Medicare Patients PHM-7 $ 15.00 Shoot the Sacred Cow - Manufacturer & Managed Care Orginization Relationships of the Future PHY-6 $ 15.00 Global Case Rates from Theory to Reality - Creating Informed Choice Around Episodes of Care PHY-7 $ 15.00 Influencing Physician Behavior - The Best Ways to Gain Physician Participation in Quality Improvement & Cost Containment Efforts PPO-6 $ 15.00 Surviving the Anti-Managed Care Blacklash - the Clinical Solution PPO-7 $ 15.00 How PPO Networks Can Increase Market Share in the Anti-Managed Care Backlash PSO-6 $ 15.00 Managing In the Managed Care Environment - How Can PSOs Compete? PSO-7 $ 15.00 HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act) 1996 & BBA (Balanced Budget Act) 1997 - How Will This Impact PSO Development & Implementation?
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