Participants

Institute for Health Metrics Quality Symposium:

11:30am - 12:00pm	Registration
12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch and Welcome: Setting out the Charge for the Day
1:00 - 2:30pm	Quality at the Board Level
	As payers begin to tie payment to quality, senior hospital leaders, including board members, are paying increasing attention to performance issues. This panel will address quality considerations in the board room: how does quality improvement fit into the overall hospital strategy? What kinds of questions are board members asking? How are senior leaders responding?
2:30 - 2:45pm	Break
2:45 - 4:15pm	State of Practice: Quality Improvement in Hospitals Today
	The true test is in the "doing": how are community hospitals responding to challenges on performance improvement? Do hospital systems hold advantages that can be leveraged for performance improvement? How are performance metrics affecting practice? Is pay-for-performance actually improving quality of care?
4:15 - 4:30pm	Break
4:30 - 6:00pm	Drivers of Change
	Hospitals and providers must be concerned with the bottom line. Are pay-for-performance incentives effective for improving the quality of care? What are the implications of using structured incentives instead of traditional market forces for change? Specifically, what do we see in the health care marketplace as a result of pay-for-performance incentives?
6:00 - 7:00pm	Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres
7:00 - 9:00pm	Dinner and Keynote Samuel O. Thier, MD