Health Plan Executive Forum (HPEF) transcripts
Updated: January 12, 2007
Rising healthcare costs and the uninsured are increasingly important issues that matter to every citizen, corporation, and small business. These problems—as well as the solutions—now cut across commercial and public sectors. At the 2006 Health Plan Executive Forum (HPEF), Microsoft invited thought leaders from government, health plans, and technology to identify practical ways that technology might deliver breakthrough solutions to address these key industry challenges
Download and read the transcripts of the keynotes and panel discussions that addressed several of these healthcare topics. The transcripts are available as Portable Document files, or .pdfs. Get Adobe Reader if you don't have it installed on your computer.
| • | High impact technologies on the health horizon
Sam Robinson, solutions sales representative at Microsoft, and Dr. Dennis Schmuland, director of the Health Plan Industry at Microsoft, discuss some of Microsoft's new technologies and how customers and partners are delivering breakthrough improvements in healthcare. They show how these results can be achieved quickly, affordably, with fewer consultants, and with less complexity.
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| • | Overcoming technology adoption barriers for practicing physicians: If technology is the answer, what are the questions?
Dr. Jim Morrow, vice president and chief information officer of North Fulton Family Medicine in Cumming, Georgia, shares the challenges that a family medicine practice faces when trying to incorporate technology into daily workflow. For example, his practice implemented an electronic medical records (EMR) system and has set up a secure, online location to share medical records with patients.
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| • | Plan provider collaboration: Aligning incentives and making collaborative work and information sharing more effortless
Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), explores ways of aligning plan and provider incentives for improved patient care.
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