Healthcare Administration meetings & conferences

12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma & Coping

February 19-24, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

The 12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma and Coping is the premier forum for multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and information among those who provide crisis and disaster mental health services.

Sessions during the 12th World Congress have been designed to provoke critical thinking challenge current convention offer innovative ideas and insights & fully explore the many applications of critical incident response in various industries, settings and situations.

World Congress participants will identify the tools needed to solve current problems and explore the future direction of the crisis intervention field. The 6 day World Congress will include a variety of presentation formats ideally suited to exploring concepts, practical applications and results in sessions designed for professionals in all practice settings and experience levels.

World Congress Major Content Themes
Over 125 presenters will cover the spectrum of crisis intervention in these and other areas:

Research / Innovations Military Disaster Response Healthcare Settings Faith Based Applications Emergency Services, Public Safety Corporate / Industry / EAP Specialty Populations Team Development and Care Schools, Children

Who Should Attend

The ICISF 12th World Congress is a “must attend” experience for anyone working in the fields of crisis intervention, traumatic stress, emergency services & disaster mental health, including:

Disaster response personnel Psychiatrists Humanitarian aid workers Counselors Law-enforcement officers Social workers Firefighters Faith-based providers EMTs / Paramedics Employee representative organizations & Unions Military personnel First response support agencies Homeland security personnel Media correspondents / journalists Emergency service administrators Grief counselors Emergency operations administrators & managers Employee assistance professionals Corrections officials Commercial & industrial organization employees Healthcare professionals & administrators Airline & other transportation industry personnel Educators, school employees Communication officers & dispatch personnel Crisis workers Security professionals Suicidologists Victim's advocates Psychologists Risk managers

Why Attend?
The Crisis Intervention field continues to grow, building on excellent proven programs and strategies while incorporating innovations that meet the needs and challenges of the diverse populations we serve. As crisis interventionists we must learn from one another to continually improve the services provided to the level of best practices.

At the 12th World Congress, you'll have an incomparable opportunity to interact with experts in the field and hundreds of your peers from around the U.S. and world who, like you, are committed to providing assistance to those affected by critical incident stress. Choose from over 70 presentations that will explore how the practice of crisis intervention is evolving and adapting to meet the needs and challenges of the future.

Please address any questions to:

Shelley Cohen
World Congress Program Manager
scohen@icisf.org
(410) 750-9600

World Congress Leadership Summit on Optimizing Oncology Management

August 2-3, 2012 Boston Massachusetts

The Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Optimizing Oncology Management provides best practices and updates to the entire oncology industry, specially focusing on the payer and how they are to handle policy and program formation.

With the influx of oncology products in manufacturer pipelines and the rising cost of treatment, it is now more imperative than ever for plans to properly contain spending while providing the best possible quality of care. As more drugs and therapies start target similar molecular pathways, competition is bound to increase. This conference will help plans evaluate the jungle of treatments out there to pin point the best coverage for their members.

New for 2012:

What new developments are in the manufacturer pipelines and how to properly prepare for them
Case Studies of oncology benefit programs that enhance member experience and quality of life
Realize cost savings by comparing and analyzing current treatments to determine efficiency
Discuss how different future models of health care delivery will affect oncology treatment access
Learn what employers are concerned about in regards to oncology benefits for their employees

Conference on Practice Improvement

November 29–December 2, 2012 Greenville, South Carolina

At the Conference on Practice Improvement, you’ll learn to organize your practice around your patients, streamline processes, engage staff, increase revenue, and provide consistent, evidence-based care. You’ll learn from those who know best – primary care providers, researchers, and practice staff who have redesigned their practices into Patient-centered Medical Homes.

The conference is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation

Medical Regulation in the Real World: Bringing Evidence to Bear

October 2 - 5, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

IAMRA, the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities, will hold its 10th International Conference on Medical Regulation, on October 2 - 5, 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Following from the work done at the 2010 conference, IAMRA 2012 will build on the discussions of best practices in medical regulation by focusing on three important content areas:

Registration / Licensure
Complaints / Resolutions
Quality Assurance of a Physician's Practice

In keeping with this year’s theme of Medical Regulation in the Real World: Bringing Evidence to Bear, conference sessions will discuss the importance of evidence in medical regulation and provide participants with tools and information to apply in their own regulatory context. The program consists of a combination of plenary sessions, breakout sessions, oral abstract presentations workshops, and poster presentations, and also includes ample time for networking and social events. Program sessions are designed to ensure relevance to all participants regardless of their level of expertise, resources or the current status of their regulatory processes and infrastructure.

10th International Conference on Medical Regulation
c/o BUKSA Strategic Conference Services
Suite 307, 10328 - 81 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 1X2

Phone: +1.780.436.0983 ext. 257
Fax: +1.780.437.5984
Email:IAMRA@buksa.com

Collaborative Family Healthcare Association 14th Annual Conference

The Future of Integrated Healthcare: Activating Clinicians, Consumers, Researchers, and Policy Makers

October 4-6, 2012 Austin, Texas

The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) is a member-based, member-driven collaborative organization. For us, collaboration isn’t just a word in our name; it defines who we are, how we interact with each other and other organizations. We believe deeply that collaboration is an essential element necessary for re-visioning healthcare specifically and society generally. CFHA promotes a comprehensive and cost-effective model of healthcare delivery that integrates mind and body, individual and family, patients, providers and communities. CFHA achieves this mission through education, training, partnering, consultation, research and advocacy.

The CFHA Annual Conference focuses on the many and varied aspects of collaborative and integrated healthcare. It has become the premiere conference of its type, bringing together practitioners, researchers, students, academicians, consumers and patients, corporations, governmental agencies, foundations, and many others.

More than 400 attendees are expected to attend the 2012 CFHA Conference in Austin, Texas. The three-day conference includes preconference workshops; three plenary sessions and more than 50 educational breakout sessions.

The theme of CFHA’s 2012 conference is The Future of Integrated Healthcare: Activating Clinicians, Consumers, Researchers, and Policy Makers. In Texas as well as nationally, building capacity to increase access, improve outcomes and maximize efficiency in healthcare are essential to meeting the population health and economic imperatives before us. Together, we can create the opportunities in policy and practice, share the learning, and combine our voices to make collaborative care the standard rather than the exception. With that as our goal, we must leverage our creativity and our expertise in research, policy, practice, education and training, and advocacy to fuel the movement and reach the tipping point.

This conference is your opportunity to share your expertise and your creativity with others from whom you too can learn. This is an opportunity to expand connections and accelerate our collective capacity to become effective change agents in the adoption of collaborative care.

4th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference

September 12-13, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts

Personalized medicine has the potential to revolutionize medical care by utilizing an improved understanding of genetics and molecular biology to allow for better diagnostic tests, more precise diagnoses, greater predictability of disease course, and improved patient safety by selecting not only the right drug for a patient but also the proper dosage to reduce adverse effects. Speakers and panelists will answer the following key questions:

What types of challenges need to be met in order to realize the true commercial potential of personalized medicine?
Will insurers fund the genomic revolution?
What types of validation requirements are they looking for?
What will be their criteria for reimbursement?
What are the real-world challenges to successful adoption of molecular/companion diagnostics?
Who needs to partner in order to advance the field of personalized medicine?
What are the goals, utility and challenges associated with Rx-Dx partnerships?
How and when are relationships being initiated today?
How are companies navigating their way through the world's regulatory bodies?
What kind of impact are Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and for that matter new genetic testing benefit managers going to have on the future of personalized medicine?
What types of efforts are being made to influence adoption via physician education?

Arrowhead Publishers and Conferences
5412 Irving Avenue South
Minneapolis
MN
55419
USA

E-mail: enquiries@personalizedmedicinepartnerships.com
Telephone: 312-244-3703
Fax: 312-244-3703
http://www.arrowheadpublishers.com

4th Symposium on Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods--From Efficacy to Effectiveness

June 12-13, 2012

John M. Eisenberg Building
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Conference Center
Rockville, Maryland

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Effective Health Care program, is sponsoring a fourth symposium on original research methods for comparative effectiveness (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR). The symposium and webcast will be held on June 12 and 13, 2012 at the AHRQ Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland.

The theme of the 2012 symposium is “From Efficacy to Effectiveness.” Invited experts will give podium presentations on innovative research methods to evaluate mechanisms that contribute to the differences in the results of randomized clinical trials (i.e., efficacy studies) and observational studies conducted in real world settings (i.e., outcomes and effectiveness research). The proceedings of the symposium will be published as a special journal supplement in 2013. Papers presented at past symposia were published in the journal Medical Care and the proceedings of the 2011 symposium are forthcoming soon. These AHRQ methods symposia and the associated journal supplements have become important resources for investigators to use in designing and conducting comparative effectiveness studies.

Contact: Elizabeth Robinson, BA (emrobinson@partners.org),
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD (sschneeweiss@partners.org)
John Seeger, PharmD, DrPH (jdseeger@partners.org) and/or
Scott R. Smith, PhD (scott.smith@ahrq.hhs.gov)

Third Annual International Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference

Sponsored by Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

May 31 - June 1, 2012 Kansas City, Missouri

Meeting Topics

May 31st

Nuts and bolts: Initiation and implementation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP)

June 1st

Stewardship strategies in the outpatient setting
Empiric disease specific antimicrobial utilization
Utilization of microbiology laboratory data to guide ASP decisions
International efforts involving ASPs
Useful Strategies for inpatient antimicrobial stewardship
ASP evaluation and outcome metrics

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the course, healthcare professionals will be able to:

Implement and evaluate a pediatric ASP
Understand the importance of Pediatric ASPs on a global scale
Identify strategies to improve outpatient antibiotic use
Design evaluation strategies for your ASP
Identify barriers to and potential stategies to optimize ASP outcomes

Meeting Location

The meeting will occur at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, MO.

Interested in Meeting

Please contact Jason Newland at jnewland1@cmh.edu or Christy Phillips at cphillips@idsociety.org if you are interested in attending the meeting

Forces of Change: New Strategies for the Evolving Health Care Marketplace

September 10–14, 2012  Boston, Massachusetts

2012 Program Theme: Driving successful implementation in a time of disruption, innovation, and change

Forces of Change:

Addresses health care organizational strategy:

Harvard’s Forces of Change program offers health care executives and emerging leaders direction on strategic issues at their organization. In an economic landscape which is demanding improved efficiency, reduced costs, and enhanced quality, Forces addresses critical success factors at the intersection of health care and business with a focus on how to effect change.

Explores leadership issues specific to health care:

Beginning with a discussion of current market dynamics Forces identifies opportunities for greater alignment between nine key stakeholders, analyzes the factors that exacerbate existing stakeholder misalignments, and outlines the steps necessary for achieving positive change. The second part of Forces defines the dominant market responses to the current health care landscape, and examines the potential and limitations of these predictable attempts to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Finally, Forces details activation mechanisms health care leaders can use to fulfill the promise of new initiatives and create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Informs health care leaders of best practices:

Supplementing the last day of Forces, experts in the field of quality and process improvement will provide immediately applicable strategies and tactics on process improvement in health care on Friday, September 14, 2012. The program will focus on how to reduce waste in processes, improve productivity, and foster innovation in health care to promote patient safety and quality care.

The September 14th sessions of Forces of Change are open only to participants of Attaining Process Improvement Excellence in Health Care.

Who should participate in Forces of Change:

Forces of Change is ideal for those seeking to improve the quality of patient care, reduce the cost of providing that care, enhance stakeholder satisfaction, address critical workforce challenges, and in the process, create a unique and sustainable competitive advantage. Forces is also recommended for corporate executives responsible for the strategy, design, and delivery of health care programs. Most importantly, the program is designed for the leader who is driven to transform ideas into action.

Past Forces participants include:

C-Suite executives, presidents, and vice presidents from hospitals, health systems, and health plans
Chiefs and chairs of academic teaching hospitals
Patient safety officers
Foreign and domestic governmental agency representatives
Physicians, managers, and directors with increasing strategic responsibilities
Purchaser and supplier representatives
Other diverse stakeholders in the health and business sectors

Forces of Change Participants Will:

Initiate change and advance projects from idea to implementation with actionable strategies

Implement best practices for health information technology (HIT)

Discuss innovation in patient-centered medical homes and ACOs with clinical leaders

Explore options for process improvement in clinical settings

Overcome the limitations of current approaches to improving patient safety and developing systemic changes to health care services

Gain insight on reform implementation from Massachusetts health care leaders

Improve relationships among health care stakeholders

Build trust for your department or organization, and discuss the critical role of trust in health care

Learn key steps for successful clinical change from hospital leaders

To contact us: 617.384.8692 • contedu@hsph.harvard.edu

Association of University Programs in Health Administration 2012 Annual Meeting

Thursday, May 31, 2012 through Sunday, June 3, 2012 Minneapolis, MinnesotaThe Association of University Programs in Health Administration is holding the 2012 Annual Meeting May 31 – June 3, 2012 in Minneapolis, MN. The Annual Meeting brings together graduate and undergraduate faculty to share ideas and proven practices in educating future practitioners in healthcare management. The meeting features thought leaders who provoke new ideas and direction for healthcare management education. The largest of our educational meetings, the Annual Meeting provides exceptional opportunities for networking with faculty at domestic and international healthcare management programs.

This year's Annual Meeting is about Embracing Transformation. Every facet of healthcare, and likewise healthcare management and policy education, is transforming. From healthcare reform to the impact of HIT implementation; from new healthcare and education delivery models to the shrinking global landscape; from evolving business models in higher education to the increasing diversity of our students; there is literally nothing that remains unchanged about the work we do as educators in healthcare management. To stay ahead of the curve, health management educators must embrace the changing landscape to ensure our students are prepared to adapt to and thrive in this dynamic environment.