2011 Spring IDN Summit & Expo

The IDN Summit Supply Chain of Excellence Awards process identified four cutting-edge initiatives within IDNs and healthcare systems across the U.S. through IDN peer organization voting. These finalists will present their unique ideas during this opening session of the IDN Summit. Health system attendees will vote for their choice of the leading initiative during the general session by turning in your ballots to IDN Summit representatives or at IDN Summit registration by 10:00 am.

Presenter: Sharon Pleggenkuhle, Facilitation Manager/Content Specialist, Disney Institute

Powerful storytelling has been an ever-present force in the nearly hundred-year history of The Walt Disney Company. Today, storytelling is considered a critical and relevant tool for gaining emotional buy-in, and its significance is already being realized by organizations large and small around the globe. The use of storytelling to achieve buy-in can be especially critical to effective patient care, with all healthcare stakeholders playing a role.

Learn how Disney uses the elements of storytelling to build on the culture that keeps its business world-class. Then discover how you can use storytelling to convey your own organization’s culture in a meaningful way. Learn how storytelling can be used as a strategic communications tool to enhance healthcare quality and drive supply chain initiatives. Why tell your story? Because people are listening.

Four leading IDNs have worked hard at deploying innovations to improve their health system and have competed since the beginning of January in this peer-driven competition. They’ve gone through two rounds of voting among their peers and now stand ready to see whose innovation is judged as the National Award Winner. All are leaders in healthcare and during this session, we want to acknowledge their leadership and award the one system their peers have judged as having the leading initiative.

P2P Exchange is designed to go in-depth on four key challenges impacting supply chain management. Participants will be provided research on each topic area for their review. The P2P research, along with moderator questions will aim to stimulate active discussion among participants. These discussions will be condensed and attached to the P2P research paper and electronically delivered to each IDN Summit attendee after the conclusion of the Summit.

Topic 1:  Profitable Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs): Achieving (and Keeping) Positive Margins in the Medicare Population
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Moderator: Michael Louviere, VP, Supply Chain, Baptist Health System


Topic 2: Medical Device Management
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Moderator: William Stitt, Vice President, Materias Management, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital


Topic 3: Hospital and Physician Practice (Managing Physicians Who Are Hospital Employees)
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Moderator: Steven Smith, Corporate Director-Materials, Marshfield Clinic


Topic 4: Value-based Payment Methods
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Moderator: Lillee Smith Gelinas, Vice President and Chief Nursing Office, VHA, Inc.