Forbes Healthcare Summit 2013: Empowering The Patient Revolution
Healthcare systems across the world are under pressure. For many developed countries, they are wrestling with the same complex challenges – aging populations, fiscal pressures and increasing patient expectations. With payers, providers and governments being squeezed like never before, there will be seismic shifts over the next ten years. The revolution in healthcare is being led by patients, who are now more empowered than ever -- demanding more choice and transparency and harnessing technology to garner the best information to weigh their options and be more in control of their care.
On October 9th and 10th in New York, Steve Forbes will host the second annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, bringing together leaders from a wide spectrum of disciplines in the healthcare industry to discuss how the newly empowered consumer will drive disruption and change, and how key stakeholders can work together to generate actionable solutions and reform to organize and finance new systems and ultimately provide better outcomes for patients.
Empowering the Patient Revolution
October 9-10
- (Subject to Change)
Innovation Showcase Opening Reception for Participants – Forbes Galleries
(60 Fifth Avenue @ 12th Street, NYC) - featuring Showcase of Innovations
Welcome – The Patient Empowerment Revolution
October 10th, 2013
- Registration/Breakfast
The Allen Room at Jazz @ Lincoln Center (Time Warner Center, 5th Floor, Broadway and 60th Street)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
The summit highlights how the consumer is driving disruption in healthcare. Today’s patient wants all aspects of healthcare to be as simple and transparent as Amazon and the iPad.The Affordable Care Act: How Are We Doing?
The health care exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act could be a source of consumer empowerment, allowing people to choose their own health plans. They could also result in higher prices and less access to care. They just went live. Will they work?The Role of Insurance Companies in a New World
It’s not just the Affordable Care Act. Fundamental changes are coming about in the way that the insurance industry works. The fee-for-service model is being slowly replaced, and companies are looking to new technologies to change the way they do business. The industry’s top executives present competing visions of the future.The Walk-In Clinic Revolution
Until recently, consumers wanting medical care would travel extensively and wait patiently for an appointment. However, patients accustomed to the ease and convenience of Amazon and the iPad, now won’t wait for a doctor's appointment. How this is changing the health care business.How Technology Will Change What It Means To Be A Doctor
Long averse to new technology, doctors and hospitals are now adopting it in a big way. A look at how Silicon Valley ideas are changing how providers do their jobs.Big Pharma Collaborating on Big Data to Save the World
Traditionally, big pharma kept their data and results under lock and key. Now, with a global population impatient to find answers and cures, the industry is working together to affect change.How Big Do The Data Have To Be?
Suddenly, we can track patients better with electronic health records. We can share that data in ways that were never possible before. That’s transforming research in amazing ways. But how big do our networks have to become before they start to yield useful information?Consumers Driving Philanthropy in Healthcare
The traditional concept of philanthropy involved sending money and goods to those in need. But the outcomes were inconsistent. Now, many prominent foundations succeed because they promote personal accountability and allow the empowered to take control of their futures. What are some of the current challenges faced by prominent foundations? How are these overcome?Universal Challenges and Solutions: Empowered Consumers around the Globe
The USA is facing immense challenges in healthcare. But it is certainly not alone. Around the globe, with empowered patients, exploding costs and an aging population, healthcare is at a crossroads. What are the main issues faced by other countries in the age of technology and expectation? How are they solving these problems?Reception — Atrium
Russell Basser
Senior Vice President, Global Clinical Research and Development
CSL Behring
Jonathan Bush
Chief Executive Officer, President, & Chairman of the Board of Directors
AthenaHealth Inc.
Paul Chew, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer & Head of Global Medical Affairs
Sanofi
Steve Forbes
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief
Forbes Media, LLC
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Chancellor
The University of California, San Francisco
Matthew Herper
Senior Editor
Forbes Media
Daniel J. Hilferty
President & Chief Executive Officer
Independence Blue Cross
H. Stephen Lieber, C.A.E.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Bernard Munos
Founder
Innothink-
Dikembe Mutombo
CEO & President
Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, Inc. 
Geeta Nayyar, M.D., M.B.A.
Chief Medical Information Officer
AT&T;
Steven E. Nissen, M.D.
Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Robert C. Robbins, M.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Texas Medical Center-
Richard H. Rothman, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder
Rothman Institute 
David J. Shulkin, M.D.
President
Morristown Medical Center/ Atlantic Health System
Grant L. Verstandig
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Audax Healthcare
Robert M. Wah, M.D.
President Elect and Immediate Past Chairman American Medical Association Chief Medical Officer
Computer Sciences Corporation
Brad Weinberg, M.D.
Founding Partner
Blueprint Health
Ronald A. Williams
Chairman & CEO
RW2 Enterprises, Inc.
Andrew P. Witty
Chief Executive Officer
GlaxoSmithKline
William A. Zoghbi, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.A.S.E.
President
American College of Cardiology
The event begins with a cocktail reception and a display of innovative new products in the Forbes Galleries the evening of October 9th, followed by a full-day program on October 10th at the iconic Allen Room at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Based on the design of a Greek amphitheater, the Allen Room, located on the 5th floor of the Time Warner Center at Broadway and 60th Street, provides an elegant and intimate setting with breathtaking views through a 50-by-90-foot glass wall overlooking Central Park.
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