Conference Updates

• What Can You Expect from Industry Consolidation? What new opportunities will they create? What’s the downside? What’s the impact on employers? This session focuses on new developments rapidly transforming the health care landscape with Melinda Reid Hatton, General Counsel, American Hospital Association, Steve Miller, Chief Clinical Officer, Cigna, Sheila Savageau, U.S. Healthcare Leader, General Motors and Carol Vargo, Director, Physician Practice Sustainability, Physician Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability, Strategy Group, The American Medical Association
• Policy Update: A Conversation about the Economic Big Picture of Health Care Transformation Kavita Patel, M.D., Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies, Center for Health Policy, Brookings Institution and Ed Haislmaier, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, The Heritage Foundation will discuss the ways the health care industry and policy have to evolve to avert a looming health care financial crisis. Moderator: Anna Wilde Mathews, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
• Meet the Consumer of the Future and the Technology that will Empower Her - Learn about the consumer of the future and about the unlimited potential of AI, blockchain and mega data to improve personal health and change how health care is delivered. Rajeev Ronanki, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Information Technology (IT) Division, Anthem, Inc. and Chris Colborn, Chief Experience Officer, Director of Innovation, Lippincott will discuss practical applications of technology and machine learning—and how these innovations can make a difference and meet the needs of the “on demand” consumer.