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The Johns Hopkins ACG System 2012 International Risk Adjustment Conference
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Sunday, May 6th
ACG System Training
- Risk Assessment Variable Sets and Code Sets - Implications for local calibration and new models in Version 10.
Part I
Presenter: Klaus Lemke, The Johns Hopkins University
Part II
Presenter: Amy Salls, DST Health Solutions
- Beyond Risk Scores
Presenters:
Lisa Kabasakalian, DST Health Solutions
Amy Salls, DST Health Solutions
Keynote I: Welcome
Presenter: Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University
Monday, May 7th
Keynote II: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Celebrating the ACG System's 20 Year Role in Improving Health Care Worldwide.
Presenters:
Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University
Karen Kinder, The Johns Hopkins University
Care Coordination I
- The Development of a Coordination Risk Measure
Presenter: Patricio Muniz, The Johns Hopkins University - Innovations in Measuring and Managing Coordination
Presenter: Craig Pollack, The Johns Hopkins University
Care Coordination II
- Use of Risk Stratification Methods for Identifying Patients for Care Coordination within a Medical Home
Presenter: Lindsey Haas, Mayo - Integration of ACGs into a data and communication hub to support care collaboration
Presenter: Don Hughes, Encompass Medical Management - The Care Coordination Program: A virtually integrated care delivery model for complex, high-needs patients
Presenter: Riedwaan Jabaar, Discovery Health
Advances in Modeling Risk
- Supporting Total Cost of Care Contracts through the Johns Hopkins ACG Tool
Presenter: Peter Thibodeau, Medica - Using Clinical Case Mix Tools to Predict Mortality Risk
Presenter: Linda Kemp, Discovery Health - ACG-PM for Readmission Risk
Presenter: Klaus Lemke, The Johns Hopkins University
Leveraging Pharmacy Data for Risk Prediction and Care Management
- Expanded Horizons for Pharmacy Gap Analytics
Presenter: David Bodycombe, The Johns Hopkins University - Factors Associated with Adverse Drug Reactions
Presenter: Beatriz Poblador, ICS Aragon - Value of Real Time Risk Prediction
Presenters:
Shannon Roberts, Employee Benefits Division of the State of Arkansas, SXC
Deborah Creten, SXC
Pilot experiences
- A Team Approach to Implementing ACGs in the National Health Service, United Kingdom
Presenter: Frank Hume, Capita Health - Understanding the Implementation of ACGs in the County Councils of Sweden
Presenter: Lennart Carlsson, Karolinska Institute - Deployment of the ACG System in the South Central Region of the NHS
Presenter: Alan Thompson, South Central PCT Alliance - ACG System in China
Presenter: Yi Zhang, University of Minnesota - ACG System in Turkey
Presenter: Nihat Yurt, Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East (TODAIE) - Application of the ACG System to Medical Claim Records in Japan
Presenter: Koichi Kawabuchi, Toyko Medical and Dental University
US Health Reform Initiatives
- Use of ACG and Clinician Screening in a Statewide Patient-Centered Medical Home Initiative
Presenter: Dean Ewald, Minnesota Department of Human Services - A Population Health Model for Physician Reimbursement: A Hybrid Approach
Presenter: Greg Gootee, MZI Healthcare - Using ACGs to support risk adjusted premiums within the Health Insurance Exchange
Presenter: Chad Abrams, The Johns Hopkins University
ACG Research Network (AIRN)
- Introduction to the AIRN as a web-based forum that promotes research and facilitates the exchange of new knowledge in the field of public health and health services research
Presenter: Amaia Calderon, ICS Aragon
Tuesday, May 8
Keynote III: Important role of case-mix adjustment in health care reform
Part I
Presenter: David Knutson, Div. of Health Care Quality and Outcomes Policy at US Dept. of Health and Human Services
Part II
Presenter: Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University
Re-thinking ACG Fundamentals
- The development of total cost of care and resource use measure to support risk adjusted benchmarking that leads to practical identification of areas for improvement.
Presenters: Gary Kitching and Chad Heim, HealthPartners - Profiling high morbidity burden in primary care: calibration of a case-mix model to account for the burden primary care that physicians face.
Presenter: Marcelo Low, Clalit Health Services
Managing Hospitalization Risk
- Development of a Hospitalization Risk Model for Diabetes
Presenter: Martha Sylvia and Yanyan Lu, Johns Hopkins HealthCare - Refining Patient Selection in a care transitions program
Presenters: Dellara Terry and Jeffrey Oberg, Dovetail Health
Presenters:
Bruce Leff, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Cynthia Boyd, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Martha Sylvia, Johns Hopkins Healthcare
Utilization
- Modeling care sensitivity using ACG systems, Insights from a German cohort study
Presenter: Tobias Freund, University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany - Comorbidity and health care utilisation five years prior to diagnosis for depression. A register-based study in a Swedish population.
Presenter: Lars Borgquist, Linkîping University - Persistently High Resource Use within a US population
Presenter: Hsien-Yen Chang, The Johns Hopkins University
Management Implications
- Using Risk Adjustment to Measure Access to Primary Care
Presenter: Kam Reams, Brown and Toland Physicians - High risk patient care-management in the South African private healthcare sector: Predictive modeling and financial outcomes analysis
Presenter: Lourens Walters, MedScheme - Predicting 30-day rehospitalization at admission: methodological and practical considerations
Presenter: Efrat Shadmi, University of Haifa
Wednesday, May 9
Keynote V: Health IT, Clinical Analytics and the Transformation of Healthcare
Presenter: Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University
Keynote VI: Starfield Memorial Plenary
Presenters:
Neil A. (Tony) Holtzman, M.D., M.P.H., Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Husband of Barbara Starfield
Karen Kinder, The Johns Hopkins University
Don Steinwachs, The Johns Hopkins University
Chris Forrest, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Multi-morbidity
- Counting chronic diagnoses is not enough: classifying the entire patient population with a morbidity spectrum measure
Presenter: Efrat Shadmi, University of Haifa - Disease Burden Analysis
Presenter: Matthew Zylstra, Discovery Health - Multimorbidity Patterns in Primary Care: A New Approach to Interactions among Chronic Diseases
Presenter: Amaia Calderon, ICS Aragon
Keynote: Closing
Presenter: Jonathan Weiner, The Johns Hopkins University
