Summit

The Business of Healthcare

Event Overview

Dates: November 21, 2008
Where: CNM Workforce Training Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

What creative ideas do you have to increase the effectiveness of healthcare and lead our country toward creating universal coverage? How would you craft a healthcare system if the words “can’t” and “regulation” were not in your vocabulary? You will have the opportunity to answer these questions in the upcoming summit: The Business of Healthcare. This summit will offer a lively and creative setting where participants can:

conceive of strategies healthcare providers and administrators can implement without legislation, and
identify where we can eliminate, remodel, and reform regulation to fit the solution (rather than the other way around).

Over the last year there has been a great effort in the state of New Mexico to address the problems of healthcare and achieve universal coverage. It is clear, from the results of the legislative session, that consensus regarding what to do has not yet been reached. Solutions to healthcare are many faceted. Some are frustrated by the body of laws, rules, and regulations that they feel only hinder affordable and practical results. Reform is possible, they believe, only by challenging the regulatory framework guiding every piece of the health care continuum. In an effort to take a different view, this summit will focus on identifying unexplored ground by exploring the business of healthcare.

Who Should Attend?

Hospital administrators
Physicians and nurses
Auxiliary clinical staff
Pharmaceutical representatives and pharmacists
Insurance providers and agents

Seating is limited. The summit can accommodate a maximum of 75 participants. Early registration is highly recommended.

What Happens at the Summit?

New Mexico First events are not typical conferences with hour after hour of presentations. Rather, this summit will be a deliberative event filled with a lively flow of discussion. While there will be time to network and share ideas across industry sector, participants will spend the bulk of their day in small groups with those who share their industry focus and expertise. Along with creative solution-finding, participants will also have an opportunity to more clearly define areas of conflict and focus on ways to form consensus. Each small group will have a trained discussion leader and recorder to collect ideas and facilitate the process.

What Happens After the Summit?

The issues addressed at the summit will not sit on a shelf. There will be a report that goes to city, county, state, and industry leaders. Participants will envision processes to discuss and inform other stakeholders in the healthcare universe of these findings as well as how these ideas might find fertile ground in truly reforming the system. Finally, the findings will provide a platform to create, amend, or influence legislation to accomplish the good ideas.

Interested?