healthcare transparency Healthcare Transparency & Patient Advocacy
Kentucky 45th in the Nation For Healthcare

Nov. 13, 2009  Four Points Sheraton  Lexington,  Kentucky
   

 
  Conference Home
  Download Brochure
  Agenda & Speakers
  Registration  Facilities

 
No_Longer_45th

Kentucky 45th in the
Nation for Healthcare
Source The Commonwealth Fund

 

Sponsoring Organizations
 
Health Watch USA
(A designated "Community Leader" for Value-Driven Healthcare by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.)

Kentucky Medical Association

Consumers Union
(Publisher of Consumer Reports)

Pulaski County Medical Society

 

Participating Organizations

Kentuckians for Nursing
Home Reform

 

View 2008 Conference online videos of presentations and PowerPoints.

View 2007 Conference online videos of presentations and PowerPoints.

 

Subscribe to Conference
E-Mail List

  Health Watch USA      
  
   

 
Subscribe to
Health Watch USA's Newsletter !! Subscribe


Lexington Herald Leader Op-Ed 'Never Events & Nurse Staffing Levels.'  View Op-Ed


Comments on Healthcare Transparency from Unions, Chambers and Business Organizations (US Dept of Health and Human Services)

View Comments














 
 
Due to unforeseen circumstances, speakers and topics may change without notice.

 

Dr. Regina Herzlinger
Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School.  Author of  "Who Killed Health Care?".  

Regina Herzlinger, PhD
 

Daniel Mongiardo, MD
Lieutenant Governor
State of Kentucky

Daniel Mongiardo, MD - Lieutenant Governor State of Kentucky
 

   
Joycelyn Elders, MD

Past-US Surgeon General and Patient Advocate. 

Joycelyn Elders, MD  Past US Surgeon General
  

L. D. Britt, MD, FACS
Chairman of the Board of Regents - American College of Surgeons
   

L. D. Britt, MD
 

Joseph Miller, JD
Assistant Chief, Anit-Trust Division Office of the US Assistant Attorney General
 


 

Marvin Feit, PhD
Editor Journal of Health and Social Policy.

marvin_feit
 

Twila Brase RN, PHN
President, Citizens' Council on Health Care.

Twila Brase, RN PHN  President, Citizens' Council on Health Care
 

Nadeem Esmail
Director of Health System Performance Studies and Manager of the Alberta Policy Research Centre at the Fraser Institute.  
     

Nadeem Esmail - Frazier Institute
 

Garrett Adams, MD
Physicians for a National Healthcare Program

Garrett Adams, Physicains for a National Healtcare Program

Elissa Schuler Adair PhD
Consumer Union - Manager of Healthcare Research.  CU efforts in healthcare transparency.

Call For Papers !!! 

The Conference for Healthcare Transparency and Patient Advocacy is issuing a call for papers for the Nov. 13, 2009 conference. Four 25 minute presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. Presentations should describe or research an idea or example of how to change our healthcare system and/or how to better advocate for patients. Submissions should be on two pages. The first is an Author Contact Page with the name, e-mail, address and institution of the author. The second is the Abstract Page and should contain a 300 word abstract and a statement regarding any funding or conflicts of interest with the presentation. If no conflicts exist, this needs to be clearly stated.
 
All submissions will be blindly reviewed by a committee of three active and retired academicians. All accepted presentations will be expected to submit a narrative with references to the Journal of Health and Social Policy. (Conference is scheduled to be held on Nov. 13, 2009 at the Four Points Sheraton in Lexington, Kentucky.)
 
Please send submissions in MS Word format to
info@healthconference.org 

Exhibit Registration for 501C3 Organizations is Now Available.

Go To Exhibit Registration Page


Note:  Due to unforeseen circumstances agenda & speakers may change without notice.

 

  
2009 Conference Objectives

To understand the impact of the uninsured. on the health care system.

To differentiate the merits and problems with the various types of health care delivery systems and their abilities to serve the uninsured, including:

  • Single—Payer System

  • Canadian Health Care System

  • Consumer-Driven Health Care

To list the contributing factors leading to a shortage of nurses, primary care physicians and general surgeons.

To understand the regulatory impact of the
Certificate of Need on competition.


2009 Accreditation

As with the previous Health Watch USA Conferences Continuing Education for the following categories will be applied for and approval is expected. 

  • Six hours of continuing education for Doctors. 

  • Six hours of continuing education for Nurses.   

  • Six hours of Continuing Legal Education for Lawyers.

  • Six Hours of Continuing Education for Social Workers. 

  • 6.25 hours of continuing education has been approved for Human Resource Managers.