Brian Klepper’s Topics:

1) Policy- and Market-Based Health Care Reforms: Why Both Will Matter

2) Employers Driving Meaningful Change Through Market Innovation

3) There are very real market-based reforms that are already available and gaining traction. These will converge to drive enormous amounts of waste out of the system, and dramatically improve quality. They include:
- The Medical Home
- Health 2.0
- Value-Based Benefit Design
- New Clinical Technologies
- Medical Tourism.

 About Brian Klepper, Ph.D

   Early in his career Dr. Klepper led a health care consulting practice that developed or repaired new companies and programs in all kinds of health care environments. Then, in 1999, realizing that health care was headed for massive systemic disruptions, he changed course to work on reform. That experience allowed him to begin to understand the deep structural mechanisms that underlie the crisis, and what it will take to put the system on a stable footing again.

   He serves as Editor for MedPedia, as Editor-at-Large for Community Oncology, and as one of only three non-physicians on the International Editorial Board of Medscape General Medicine.

   He is also a regular columnist on several of the best-respected and most widely-read expert health care blogs - The Health Care Blog, Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, Health Commentary and Health Wonk Review. He is an Aspen Institute Health Forum Fellow, and the only non-physician Board member of the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control, a group at the scientific leading edge in managing patients with vascular disease.

  He is a Principal in three firms. Healthcare Performance provides market analyses and strategic services to the industry. Health 2.0 Advisors counsels health care firms on ways to use the Web to facilitate knowledge exchange, patient engagement, pricing and performance transparency, transactional streamlining and decision support. WeCare TLC develops and manages onsite clinics for employers and other organizations.

   Dr. Klepper has provided health care commentary to CBS Evening News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and has published articles in Medscape, The New England Journal of Medicine, Modern Healthcare, Business Insurance, Workforce Management, HealthLeaders and newspapers around the country.

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