1. 8/8/2015 2005 QPRC Welcome

2. 8/8/2015 2005 QPRC Theme: Data, Quality Transformation, and the Healthcare Supply Chain

3. 8/8/2015 Conference Snapshot Tuesday:Introduction to Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner Mark Johnson and Morgan Wang, UCF Great job!!!!!!!!!!

4. 8/8/2015 Wednesday Wednesday:Policy, Data, Information, Statistics 8:30Ken Thorpe 10:30Great breakouts 12:15Great lunch 1:30Great breakouts 3:15Leadership panel on roles of policy, data, statistics and technology 5:00Reception 6:00Awards Banquet

5. 8/8/2015 Wednesday Evening 7:00Lloyd Dobyns will preview the new video, “How to Heal a Hospital,” intended for later PBS broadcast 8:00Dessert Buffet

6. 8/8/2015 Thursday Quality and Productivity in Healthcare Delivery 8:30Richard Shannon 10:30Great breakouts 12:15Great lunch 1:30Great breakouts 3:15CEO Panel on the Quality Transformation 5:00Riverboat Cruise/Dinner

7. 8/8/2015 Thursday Evening

8. 8/8/2015 Friday Morning Quality and Productivity in Healthcare Delivery 8:30Great breakouts, including QPRC Honoree Address (Cook, again) 10:30Plenary: Panel on Research Issues 12:00Box Lunches

9. 8/8/2015 Thanks Unofficial Conference Co-Chairs Jim Buckman:Steve Parente:

10. 8/8/2015 Program Committee Richard Carlson, HealthPartners Frederick W. Faltin, The Faltin Group Valeri Fedorov, GlaxoSmithKline Blanton Godfrey, North Carolina State University Douglas Hawkins, University of Minnesota Mark Johnson, University of Central Florida Bradley Jones, SAS Institute, Inc, Michael Kutner, Emory University William Li, University of Minnesota John Ramberg, University of Arizona KK Sinha, University of Minnesota

11. 8/8/2015 The Real Organizers Deb Brashear, OMS Vicki Lund, OMS Sarah Linderman, Juran Center Jill Pearson-Wood, Juran Center Todd Martell, Juran Center Gene Anderson, CCE Mary Kay Ferguson, CCE

12. 8/8/2015 Sponsors Corporate: UnitedHealth Group Guidant Academic: Carlson School of Management Juran Center for Leadership in Quality Medical Industry Leadership Initiative Operations and Management Science Department

13. 8/8/2015 Why Healthcare Quality? Minnesota—Mecca for healthcare and medical technology organizations—2 nd to Boston in US 500 medical technology manufacturers 250,000 healthcare professionals Examples: Guidant, UnitedHealth Group, Mayo Clinic, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical

14. 8/8/2015 Is There a Problem? Major Problems: 70,000 preventable deaths per year $750,000,000,000 in annual waste! I had to wait for 45 minutes last week at my physician’s office.

15. 8/8/2015 Is There a Really a Problem? “Some Pathbreaking Empirical Research on Healthcare” Chris Nachtsheim, University of Minnesota (Conducted last Saturday)

16. 8/8/2015 Data

17. 8/8/2015 Data Mining: Univariate Data Mining

18. 8/8/2015 Per Capita Spending

19. 8/8/2015 Life Expectancy

20. 8/8/2015 Spending as % of GDP

21. 8/8/2015 Infant Mortality

22. 8/8/2015 Data Mining: Bivariate

23. 8/8/2015 Life Expectancy vs Cost

24. 8/8/2015 Life Expectancy vs Cost U.S.

25. 8/8/2015 Cook’s Distance

26. 8/8/2015 Cook’s Distance

27. 8/8/2015 US is an Outlier---Drop

28. 8/8/2015 Conclusions  The U.S. is an outlier  The U.S. is too influential  Throw the U.S. out  After that, you get what you pay for  Time to introduce someone who actually knows something about this!

29. 8/8/2015 Kenneth Thorpe  Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management  Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University  Ph.D., Rand Graduate School, M.A., Duke, B.A., Michigan  Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Clinton Administration  Frequently sought-after advisor to state legislatures, speaker at health care conferences, commentator on television, radio, and the media

30. 8/8/2015 An Overview of Issues and Challenges Facing Health Care Reforms