Welcome
and Overview: Understanding and Influencing
Efficiency
Joseph Cacchione, MD, FACC
Efficiency
Initiatives and Challenges: The Federal Perspective
Carolyn Clancy, MD
Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
National
Priorities Partnership© - Setting a National
Agenda for Healthcare Quality and Safety
Janet Corrigan, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Quality Forum
Measuring
Efficiency in Cardiac Care: a health plan
perspective
Lisa Latts, MD
Vice President, Programs in Clinical Excellence
WellPoint, Inc
Cardiovascular
Practice Recognition Program
Janet Wright, MD, FACC
IC3 Improving Continuous Cardiac Care
John Spertus, MD, FACC
ACC
Plans for Multi-Modality Appropriate Use Criteria
Michael Wolk, MD, MACC
Implementation
and Evaluation of Appropriateness in Cardiac
Imaging
Robert Hendel, MD, FACC
CMS
Physician Resource Use Measurement and Reporting
Thomas Valuck, MD
Medical Officer and Senior Adviser, Center
for Medicare Management
