Now is the time for brain and spine centers to establish protocols and effective avenues for collecting and communicating meaningful clinical outcomes metrics - or risk losing reimbursement and growth in a competitive marketplace.

Driving Quality, Efficiency, Collaboration, Patient Volume

This event combines the content and success of several past service-line specific agendas into one comprehensive event! The 5th Annual Brain & Spine Centers of Excellence Forum convenes physicians and administrators from across the clinical disciplines, with a specialized focus on key sub-specialties. The goal is for attendees to leave with an action plan to demonstrate quality to payers, patients and referring physicians, increase volumes, and capitalize on fresh revenue opportunities brought by new technology and therapies.

Back-to-Back Outcome Management Case Studies

Align Business & Clinical Stakeholders to Advance Collection & Application of Clinical Outcomes

Tom Wadsworth Managing Director, IntellisEPM Cleveland Clinic	Irene Katzan, MD Head, Enterprise Stroke Systems Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation Cleveland Clinic
Demonstrate Data to Staff, Payers, Patients and Referring Physicians to Advance Center Goals Dorla Vinson Patient Care Manager Carle Spine Institute	Differentiate with Service Line Metrics for Employed & Independent Physicians Linda Gonia Neurosciences Project Design Leader OSF Healthcare System

Business Best Practices for Sustainability During Reform

Contracting for Optimal Reimbursement & Service Line Management Karim Habibi Vice President & Senior Administrator for Managed Care NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases	Position Your Clinic in Care Continuums (ACOs) to Expand Reach & Comply with Mandates Wendy L. Wright, MD Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery Emory Healthcare
Deliver Growth in Outpatient Care through Partnerships & Integrated Clinics Katie Kaney Vice President, Administration Carolinas Healthcare System	Efficiency in OR Management through Hospitalist Outreach Eula McKinney Director, Spine, Orthopaedics, Surgery Service Line UCSF Medical Center

Breakouts with Specialized Training from Top Providers

• Stroke
• St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital - Streamline a Center of Excellence that Achieves Measurable Clinical & Financial Results
• HealthEast Care System - Build a Tele-Stroke Network to Achieve Primary Designation
• Spine
• Spine & Brain Center of Eugene - Expand Volume & Results with Strategic Minimally-Invasive Technology Investments
• Spine Team Texas - Create a Multidisciplinary Spine Center that Encompasses the Entire Spectrum of Care

Advancing Outcomes & Growth in:

Real Case Studies
Real Outcomes & Metrics
Providers with Multiple Years of Data
Interactive Benchmarking with Physicians & Administrators

CME/CEU Credit Information

Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior (IAHB) and World Research Group. IAHB is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Statement
IAHB designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses
Amedco is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This course is co-provided by Amedco and World Research Group. Maximum of 12.75 contact hours.

Hear what some of our previous attendees had to say:

"Brought together good speakers with good ideas from very different venues."
B. Joy Zeager
Operations Director
PENN STATE HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER

"Great, valuable information.  Good variety of sessions!"
Nicole Alsop-Arbuckle
Director
COMMUNITY SPINE CENTER

"WRG has done a good job of bringing together a mix of corporate, educational, and private practice speakers."
Jon-Paul Shores
Owner
SHORES MEDICAL, LLC

"Really good information."
Victor Montes
Director, Business Development
DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO

"Candid, timely, excellent."
Ram Mudiyam, MD

"Great information and content, relative to all spine centers."
Kathleen Foder
Orthopedic Manager
ORANGE COAST MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER

For more information or to register, please contact the World Research Group toll free by phone at (800) 647-7600 or via e-mail at info@worldrg.com.