Healthcare Reform Symposium This Saturday

The Ministry of Health and Environment is inviting the island’s physician community to attend a health symposium this Saturday entitled, “Healthcare Reform: Choosing Wisely for Quality and Sustainability.”

The symposium is a collaborative healthcare event jointly produced by the Bermuda Health Council, the Ministry of Health and Environment, and the Bermuda Hospitals Board.

The event will be held at The Fairmont Southampton Resort this Saturday from 8.30am.

The symposium will provide an opportunity for attendees to hear important information regarding the government’s vision for healthcare reform. This will include an assessment of current challenges facing the system, sustainability issues underlying the need for healthcare reform, and proposals for potential reforms that address quality of care, patient safety, and cost containment. The meeting will also explore innovative care-delivery models and approaches to population-health management that are successfully employed in other jurisdictions.

Continuing medical education credits will be available to those who attend the full session.

The Minister of Health and Environment Trevor Moniz said, “This symposium provides the ideal opportunity for physicians to put forward their views and visions for the health system of the future.

“I would therefore encourage all invited physicians to attend.”

Topics to be covered will include:

• Healthcare Reform in Bermuda: Improving Population Health
• Ensuring Quality and Achieving Cost Containment
• Healthcare Financing: Tthe Need for Cost Containment and Strategies for a Healthier System
• Utilization Management: Its Role in Containing Healthcare Costs
• The Science Behind Care Guidelines
• Implementing Precertification in the Cayman Islands: Our Experience
• Changing Payment Models in Healthcare Delivery

The featured guest speaker will be family physician Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, the founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and a 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Bermudian Dr. Victor Scott, an internist specializing in gastroenterology and the retired senior vice president for health sciences at Howard University, will moderate the symposium. There is no charge to attend.

To register now, go to the symposium website. Alternatively, you may call or email Mr. Dean Parris, event manager, at 239-1690 or dean.parris@bhb.bm.

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