Ford Koles Keynote

Uncertainty continues to reign with what seems to be permanent challenges facing each of us as we grapple with a competitive landscape of providing care. After decades of reform initiatives including coverage expansion, vertical integration and physician partnership models, managed care and payer contracting, horizontal integration and system economies of scale, and quality-based payment, among other reforms we are faced with continued uncertainties.

Join us on Tuesday morning, as one of the country's preeminent thought leaders in the area of health system economics, Ford Koles, Jr., explores market forces healthcare leaders need to understand in order to lead their healthcare organizations.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify key economic trends how they impact the Healthcare supply chain.

2. Analyze the significance of the mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry.

3. Evaluate the future of the healthcare industry including the payor and reimbursement changes expected.

4. Outline effective leadership in a supply chain context and understand future implications if implemented successfully.

About Ford Koles:

Ford is one of Advisory Board’s preeminent thought leaders in the area of health system economics and strategy and is the keynote speaker at the annual meetings for Advisory Board’s strategy membership. Ford is a health care economist by training and has participated in every major Advisory Board research initiative since 1992. He is well-versed in health care history and the many reform initiatives we have lived through in the past three decades: coverage expansion; vertical integration and physician partnership models; managed care and payer contracting; horizontal integration and system economies of scale; and quality-based payment.

Prior to joining Advisory Board, he was a management consultant for the Hay Group and Ernst & Young.