Are medical schemes ensuring that they are achieving quality health outcomes for their members and thereby playing a role in contributing to national health policy's goal - Health for All?
The Council for Medical Schemes has started the journey in determining how to measure quality health outcomes - easier said than done. Join in the debate!
Date: 17 February 2012
Time: 10:0 for 10:30to 12:30
Title: Medical Scheme's Specific Health Quality and Outcomes Measurement Speaker: Thulani Matsebula, Council for Medical Schemes
Title: Quality in healthcare: achieving population health, enhanced patient experience and affordability. Speaker: Dr Gary Kantor, Discovery Health
Title: Designing a health system for improved health outcomes – opportunities for improving the system and constraints that need to be overcome Speaker: Dr Andrew Good, Lifechoice
Thulani Matsebula is a health economist with close to 20 years experience working on health systems issues. In this capacity he has worked for various institutions in Government, academia and the private sector. Thulani has worked closely on economic evaluation techniques of health care interventions including new medicines. He is the current head of Research and Monitoring at the Council for Medical Schemes. In this capacity, Thulani has worked on cost-containment measures, managed health care and governance among other functions.
Andrew Good is one of South Africa’s leading managed care experts. He has overseen the delivery of managed care to some of South Africa’s largest and best-known restricted schemes. Andrew’s clinical background, analytical ability, industry insight and practical approach are invaluable in optimising healthcare strategy. Andrew has implemented and managed a broad spectrum of managed care programmes, including Disease Risk Management and HIV programmes for an array of different clients. Andrew firmly believes that the abundance of clinical data, improved technology and system connectivity will radically change the way clinical risk is managed and member health improved. This will result in the managed care landscape changing considerably over the next few years.
Venue: Atlantic Imbizo
Cost: R500.00 excl VAT
