19:00 – 21:00
Welcome Reception
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:45
Opening Session
Chair: Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef
Video
Chairman, Board of Directors & Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization, Israel

Mr. Nir Barkat   Video Mayor of Jerusalem, Israel

Mr. Yaakov Litzman   Video Deputy Minister of Health, Israel

Dr. Nata Menabde   Video WHO Regional Office for Europe

Prof. Avi Israeli   Video Co–Chair of the conference
The Hadassah–University Medical Center, Israel
Responsibility and Accountability – talk is cheap...

Prof. Stephen Shortell   Video Co–Chair of the conference
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Meeting the Challenge of Chronic Illness: Policy and Evidence On Integrated Care

10:45– 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:30
Plenary Session – Group A

Public Accountability / Governance & Stewardship

Chair: Prof. Jonathan Halevy Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Gabi Barbash   Video Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Government Accountability or Health Care Leaders' Responsibility

Prof. Richard Saltman   Video Emory University, Atlanta, USA
Context, Culture, and the Practical Limits of Health Sector Accountability

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel   Video National Institutes of Health, USA

Dr. Josep Figueras   Video European Observatory & WHO European Centre, Belgium
Strengthening health governance: and old “new” paradigm. What is next?

Dr. Siegal Sadetzki   Video The Gertner Institute, Israel
Responsibility and accountability in diagnostic and preventive medicine - are we doing too much or too little?

13:30 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00
Parallel Session 1

Group A
Public Accountability –
Quality Assurance: From Technical Science to Stakeholders Politics
Chair: Prof. Avi Porath Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel

Prof. Paulo Moreira   Video Health communication in the EU: A survey on Citizen Information needs, Sweden

Mr. Dan Peretianu   Video Health status is depending on corruption, Romania

Dr. Fausto Felli   Video Redefine Budgets for Local Health Authorities to Produce Health on A Large Scale, Italy

Ms. Edna Bar–Ratson   Video Accreditation in three Clalit acute care hospitals: promise, performance, and lessons
learned, Israel

Prof. Elisheva Simchen   PPT Ministry of Health, Israel
Introducing Quality Indicators for hospitals in Israel (QUIP Israel): Setting the Israeli
standards for accountability, also for transparency?, Israel

Dr. Paula Feder–Bubis  PPT The voice of the Israeli provider in the face of the accountability and transparency
challenge (QUIP Israel), Israel

Group B
Social Support –
Making the Health System Fit the People, or Vice Versa?
Chair: Prof. Tamar Shohat Israel Center for Disease Control, Israel

Dr. Diane Levin Zamir   PPT Cross–Cultural Action for Promoting Health among Ethiopian Immigrants in Primary,
Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Settings, Israel

Dr. Nihaya Daoud   Video First visit to the MCH and the Health Beliefs Model (HBM) among Bedouin mothers in the
Negev, Israel

Dr. Orna Baron–Epel   Video Differences in the association between social support, mental health and visits to
physicians in a multicultural population in Israel, Israel

Ms. Anissa Afrite   Video Assessment of asthma control and its socioeconomic determinants, France

Dr. Pawel Zagozdzon   Video Spatial differentiation of mortality among unemployed subjects in Poland, Poland

Prof. Terje P. Hagen   Video Is place all that matters? Inequalities in the use of PCI following AMI in Norway, Norway

Ms. Barbara Rabin   PPT A Hospital Experience in Cultural Competence, Israel

Group C
Personal Responsibility –
Enhancing Personal Responsibility
Chair: Prof. Leon Gordis Tel Aviv University, Israel

Prof. Rosalind Raine   Video University College London, UK
Tracking the Inverse Care Law in the U.K.

Prof. Daniel Wikler   Video Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Should Personal Responsibility Remain a Peripheral Consideration in Health Policy?

Prof. Elliot Berry   Video Hadassah University Hospital, Israel
The Positive Deviance Approach Enhancing Personal Responsibility in Lifestyle
Interventions for Diabesity.

Group D
Performance Management –
Management of Physicians' and Nurses' performance
Chair: Dr. Eyran Halpern Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Yaffa Machnes  Video Bar–Ilan University, Israel
The demand for pharmaceuticals by Israeli managed care organizations

Ms. Maria Trottmann   Video PDF Physician prescription behavior – Do financial incentives affect choice?, Switzerland

Dr. Jacob Urkin   Video Failure to comply with the standards of treatment of acute pharyngitis, Israel

Prof. Talma Kushnir   Video Communicating with patients, prescribing medications and referring to tests and
specialists: Associations with physician burnout and moods, Israel

Dr. Natan Kahan   Video Off–Label Prescribing of Tamoxifen in Israel: Is it Evidence Based?, Israel

Dr. Chaya Balik   Video Clinical Decision–Making in Nursing Based on Sound Evidence, Israel

Dr. Itzhak Katzir   PPT Promoting and Implementing The Use of Generic Substitutions, Israel

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00
Parallel Session 2

Group A
Public Accountability –
Hazards and Special Needs
Chair: Prof. Asher Or Noy Hadassah Medical School & Ministry of Health, Israel

Prof. Richard Scheffler   PPT University of California, Berkeley, USA
ADHD and accountability: the responsibilities of the government, the health care providers,
patients and their families

Ms. Yael Steinberg   PPT Organization of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder treatment in Israel, Israel

Ms. Liri Endy–Findling   PPT Child Safety Report Card: Israel's Child Safety Policy Performance, Israel

Ms. Orly Tamir   PPT The Dilemma over Reimbursement of Orphan Drugs – Accountability and Affordability
Hand in Hand?, Israel

Dr. Paul Kadetz   PDF Determining Sustainable Global Health Policies: an analysis of the World Health
Organization's policy for the integration of local healthcare practices and practitioners into
state biomedical healthcare systems in the Philippines, UK

Dr. Yaakov Rosenfeld   PPT World Record in IVF Cycles? Who is Counting? And How?, Israel

Dr. Daniel Sperling Attitudes and Policies Regarding Access to Assisted Reproductive Technology in Israel,
Israel

Group B
Social Support –
Who is Responsible for Caring?
Chair: Dr. Ehud Kokia Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel

Dr. Zohar Nir   PPT The Role of Social Support in Quality of Life of Stroke Survivor’s Caregiver, (A longitudinal
study), Israel

Dr. Dorit Rubinstein   PPT Cultural Differences in Nurses' Health Behaviors, Israel

Prof. Ruth Landau   PPT Ethics of decision making for people with dementia: The case of GPS, Israel

Dr. Laure Com–Ruelle   PPT The place of Hospital at Home in French health care system, France

Mr. Paul Dourgnon   PPT Patient – physician interaction and equity in health: the role of primary care, France

Dr. Dena Jaffe   PPT Social Capital and Pediatric Injuries, Israel

Group C
Personal Responsibility –
Ethical Issues of Personal Responsibility
Chair: Prof. Hava Tabenkin Haemek Medical Center, Israel

Dr. Gil Siegal   PPT Ono Academic College, University of Virginia, The Gertner Institute, Israel
Personal Responsibility to Healthy Behavior – Between Perceived Freedom, Autonomy,
and Paternalistic Interventions


Dr. Baruch Velan   PPT Israel Institute for Biological Research, Israel
Personal Responsibility and State Responsibility in Vaccination – A Two Way Road

Dr. Arnon Afek   PPT Personal Responsibility – Is it an ethical measure?, Israel

Group D
Performance Management –
Managing Performance in Managed Care Organizations I
Chair: Prof. Gur Ofer The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Harold Luft   PPT University of California, San Francisco, USA
Data and methods for delivery system reform: harnessing collective intelligence to learn
from positive deviance
Dr. Maureen Lewis   PPT The World Bank, USA
Institutions and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Raising Performance in Developing and Transition Countries
Dr. Konstantin Beck   PPT Do Managed Care plans improve efficiency? Evidence from Switzerland, Switzerland

Dr. Bruce Rosen   PPT What have health plans managers and professionals done to turn quality measures into
quality improvement?, Israel

Dr. Esti Engelchin–Nissan   PPT Implementing the ‘Distance Variable’ in the Israeli Capitation Formula, Israel

Dr. Efrat Shadmi   PPT Predictive Models to Identify High–Risk Older Patients, Israel

Dr. Arnon Cohen   PPT The Effect of Introduction of Pneumococcal Vaccination as a Quality Measure in
Clalit Health Services on Vaccination Rates, Israel

09:00 – 11:00
Plenary Session – Group B

Social Support

Chair: Prof. Eran Leitersdorf   VIDEO The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. David Chinitz   Video The Hebrew University–Hadassah, Israel
Legends of Health Policy and Management

Prof. Martin McKee   Video London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Solidarity in a changing world

Prof. Margaret Whitehead   Video University of Liverpool, UK
Discussant

Dr. Eric Brunner   Video University College London, UK
Discussant

Prof. Lawrence Brown   VIDEO Columbia University, USA
Discussant

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30
Plenary Session – Group C

Personal Responsibility


Chair: Prof. Rosalind Raine University College London, UK

Prof. Mordechai Shani   Video The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Israel
An Introduction to the Issue of Personal Responsibility

Mr. Harald Schmidt   Video Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Personal responsibility for health: time for a nuanced approach

Prof. Regina Herzlinger   Video Harvard Business School, USA
The Consumer-Driven Health Care Cure

Dr. Joseph Betancourt   Video Harvard Medical School, USA
Responsibility versus Responsible Options: Compliance Meets Public Health in U.S.

13:30 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00
Parallel Session 3

Group A
Public Accountability –
Managing the Workforce in a Changing World
Chair: Dr. Bishara Bisharat Nazareth Hospital, Israel

Prof. Richard Scheffler   PPT University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Global Shortage of Health Workers

Dr. Yeheskel Levy   PPT Ministry of Health, Israel
Coping with changes in medical manpower in Israel

Ms. Nora Gottlieb   VIDEO Health Rights in an Age of Global Mobility – Migrant Workers' Health Care in Israel, Israel

Mr. Eithan Brodsky   PPT Advanced / Specialist Nursing Practice: Attitudes of Nurses and Physicians in Israel, Israel
Ms. Nurit Nirel   PPT Registered Nurses in Israel: Workforce Supply – Patterns and Trends, Israel

Ms. Ziona Haklai   VIDEO Female Physicians: Trends and Impact on Healthcare, Israel
Prof. Miriam Hirschfeld   VIDEO Globalization, migration, human resources and long term care policies, Israel
Group B
Social Support –
Health Inequalities: From Rhetoric to Real Action
Chair: Prof. Leon Epstein   VIDEO The Hebrew University–Hadassah , Israel
Health Inequalities: the State of the Art and Beyond

Prof. Margaret Whitehead   VIDEO University of Liverpool, UK
Health Inequalities: Who is Responsible, Who is Accountable?

Dr. Ran Balicer   PPT Clalit Health Services, Israel
Clalit's Strategy for Health Disparities Reduction: The Vision and Its Implementation

Dr. Rachel Wilf–Miron   VIDEO   PDF Maccabi Healthcare Services, Israel
From measurement to comprehensive policy: The Maccabi Healthcare Services action plan to increase equity

Group C
Personal Responsibility –
Personal Responsibility in the Clinic
Chair: Prof. Haim Bitterman Clalit Health Services, Israel

Dr. Gene Bishop   VIDEO Pennsylvania Hospital, USA
Supporting behavior change: whose responsibility?

Dr. Asaf Caspi   VIDEO Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
The Personal Responsibility of the Psychiatric Patient

Ms. Leah Wapner   VIDEO Israel Medical Association, Israel
Patient Empowerment as a Tool to Strengthen the Relationship Between the Physician and
His Patients

Group D
Performance Management –
Managing Performance in Managed Care Organizations II
Chair: Prof. Gabi Bin Nun Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Prof. Stephen Birch   VIDEO McMaster University, Canada
Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Impact of Alternative Approaches to Qualityof–
Life Adjustment on Cost–Effectiveness Analysis

Dr. Dan Greenberg   VIDEO Ben–Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Is an intervention cost–effective? It depends on whom you ask

Dr. Manuel García–Goñi   VIDEO Risk adjustment and provider payment systems: complementarities and matching, Spain

Mr. Michel Naiditch   VIDEO The preferred doctor scheme: design, implementation and outcomes of a French Managed
Care reform, France

Dr. Francesco Paolucci   VIDEO Subsidizing Private Health Insurance: Why, How and How to Proceed?, Australia

Special Session
I. The Quest for a “Responsible” Budget Holder and Purchaser
Chair: Dr. Moshe Leshno Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Alexander Preker The World Bank, USA
The Purchaser- Provider Split

Prof. Jeff Richardson   VIDEO Monash University Australia, Australia
The Form of Governance in Australia: the Contradictory Recommendations of the 2009 Review

II. Accountability to Whom: Tax-payers, Private Payers, Patients?
Chair: Dr. Alexander
Preker
The World Bank, USA


Dr. Ronald Donato   VIDEO University of South Australia, Australia
The Single Payer – Single Purchaser Enigma

Prof. Leonie Segal   PPT University of South Australia, Australia
Strengths and limitations of competitive versus non-competitive models of integrated capitated fundholding

Prof. Dov Chernichovsky Ben–Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Regulated Private Health Care Finance

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00
Parallel Session 4

Group A
Public Accountability –
From Regulation to Stewardship
Chair: Dr. Asher Elhayany Wolfson Medical Center, Israel

Prof. David Levi-Faur   VIDEO The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Regulatory Revolution by Stealth

Dr. Asher Elhayany   PPT The Lotus Project – Eliminating Co–Payments, Israel

Dr. Guy I. Seidman   PPT Why isn’t the Israeli Supreme Court Interested in Healthcare?, Israel

Prof. Gregory P.
Marchildon & Prof.
Wallace Lockhart   VIDEO   PDF
Public Stewardship, Managerial Competence and Regionalization in Canada, Canada

Dr. Lisa Rubin   VIDEO Breastfeeding Knowledge, Attitudes & Supportive Behavior Among Nurses Working in
Tipat Halav Clinics, Israel

Dr. Doron Garfinkel Passing the buck – who is responsible for the war on polypharmacy? Rethinking and reevaluation needed for each and every drug in the elderly
Using the Good–Palliative–Geriatric–Practice (GPGP)

Group B
Social Support –
Priorities: Who Decides Who Gets What, When, How, and Why?
Chair: Dr. Chen Shapira Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel

Dr. Eric Brunner   VIDEO University College London, UK
Towards a working definition of morality in public health

Dr. Nurit Guttman   PPT Tel Aviv University, Israel
Beyond Information: Developing Culturally–Centered Narrative Formats for Ethiopian
Immigrants on the Realization of Health Rights

Mr. Giora Kaplan   VIDEO The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, Israel
Decision–makers' acquaintance with the public’s priorities among various components of
health services

Dr. Yeela Raanan   VIDEO Denial of Access to Electricity and its Effect on Public health, Israel

Prof. Mayer Brezis   PPT Expert Bias Facilitates Adoption of New Fertility Technology, Israel

Ms. Pamela Horowitz   VIDEO The Dilemma of Statistical Precision vs the Precautionary Principle in Small Areas, Israel

Dr. Elliot Rosenberg "Healthy Israel 2020": Development of a Prioritization Model to Rank Health Objectives and Interventions-Lessons Learned from the Geriatric Health Committee, Israel

Group C
Personal Responsibility –
Patient Empowerment
Chair: Prof. Joshua Shemer Assuta Medical Centers, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Mr. Harald Schmidt  VIDEO Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Incentives, sticks and carrots: some thoughts for policy makers

Dr. Mort Soroka   VIDEO   PDF Glaucoma Among Patients Enrolled in a National Vision Care Plan. Knowledge of the
Disease, Family History, and Medication Use, USA

Ms. Anat Amit Aharon   PPT Analyzed Reasons to Uncompleted Routine Vaccinations in Well Baby Clinic (“Tipat
Chalav”) of Tel–Aviv–Yafo Municipality, Israel

Prof. Lisa Benz Scott   VIDEO Improving Cardiac Health and Health Care: Interventions and Policies Targeting Patient
Responsibility, Social Support, and Provider Performance to Promote Outpatient Cardiac
Rehabilitation Utilization, USA

Ms. Davida Zigelman–Uzan   PPT Personal Responsibility for Health, Israel

Ms. Malke Borow   VIDEO Patient empowerment– where does the physician's responsibility end and the patient's
begin?, Israel

Prof. Varda Soskolne   VIDEO Family Support in Facilitating Adherence to Diabetes Self–Care and Metabolic Control,
Israel

Group D
Performance Management –
Managing Performance in Hospitals I
Chair: Prof. Joseph Pliskin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Ms. Michal Kranzler   PPT Quality control assessment in OR, Israel
Dr. Jacob Dreiher   VIDEO A Four – Year Project for Implementing Hospital Quality Indicators in Israel, Israel
Dr. Yaniv Sherer   VIDEO Overall treatment–time reduction following opening of an emergency room for walking
patients in a tertiary hospital, Israel
Mr. Ofir Ben Assuli   PDF The Impact of Medical Information on Admission Decisions in ED, Israel
Prof. Sara Singer   VIDEO Hospital Governance and Financial Performance in US Safety–Net Hospitals, USA
18:30 – 22:30
Cocktail & Gala Dinner

Prof. Menahem Ben–Sasson   VIDEO
President, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Chair: Prof. Chaim Doron
0900 – 11:00
Plenary Session – Group D

Performance Management

Chair: Prof. Amir Shmueli   VIDEO The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Alan Garber   Video Stanford University, USA
The future prospects of comparative effectiveness research

Dr. Stephen Birch   Video McMaster University, Canada
The inconvenient truth of economic evaluation: Benefits forgone as a determinant of
efficiency and implications for decision–making

Prof. Harold Luft   Video University of California, San Francisco, USA
Aligning Incentives to Achieve the Performance One Cannot (Micro) Manage

Prof. Alan Maynard   Video University of York, UK
Pay for Performance (P4P): proceed with care

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:30
Parallel Session 5


Group A
Public Accountability –
Epidemics and Emergencies – Managing the Unexpected
Chair: Dr. Ran Balicer Clalit Health Services, Israel

Dr. Nachman Ash  PPT Medical Corps, IDF
The role of the IDF Medical Corps in Emergency

Dr. Itamar Grotto   PPT Ministry of Health, Israel
Government responsibilities during an influenza pandemic

Dr. Orna Ben–Natan   PPT National–Level Organizational Model for Coping with an Epidemic Outbreak, Israel

Dr. Bruria Adini   PPT Civilian staying power in the decision–making process during national emergencies, Israel

Ms. Adi Agiv   PPT Performance management of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) – an evaluation of
Madrid EMS conduct based on Israeli EMS protocols, Israel

Group B
Social Support –
Social Support in the Morass of Bureaucracy and Market
Chair: Prof. Orly Manor The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Lawrence Brown Columbia University, USA
Lifestyle: Between Public Bureaucracy and Private Interests

Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein   PPT The Role of a Local / Regional Initiative in Health Policy, USA

Prof. Alberto Holly   PDF Informal Care and Formal Home Care Use in Europe and the United States, Switzerland

Ms. Naama Ron   PPT Physician peer groups: A new methodology for improving the quality of care, Israel

Dr. Becca Feldman   PPT A Socio–Ecological Analysis of Ethiopian Immigrants' Interactions with the Israeli
Healthcare System and its Policy and Service Implications, Israel

Group C
Personal Responsibility –
The Never-Ending Dilemma
Chair: Dr. Boaz Lev Ministry of Health, Israel

Dr. Eytan Hay–Am   PPT Ministry of Health, Israel
The Change of Personal Responsibility in the Kibbutzim

Dr. Carla Saenz   PPT How Much Should People Pay for Health Care? The Reasonable Trade–off Account of
Affordability, USA

Dr. Yael Applbaum   PPT Who is Accountable? The Never–ending “Perpetuum”, Israel

Dr. Stephen T. Parente   PPT Health Savings Accounts: Are Wealth and Health Portfolio Choices Joint and Rational?, USA

Panel of Knesset Members –
Legislators' View on Personal Accountability
Dr. Rachel Adato, MK Kadima

Group D
Performance Management –
Managing Performance in Hospitals II
Chair: Prof. Zeev Rotstein Sheba Medical Center, Israel

Prof. Laurence Freedman   PPT Statistical methods and their application to routine administrative data and data from QUIP
Israel, Israel

Dr. Paul W. Armstrong Two answers, one question: do the two most commonly used methods of sampling
correctly describe the length of the prospective wait for admission to hospital?, UK

Prof. Eitan Naveh   PPT Resident physicians’ medical errors: Active Learning – When more is better?, Israel

Ms. Osnat Bashkin   PPT Potential Adverse Events in Radiology: Human Factors for Healthcare systems, Israel

Dr. Ygal Plakht   PPT Performance of Reperfusion Interventions after Acute Myocardial Infarction and Their
Impact on One–year Mortality in Different Risk Groups of Patients: Decision Making
Implications, Israel

Ms. Shoshanna Mischari   PPT Safety and Risk Management through Event Debriefing Lead by Nurses: 2006–2008, Israel

13:30 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 17:00
Closing Session
Chair: Prof. Avi Israeli   Video
Prof. Stephen Shortell
Concluding Remarks:


What Lessons Can we Take Away?

Dr. Bruce Rosen


Awards for Outstanding Posters


Panel: From Crises to Growth

Chair: Prof. Dov
Chernichovsky   Video
Ben–Gurion University of the Negev, Israel


Prof. Avishay Braverman, MK
Video
Minister of Minority Affairs, Israel

Prof. Alan Maynard   Video University of York, UK

Dr. Alexander Preker   Video The World Bank, USA

 

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