Trends Shaping the Healthcare Industry in 2016: Healthcare Publisher to Present Annual Strategic Planning Session on November 12, 2015

Sea Girt, NJ, October 29, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) will once again present its annual planning guide to the key issues, challenges and opportunities facing providers and payors in the upcoming year during "Trends Shaping the Healthcare Industry in 2016: A Strategic Planning Session," a November 12, 2015 webinar.

The 60-minute webcast is sponsored by HIN, which inaugurated this yearly healthcare trends forecast in 2004.

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News Facts:

Scheduled Speakers: Steven Valentine, president, The Camden Group, and Paul Keckley, Ph.D., managing director, Navigant.

Conference Focus: Participants in this twelfth annual strategic planning session will receive strategic sector-specific advice, including the following:

* How health plans can accomplish these 2016 goals:

-- Address three convergent opportunities and threats, including the huge regulatory framework, the significant shift in the commercial payor market and existing corridors of growth for plans;

-- Evaluate health insurance exchanges' opportunities and pitfalls, in light of the predicted tipping point in 2016 for exchanges;

-- Position themselves for success in the Medicare Advantage market, with its significant, presumed acceleration;

-- Work to regain the trust of the market;

-- Address the unintended consequence resulting from shifting risk to consumers in the form of higher deductibles, leading to a decrease in consumers seeking preventive care services; and

-- Leverage the key elements that make a successful health plan.

* How healthcare providers can accomplish these 2016 goals:

-- Benefit from changes in healthcare payment methodologies;

-- Address marketplace realities created by consolidation of health plans and what this means for provider-owned health plans;

-- Gear up for growth in Medicare Advantage and dual-eligible markets;

-- Get ahead of the curve on price transparency and quality and outcomes reporting as the rise of consumerism in healthcare continues; and

-- Take advantage of opportunities as the industry gravitates toward population health.

Ample time for Q&A will be provided.

Webinar Formats: 60-minute live webinar on November 12, 2015 at 1:30 pm Eastern, including Q&A; "On-Demand" replay available November 13, 2015; 60-minute training DVD or CD-ROM with printed transcript available December 3, 2015. Participants may add an on-demand replay, DVD or CD to live session registrations to share with colleagues.

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"Anticipating the noise healthcare is expected to generate in a presidential election year as well as the challenges value-based purchasing will continue to present for payors and providers, industry executives would do well to invest in this webinar hour to carefully strategize for 2016 and beyond."
- Melanie Matthews, HIN Executive VP and COO

For Melanie Matthews's profile, visit http://www.hin.com/bios.html#mm

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About the Healthcare Intelligence Network — HIN is the premier advisory service for executives seeking high-quality strategic information on the business of healthcare. For more information, contact the Healthcare Intelligence Network, PO Box 1442, Wall Township, NJ 07719-1442, (888) 446-3530, fax (732) 449-4463, e-mail info@hin.com, or visit http://www.hin.com.