Emily Friedman

Emily Friedman: Program Outlines

Suggested topics:

Healthcare Management

• Rebuilding the Cambodian health care system
• Lessons from health care systems around the globe
• Health care rationing: horror or hope?
• Physician well-being: taking care of the caregivers so they can take care of patients
• Working together to improve community health: breaking down the barriers
• Comparative effectiveness: model, metaphor, or muddle?
• What is leadership in health care?
• Lessons from the past: what health care history teaches us about policy
• Hospitals under fire: tax status, community benefit, and the uninsured
• Skyrocketing health care costs: causes and consequences
• Wild cards: dealing with the unexpected in health care

Healthcare Future

• Changing the health care landscape: what we know, what we don't know, and what no one knows
• Health policy: what it is, how it works (and doesn't), and what providers can do to influence it
• Coverage and access in an era of change
• The politics and ethics of health care reform
• Forces reshaping health care in the 21st century
• Medicaid: past, present, and future
• The aging of America and the future of Medicare
• Leadership, change, and the profession of medicine
• The future of coverage and access for children
• Is the future bright for women in health care leadership?
• The future of public and private health coverage
• Demographic change: implications for health care and the health professions

Healthcare - Ethics

• The ethical responsibilities of the health care professional
• The ethics of technology: choices and challenges
• The new push for quality improvement: do we mean it this time?
• Ethics challenges and opportunities for trustees
• Ethics issues for health care leaders and organizations
• Health care and conscience: does mission matter?
• Ethics for professionals in aging services
• The ethics crisis in health care and what to do about it
• Ethics issues in women's health care
• The end of life: Ethics, policy, and politics

Healthcare - Quality of Care

• Challenges to improving outcomes of care and health status
• "Consumer-directed" health care and its implications
• The challenge of the nursing shortage and other work force needs