UC Irvine Makes Conference Sessions Available
To Public Free of Charge
Irvine, Calif., June 14, 2002 – The University of California at Irvine Graduate School of Management announces the online posting of videotaped sessions of the 2002 Health Care Forecast Conference.
The eight sessions of “Health Politics and Policies in the Bush Administration,� Feb. 21-22, are posted at www.gsm.uci.edu/go/hccvideo. The individual session videos range from one hour and 15 minutes to one hour and 45 minutes in length. They were taped and posted on the Web by the school’s information technology and instructional resources staff.
Many speakers at the conference commented on the challenges to funding health care programs, among them a federal health care program for seniors and the disabled, prescription drug coverage, the ailing Medicare HMO program, and the baby boomer generation putting the strain on the Medicare budget.
The keynote address is by Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D., resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute. Ornstein raises the possibility that Medicare reform could be further delayed by military expenditures for such campaigns as an attack on Iraq. At that point, all bets on domestic legislation would be off, he says.
In her presentation, Elizabeth J. Fowler, Ph.D., J.D., chief health counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, says that the upcoming midterm elections will affect the willingness of members of Congress to compromise, as they will want to look like winners.
John McManus, Republican staff director of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, says that the legislators should respect the interest of taxpayers in any Medicare legislation, and that health care consumers should pay a larger portion of their health care expenses.
Other sessions cover forecasts on the U.S. economy, health care private sector, federal budget, Medicare and Medicaid, national and California legislative outlooks, impact of biotechnology on health care delivery, and strategic outlook of the health care market.
“This is the first time that an entire conference consisting of speaker video and synchronized Powerpoint presentations are posted on the GSM Web site,� says Margaret Wong, conference organizer and director of the school’s health care management special events. “The online videos show all 28 speakers and moderators. The videos are offered as a public service.�
“These media presentations are breaking new ground for the entire campus,� says Iain Grainger, producer/ director of UCI’s Instructional Technology Center. “This is the first time I know of that the speakers’ Powerpoint presentations are placed within the videos of their full lectures. The videos are stored on servers and are accessible for viewing by anybody, any time, anywhere in the world.�
California HealthCare Foundation, an independent philanthropy committed to improving California’s health care delivery and financing systems, provided funding. Additional support came from Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Toshiba America Medical Systems, and the TriZetto Group, UCI Medical Center and others.
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