Another busy day at the conference, as you’ll see in our expanding photo gallery, as well as here on the blog. Among the posts from Monday:

Michel Porter talk and reactor panel

The full video for Michel Porter’s remarks, as well as those of Ronald Williams of Aetna and George Halvorson of Kaiser Permanente, is now online. (Please be patient on the loading of the video - it’s a large file.)

Interview/Podcast with Steven Burd, Safeway 

Matthew Holt interviews Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway in a discussion of the role of employers in health care in the future, and what the next year in health care politics would bring.

Safeway’s Steven Burd’s “very solvable” problem 

David Williams weighs in on Burd’s remarks.

Unintended consequences of quality measurement and incentives

Emily DeVoto shares her notes and opinions on a session chaired by Thomas Valuck, MD, JD, Director, Special Program Office for Value-Based Purchasing, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Panelists included Brent James, Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, Intermountain Health Care; and Tom Sackville, Chief Executive, International Federation of Health Plans and former British Minister of Health.

Interview/Podcast with Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealthGroup

An interview with Reed Tuckson, Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs at United HealthGroup, in which he shares his views on the future of expanding coverage, changing the market, and the politics of health care.

Employer Demands for Health IT

David comments on a panel discussion between former Michigan Governor John Engler (now CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers), Applied Materials’ Global Compensation and Benefits head Bob Hartley, and NCR’s Matt Quinn. They “did an admirable job of describing why employers should take a role in encouraging the adoption of health care IT as part of today’s Employer CEO/CFO Summit track.”

Transparency on health care quality and costs: are they connected?

Emily reports on the David Gergen-led panel discussion on transparency and the quality of health care. The panelists: Peter Lee, President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health and Mike Straube, CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Standards & Quality.