WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --The transition to population health management will require health care leaders to provide four kinds of leadership, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told nearly 300 health care executives and health policy experts on September 16 at The Advisory Board Company's 2013 National Population Health Symposium.

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Leaders must show resiliency, innovation, engagement, and collaboration, breaking down silos that prevent us from making our market more efficient, Senator Daschle said. "What we need now is leadership," he summarized.

Senator Daschle also believes that there is bipartisan agreement that the millions of uninsured citizens and skyrocketing spending must be addressed. "Those who advocate that we do nothing but the status quo are not likely to survive the next several years," he said.

The audience included more than 40 CEOs and more than 100 other C-suite executives from the nation's leading health organizations. The event brought together executives from across the continuum of care, including speakers from hospitals and health systems, physician organizations, post-acute care providers, policymakers, employers, and insurers.

Real-World Guidance on Population Health Management Speakers included Jonathan Blum, Deputy Administrator and Director for the Center of Medicare at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Farzad Mostashari, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Other insights they shared:

More Critical Insights on Population Health More than two dozen other speakers at the inaugural event discussed what works in population health management. Industry leaders and health policy experts shared answers to that question in practical, nuts-and-bolts terms, including:

The Symposium's diversity of speakers and attendees, particularly in including post-acute care providers, is unusual for industry events.

"Bringing together health care industry leaders with health care policy leaders, the Symposium was propelled by the firsthand perspectives and insights of organizations who have enacted different approaches to navigating the transition to population health management," said Chas Roades, Chief Research Officer at The Advisory Board Company, a global research, consulting, and technology firm that works with 4,100 organizations across health care and higher education.

Roades also shared The Advisory Board Company's top insights on population health management at the event, including:

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