WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Government leaders including the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Assistant to President Bush for Economic Policy, and Administrator of the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will give keynote presentations addressing how to advance our current national health care system on Thursday, November 10, 2005, at the World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress.
The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress, co-sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. This conference is a global forum to present best practices in the implementation of innovative business strategies, policy-making, and technology solutions to better our current health care system. Please visit http://www.whitcongress.com.
* Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be giving a keynote address at 4:45 p.m. In the January 27, 2005 issue of iHealthbeat, Leavitt called IT an “essential economic competitiveness issue, as well as an important health care issue.” * Immediately following Secretary Leavitt’s keynote address, Allan Hubbard, Assistant to President Bush for Economic Policy and Director, National Economic Council, will address a joint session of World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress attendees. * Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Administrator, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, will close the evening out with a 6:00 keynote interview on “Technological Change in Health Care and Its Consequences for Health and Medical Expenditures”.
In addition, thought leaders such as Steve Case, Co-Founder of America Online and Chairman and CEO of Revolution; Janet Woodcock, MD, Acting Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; David Brailer, M.D., Ph.D., National Health Information Technology Coordinator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and John W. Loonsk, MD, Associate Director for Informatics with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will demonstrate successful application of innovation in all its forms, and will provide insight to help resolve issues such as patient safety, clinical quality, access, and margins.
The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress will be held November 9-11, 2005, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress is a global forum to present best practices in the implementation of innovative business strategies, policy-making, and technology solutions to advance the current health care system. The Wall Street Journal is a co-sponsor. Booz Allen Hamilton is the platinum sponsor of the conference.
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World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress
CONTACT: Tracey Fielding of World Health Care Innovation and TechnologyCongress, +1-781-939-2555, t.fielding@worldcongress.com
Web site: http://www.worldcongress.com//
