WHAT: Health care experts will convene for a U.S. News and World Report panel examining the ways in which new technologies may both improve health care delivery and reduce costs. As new medical devices and screening technologies flood the market, patient care costs continue to rise " but opportunities to provide better, faster patient care are abundant.
Judd Hollander, MD, Professor and Clinical Research Director in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine, will be among panelists addressing ways to balance these two prongs of health care technology, including how the government and health care industry can create standards for measuring new technologies to ensure quality and innovation while reducing costs.
Hollander, who also serves as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, has conducted extensive research on emergency room crowding and best practices in emergency care for patients with chest pain, traumatic injury, pneumonia and other acute problems.
Other panelists will include Hala Moddelmog, President and CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure; Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office; Kerry Weems, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
WHEN:Wednesday, April 16, 20088:30 " 10:00 a.m. (continental breakfast will be served at 8 a.m.)
The panel discussion will include a Q&A session with the media. Hollander will also be available for one-on-one interviews with the press following the discussion.
WHERE:The National Press Club529 14th Street, N.W.13th Floor (Holeman Lounge)Washington, D.C. 20045
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