Newswise — With the most sweeping changes to national health care policy now law, the 7th World Health Care Congress will feature the first post-reform gathering of the nation’s top health care executives from all industry sectors.
The three-day summit of 1,800 senior leaders will include:
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesGovernor Edward Rendell, PennsylvaniaWilliam C. Weldon, chairman and CEO, Johnson & JohnsonRon Williams, CEO, AetnaDavid M. Cordani, president and CEO, CIGNA CorporationDouglas W. Elmendorf, director, Congressional Budget OfficeClayton Christensen, Harvard Business School George Halvorson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and HospitalsProfessor Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank and Grameen Health
WHAT: The 7th Annual World Health Care CongressWHEN: Monday, April 12-14, 2010WHERE: Washington, D.C, (The Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, Md.)
In addition to special summits for Providers, Health Plans, Health IT and Interoperability, Pharma & Biotech, and Government, the conference will feature a special exhibit on Affordable Health Innovations from around the globe. Innovations include a low-cost diagnostic tool that puts the power of a lab into a postage stamp-sized piece of paper, a video game that helps youths with cancer better fight the disease and a Brazilian company that is helping the hearing impaired to hear through solar-powered hearing aids that cost just a fraction of what regular hearing aids do. Fifty presentations will be on display.
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About the 7th Annual World Health Care CongressThe 7th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2010 conference will convene more than 1,800 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agency policy makers.
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