In association with the Leadership Summit on Creating Global Disruptive Business Innovations in Health Care, the WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Global Initiative is welcoming poster submissions from health care innovators who are changing current industry practices. The top submissions will be selected to deliver oral presentations to the conference delegation and receive a recognition award. The conference will be held Oct. 12-13, 2010 in Boston. There is no attendance fee for poster participants. more»

Stakeholders from the hospital and care provider communities are sharing the podium with health insurance and IT system companies at the 8th Annual Health Care Quality Congress in Boston from August 2 through August 4. Over 200 Congress participants are debating the dual impact of government reform, broader technology adoption and “a new generation of payment models and incentives” on healthcare quality, clinical outcomes, and cost-effective delivery of care. more»

The World Congress 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth wrapped up Friday, July 30, with inspiring discussions of mobile health innovation and opportunity—tempered with pragmatic caution about the slow rate of adoption and the multitude of challenges ahead. more»

During a panel session I moderated last week, Parks Associates Director of Mobile & Health Research Harry Wang shared a number of metrics and industry trends with attendees at the second annual World Congress Mobile Health Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. more»

Mobile healthcare technology is delivering decision support right now, but it’s not all for clinicians, according to panelists at the World Congress second annual leadership summit on mHealth in Boston last week. more»

Health-care providers looking to implement a mobile strategy need to understand the strong bond people have with their smartphones, said panelists Friday at the World Congress' Summit on mHealth in Boston. more»

Bringing together experts in wireless health, remote patient monitoring, and consumer health and wellness, the Second Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth kicked off Thursday in Boston with a full day of speakers, workshops, and panel discussions. more»

BOSTON--Most stakeholders agree that the current U.S. model of healthcare is unsustainable, said keynote speaker Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, chief medical and science officer at West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, Calif., during his remarks at the World Congress Second Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth July 29. more»

Most stakeholders agree that the current U.S. model of healthcare is unsustainable, said keynote speaker Joseph Smith, MD, PhD, chief medical and science officer at West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, Calif., during his remarks at the World Congress Second Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth July 29. more»

Asked to describe the core value that Diversinet brings to healthcare providers, senior vice president Jay Couse focuses immediately on the need for innovation in healthcare delivery -- and the difficulty of creating transformational solutions from inside the industry.

According to Couse, “Innovations in mobile health won’t necessarily come from current industry leaders. more»

The World Health Care Congress Affordable Innovations Global Initiative is accepting posters for a number of upcoming events!

Produced by global health care conference organization World Congress, the WHCC Affordable Health Innovations Global Initiative allows you to share your affordable health innovations and programs with a global audience. more»

The World Health Care Congress hosts the 8th Annual Health Care Quality Congress to assemble the key leaders in the industry to discuss the development of strategies for cost containment and reimbursement models. The conference is targeted to executives of health plans and insurance companies, hospitals, health systems and physician groups, directors of human resources, government agencies, research organization, academics and medical attorneys. more»

Diagnostics for All, a Cambridge-based nonprofit seeking to bring First World diagnostic capabilities to Third World health care workers, has received two industry awards. more»

A large part of the conference focused on e-health implementation which could help to improve care and care management, empower patients themselves, and reduce costs. According to one of the speakers during the first e-health session, redundant procedures currently account for 1.5 BN Euros annually, and 128,000 hospitalizations occur due to preventable drug interactions. With electronic medical records much of these costs could be avoided. more»

A couple of weeks ago I attended the World Health Care Congress Europe event in Brussels. The event was organized as a forum for networking and discussion of the different issues and solutions being implemented around the world in the health care arena. With speakers and attendees from around Europe and the world, the presentations were generally engaging, although certain sessions were a bit jam-packed. more»

Steve Rohleder, chief executive of Accenture’s Health & Public Service Operating Group, writes that the US perception of health care delivery has more in common with their international counterparts than one might think. According to a 16-nation, 16,000 person survey, common beliefs about the need for health care access and public engagement in health care spending decisions exist in almost every country. more»

A World Congress summit in Washington, D.C., May 24-25 brought together a dynamic assortment of health IT leaders on the front lines of the battle to engage physicians around electronic health record (HER) adoption. CIOs joined with leaders of independent physician associations and regional extension centers to share their experiences on the summit’s topic: “Leveraging the Stimulus Funding to Accelerate EHR Adoption.” more»