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"... the meeting was an excellent opportunity and venue to identify the most important challenges to improving healthcare and to share information that will help transform the future of health care."
— Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
"Hearty congratulations to you for having arranged an excellent programme... This was one of the best healthcare meetings I have ever attended."
— Prathap C. Reddy, MD, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group (India)
"World Health Care Congress brings in provocative speakers who are at the cutting edge… you offer a very unique quality of speakers..."
— Robert Pearl, MD, Executive Director and CEO, The Permanente Medical Group
"I guess this conference is the place to be"
— Pete Stark, (D-CA) U.S. Representative; Ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee
"The World Congress has a well thought out event and manages to get all the right people."
— Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics, Princeton University
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Sunday April 22, 2007
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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World Congress Innovation Working Groups are multi-disciplinary and cross-sector discussion forums to brainstorm on innovations necessary for a range of current industry challenges. A group leader will guide the discussion to generate ideas, debate and develop a consensus around new innovations that deserve further investigation. Leaders from each Innovation Working Group will report findings on Wednesday, April 24 just prior to the first keynote.
- Employer Innovations Group - Benefit Design
- Health Plan Innovations Group - Consumerism
- Provider Innovations Group - Patient-Centered Care
- Provider Interest Group - Medicare Payment
- Topic TBD
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1:05 pm - 1:45 pm
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2:00 pm - 5:15 pm
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* To view a forums agenda, or a summits agenda, please click on the forums or summits title.
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Open Forum To All
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By-Invitation-Only Summits
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
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- Quality
- Access
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Transparency
- Chronic Care
- Leadership
- Medicare
- Consumerism
- Health IT
- Benefit Design
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7:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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- Invitational Dinner on Pay-for-Performance
- Invitational Dinner on Advances in Medicare
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