
"... 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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Monday April 23, 2007
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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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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7:30 am - 8:00 am
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8:00 am - 12:00 pm
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* To view a tracks agenda, please click on the track title.
Open Forum to All
By-Invitation-Only Summits
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12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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- Quality
- Access
- Cost-Effectiveness
- Transparency
- Chronic Care
- Leadership
- Medicare
- Consumerism
- Health IT
- Benefit Design
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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2:40 pm - 3:40 pm
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| Payer CEO TBA |
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William D. Novelli
CEO, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP); Board of Directors, National Coalition on Health Care
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3:40 pm
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4:20 pm - 5:20 pm
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| Senior Official from Department of Health and Human Services TBA |
| Reactor Panel |
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William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs U.S. Department of Defense; Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC)
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Linda Dillman
EVP, Risk Management, Benefits, and Sustainability (former CIO), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Fortune’s 2006 List of 50 Most Powerful Women

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Brent C. James, MD
Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Health Care

View Biography
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5:15 pm - 6:00 pm
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6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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- Invitational Employer Dinner
- Invitational Payer Dinner
- Invitational Pharma/Biotech Dinner
- Invitational Provider Dinner
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