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The 2nd Annual World Health Care Congress-Latin America
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Day 1

Monday, 29 October, 2012
8:30 -
9:30
Registration and Breakfast
9:30 -
10:30
Ensuring the future sustainability of health systems in Latin America
  • Exploring the changing demographics of the region and their impact on the cost of delivering healthcare
  • Focusing on the base of the pyramid – strategies to improve population health
  • Ensuring growing access to healthcare by managing spiralling costs and keeping care affordable
  • Managing growing longevity its impact on health costs
  • Understanding the role of technology and innovation in improving productivity and reducing cost pressures within health systems
  • Examining a range of global sustainable innovations
Hans Dohmann Hans Dohmann, MD
Municipal Secretary for Health
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gonzalo Vecina Neto Dr. Gonzalo Vecina Neto
CEO
Hospital Sirio-Libanes, Brazil
10:30 -
11:30
Exploring innovative new models of health systems funding and financing
  • Examining the changing funding and reimbursement landscape across Latin America
  • Developing new financial models aimed at ensuring the sustainability of healthcare
  • Building funding systems that can cope with an aging population
  • Exploring the vertical integration of health services and the development of new compensation models for operators and service providers
  • Sharing local and international experience with the development of new performance and outcome based methods of payment
  • Exploring the development of public / private partnership financing of healthcare within the region
Arlindo de Almeida Dr. Arlindo de Almeida
President
ABRAMGE
Marcio Serôa de Araujo Coriolano Marcio Serôa de Araujo Coriolano
President, Bradesco Saúde S/A;
President, FENASAUDE
Leandro Fonseca da Silva Mr. Leandro Fonseca da Silva
Deputy Director
Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS)
11:30 -
12:00
Morning Refreshments and Networking
12:00 -
13:00
Using mobile and connected health care to transform through innovation
  • Understanding the opportunities that mHealth and telehealth present:
    • To reduce the cost of care delivery in developed Western health systems
    • To enable access to quality care in emerging health systems
  • Assessing the scale of the savings available to health systems through the coordinated implementation of remote monitoring for chronic disease
  • Leveraging the power of connected technologies to join up clinical professionals, enable care integration and deliver cost savings across health systems
  • Understanding global health reimbursement landscapes and their evolving approaches to connected health care
Amadeu Castro Amadeu Castro
Director
GSMA Brazil
13:00 -
14:30
Lunch and networking
14:30 -
15:30
Developing World Class Health Care Delivery Systems
  • Improving the efficiency and productivity of health care delivery – lessons from international best practice
  • Improving the quality and safety of health care systems
  • Using technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of care delivery
  • Developing integrated care systems
  • Exploring the development of patient centred care and growth of the patient as a consumer
  • Developing concierged health care facilities to attract high end patients – learning from the hospitality industry
Speaker Photo Unavailable Dr José Marcus Raso Eulálio
Director
Clementino Fraga Filho Hospital, Brazil
Claudio Luiz Lottenberg Claudio Luiz Lottenberg
President
Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital
Gonzalo Vecina Neto Dr. Gonzalo Vecina Neto
CEO
Hospital Sirio-Libanes, Brazil
15:30 -
16:00
Afternoon Refreshments and Networking
16:00 -
17:00
Exploring the developing regional market for bio-similars and generic medicines
  • Exploring whether generic drug discovery presents a better opportunity to multi-national pharmaceutical companies than original drug discovery
  • Developing the evidence required to prove where biosimilars are safely interchangeable with name-brand products
  • Understanding the regulatory differences between novel and generic drug registration
Speaker Photo Unavailable Roberto Araujo
Clinical Research Director
RDO & Professor and Consultant ICTQ, Brazil
17:00 -
18:00
Networking reception