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“There are tremendous benefits to our society if we apply openness to health care. A major drawback of our current system is that information is not shared in a prompt way and we do not take advantage of contributions that researchers, medical professionals, and patients can make. This leads, for example, to a tremendous time lag between scientific medical advances and when they are generally used by medical professionals.” Dr. Paul Horn, Chair, Digital Connections Council, Committee for Economic Development (CED) and former Senior Vice President, Research, IBM Corporation

As stated in the CED’s recent report Harnessing Openness to Transform American Healthcare, bringing greater openness in different parts of the healthcare production chain can lead to substantial benefits by facilitating collaboration, speeding research, stimulating innovation, lowering costs, reducing errors, and closing the gap between discovery and treatment delivery. The World Congress Leadership Summit on Transforming Healthcare through Open Source Innovation will bring together members from the open source/open standard communities, providers, payers and policy and academic thought leaders to explore how openness is being or may be usefully employed throughout the healthcare arena and to analyze openness through various health segments.