World Health Care Congress Keynote Videos
The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress featured 16 keynote addresses from health care industry senior leaders, including U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon and Aetna CEO Ronald Williams. Click the links below to watch previews of the addresses and learn how to view the full keynotes.
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf on the health care economy
CBO Director Doug Elmendorf delivers insights on budgetary requirements for health reform in the opening keynote addresses at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress.
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Aetna CEO Williams leads talk on rebuilding health care
How do you rebuild health care? The following keynote presenters at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress share their ideas:
Ronald A. Williams, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Inc;, Board of Directors, AHIP
Dr. Denis Cortese, MD, Director Health Care Delivery and Policy Program; Foundation Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and School of Health Management and Policy, W. P. Carey School of Business; Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic David G. Knott, PhD, Senior Partner, Booz & Company
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Advancing the Consumer's Role in Health
In the keynote address at the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, hear how the consumer can become more engaged in health. Panelists include:
Ben R. Leedle, Jr, President and Chief Executive Officer, Healthways
Dan Buettner, Author, "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest"; Founder, Blue Zones
John Berry, Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Catherine M. Baase, MD, Global Director of Health Services, The Dow Chemical Company
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Harvard's Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen discusses his concept of disruptive innovation and how it can be applied to health care.
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Johnson & Johnson, CIGNA CEOs talk prevention
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon and CIGNA CEO David Cordani discuss efforts to develop new approaches and treatments to improve peoples health and well-being and innovative approaches to prevention and initiatives to improve health status and well-being while decreasing chronic care expenditures.
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Perspectives on Health IT and Cloud Computing
What is "cloud computing" and how can it be used to improve health care technology? Here what the following health care leaders have to say on the matter:
George C. Halvorson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; Board of Directors, AHIP
Alfred Spector, VP of Research and Special Initiatives, Google, Inc.
William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Winkenwerder Company LLC
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addresses the passage of health care reform
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talks about the recent passage of the most sweeping health reform legislation in decades.
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Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Manager Director of Grameen Bank and Grameen Health, leads a keynote discussion on delivering affordable health care across the globe. He is joined by Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., CEO of Abraxis BioScience. Professor Yunus is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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How employers and others are achieving health
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Mehmood Khan, MD, senior vice president and chief scientific officer at PepsiCo; Andrew Webber, president and CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health; Reed Tuckson, executive vice president and chief of medical affairs at UnitedHealth Group and Tom Underwood, CEO of Alere, discuss identifying goals, policy requirements and private sector strategies to improve population health.
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Game Changing Business Models in Health Care
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Nathan Esruth, vice president, FutureWorks at Proctor & Gamble and Roy Schoenberg, MD, president and CEO of American Well Systems, discuss how health care business innovations can improve outcomes, patient experience and quality of life.
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A Systems Approach For Affordability and Health
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Phil Fasano, senior vice president and chief information officer at Kaiser Permanente; Thomas Colacchio, MD, president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO of TriZetto, demonstrate how an integrated, systematic health management approach is the first step in improving the nation's health and wellness.
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The Redesign of High Performance Health Care
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, Gary Gottlieb, MD, President and CEO of Partners Healthcare System and Dijuana Lewis, president and CEO of Wellpoint Comprehensive Health Solutions Business Unit, discuss identifying the transformation required by health care payers and providers to create a high performing and highly reliable care delivery system.
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ObamaCare - From Plan to Action
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Henry Aaron, the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow Economic Studies at Brookings Institution and Gail Wilensky, Senior Fellow at Project Hope, weigh the possibilities and challenges ahead for the implementation of health reform.
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What’s in store for Precision Medicine?
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Jeffrey Kang, chief medical officer at CIGNA; Robert Nesse, MD, president and CEO, Franciscan Skemp Health Care and CEO elect of the Mayo Clinic and Emad Rizk, MD, president, McKesson Health Solutions, discuss the role of precision medicine to dramatically reduce health care costs and change outcomes.
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At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, president and CEO of Geisinger Health System; Mark Eustis, president and CEO of Fairview Health Systems and Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier, discuss strategies to improve quality, satisfaction and efficiency by redesigning and reengineering the delivery of care.
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Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell on the state’s health reform efforts
At the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress, Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell discusses how recent health reform legislation will affect the states.
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