The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress

Sponsors

Presidential Sponsor

Alere

By actively integrating diagnostics and health management solutions, Alere gives individuals the tools they need to make more informed healthcare choices and delivers connected health. We offer the industry's most complete range of Wellness, Disease Management, Case Management, Collaborative Care and Women's & Children's Health solutions. Alere provides services that are designed for the entire lifespan from pre-cradle (high-risk pregnancy and NICU management), the continuum of health from wellness to prevention (health and productivity programs), chronic care (disease management) to end-of-life care (complex case management). Visit www.alere.com.

Official Well-Being Sponsor

Healthways is a global provider of science-based solutions that improve well-being, enhance business and human performance and reduce overall healthcare costs. Our solutions are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression to disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. We provide highly specific and personalized interventions to millions of people domestically and internationally, surrounding them with tailored support when they are at home, at work, seeking medical care or pursuing health improvement. www.healthways.com

Official Healthcare Decisions Sponsor

Health Dialog (Without Tag)

Health Dialog is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support. The firm is a private, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa, a global provider of healthcare services. Health Dialog helps healthcare payors improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. Company offerings include health coaching for medical decisions, chronic conditions, and wellness; population analytic solutions; and consulting services. Health Dialog helps individuals participate in their own healthcare decisions, develop more effective relationships with their physicians, and live healthier, happier lives. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.com.

Official Innovation Series Sponsor

UnitedHealth Group is a leading health care company, serving more than 75 million people worldwide. Our family of companies touches nearly every aspect of health care, helping people live healthier lives. As a leader in the health benefits and services industry, our six businesses - UnitedHealthcare, Ovations, AmeriChoice, OptumHealth, Ingenix, and Prescription Solutions - offer exceptional service, broad capabilities and enduring value in creating a modern health care system. Our products and services empower individuals, expand consumer choice and strengthen patient-provider relationships across the health care spectrum. www.unitedhealthgroup.com

Access MediQuip is the nation's first, largest and most experienced innovator of implant surgery management solutions, with an extensive national network of surgical facilities, device manufacturers, and health care payers. We leverage our 10+ years of experience, utilization data and an innovative technology platform to help payers predict and realize savings, improve transparency and manage the cost trend of implant surgeries. The company is headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. For more information, please visit www.accessmediquip.com.

Accretive Health

Accretive Health is a leading provider of services to healthcare providers. Our distinctive model delivered through our people, processes and sophisticated integrated technology, helps U.S. hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers efficiently manage their revenue cycle operations and population-based health management. Accretive PAS® offers a comprehensive physician advisory solution for complex patient classification delivered by licensed physicians, payer compliance and revenue preservation. www.accretivehealth.com

Building on our 150-year history, Aetna remains a leader and pioneer in health management and insurance solutions. We've become known for our dedication to partnering with patients, doctors, employers and government officials, to build a stronger, more effective healthcare system. And this is just the beginning. www.aetna.com or www.aetna-uk.co.uk.

Alcatel-Lucent "Connected Hospital" solution provides better patient experiences, improved caregiver efficiency, enhanced "always on" healthcare systems and drives seamless hospital automation. These capabilities are pivotal to hospitals' and care delivery organizations' efforts to continually improve the timely and cost-effective delivery of quality care. Alcatel-Lucent has proven experience in cross-institutional elderly care projects, as well as in innovative and promising tele-care platforms, enabling real-time knowledge sharing and rapid access to potentially life - saving information - anytime, anywhere.

For more information about Alcatel-Lucent, visit: www.alcatel-lucent.com/healthcare

Allscripts provides innovative solutions that empower all stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to deliver world-class outcomes. The company's clinical, financial, connectivity and information solutions for hospitals, physicians and post-acute organizations are the essential technologies that enable a connected community of health. To learn more about Allscripts, please visit www.allscripts.com

American Well

American Well™ has created an Online Care platform that allows consumers to connect with physicians immediately, whenever they have a health need -- from their home or office. Online Care utilizes Web-based technologies and telephony to remove traditional barriers to healthcare access, including geography, mobility, time constraints, and insurance coverage.

Booz & Company (www.booz.com) is a leading global consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments, and organizations. With broad health care industry expertise and more than 3,300 people in 61 offices around the world, we work closely with our clients to create and deliver essential advantage.

CareLogistics combines workflow process re-engineering with real-time logistics software technology to coordinate and integrate all the clinical and non-clinical patient movements occurring in a hospital environment to achieve optimal patient flow. The end result is an increase in total hospital efficiency that significantly reduces patients' average length of stay, increases revenues, improves quality, and adds immediate patient capacity.

Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. redefines the standard of care in immunology, nephrology, and oncology. The company was formed when Centocor, Inc. and Ortho Biotech Inc. were consolidated in late 2008. Today, Centocor Ortho Biotech transforms new ideas into novel treatments, providing physicians and their patients with important new therapeutic options.

As a worldwide leader in networking, Cisco is well positioned to improve the future of healthcare through networked technologies that transform how people connect, access information, and collaborate. Cisco technologies can benefit all stakeholders, from patients to hospitals, payers, and life sciences organizations. Cisco Connected Health solutions enable care team collaboration, business efficiency and drive a higher quality of care. www.cisco.com

Companion Data Services is your premier source for data center hosting, specializing in health care, with the stability, security and capacity you demand and the experience you can trust. Our data centers rank among the top two percent of IBM data centers in the world. Our relationships range from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. For more information, visit www.CompanionDataServices.com.

Eliza Corporation Eliza Corporation is the leader in innovative, effective healthcare communications. Our integrated, multimedia programs - powered by our patented phone-based speech recognition technology, proven communication methodologies, and sophisticated data analytics - drive healthier behavior and yield financial savings. Clients include leading health plans, DM companies, PBMs, pharmaceutical companies, and employers. www.elizacorp.com

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems. Our "healthymagination" vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com. For our latest news, please visit newsroom.gehealthcare.com

HealthHub

PayFlex® is leading the way in technology and innovation in account-based benefits administration. HealthHub®, powered by PayFlex®, provides solutions that educate, engage and empower employees to improve their health and financial wellbeing. Incentive-based wellness programs integrated with account-based health administration sets PayFlex® apart in the consumer-directed marketplace.

Healthstat (www.healthstatinc.com) is a leading provider of on-site primary care, high health risk intervention, disease management and occupational medical care services in employer facilities. Through on-site clinics, preventative care, wellness programs and comprehensive reporting, Healthstat alleviates a corporation's rising cost of health care by improving the health of its employees and dependents. Healthstat currently manages more than 300 clinics nationwide serving over 170,000 participants.

Healthwise

Come full circle with Healthwise® health education solutions that deliver education and report results back to the care team. For more than 35 years, Healthwise was been a leader in consumer health education for health plans, hospitals, and care management organizations. Healthwise solutions integrate within EMR and PHR applications and care management platforms to make it easy for your clinicians and health coaches to empower and engage consumers with the tools they need to make decisions and take control of their health. And now, with our latest innovation, you can track what people do with their prescribed education interventions, so you can better support them. Healthwise health information contributes to better outcomes, higher quality, and lower costs. Healthwise is a nonprofit organization that helps people make better health decisions. www.healthwise.org

Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 8.7 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: www.kp.org/newscenter. www.kaiserpermanente.org

Recently named by TIME Magazine as one of the "50 Best Websites for 2010," Keas is competition-based online health experience for any organization seeking to improve the overall wellness and productivity of its membership. Keas pits teams of participants against each other, enabling each team member to earn points for the team by completing simple, sustainable health actions ("To-Dos") personalized to them. In creating a game-like experience -- complete with real-time social support feeds, leaderboards, points and prizes - Keas motivates individuals to achieve their health and wellness goals in a way that is fun, sustainable and productive.

McKesson

McKesson Health Solutions delivers solutions that drive clinical and business intelligence that helps payors and providers optimize the quality and cost of care. Our clinical knowledge, process expertise and technology tools optimize payment decisions, validate appropriateness of services, automate authorizations, manage diagnostics utilization, and harness the transformative power of analytics. www.mckesson.com

The Strategic Customer Group of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. represents the following divisions: Janssen, McNeil Pediatrics, Ortho-McNeil, Ortho McNeil Neurologics, Ortho Women's Health & Urology and PriCara. We offer unbranded resources to help you enhance healthcare management in the following therapeutic areas: Mental health (schizophrenia), Migraine, Infectious Disease, Pain, VTE Prevention, ADHD in Children and Women's Health.

Silverlink Communications, Inc

Keynote Summary Report Sponsor
As the leader in healthcare communications, our mission is to help health plans move their members in small, healthier ways - the cumulative effect of which can save millions of lives and billions of dollars. Our communications programs engage, educate and empower members to make better health decisions.

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to thomsonreuters.com.

TriZetto

TriZetto is a proven partner in delivering technology solutions that help healthcare payers reduce costs, improve quality and get more value from every healthcare dollar spent. Our solutions include core administrative software, care management and constituent Web solutions, and application, outsourcing and consulting services. For information, visit www.trizetto.com

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care® has been a leader in the American hospice movement, helping to define the standards of care since it was founded in 1978. Currently the nation's largest hospice provider, VITAS is committed to ensuring all patients and their families have ready access to compassionate and effective end-of-life support. Contact National Accounts by calling 1.800.873.5198 or by email at [email protected]. www.VITAS.com/NationalAccounts.

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