A report from the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress more»

David Cordani, who became Cigna's chief executive in January, says quite enough time and effort was been spent on the recently signed health legislation, even if he doesn't like the results. "It took a year of the country's energy. It's now time to move on," he said in an interview more»

George Halvorson, the longtime chief of Oakland, Calif.,-based Kaiser Permanente, is not your average HMO executive. He's written a half-dozen books on how to improve health care delivery. One was called "Health Care Reform Now!"--and came out three years ago. more»

Douglas Elmendorf, the bespectacled economist who runs the Congressional Budget Office, might seem more like an actuary than a crowd-rouser. His reports typically traffic in dollars and cents analysis, estimating the costs of legislation. But here at the World Health Care Congress, he kept 1,000 of the most prominent people in health care on the edge of their seats. more»

Back on April 14, while at the World Health Care Congress, the Disease Management Care Blog heard about the 'X Prize' for healthcare. Recall that it was these folks who first offered up a $10 million purse to the team that could fly a 3 passenger vehicle into space twice in two weeks. A private firm pulled it off on October 4, 2004. The X Prize Foundation is also offering similar prizes in human genomics, robotic space exploration and extreme automobile efficiency. more»

Arrival in Baltimore last week, where the life expectancy for some humans is lower than that in Bangladesh. Riding public transport, light rail, train and metro to the World Health Care Congress in D.C., where Bangladeshi Banker to the Poor Muhammad Yunus taught doctors and CEOs in the health industry a few things about how poverty, and the alleviation of it, can provide models by which we in the West can serve our own disenfranchised populations. I saw CEOs, medical workers and those from the NGO world nodding their heads in agreement and deep understanding as Muhammad Yunus spoke. more»

DOTmed attended day one of last week's World Health Congress in Washington, D.C., a meeting of about 1,400 opinion leaders from the public and private sectors including health plan executives and payors, employers, government and military administrators. more»

Roch Noffsinger, the CEO of AnvitaHealth explaining the drug and guidelines data analysis and personalization company's business model--and why it's changed its name from SafeMed. Interviewed by The Health Care Blog's Matthew Holt on 4/15/09 more»