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Halvorson recorded this podcast in advance of his keynote address, 'Changing the Shape of Healthcare: Groundbreaking Innovations and Their Impact on Healthcare Delivery,' at the fourth annual WHIT Congress. Kate Christensen, MD, medical ... more»

Reader's Digest attended the 5th Annual World Health Care Congress, and interviewed several speakers for the piece linked here. Among them are Steve Burd, CEO of Safeway, Toby Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland Clinic, James Hagedorn, CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro and Roy Schoenberg, MD, CEO of AmericanWell. more»

Scott McNealy, founder and chair of Sun Microsystems, will address the possibilities of open-source technology in health IT systems at the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 4.0), Dec. 8-10, in Washington, D.C. more»

BOSTON – Personal health information networks are likely to prove better models for health data exchange than regional health information organizations, or RHIOs, speakers at a recent world conference on interoperability said. more»

Last year I attended the Healthcare Quality and P4P (Pay for Performance) conference put on by the World Health Congress. This was my first healthcare conference and it provided me a great opportunity to gain a better understanding of the healthcare market and critical issues therein. more»

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Leaders from the Premier healthcare alliance will speak around the country in August, discussing healthcare insurance management offerings, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, a Premier hospital collaborative to improve patient safety and quality while safely reducing costs. more»

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Outcome Sciences, Inc. (OUTCOME), the leading provider of patient registries, studies, and technologies for evaluating real-world outcomes, announced today that Francis X. Campion, MD, FACP, Director of Provider Programs at OUTCOME, will be presenting on August 6th from 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT at the 6th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality. The Summit is being held at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel Boston, MA August 4-5, 2008. more»

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jul 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- MedVentive Inc. is pleased to announce that CEO Dr. Jonathan Niloff is moderating a panel discussion on "Practical Strategies and Operational Methods to Achieve Successful P4P Implementation" with esteemed colleagues: Dr. Philip M. Oravetz, Vice President and Senior Medical Director at Mills-Peninsula Medical Group in California; Dr. Michael Edbauer, Medical Director at Catholic Independent Practice Association of Western New York (CIPA); and Dr. Edward Westrick, Vice President Medical Management at UMass Memorial Health Care. more»

I'm writing today from Boston, Massachusetts, where I just delivered the opening keynote at the World Congress Leadership Summit. The conference is being held at the new and very lovely Renaissance Waterfront Hotel.

If you've noticed a nautical theme on HealthBlog from time to time there's a very good reason for it. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest in a fishing village on the waters of Puget Sound. The sea is very much in my blood. more»

Personal health information networks are likely to prove better models for health data exchange than regional health information organizations, or RHIOs, speakers said Tuesday at a world conference on interoperability in Boston. more»

As he travels around the world for Microsoft, Bill Crounse, MD, says his eyes have been opened to how far behind the United States lags in the use of healthcare information technology. more»

Medgadget is teaming up with the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress an industry conference to be held this December 8 - 10 in Washington, D.C. more»

DALLAS—To get a better handle on obesity-related health care costs, employers need to make sure their employees are getting enough sleep, a sleep specialist says. more»

DALLAS—Employers that offer incentives to encourage employees to improve their health status need to offer a variety of them to appeal to different types of workers. more»

DALLAS—Regardless of the health status or demographics of their workforces, employers that give employees the opportunity to earn more money based on their individual job performance have lower health benefit costs than those that pay fixed salaries, research shows. more»

DALLAS — Despite all the temptations inherent in "Sin City," a Las Vegas gaming company hopes to persuade its smoking employees to kick the habit.

To help those employees in their efforts to quit, MGM Mirage, which operates 11 casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, has even found an innovative way to shield some casino floor workers from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. more»

DALLAS — Despite all the temptations inherent in "Sin City," a Las Vegas gaming company hopes to persuade its smoking employees to kick the habit.

To help those employees in their efforts to quit, MGM Mirage, which operates 11 casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, has even found an innovative way to shield some casino floor workers from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. more»

Scotts Miracle-Gro, an Ohio-based company, screens out job candidates who use tobacco, believing that the measure will reduce its future health care costs tied to smoking-related illnesses. The company discussed the financial results of its new wellness program at the World Health Care Congress in April. more»

Employers understand that politicians have to offer proposals to reform the health care system, considering that escalating medical costs are straining the nation's and consumers' budgets more»