Washington, D.C, hosts 7th Annual World Health Care Congress

Apr 5 2010

With the most sweeping changes to national health care policy now law, the 7th World Health Care Congress will feature the first post-reform gathering of the nation's top health care executives from all industry sectors.

The three-day summit of 1,800 senior leaders will include:

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Governor Edward Rendell, Pennsylvania
William C. Weldon, chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
Ron Williams, CEO, Aetna
David M. Cordani, president and CEO, CIGNA Corporation
Douglas W. Elmendorf, director, Congressional Budget Office
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
George Halvorson, chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank and Grameen Health

WHAT: The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress
WHEN: Monday, April 12-14, 2010
WHERE: Washington, D.C, (The Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, Md.)

In addition to special summits for Providers, Health Plans, Health IT and Interoperability, Pharma & Biotech, and Government, the conference will feature a special exhibit on Affordable Health Innovations from around the globe. Innovations include a low-cost diagnostic tool that puts the power of a lab into a postage stamp-sized piece of paper, a video game that helps youths with cancer better fight the disease and a Brazilian company that is helping the hearing impaired to hear through solar-powered hearing aids that cost just a fraction of what regular hearing aids do. Fifty presentations will be on display.

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