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KEYNOTE HIGHLIGHTS BROCHURE JUST RELEASED!

This is the only industry event detailing the intersection between
STRATEGY, EXECUTION and INNOVATION!

Do not miss this event in 2012!

The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress (WHCC) annually gathers over 1,600 global health care, pharmaceutical and employer executives to partake in keynote presentations lead by industry experts, to attend one of ten co-located Summits detailing issues of importance to each industry segment and to gain strategies on how to stay competitive in a volatile market. No other event in the industry provides attendees like you with the amount of networking, thought leadership and executive level education that WHCC will in 2012. Plus, by attending, you will discover insights on health policy from government officials while also gaining practical solutions to help your organization tackle issues with cost, quality and the overall delivery of care.

Just confirmed:

Kathleen S. Neal Director, Integrated Health Care & Disability, Chrysler Group; Institute Director, National Institute for Health Reform	Simon Stevens President, Global Health UnitedHealth Group
Margaret Van Bree, MHA, DrPH Chief Executive Officer, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital; Senior Vice President, St. Luke's Episcopal Health System; Member, University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC)	Donald Jones Vice President, Health & Life Sciences Qualcomm Incorporated
Omar Ishrak Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Medtronic	Richard Jurgens Chairman of the Board and CEO Hy-Vee, Inc.

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KEY SESSIONS OF NOTE include:

THE COST OF CARE IMPERATIVE: A NEW BASELINE

• Resetting the health industry's cost base by transforming care, payment and consumer engagement models
• The requirement of simultaneous transformation
• Implications for benefit design, product offerings and the roles of payers, providers and patients

Presenting organizations: Blue Shield of California , WellPoint, Inc., Booz & Company

INNOVATIONS IN GLOBAL HEALTH CARE

• How innovative models flourish in developing countries with severe economic constraints and are adapted in the US and other developed countries
• Lessons learned from Mexico’s Seguro Popular - How the Mexican Health System reorganized and increased public funding to provide universal health insurance, including the 50 million Mexicans, beginning with the nation's poorest citizens

Presenting organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Medtronic, Ministry of Health, Mexico

INNOVATION IN CARE CONNECTIVITY—PIONEERING 21ST CENTURY IT ENABLED SYSTEMS

• Insights into the Care Connectivity Consortium -- the efforts of 5 leading health systems to pioneer the next frontier of data exchange of electronic patient information
• Updates on the Community Health Data Initiative and the movement toward open source to foster improved transparency and efficiency in health care

Presenting organizations include: Kaiser Permanente, AHIP, O’Reilly Media, Inc., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

INNOVATION TO ACHIEVE MARKET-DRIVEN REFORM—INSIGHTS FROM INDUSTRY INNOVATORS

• Insights into business and medical entrepreneurs, and the investor community poised to deliver the next wave of innovation to fix health care
• Real-world expertise and examples of innovation from both payer and provider realms
• Identifying market forces and industry leaders best positioned to adequately address needed improvements in quality, cost and access

Presenting organizations include: California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), Venrock. Engleberg Center for Health Reform, Brookings Institution

Ron Trznadel
Executive Vice President, Business Development
Phone: 781-939-2432
Email: Ron.Trznadel@worldcongress.com