The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2009 conference will convene over 2,000 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation’s largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.
Following are a number of links to reports from the event. But first a quote from a blog entry by George Van Antwerp, who met with George Halverson and talked about his upcoming book:
We also talked about HIT (Healthcare Information Technology) and the need not only to drive utilization but to mandate system integration. This tied in with an earlier conversation where we spoke about coordinated care versus uncoordinated care and the need to create a “virtual Kaiser”. I think there is a lot to learn from the Kaiser model and some of the things they are doing with technology to drive care. [I was pleasantly surprised that he believes physicians will embrace technology as a tool to help them standardize care. I think that is critical path to successfully reducing costs while improving outcomes.]
Upcoming Book By George Halvorson From Kaiser, George Van Antwerp, 16 April 2009
Here some links to reports:
- Mobihealthnews
- Disease Management Care Blog
- of course The World Health Care Blog
- and finally the Tweets.
