U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to Deliver Keynote on Building a Health Care System Based on Value at 5th Annual World Health Care Congress, April 21-23, Washington, D.C.

Secretary Leavitt's Value-Driven Health Care initiative is a foundation- building effort based on the goal that every American has access to a full range of information about the quality and cost of their health care options. It is a starting point for a vision that involves thousands of players -- including government, payers, providers, plans and consumers -- with widely different interests. Achieving success in building a health care system based on value depends on a common understanding of the need and the goals, and on a continuing effort to increase efficiency and maintain trust.

The World Health Care Congress is the premier forum for health care executives to explore a myriad of emerging issues and to network with key leaders. The 2008 Congress will include senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and government.

One of the program's many highlights, the "Presidential Health Care Agenda," will feature key health care advisors to Presidential hopefuls Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, followed by an in-depth critique by panelists, including former U.S. Secretary of state George Shultz, co-author of a recently published health care reform book.

    FEATURED WHCC 2008 SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
    Steve Burd, Chairman and CEO, Safeway Foods
    James Hagedorn, CEO, Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
    Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD CEO, Cleveland Clinic
    Denis Cortese, MD, CEO, Mayo Clinic
    Herbert Pardes, MD, Chairman CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital
    Reed Tuckson, MD, EVP and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group
    George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation
    Mack Banner, CEO, Bumrungrad International (Thailand)
    Sam Nussbaum, MD, EVP and Chief Medical Officer, Wellpoint
    David Cordani, President, CIGNA HealthCare
    Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton
     University
    U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) health care policy advisor to Sen. Barack
     Obama
    Thomas Miller, health care policy advisor to Sen. John McCain
    Cal Ludeman, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health and Human
     Services
    Prof. Hans Rosling, PhD Professor of International Health, Karolinska
     Institutet (Sweden)
    Michael Howe, CEO, MinuteClinic
    James Roosevelt, President and CEO, Tufts Health Plan

Other emerging topics include innovations in health care delivery, value- based purchasing, personalized medicine and medical travel. In addition, Prof. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School and Denis Cortese, MD, CEO of Mayo Clinic will lead Executive Retreats designed exclusively for CEOs that address pressing challenges facing health care innovations and learning organizations, respectively.

About the 5th Annual World Health Care Congress

The 5th Annual World Health Care Congress is presented, in part, through the support of Healthways, Humana, ChangeNow4Health, UnitedHealth Group, Health Dialog, Sanofi Aventis, Booz Allen Hamilton, VSP, TriZetto, Microsoft, McKesson, KCI, MasterCard,Boston Consulting, Cognizant, Hewitt, ActiveHealth Management, Aon Consulting, Health Management Corporation and Best Doctors.

    CONTACT: Patrick Golden 781.939.2511
    Patrick.golden@worldcongress.com
    PROGRAM AGENDA: www.whcc2008.com
    MEDIA REGISTRATION: www.whcc2008.com/mediareg

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