Over 600 Industry and government leaders reconvene to share best practices for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe

Organised under the high patronage of the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of Health and presented for the 4th consecutive year, the World Health Care Congress Europe is the only major international forum where over 600 health leaders share best practices and successful initiatives for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe. Participating thought leaders include health ministers, leading government officials, hospital directors, IT innovators, decision makers from public and private insurance funds, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and heath care industry suppliers.

The event is scheduled 10-12 March 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Keynote speakers include:
Dr. Klaus Theo Schröder Secretary of State Germany	Dr Ab Klink Minister of Health Welfare and Sport The Netherlands
Dr Ágnes Horváth Minister of Health Hungary	Dr Jimmy Devins Minister of State Department of Health and Children Ireland
Professor Uwe Reinhardt Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University USA	Mark Britnell Director General of Commissioning and System Management Department of Health United Kingdom
Dr Hans Jürgen Ahrens Chairman AOK-Bundesverband Germany	David Nicholson, CBE Chief Executive National Health Service United Kingdom
Dr. Michael Wilks President Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) United Kingdom	Sir Muir Gray Chief Knowledge Officer Department of Health and National Health Service United Kingdom
Norbert Paland Head of the Telematics Division Federal Ministry of Health Germany	Patrice Blémont Director Regional Hospitalisation Agency of Franche-Comté France
Professor Julian Le Grand Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy London School of Economics United Kingdom	Georg Baum Chief Executive German Hospital Association (DKG) Germany
Niall Dickson Chief Executive The King’s Fund United Kingdom
Chairmen:
Sir Jonathan Michael Deputy Managing Director, Healthcare BT Health United Kingdom	Patrick O'Connell, PhD Managing Director BT Health United Kingdom
Charles Scatchard Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Europe, Middle East and Africa Oracle Corporation France

Four focused summits will give attendees a unique opportunity to discuss challenges in depth and determine actionable plans with their peers:

• Chronic Disease Management
• Implementing Health IT
• Reforming Health Insurance and Improving Financial Performance
• Improving Quality and Patient Safety

Dr Fiona Adshead Deputy Chief Medical Officer Department of Health United Kingdom	Professor Reinhard Busse Department of Health Care Management Technische Universität Berlin Germany
Prof Michael Greco Executive Director Client-Focused Evaluations Program (CFEP) Australia	Prof Mordechi Shani Chairman, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University Israel
Prof Richard Grol Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Netherlands	Dr. Geraint Lewis Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Croydon Primary Care Trust Harkness Fellow, New York University United Kingdom
Angela Coulter Chief Executive Picker Institute Europe United Kingdom	Dr. Rafael Bengoa Professor, ESADE School of Business Director, Kroniker Observatory on Quality and Chronic Disease Management Spain
Dr Rebecca Rosen Medical Director Humana, Inc. United Kingdom	Dr Manuel Serrano President, Education Health and Society Foundation; Coordinator, Expert Patient Programme Spain

Pablo Rivero Corte Senior Advisor, Health Innovation Calgary Health Region Spain	Dipak Kalra Senior Clinical Lecturer in Health Informatics, Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (CHIME), University College London United Kingdom
Gert-Jan van Boven Managing Director NICTIZ Netherlands	Jacques Sauret Director, ADAE; General Director, GIP-DMP France
Arne Kverneland Head, Department of Health Informatics National Board of Health, Denmark Denmark	Dr. Claude Poirier Conseiller médical principal/Senior Medical Advisor Inforoute Santé du Canada/Canada Health Infoway Canada
Nick Partridge Chief Executive, Terrence Higgins Trust Chair, INVOLVE Commissioner, Healthcare Commission United Kingdom	John Glaser, PhD Vice President and CIO Partners HealthCare USA
Dr. Luis Alegre Deputy Director Balearic Islands Health Services (IB-SALUT) Spain

Erwin van Leussen Manager Innovation Achmea Health Insurance Netherlands	Mike Leers Chairman and CEO CZ Group, The Netherlands
Dr Joaquín Lopez Chief Medical Officer Sanitas Spain

Joanne Alder Principal & Consulting Actuary Milliman United Kingdom	John Harvey Director of Public Health Havering Primary Care Trust United Kingdom
Dr Leonardo La Pietra CEO The European Institute of Oncology Italy	Karl Lauterbach Director Institute of Health Economics and Clinical Epidemiology, University of Köln, Germany
Charles Bogosta President, UPMC International and Commercial Services Division Executive Vice President, UPMC USA	Dr. Bruno Giovanni Gridelli Medical and Scientific Director and Director of Surgery, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione (IsMeTT); Medical and Scientific Director, UPMC International Italy
Prof Otto Rienhoff Professor of Medical Informatics Georg August University Gottingen Germany	Professor Max Aebi Director of the MEM Research Center Institute for Evaluative Research in Orthopaedic Surgery (IEFO), University of Berne Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, McGill University (Canada) Switzerland
Dr Gillian Leng Director, Implementation Systems National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) United Kingdom	Prof Ajit Lalvani Chair in Infectious Diseases National Heart and Lung Institute

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