Leading Healthcare Communications Company Joins Prominent Industry Experts to Discuss Current Healthcare Topics such as Health Information Exchange, Meaningful Use and Interoperability more»

Keas.com founder Adam Bosworth to discuss online health care innovations in keynote address at World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Conference November 9 more»

TSYS Healthcare announced today that Mark O’Leary, senior vice president of business development, will speak about fraud at the 5th Annual World Healthcare IT Congress. Ralph Bernstein, senior vice president of U.S. Bank Healthcare Payment Solutions, will join O’Leary to provide his banking perspective on mitigating risk in healthcare payments. more»

Health IT connectivity expert John Feikema has been slated to moderate a keynote panel at the 2009 Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress being held November 8-10, 2009, in Washington, DC. more»

Grameen Healthcare in conjunction with the World Healthcare Innovations and Technology Congress (WHIT v5.0) is hosting a poster session on Extremely Affordable Health Innovations at this year’s World Healthcare Innovation and Technology (WHIT) conference, November 8-10, 2009 in Washington, DC. Pesinet has been selected to present a poster as part of this session. more»

Alexandria, VA (AHN) - People from government, business and academia will gather to discuss and debate the latest trends in healthcare technology early in November. more»

And while we are on the subject of exclusive men’s clubs, President Bill Clinton will be participating in WHITv5.0 this year in Alexandria VA. Also at the 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress will be the first ONC David J. Brailer, MD, PhD and Vice Chair of the HIT Policy Committee, Paul C. Tang, MD, MS. more»

The 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 5.0) being held with NaviNet as lead educational underwriter for the program, proudly announces that former President Bill Clinton will deliver a keynote address. The former President is a powerful voice for progress as he speaks and shares his unique insights and observations with audiences throughout the world. more»

With the specifics of congressional proposals for U.S. national health care reform still being debated as of October 2009, and the ultimate success of any final bill providing comprehensive reform still up in the air, it might be too soon to answer the question of how reform would impact the broad shift among U.S. employers toward account-based consumer-directed health care (CDH) plans—primarily portable health savings accounts (HSAs) funded by employers and/or employees, and non-portable, employer-funded health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). more»

WALTHAM — State Rep. Peter Koutoujian was in Virginia yesterday to talk about how health care reform has worked in Massachusetts, in light of the national debate on the issue. more»

The Strategies To Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance Director Christine Ferguson chaired the World Health Congress 4th Annual Obesity Congress this week in Alexandria, V.A. more»

As the healthcare reform debate reaches a fevered pitch, Dr. James Prochaska is working to ensure policymakers understand the key role prevention must play in it. Dr. Prochaska, whose world-renowned Transtheoretical Model of Change has revolutionized preventive healthcare, has been consulting with congressional leaders and health policy experts to make the case for prevention as the foundation for healthcare reform. He’ll share his insights this week at the World Healthcare Congress 4th Annual Obesity Congress in Alexandria, Virginia in a keynote address entitled “Constructing Tomorrow’s Health System With Prevention as The Foundation.” more»

Leveraging Health book launch:September 30, 2009, 8 a.m., National Press Club, Washington, D.C.; Book signing, 5:30 p.m., Consumer Health Care Congress, Alexandria, Va. more»

It's now official, Carlos and I will be presenting at The World Health Care Leadership Summit on HITECH & HIPAA Compliance Management, November 9th in Alexandria, VA. You can view the Summit Agenda here. more»

"People are now texting more than they are speaking on their mobile phones and this has to tell us something in the healthcare industry." said Frank Avignone, Senior Director, AllOne Mobile at the World Healthcare Congress’ Wireless Health event in Boston last week. more»

New England Cable News attended the 7th Annual World Health Care Congress Health Care Quality and Payment Reform Congress and interviewed several speakers, including Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen about the role of reform in health care. more»

"It is really not all about the technology," explained Dr. Daniel Sands, senior medical informatics director for Cisco Systems, during his keynote at the World Health Care Congress's Wireless Health event this week. "My talk is entitled 'It's not about the technology, confessions of a healthcare technologist.'" more»

The Wireless Health or WiHealth event kicked off in Boston yesterday with a keynote presented by Janet Marchibroda, IBM’s newly appointed Chief Healthcare Officer, and former founding CEO of the eHealth Initiative (eHI). more»

Improving mental health services around the world for 2010 and beyond was the closing keynote address topic at last week's World Congress Leadership Summit on Behavioral Health in Philadelphia. Delivering the message was Thomas J. Barrett, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Denver, former World Health Organization mental health consultant, and former Colorado State Mental Health Director. more»