The 3rd Annual World Health Care Congress Middle East
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Day 1

Sunday, 9 December, 2012
9:00 -
9:45
Opening Ceremony
9:45 -
10:30
Keynote Panel: Ministers of Health Forum - Strategies and Solutions for Health Care Reform
  • Understanding the health priorities throughout the Middle East
  • Exploring what the GCC and MENA countries are doing to improve the health care available to their populations
  • Lessons from global health reform and innovation
  • Developing the local human capital and resources needed to deliver health care reform
10:30 -
11:15
Keynote Panel: Global Health Care Delivery Innovation
  • Sharing innovative global models of healthcare delivery
  • Patient Centered Care development in practice
  • Developing Integrated Care Systems to provide seamless coordinated care to patients
  • Specialization in care provision - Delivering high volume cardiac care innovation in India
11:15 -
11:45
Networking Refreshment Break in Executive Lounge
11:45 -
12:30
Keynote panel: Using Mobile and Connected Health Care to Transform Through Innovation
  • Understanding the opportunities that mHealth and telehealth present:
    • To reduce the cost of care delivery in developed Western health systems
    • To enable access to quality care in emerging health systems
  • Assessing the scale of the savings available to health systems through the coordinated implementation of remote monitoring for chronic disease
  • Leveraging the power of connected technologies to join up clinical professionals, enable care integration and deliver cost savings across health systems
  • Understanding global health reimbursement landscapes and their evolving approaches to connected health care
12:30 -
14:00
Networking Lunch in Executive Lounge
14:00 -
14:45
Keynote Panel: The Health Insurance Industry Outlook for the Future
  • Understanding the consumer centric imperatives for health insurers
  • Exploring the developing policy issues and their effects in the MENA region
  • Promoting successful regulatory and supervisory approaches for increased access to insurance
  • Assessing the impact of mandatory insurance on the delivery of quality healthcare in the region
14:45 -
15:30
Keynote Panel: Improving Health Care Costs with Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
  • Incentives to generate long-term cost savings and improve the quality of public health
  • PPPs use in developing world class and sustainable healthcare systems
  • Managing the move from public to private healthcare
  • Why aren’t PPPs working in the Middle East?
15:30 -
16:00
Executive Refreshment Break in Executive Lounge
16:00 -
16:45
Keynote Address: Developing the Human Capital Required to Deliver Healthcare Sustainably in the Middle East
  • Anticipating the growth of healthcare within the Middle East and developing the workforce planning required to supply future demand for healthcare workers
  • Building the capacity to deliver medical education and clinical training within the region
  • Finding ways to retain experienced personnel and reduce staff turnover within expatriate based healthcare workforces
  • Establishing and strengthening the multi-disciplinary care teams needed to deliver modern health care
16:45 -
17:30
Executive Networking Reception in Executive Lounge
Monday, 10 December, 2012
9:00 -
9:45
Keynote panel: Developing a Coordinated Approach to the Management of Chronic Diseases
    • Tracking the epidemiological and lifestyle changes that are driving the increase in chronic disease across the region
    • Developing a strategic approach to reduce the growing cost burden of treating chronic diseases
    • How do we develop and align the organisational and financial incentives to better manage chronic disease?
    • Exploring a range of chronic disease management strategies and tools
    • Building integrated chronic disease care pathways which provide seamless care to patients
    • Global examples of excellence in chronic disease management
      • Diabetes
      • Cardiac Care
      • Lung disease
9:45 -
10:30
Keynote Panel: Strategic Responses to Public and Population Health Challenges
  • Exploring the impact of a range of global legislative and regulatory approaches to improving the health of populations
  • Understanding the social determinants of health and how to address inequalities in the health of the public
  • Determining the role of industry in supporting consumers to make healthy choices and choose healthy lifestyles
  • Empowering people to live healthy lifestyles through health promotion and the delivery of health information
10:30 -
11:15
11:15 -
11:45
Networking Refreshment Break in Executive Lounge
11:45 -
12:30
Keynote Panel: Delivering the Growing Health Care Prevention Agenda
  • Developing patient responsibility - striking a balance between the right of the individual to receive treatment and their responsibility to maintain their health
  • Examining the role of incentives and disincentives in driving behavior change
  • Exploring how health care providers can engage in community prevention by promoting community health
  • Delivering lifestyle change and preventative care in practice – exploring a range of successful projects:
    • Diet and nutrition
    • Fitness and exercise
    • Smoking cessation
    • Accident prevention
12:30 -
14:00
Networking Lunch in Executive Lounge
14:00 -
14:45
Understanding the Benefits of Employee Assistance Programs and Corporate Wellness Initiatives
  • Clarifying the value to employers of investment in the health and wellbeing of their staff
  • Exploring the developing evidence around the relationship between employee engagement and workforce productivity
  • Learning from a range of global corporate wellness and employee benefits programs
  • Examining the return available from investment in employee healthcare
  • Corporate wellness initiatives in practice:
    • Risk assessment
    • Engagement tools
    • Health promotion
14:45 -
15:30
Exploring the Opportunities for Investment in Middle East Healthcare
  • Understanding the developing opportunities in post-conflict health infrastructure redevelopment
    • Iraq
    • Libya
  • Investing in the development of medical tourism – what is the capacity for the further development of this market in the region?
  • Exploring the development of a venture capital market in Middle East healthcare
  • Islamic finance, the Islamic concept of Zakat and investment – what does this mean for healthcare investors in the region?
15:30 -
16:00
Executive Refreshment Break in Executive Lounge
16:00 -
16:45
Developing and Implementing Standards for Health Care Quality and Patient Safety
  • Examining a range of local and global approaches to delivering, measuring and reporting standards of healthcare quality and safety
  • Exploring the growth of provider accreditation to assure consumers around the quality of care provided
  • Overcoming the challenges of multi-national clinical workforces and the differences in clinical practice that this brings
  • Determining the role of decision support systems in driving standardization and reducing variation
  • Integrating the patient experience into the measurement of healthcare quality
16:45 -
17:30
Executive Networking Reception in Executive Lounge
Tuesday, 11 December, 2012
The 3rd WORLD HEALTH CARE INNOVATION SUMMIT MIDDLE EAST Sharing a range of healthcare innovations from around the world – bringing the best in global healthcare to the Middle East
9:00 -
9:45
Innovations in Improving Access to Health Care for Rural and Poor Populations
  • The use of remote consultation, diagnosis and treatment through telemedicine
  • Providing health education to poor populations using mobile phones
  • Educating health workers in providing basic care
  • Establishment of self-sustainable clinics in rural areas
  • The use of public-private partnerships to improve delivery of health goods and services
9:45 -
10:30
Global Financial Innovation
  • Exploring a range of global innovations in funding, financing and healthcare reimbursement
  • Shifting from fee for service to outcomes based models
  • Developing payment bundling systems which enable the financial risks of treating a patient to be shared by both payers and providers
10:30 -
11:15
Innovations in the Healthcare Workforce
  • Recruiting, retaining and meeting the increasing demand for experienced, qualified health care workers
  • Learning from nations that have overcome shortages of key clinical staff
  • Exploring the positive effects of right staffing
11:15 -
11:45
Networking Refreshment Break in Executive Lounge
11:45 -
12:30
Using Technology to Reducing Hospital Admissions
  • Using risk prediction models to prevent admissions and readmissions in the frail elderly
  • Using calls centre and nurses to support elderly patients over 15 acute hospitals and prevent admissions and reduce costs
  • Understanding the importance of having an integrated care record system to support delivery of the approach
12:30 -
14:00
Networking Lunch in Executive Lounge
14:00 -
14:45
How Disruptive Innovations are Improving Healthcare Delivery
  • Evaluating the impact of disruptive innovations:
    • Increasing access to care
    • Improving care outcomes
    • lowering costs
  • Exploring how disruptive innovations can be reversed engineered and applied effectively in new situations
14:45 -
15:30
Understanding the Impact of Political Changes in the Middle East on Health Care
  • What impact has the Arab Spring had on healthcare in the region?
  • Exploring whether there is a link between aspirations to democracy and social accountability and development of healthcare consumerism
  • Why do people now want quality healthcare?
  • What will this mean for healthcare reform in the Middle East?
15:30
Congress Adjourns