The1st Annual Global Medical Travel Forum to take place in Washington
Friday, 11 March 2011
Type: Events
Website: www.mwtourism.com
With the global medical travel market poised to reach at least $60 billion by 2012, the 1st Annual Global Medical Travel Forum at the 2011 World Health Care Congress will gather global thought leaders to share insights on the future of the rapidly growing industry.
Scheduled for April 4-5 in Washington, D.C., the forum is part of WHCC's 2nd Annual World Health Innovation Summit. More than 40 countries and 1,800 delegates from around the globe will be represented at the conference, including over 200 CEOs from major health plans and third party administrators, over 150 senior executives from the world's largest employers and over 200 CEOs from the world's leading hospitals and health systems.
The author of Medical Tourism Guidebook and global medial travel expert - Dr Prem Jagyasi will serve as forum chairman. According to research he recently conducted, 94 per cent of experts agree medical tourism maintains significant room for growth and much of the market remains untapped.
Medical Travel Forum presenters will include:
Vishal Bali, Chief Executive Officer, Fortis Hospitals (India)
Devi Shetty, MD, Founder and Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals (India), Founder, a new healthcare facility in the Cayman Islands
Joaquin Rodriguez, Sr., Chairman & CEO, HIMAHEALTH (Puerto Rico)
Michael C. McMillan, Executive Director, Market and Network Services, Cleveland Clinic
Sangita Reddy, Executive Director, Operations, Apollo Hospitals Group (India)
Dennis Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Bumrungrad Hospitals International Ltd. (Thailand)
Raffaella Molteni, Chief Administrative Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) (United States)
Hisham Diwani, MD, General Manager, Health Insurance, Ministry of Health (Syria); Member, Syrian Insurance Supervisory Commission
Prem Jagyasi, Author – Dr Prem's Guidebook – Medical Tourism; MD and CEO, ExHealth, Dubai HealthCare City (UAE); Founder, Global Healthcare Network
Panel discussion topics will include:
Globalization of healthcare—forecasting growth and critical financing and operational challenges
Emergence of global healthcare clusters
Best-in-class facilities – innovations in healthcare delivery for medical travel
Strategies to address legal, ethical, cultural and quality issues for international patients
Public-private partnerships with tourism ministers and delivery systems to attract new business
The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress will gather employers, health plans and providers and convene all sectors involved in the medical travel industry. The congress will present networking and business opportunities to many international medical travel stockholders.
The WHCC 1st Annual Global Medical Travel Forum, as part of the 2nd Annual World Health Innovations Summit, convenes stakeholders from all over the world focused on the globalization of healthcare services. International government leaders, Ministers of Health, Ministers of Tourism, C-Suite executives and VPs of international patients from leading world-class hospitals, C-Suite executives, medical directors, GMs and international network directors from international private and public health plans and insurers, as well as many other professionals from the medical travel industry, gather to discuss the many challenges and opportunities in the global health care market.
The WHCC is World Congress' flagship event in which more than 1,800 healthcare, government and corporate leaders formulate solutions to the challenges of health care cost, quality and delivery. WHCC convenes the major sectors in healthcare to determine actionable goals and implementation strategies to demonstrate quality, consumer choice, cost-effectiveness and transparency.
The 8th Annual WHCC is organised with support from: Presidential Sponsor Alere, Official Well-Being Sponsor Healthways, Official Healthcare Decisions Sponsors Health Dialog, Official Innovation Series Sponsor UnitedHealth Group, and educational underwriters, McKessson, VITAS, TriZetto, Booz & Company, GE healthymagination, Healthstat, Access MediQuip, Allscripts, VSP, Eliza, Aetna, AmericanWell, Thomson Reuters, Companion Data Services, CareLogistics, Ortho McNeil, HealthHub – powered by PayFlex, and Healthwise.
The WHCC 8th Annual Hospital and Health System Summit convenes over 200 CEOs and senior executives focused on developing ACOs, medical home models, disruptive innovations and business models, replicable integration strategies and accountability frameworks. Hospital, health systems and integrated delivery network CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, CFOs and administrators gather to exchange strategies with their peers on replicable and innovative delivery models, physician alignment and reimbursement, managing operational costs and successful reform implementation.
The World Health Care Congress will also offer:
The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe
As the leading European event on healthcare business innovation, The 7th Annual World Health Care Congress-Europe (13-14 April, 2011 in Brussels) is the only major international forum that convenes leaders from all sectors of health care to discuss and develop actionable items to provide the highest quality of care while working under budgetary constraints. Moving away from a policy-focus, the 2011 Congress ensures that delegates will leave with a key action plan to set in motion for success in 2011. The 2011 Congress will feature the top industry influencers including hospital directors, IT innovators, decision makers from public and private insurance funds, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, healthcare industry suppliers, health ministers, and leading government officials.
The 2nd Annual World Health Care Congress Middle East
The 2nd Annual World Health Care Congress Middle East (December 11-13, 2011 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), co-sponsored by the Health Authority Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, is a global event in which over 600 health care, government and corporate leaders from over 25 countries come together to define objectives and frame solutions to the challenges of healthcare reform, cost, quality and delivery.
Source: MWT
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