World Health Care Congress announces collaboration with International Partnership for ...

World Health Care Congress announces collaboration with International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery for 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. The World Health Innovations Summit, co-located with the 8th Annual World Health Care Congress, www.worldhealthcarecongress.com is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery for the April 2011 conference. www.worldhealthcarecongress.com/whis

Initiated by a project the World Economic Forum, the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) seeks to address the specific challenges innovators face in successfully developing disruptive health care delivery models by pulling on the strengths and creativity of innovators and industry. The IPIHD will support innovators in the following areas:

• Knowledge and networking
• Mentoring and Support Programme for Innovators (MSPI)
• Annual Innovator-Investor Conference (AIIC)
• Innovators Regulatory Committee (IRC)

As part of the 8th Annual World Health Care Congress, an annual meeting of more the 1,800 senior health care executives from all industry sectors, the 2nd Annual World Health Innovations Summit will convene global health care innovators, business executives and government leaders from over 40 countries and feature innovations from the developing world that can be adapted and implemented in the developed world www.worldhealthcarecongress.com/whis

McKinsey & Company, one of the IPIHD supporters, has identified more than 30 successful private sector examples of private health care organizations that are using innovation to provide quality, effective care at low cost. For example, Medicall Home in Mexico provides telephone based advice and triage to more than 5 million people. For a fixed fee of $5 a month, billed through their phone bill, two-thirds of callers have their healthcare issue resolved over the phone. In India, LifeSpring maternity hospitals offer high quality, no-frills, maternity care at one-fifth of the cost of comparable private-sector competitors (an accessibly priced $40 rather than the typical $200). IPIHD recognizes many of the most forward-thinking innovations emerge in developing countries because of the significant demand for innovation.

In addition to McKinsey & Company, the IPIHD is organized through the support of Duke Medicine, World Economic Forum, Aetna, Astra Zeneca, Medtronic, Merck, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis and Zuellig Group. The World Health Innovations Summit will feature participation from the following IPIHD representatives:

• Dr. Viktor Hediger, Partner, McKinsey & Co. Inc. as Summit Chairman on April 4th
• Olivier Raynaud, MD, Senior Director, Global Health and Healthcare Sector, World Economic Forum  Geneva
• Victor Dzau, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University Medical Center and Health System

IPIHD aims to improve access to care and quality while containing costs. It strives to break the mid-20th century health care delivery paradigm of local physician offices combined with general hospitals. It also seeks to provide and low income populations with good access to affordable, appropriate services.

About the 2nd Annual World Health Innovation Summit

Co-located with the 8th Annual World Health Care Congress, the WHCC 2nd Annual World Health Innovations Summit (WHIS) features innovations in the developing world to be adapted and implemented in the developed world. WHIS convenes an international delegation of ministers of health, high-ranking government leaders, CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CIOs, CMIOs, CAOs, VPs of international patients and VPs of international business development from the world�s leading hospitals, as well as CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, actuaries, medical directors and international network directors from national and international health plans and insurers. This impressive international delegation convenes to exchange strategies on innovations in financing affordable care, new and sustainable primary care infrastructures, and innovative delivery models to deliver low cost, high quality care and other critical issues. International leaders also present disruptive innovations in health IT, mHealth and innovative point-of-care diagnostic technologies as well as breakthroughs in health care research.

About the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery

The Partnership was launched at the meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2011. The initiative was begun as a project of the World Economic Forum, Chaired by Dr. Victor Dzau of Duke Medicine, and supported by McKinsey & Company. The vision of IPIHD is to support innovators and entrepreneurs in scaling up and replicating successful innovative delivery solutions around the world in order to improve universal healthcare cost, access and quality. The partnership will operate a mentoring programme so that industry executives can help innovators to build their businesses, host an annual investor-innovator conference to help capitalize the sub-sector, influence governments and regulators through its regulatory affairs group, and share and spread knowledge through an online portal. See www.innovativehealthcaredelivery.com.