Secretary Leavitt and Former Chief-Of-Staff, Hamilton Jordan, Confirmed to Keynote at World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress
Posted on: Friday, 12 August 2005, 15:00 CDT
Michael Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Hamilton Jordan, White House Chief-of-Staff to President Carter; 3-time cancer survivor, Founder, Georgia Cancer Coalition; to keynote at World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress, November 9 -11, 2005 in Washington DC.
Secretary Leavitt is widely recognized as a health care innovator and welfare reformer, and his record of achievement in Utah bears this out. In 1994, the Utah legislature passed Gov. Leavitt's "Healthprint," a comprehensive, incremental approach to health care improvement in the state. A decade later, Utah has more than 400,000 additional people with health insurance, marked increases in the number of children with health care coverage, dramatically improved immunization rates and per capita cost of healthcare 25% below the national average. He was chosen by the nation's governors to represent the states in Congress on welfare reform, Medicaid and children's health insurance.
Hamilton Jordan draws on his diverse life experience as the youngest ever White House Chief of Staff, three-time cancer survivor, entrepreneur and public servant. Still considered one of this nation's great political strategists, Jordan is often called upon to comment on the current state of our Union. As the White House Chief of Staff the last time the United States faced down terrorism - the Iranian Hostage Crisis - he comments compellingly on the political and practical choices that governments make in combating this insidious enemy. As a three-time cancer survivor he uses humor and old-fashioned story telling to engage his audiences who always laugh and cry with him, and then line up afterwards to hug him and tell him how much he has touched their lives. He touches on patient empowerment, the business of our healthcare system and the personal courage inside each of us that makes us all "survivors."
Co-sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress will be held November 9-11, 2005, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress is a global forum to present best practices in the implementation of innovative business strategies, policy-making, and technology solutions to better the current health care system. For more information please visit www.whitcongress.com.
Source: Business Wire
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