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MCOL to Host Fourth Annual Managing Health Care Costs Web Summit, November 1st-10th; Features 6 Audio Conferences, 7 Podcasts and 42 Faculty Presentations

Posted on: Monday, 19 September 2005, 09:00 CDT

MCOL:

-- The 2005 Managing Health Care Costs Web Summit Is Designed to Help Healthcare Executives and Allied Healthcare Professionals Stay Current on Emerging Trends and Solutions in Dealing with Health Care Cost Increases

MCOL's Healthcare Web Summit division invites healthcare executives and allied healthcare professionals to attend the Fourth Annual Managing Health Care Costs online conference where 42 faculty presentations from nationally recognized thought leaders will be available around the clock, 24/7, beginning November 1 through November 10, 2005.

Attendees will be able to attend live audio conference sessions, interact with faculty via email, download selected faculty podcasts and receive additional features including a key contacts directory, video clips, and online article library. The cost is $195.00. The web summit agenda, registration forms and additional information are available at: http://www.healthwebsummit.com/manhcc.htm. Inquiries and registrations can also be handled by phone at 209.577.4888.

New to this year's web summit is the podcast feature. Attendees can download and listen to recorded interviews with faculty regarding their presentation subject matter. The Podcasts are audio files that can be downloaded from a menu page, or can optionally be delivered through RSS and podcast software. The audio files can be downloaded and listened to with PDAs, iPods, mp3 players, or through desktop or laptop computers.

Says Clive Riddle, president, MCOL, "Our annual Managing Health Care Costs Web Summit has provided professionals a very valuable, convenient and yet inexpensive means to stay current on emerging trends and solutions in dealing with health care cost increases by learning from the nation's most respected authorities. Attendees can call into their desired audio conferences at the scheduled times, and otherwise download podcasts and view the online presentations and other web summit features whenever they wish."

Conference Tracks include: Industry Trends and Strategies; Consumer Driven Care Initiatives; Provider and Patient Care Issues; Prescription Drug Issues; Podcasts; Live Audioconference/Webcasts; and Archives from 2004 Web Summit.

This year's faculty includes: Bill Barre, Medimpact; William R. Boyles, Consumer Driven Market Report; Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute; William DeMarco, DeMarco and Associates; Alexander C. Domaszewicz, Mercer Human Resource Consulting; Michael Deskin, Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute; Patrick J. Dunks, Milliman, Inc.; Ashley Gillihan, Alston & Bird; Thomas Kaye, Passport Health Plan; Peter R. Kongstvedt, MD, Accenture; Vince Kuraitis, Better Health Technologies; Jerry Reeves MD, HEREIU Trust Funds; Jacqueline Simmons MD, Passport Health Plan; Doug Sherlock, Sherlock Company; Karen Taranto, PMPM Consulting Group; Rob J. Thurston, HR Consulting Group; Tom Williams, Integrated Healthcare Association; Michael J. Thompson, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Fiona Wilmot, MD, Blue Shield of California and Eric Zimmerman, Senior Vice President, RelayHealth Corporation.

About Healthcare Web Summit from MCOL

MCOL is focused on helping professionals' position themselves for a new kind of health care in the 21st Century. Detailed information on MCOL's Healthcare Web Summit division is available at www.healthwebsummit.com. For more information on MCOL, please visit www.mcol.com/about.htm or call 209.577.4888.

Source: Business Wire

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