AgeLab
Director Dr. Joseph Coughlin
delivers
plenary keynote at World Healthcare
Innovation and Technology Congress
November
6, 2006
On
Nov. 2, 2006, Dr. Joseph Coughlin,
Director of the MIT AgeLab, served
as keynote at a plenary session of
the World Healthcare Innovation and
Technology
Congress in Washington, DC . The
event, co-sponsored by The Wall Street
Journal, was a global forum presenting
innovative technological advances
and thought leadership in the use
of technology to transform healthcare
practice and enable better access,
quality, safety, and greater cost
effectiveness in the delivery of healthcare.
Dr.
Coughlin's keynote, entitled "Disruptive
Demographics & the New Older Face
of Healthcare" addressed the
AgeLab's continuing study of the convergence
between new technology and older consumer
demands as the key driver of future
innovations in healthcare in the United
States and throughout the industrialized
world. He made his remarks along with
Ivo Lurvink, CEO of Philips Consumer
Healthcare Solutions.
The World Healthcare Innovation and
Technology Congress hosted a wide
variety of industry, government and
research leaders in healthcare from
around the globe. Other speakers included
Richard Granger, Director General
of Information Technology, UK National
Health Service , Tony Zook, President
& CEO of AstraZeneca US, Leslie
Norwalk, Acting Deputy Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, William Plested, President-Elect
of the American Medical Association,
and Dean Kamen of Deka Research.
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