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Healthcare 2.0

Inventing the health care system of the future – New trends in nursing

What Healthcare
When 2010-02-08
from 18:00 to 21:00
Where swissnex Boston
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

"The question isn't how we can afford to focus on healthcare. The question is how we can afford not to."

Barack Obama
 

Please join us to find out more about future challenges in Healthcare and Nursing. Get first hand information from Swiss and US experts on a topic that has become national priority around the world.

 
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Program
6:00 to 6:15 pm

Opening Remarks:  The future of Healthcare

Thomas Zeltner;  M.D., Head of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health until the end of 2009

6:15 to 6:45 pm

Compulsory health insurance in Switzerland : towards a prioritized list of services and benefits

Beatrice Despland; Professor at the Haute école cantonale vaudoise de la santé (HECVSanté), Lausanne, lecturer in social insurances at the Faculty of Law, University of Neuchâtel.

6:45 to 7:00 pm

US Perspective: Compulsory Insurance in the US: Priorities and challenges for nursing

Susan Gennaro RN, DSN, FAAN Dean William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College

7:00 to 7:30 pm

The nursing contribution to the needs of the population and to the Swiss health care system

Blaise Guinchard RN, MA, MSc, Professor of Nursing at the Haute école de la santé La Source (HEdS La Source), Lausanne, Switzerland

7:30 to 7:45 pm

US Perspective: What needs to happen with nursing to support the future of healthcare in the US

Theresa Gallivan RN
Associate Chief Nurse
Massachusetts General Hospital

7:45 to 8:15 pm
Q & A
 
8:15 to 9:00 pm
Reception
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

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