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October 4, 2005
Global Health Care Innovation Conference to Use Interactive Wireless PDA Communication Technology
International health care leaders use VisionTree Conference Platform to enhance collaboration and facilitate knowledge sharing
SAN DIEGO — October 4, 2005 — VisionTree Software (www.visiontree.com), makers of decision support systems, announced today that attendees at The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress (www.worldcongress.com) on November 9-11, 2005, will use The VisionTree Conference Platform to help participants collect group input, generate new ideas and enhance collaboration. The VisionTree Conference Platform leverages the state-of-the-art online and wireless technology of VisionTree, the leader in decision making and planning applications for patients, physicians and healthcare organizations.
The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress is a premier gathering of international experts in business and technology, health care delivery, administration and policy-making. The meeting illuminates the world’s leading strategies and technologies transforming health care. Presenters include Steven Case, Cofounder of America Online; Mark McClellan, M.D., Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health; and Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives and founder of The Center for Health Transformation.
Conference participants will be given wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) loaded with the interactive VisionTree Conference software. The software will allow panelists to present information, gain immediate feedback from the audience through custom surveys and free-text input, and collaborate in real-time while gathering relevant data. The VisionTree Conference Platform will also present the data to the audience in graphs and charts for immediate analysis.
Beth Falk, Executive Director of the World Health Care Innovation & Technology Congress, said: ''We selected The VisionTree Conference Platform based on its successful track record at other medical and health care meetings. It turns the traditional one-way conference session into a truly two-way, interactive session that will increase audience participation and collaboration, enhancing the value of the conference for presenters, audience members and hosts.''
VisionTree Software President Martin Pellinat said, ''We are proud to partner with the World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress and we share their commitment to shining the light on technologies that transform health care.''
About VisionTree Software
VisionTree Software, headquartered in San Diego, CA, produces a line of user-friendly decision making technologies to help patients, physicians and healthcare organizations make quality decisions and plans with a high level of efficiency.
VisionTree has delivered significant and measurable improvement in the documentation, accountability and data collection of decision making, strategic planning and large group interaction. For more information, visit www.visiontree.com.
Click here to learn more about the VisionTree Conference Platform.
Click here to learn more about VisionTree Healthcare Online.
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