WHCC Affordable Health Innovations

Following the success of the Affordable Health Innovation Poster Exhibit at the World Health Care Congeess in Washington D.C. this April, we are launching similar exhibits at our several of our upcoming conferences, including the World Health Care Congress, Middle East, December 5-7 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The World Health Care Congress Middle East will gather 750 senior health care leaders from around the globe. We welcome poster submissions from all areas of the health care industry, including those focusing on hospitals and health systems, public and population health, health care financing and mobile health and telemedicine.

Click here to submit an abstract of your work for consideration.

Participants are invited to present a poster at the event. While we permit organizations to send just a poster for display, we strongly encourage participants to attend with the poster. It is a great opportunity to meet other people in the health care field.

In addition, we will display your work on our special Web site www.whcchealthinnovations.org. This year-round project is like a “virtual exhibit” for displaying posters as well as infromation about the projects.

If you didn’t catch it when it aired, check on the report CBS Evening News did on Vision Spring, a great non-profit that is helping the visually-impaired in developing countires see.  The organization does this through free eye exams and affordably-priced glasses. The report takes us to the rural village of Keharpura in Rajasthan, India, where Ranju Sharma, a local woman, finishes her daily choses and begins administering eye exams to other villagers. 

By providing the eye exams, Sharma can then sell glasses to those who need them four about $4 pair.  She keeps about $1 per pair for herself and the recipients of the glasses get something they otherswise likely would be without – the gift of good eyesight.

VisionSpring was foudned in 2001 by New York City eye doctor Jordan Kassalow.

Click the link below to watch the report

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6463853n&tag=mncol;lst;2