WHAT: On May 15th, healthcare industry and medical academic leaders gather in New York to discuss innovations in medical technology that can help predict, diagnose and treat disease and why these technologies are key components to the future of healthcare. This media-only event will focus on topics including:

Predictive Diagnostics, Healthcare's New Crystal Ball

• Early Diagnosis: Impacting Time, Money and Lives

• Seeing Cardiovascular Disease in a New Light

• Tackling Tumors in the 21st Century

• Gray Matters: Preserving Good Years (Neuroscience)

Precision Disease Management: Targeting Future Needs

• Developing New Therapies, Imaging and Drug Discovery

• Targeting Time in the Treatment Paradigm: MR Guided Focused Ultrasound in Treatment of Uterine Fibroids

• Patient Monitoring: Keeping a Close Eye

Patient Panel: Your Early Health>

• Patient treated at the North Texas Uterine Fibroid Institute and others

• Clinical and Economic Potential of Earlier Diagnosis

Bridging Information to Clinical Practice and Breaking Down Barriers to Care

• Completing the Care Cycle

• The New Healthcare Empowerment System

• Equity in Access

WHY: Enhancing the current healthcare system with technologies to help prevent, detect and treat diseases earlier than ever has become increasingly important. These technologies are already playing a role in the aging Baby Boomer generation, obesity, diabetes and other chronic illnesses. During this session, presenters will provide updates on some of the latest technology that is being used both in inpatient and outpatient settings to improve healthcare.

WHO:

• Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE

• Joseph M. Hogan, CEO, GE Healthcare

• Delo
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