The Global Medical Forum Foundation is a private global network of selected innovators and decision-makers in healthcare. The Foundation is a means to better understand the interrelationship of the global systems of healthcare.It is a place to discuss rational solutions to the healthcare debate andit is a provider of unbiased information on the value and role of medical innovation and technology, the financing of healthcare, and other related issues of public policy. Every nation – every healthcare business leader, health minister, and scientist – faces virtually the same challenges in advancing new technologies and agents through an efficient and rational system of healthcare financing. The issues that these leaders face are more similar than different.Between 2001 and 2008, The Global Medical Forum Foundation conducted its annual meeting for international healthcare leaders from over thirty nations in Zurich each year. The Foundation also held regional summits in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Shanghai, Washington and Berlin. From 2003 to 2012, the Foundation incubated new hospitals and related developments in emerging markets including Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, China and Egypt.