CITRIS Research Exchange: The Future of Healthcare and the role of technology and services

• September 13, 2006: 11:00am - 12:00pm
• Contact: Yvette Subramanian
• Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

"The Future of Healthcare and the role of technology and services"

Ravi Nemana, Executive Director of Services: Science, Management & Engineering program"
12:00 p.m. on September 13 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley

Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-fall2006.

The archived talk is now online: mms://MEDIA.citris.berkeley.edu/Ravi_Nemana_9_13_06

View presentation slides (pdf) 

Abstract:

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have already had a significant impact on health care and the delivery of health services.  From Telemedicine to electronic health records to RFID to embedded sensors, a variety of health ICTs have been shown to improve operational and administrative efficiencies, clinical outcomes, documentation and information flow in a variety of global settings, from the home to rural health centers to large urban hospitals.  However, adoption and benefits have not been uniformly distributed and replicability of successes has been difficult.  What does the future hold for ICT in health care?  Where are the trends leading us?  What can ICT do to improve the quality, cost, efficiency and capacity of the healthcare serivce?  This presentation will cover these topics and the research areas that may lead us to radically novel ways of using ICT for health care and in our daily lives, and it will focus particularly on the capacity issues in healthcare and the role of adoption of ICT.

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