Delivery of Health Care: CITRIS Newss

The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.

A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.

Talks and discussions from the recent Services in Health care conference are online at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3F05DD2A723C3887.

The fall semester schedule for the popular Research Exchange series is now on-line.

Ming Wu has been appointed the new Chief Scientist for CITRIS at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley, and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center (BSAC).

The June 2008 newsletter is now online, with two stories on key energy projects in both engine development and predicting solar availability for utilities.

Currently, CITRIS has awarded approximately $2 million in seed grants on all four campuses. These projects will help fulfill the CITRIS mission of creating societal-based research through collaborations across the CITRIS campuses.

CITRIS projects at Berkeley and Santa Cruz using cell phones as a healthcare platform are among the projects supported by a recent Microsoft Research initiative.

Six projects were awarded a total of $30K at this year's CITRIS Big Ideas contest, with the top two prizes going to healthcare-related issues.

Ethan Miller's group has come up with a new approach, called Pergamum, which uses hard disk drives to provide energy-efficient, cost-effective storage.

The April newsletter features stories about technology for social impact: CellScope (cell phone + microscope) and enabling eye care in India using cheap, reliable Wi-Fi.

Read about innovative work at CITRIS in the latest newsletter, now on-line.

All Research Exchange talks take place at noon on Wednesdays in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the UC Berkeley campus, As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line.

Read more about sustainable building and trusting Wikipedia in the latest CITRIS newsletter.

The University of California, in partnership with a coalition of government agencies, health care providers and others, received a three-year, $22 million award from the Federal Communications Commission to help develop a new California Telehealth Network.

CITRIS research on remote care, including that from John Canny's group at UC Berkeley, focuses on diagnostic medical devices and their integration with network technologies.