Health Information Technology Conference: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 — Governor Patrick speaks at the Health Information Technology Conference: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality.
(Photo credit: Eugena Ossi/Governor’s Office)
Guttenberg Information Technologies Center
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The Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC). I had many classes in this building while a part of the College of Computing Sciences.
At the recent White House forum on health care, President Obama and Congressional leaders promised a focus on controlling rising health care costs. There is perhaps no effective means to be driven costs and improve health outcomes than a rapid spread of Information Technology. While electronic health records to gain broad support, less known is the enormous potential impact of health IT link with pervasive broadband connectivity – from hospital to home ‘body mobile networks. “Intel chairman Craig Barrett keynote our discussion of this new field. Mr. Barrett is a worldwide evangelist for the benefits of connecting quality care to patients with ubiquitous broadband connectivity everywhere. Other speakers will describe a broad range of advanced applications in telecare, including: remote monitoring, remote care and self-management of costly chronic diseases, expansion of specialist care in rural and remote areas across the U.S. and developing countries , “aging in place ‘reducing institutionalization and hospitalization make emergency care more effective, and the billions in the total cost of the spread of mobile healthcare IT.
Eric Brewer, “Telemedicine for Developing Countries” The aim of the TIER project is addressing the challenges in bringing the Information Technology revolution to the masses of the developing regions of the world. Historically, the majority of projects that aim to do this rely on technology developed for the affluent world, but this imported technology is not the key challenges of cost, effort, energy to address and support for semi- and illiterate users. TIER focuses on developing a hardware / software infrastructure explicitly designed for the physical, political and economic realities of developing areas. It will build on existing research at Berkeley and elsewhere, but also face a number of new technical and organizational challenges. This project focuses on these challenges with new technology, while validating the effects of the use of real-world implementations. Finally, this project aims to provide guidelines and set of techniques that can then be used by companies or the government to enable solutions that are currently intractable. Currently our main projects are educational aids, health care, wireless (WiLDNet), distributed storage (Tier Store) and speech. This is a multi-disciplinary project that both technologists and social scientists and real implementations to ensure that the work includes real-world solutions are looking for. Primary funding comes from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from Intel, HP, Microsoft, UNDP, IIT . . .
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