The Wireless Future of Health IT – Nancy L. Johnson

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.