Health Information Systems Technologies

The United States faces a severe health crises. Healthcare costs more and is less effective here than in many other nations. A large influx of baby boomers is entering Medicare that will place enormous stress on the system. In the population as a whole, inappropriate health life styles are engendering obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other chronic ills.

Information systems technologies have the potential to help alleviate our health crises. Fortunately, there are significant capabilities in Silicon Valley that could be harnessed including at Stanford, VA Health System, other health providers, and high tech companies.

In this talk, I discuss how health information systems technologies can enhance current pilot efforts by providing means for recruitment, sustainability, and scalability.

Speaker: Carl Hewitt, International Society for Inconsistency Robustness