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Renata Bushko |
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Chair, Future of Health Technology Institute |
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Renata Bushko is Chair of the Future of Health Technology
Institute, a health technology think-tank dedicated to defining the health technology agenda for the 21st century. Ms. Bushko founded Future of Health Technology Institute in 1996 and has since chaired
eleven Future of Health Technology Summits at MIT. These summits engage leading minds from the technology and healthcare fields in envisioning the future of technology for global healthcare. Under her leadership, the Future of Health Technology Institute has been recognized as the premiere health technology research and training organization in the nation. Previously Ms. Bushko served on national healthcare programs organized by Vice President Albert Gore, Dr. C. Everett Koop, and former secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. L. Sullivan. She was an advisor on health technology investment issues in the US, UK, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, & Poland while representing US health standards organizations to Australia & Asia. Ms. Bushko also worked as an analyst/writer for the International Data Corporation (IDC) defining future trends in technology and healthcare. She holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with specialization in intelligent agents/systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a BA in Computer Science from Smith College and University of Warsaw. She has been selected by Professor Marvin Minsky - one of the founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - to develop intelligent agents and study machine intelligence at the MIT AI Lab.
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