Future of Health Technology Institute - Mission
"The Future of Health Technology Institute focuses on key technologies and key challenges to the future of global healthcare to enhance health and lives. Our goal is to bring together high level thinkers in the area of new emerging technology & health and to define the health technology agenda for the 21st century. Our second goal is to provide state-of-the art technology training for healthcare professionals and consumers to assure that their voice is included in defining the future of health technology."

Renata Bushko
Chair, Future of Health Technology Institute

Renata Bushko, Chair, Future of Health Technology Institute. Bushko organizes one of the most interesting presentations in the Hub tech sector. She invites luminaries from around the country, and they present their cutting-edge technologies. Yes, she was responsible for the appearance of “the human cyborg.” One of her most intriguing presentations was from a group promoting telemedicine: A physician in New York, using robotics and the Internet, executed an invasive operation on a woman in France. 

Dyke Hendrickson
Mass High Tech 
Future of  Health Technology Summit FHT2008
13th Annual FHTI Conference, September 22 - 23, 2008
 at MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA,  Explores New Frontiers of Medicine

Strategy for the Future: Multiple Dimensions - One Direction

Future of Health Technology Summit ™ is an annual event that brings together the world’s leading health technology experts to reveal, share and debate ideas about leading-edge medical technologies organized by the Future of Health Technology Institute, based in Hopkinton, a suburb of Boston.
Future of  Health Technology Institute's Publications
Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment
 (hardcover book), Edited by: Renata G. Bushko, IOS Press 2005
“This book brings you closer to the errorless healthcare with bionic hugs where healthons on your body, in your body and all around you continuously enhance your wellbeing; where not a doctor but your primary care healthmatician warns you about an approaching headache; and where NURSE - New Unified Resource Systems Engineer - programs your intelligent caring creatures so they can talk to your cells."

Renata Bushko, Director, Future of Health Technology Institute
“Future technology is not just a straight-line extrapolation of current trends. Contributed chapters in Renata Bushko's latest volume introduce a fascinating assemblage of technologies that challenge our current concepts of what science and engineering can do for human health -- as the technology becomes increasingly intimate to and integrated with our physical beings -- and give us a preview of the social and cultural adaptations that can be expected.”

Robert A. Greenes, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Health Care Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital & BWH Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics

“This book offers remarkable perspectives on stunning advances in technology. It's a must read for those who want to know what's on the horizon and closing fast.”

Herman Baumann, Executive Director-Strategic Development
American Hospital Association

"Clairvoyance is the rarest gift, especially in healthcare where possible futures have differing balances of promise and dread. Bushko and her authors demonstrate the gift in these chapters. They describe for us attainable futures where technology is harnessed for healing. Their book is a beacon to those who would make this promise real." 

Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, M.D., Chief, Psychopharmacology Program, Children's Hospital Boston, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Future of Health Technology  
(hardcover book), Edited by: Renata G. Bushko, IOS Press 2002
It provides an inspiring and comprehensive vision of the future of health technology by looking at the ways to advance.
- medical technologies,
- health information infrastructure,
- intellectual leadership. 
“If you understand something in only one way, then you don't understand it at all. So take this journey with Renata to envision many versions of future health technology.”
Professor Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Extraordinary selection of topics. Renata Bushko's insight and determination over last five years to define the future of health technology resulted in many fine chapters of this book - each a gem. It sets direction for the new century." 
J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. Senior Science Advisor for Information Technology Immediate Office of the Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality US Department of Health and Human Services

"Excellent insight into the future of health. Renata, former student of Professor Marvin Minsky - one of the founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence, carries out his legacy of breakthrough thinking into healthcare."
Professor Charles Safran, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School & Chairman and CEO, Clinician Support Technology

Future of Health Technology Institute - Goals

  • Develop a vision of the future of health care as supported by current and future health technologies.

  • Define 7 most promising health technology research areas.

  • Show how technology driven cost increase of healthcare could be stopped, and even reversed by a new allocation of research and development resources.

  •  Define fruitful emerging R&D areas with potential impact on health and healthcare. 

  •  Identify new technologies that are possible and needed in health and wellness maintenance.

  • Identify R&D needed to meet future health challenges.

  • Identify current best products preparing healthcare for the 21st century.

Future of Health Technology Institute - History & Tradition
Since 1996 the Future of Health Technology Institute (FHTI) has been holding annual Future of Health Technology Summits aimed at defining health technology agenda for the 21st Century. The historic 1996 summit (FHT96) - celebrated 40th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence with one of its founders and one of the greatest thinkers of our times - Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT. According to Dr. Albert Sunseri, Executive Director, ASHE of American Hospital Association and Chair of the FHT97-99 Organizing Committee: "With entering a new Millennium, Future of Health Technology Summit is a must for anyone interested in planning strategically for the future".
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