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| 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. |
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Strategy for the Future: Multiple
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The Future of Health Technology Summit is an annual event that brings
together leading health and technology experts to reveal, share and debate
ideas about cutting-edge medical technologies being utilized to save
lives, reduce suffering and extend human potential. This is the meeting
where unexpected things happen, new strategies emerge, and participants
get inspired. The future of health and medicine depends on today's investment in research, development, and education. At the summit we actively collaborate to ensure progress. You are invited to attend if you are looking to develop vision of the future, discover new strategies, and build valuable alliances. |
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Strategy for the Future of
Health Edited by: Renata G. Bushko, IOS Press 2009 (hardcover book) Bringing together some of the strongest and most advanced voices in the field of medicine and technology, Strategy for the Future of Health examines the constantly changing horizon of ideas and technologies which must be addressed by decision makers involved in health-related resource allocation. Future progress and the provision of long-term solutions in healthcare and medicine depend on the decisions to invest in research, development and education today. This book touches upon all aspects of the system and is rich and diverse enough to provide direction in goal formation for those concerned in making such decisions. Strategy for the Future of Health addresses the unprecedented technological revolution in healthcare which is manifesting itself in the convergence of molecular biology, computer and medical science, electrical, mechanical, genetic and biomedical engineering. Health professionals look towards a future where caring machines will assist them in much of their work and consumers will diagnose and treat themselves with self-health tools, personalized designer drugs and automatic surgery bubbles. Such developments could lead to both dramatic cost reduction and eventually to the delivery of error-free healthcare |
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for the Future of Health book is just like Renata brilliant, bold and
brave and has exponential power to pull you into the future. Ray Kurzweil, Inventor, Author and Futurist, Author of "The Singularity is Near" "Renata has mixed together a veritable cocktail of articles set to ignite the big bang of Healthcare. The future of medicinal technology starts here". Kevin Warwick, World's first Cyborg Like all technology, health technology can only proceed so far by small incremental steps; every so often it needs vision, lateral thinking, the willingness to step back and consider radical new approaches. Renata Bushko's annual conference and associated books are a tremendous focus for this crucial long-term thinking. Aubrey de Grey, Author of "Ending Aging" "Among the noblest aspirations of humanity are the development of advanced technologies for the conquest of aging and medically preventable causes of death, and the launching of a new era of personal choice in medicine. Strategy for the Future of Health� gives us a solid push in the right direction." Robert A. Freitas Jr., Author of "Nanomedicine" |
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Future of Intelligent
and Extelligent Health Environment Edited by: Renata G. Bushko, IOS Press 2005 (hardcover book) 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 |
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Future of Health Technology
Edited by: Renata G. Bushko, IOS Press 2002 (hardcover book) 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 |
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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". |