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At Mobile Health Workshop, Leaders from Healthcare, Technology and Academia Develop “Shovel-Ready” Initiatives
The CyLab Mobility Research Center’s Mobile Health Workshop brought together over forty leaders in the health care, information technology (IT) and education sectors to explore challenges and opportunities in this vital intersection where science, medicine, and IT meet one of the most poignant dimensions of the human condition head-on.
Speakers from Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Qualcomm, SAP, Kinnexxus, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), and Carnegie Mellon framed the core issues and reported on cutting-edge work being done in the space.
In articulating the ambitious agenda of the one-day workshop, the Center’s Co-Director Martin Griss declared "I do not want us to be just another big consortium, I want us to do something. … We are here to be leaders in this eco-system."
Griss told attendees their goals were to identify three "shovel-ready" collaborative initiatives (i.e., health care, academia and industry), and marshal the will, resources and plans to launch these initiatives.
Three critical questions were addressed in the twenty-four position papers submitted by attendees:
- How will mobile health improve outcomes, reduce costs, and/or patient (and provider) experience?
- What are the most pressing business, process, organization, cultural and technical issues in mobile health?
- What are the best opportunities for collaborative university research?
Dean Pradeep Khosla confers with Research Director Karita Ilvonen and Professor Paul Lillrank from the Helsinki University of Technology, co-sponsors of the workshop.
For more information on the Mobile Health Workshop, go to our new CyBlog and review our series of reports from the event:
- CyLab Mobility Research Center's Martin Griss Declares, "I Do Not Want Us to be Just Another Big Consortium, I Want Us to Do Something."
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Helsinki University of Technology on the Known Unknowns
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Kaiser Permanente's Naomi Fried Extols Telehealth and Envisions "Home as the Hub"
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Microsoft's Oren Rosenbloom on the "Copernican Shift" in Health Care
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: "Wireless Health Connectivity Collapses Time and Space" says Qualcomm's Don Jones
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: SAP's Belala asks, "Can wireless patient flow monitoring to provide true patient-centric care?”
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Kinnexxus' Vision -- "With" the Elder Rather than "For" or "To" the Elder
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Carnegie Mellon's Siewiorek on "Intelligent Systems that Augment Body and Mind"
- CyLab MRC Mobile Health Workshop: Faces of Future Technology Leaders, Students with Their Posters