Renata Bushko
Ms. Bushko founded Future of Health Technology Institute in 1996 and has since chaired eleven Future of Health Technology Summits at MIT.
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.

Topics

THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
Future of intelligent and extelligent health environment,
The technology on our body, in our body and all around us enhances our health and well-being from conception to death. This environment is emerging now with intelligent caring machines, cyborgs, wireless embedded continuous computing, healthwear, sensors, healthons, nanomedicine, adaptive process control, mathematical modeling, and common sense systems. Human body and the world in which it functions is a continuously changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect more and more data about it but the real challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians (mathematicians serving human health) have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians. Humans can only process comfortably three dimensions while computers can see infinite number of dimensions. We will need to trust the distributed network of healthons, Intelligent Caring Creatures, and NURSES (New Unified Resource System Engineers) to create Health Extelligence. We need new vocabulary to push forward in a new way. For instance; healthons are tools combining prevention with diagnosis and treatment based on continuous monitoring and analyzing of our vital signs and biochemistry. The "Healthon Era" is just beginning. We are closer and closer to the world with healthons on your body, in your body and all around you; where not a doctor but your primary care healthmatician warns you about an approaching headache; and where NURSE programs your intelligent caring creatures so they can talk to your cells and stop disease in its tracks.

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