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Future of Health Technology Summit FHT2013 |
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18th Future of Health Technology Summit™
May 6, 2013, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty Club,
Cambridge MA |
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About Future of Health Technology
Summit: Inspiring, Interdisciplinary,
Insightful, Innovative ... |
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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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Doctor of the Future |
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About Future of Health Technology Award: |
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Gloria
Rudisch, Marvin Minsky, Aubrey
DeGrey, Renata Bushko & Ray Kurzweil
at the annual Future of Health
Technology awards dinner. |
2010
Future of Health Technology Award
Ceremony
Benjamin Miller and Renata Bushko |
Dr. Lorraine
Gudas of Weill Cornell Medical College
2013 Future of Health Technology Award
Honoree |
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The Future of
Health Technology Award is given to those whose work can help
reduce suffering, maximize the potential for self-realization
and extend human potential with technology. The award is in the
form of a statue of Pegasus, the winged horse of inspiration. It
features crystal eyes and one extra nano-diamond eye in the
middle of the forehead to reflect extra insight that future
health technologies will provide. Apollo Diamond provided the
laboratory-grown diamond crystal. Award Ceremony takes place
during Future of Health Technology Dinner at the MIT Faculty
Club during annual Future of Health Technology Summit.
In Greek mythology, Pegasus is regarded as the horse of Muses,
and has always been a the service of creative minds. And so the
story is told of a handsome youth who jumped on the back of a
horse that unfolded the splendor of a mighty set of wings and
soared towards the heavens where he can still be seen as the
star constellation, Pegasus. |
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Inspiring, Interdisciplinary,
Insightful, Innovative ... |
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"This is
the meeting where unexpected things happen and whole new strategies and
industries emerge... It is the most interesting and inspiring one I
attend. I am typically *not* a meeting-goer these days. But this meeting
is more than worth it!!!
Julia Royall
Chief, International Programs
Director, Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Communications Network
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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"I have
attended the Future of Health Technology
Summit for several years. It never fails to
expose me to new ideas and to broaden my
horizons. The small size makes it easy to
engage with like minded individuals from a
cross section of academic and industry
organizations. I strongly recommend it!"
Dean
Calcagni, Director of Strategic Planning
Biomedicine Business Area at Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory |
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"Fantastic
conference and I was thrilled to have been a
part of it."
M. Chris
Gibbons, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Urban
Health Institute
Director, Center for Community Health,
Assistant Professor,
Public Health and Medicine, Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions |
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"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" |
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"Future of Health Technology Summits are the most
impressive conferences that I have attended to date. This is attributed to the
quality of the people, the access to them, and the overall warmth that the
conferences convey."
Richard Spivack, Ph.D.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
US Department of Commerce |
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“A unique,
one-of-a-kind meeting bringing together
leading innovative minds in an intimate
setting to collaboratively share a vision
for the future of medicine.“
Michael
Gillam, MD - 2009, 2010 & 2011 Participant
Director for Healthcare Innovation
Microsoft Health Solutions Group |
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“The event is
always great, and gets better and better
every year.”
John Moore
MD
MIT Media Laboratory |
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FHT2012 Sponsors |
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Future of Health Technology Institute's Publications |
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Strategy for the Future
of Health |
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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. |
The Strategy 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Define 7 most promising health technology research areas. |
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Show how technology driven cost increase of healthcare could be stopped, and
even reversed by a new allocation of research and development resources. |
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Define fruitful emerging R&D areas with potential impact on health and
healthcare. |
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Identify new technologies that are possible and needed in health and wellness
maintenance. |
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Identify R&D needed to meet future health challenges. |
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| Future of
Health Technology Institute - History & Tradition |
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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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