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Por medio de la presente informo que este miércoles 29 de agosto a las 15:30 hora de Argentina (hora argentina, GMT-3) se realizará una conferencia organizado por la IEEE de Argentina sobre 'Hurdles in the Information Age on Public Health Practice and Health Care Delivery'.

Será transmitida por la Red CLARA.

Creo que es una gran oportunidad de empezar a enlazar todos las IEEE de Latinoamerica a traves de CLARA en eventos que pueden ser compartidos por toda la comunidad latinoamericana.

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Saludos

Daniel Díaz A

Grupo de VC de la Red CLARA

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>> > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:51:58 -0400

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>> > Videoconferencia 'Hurdles in the Information Age on Public Health

>> > Practice and Health Care Delivery'

>> >

>> > El Capítulo Argentino de la IEEE Computer Society invita a la

>> > Videoconferencia

>> >

>> > del Dr. Luis Kun sobre 'Hurdles in the Information Age on Public

>> > Health Practice and Health Care Delivery', que se dictará en

>> > español el próximo miércoles 29 de agosto a las 15:30 (hora

>> > argentina, GMT-3).

>> >

>> > * Abstract The implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR)

>> > and a Health Information

>> >

>> > Infrastructure both at the National and Global levels has been a

>> > lot slower than many estimated just a few decades ago. Although

>> > "Costs & Privacy" seem to be two of the reasons most commonly

>> > attributed to these delays, few people focus on the potential

>> > savings that could occur by having both the EHR and a National

>> > Health Information Infrastructure (NHII). Health care costs are the

>> > fastest growing segment of government and personal expenditures.

>> > One of the attempts to control these escalating costs is managed

>> > care. So far the data on

>> >

>> > effectiveness of managed care in controlling these costs is mixed.

>> >

>> > Life expectancy on the other hand, has increased. The over-65

>> > population is increasing with the over-85 group increasing the most

>> > rapidly. From an economic point of view the "elderly" represents by

>> > far the biggest expense and as this group increases so do the

>> > expenses.

>> >

>> > Most of the talk in terms of the benefits of telemedicine has been

>> > mainly in the area of "rural health" since it affects 55 million

>> > lives in this country (USA) alone. Telehealth and in particular

>> > telemedicine however offer some unique opportunities for the

>> > elderly and as such its economic, cultural, social and

>> > technological impacts can be phenomenal. Nursing homes and in

>> > particular home care will become much more cost and clinically

>> > effective by utilization of these technologies.

>> >

>> > In the Information Age implementation and support of the National

>> > and

>> >

>> > Global Health Information Infrastructures (NHII/GHII) strategic

>> > plan will occur through the utilization of High Performance

>> > Computing and Communications [HPCC] and Intelligent Agents . HPCC

>> > technology provides a potentially huge payoff in health care. From

>> > tele-consultations to availability of health-related databases, the

>> > effect of using HPCC will enhance patient care, improve drug

>> > design, and broaden access to medical information.

>> >

>> > With the incorporation of these technologies to genome-map related

>> > discovery we are at the verge of doing true disease prevention.

>> > Geographic distance, time to accomplish tasks, separation of people

>> > from resources, and outdated organizational structures are

>> > impediments that inhibit the ultimate achievement of all these

>> > goals. Information

>> >

>> > technology has a pervasive and unprecedented ability to remove

>> > these barriers to progress.

>> >

>> > * Orador Luis Kun (Ph.D., FIEEE) is Professor of Systems

>> > Management, IRM College, National Defense University, USA. His

>> > expertise is in medical informatics, and his consultant work covers

>> > health care, public health and scientific computing.

>> >

>> > Dr. Kun is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic

>> > Engineers (IEEE). He Chairs the Critical Infrastructure Protection

>> > Committee for the IEEE-USA and the Bioterrorism and Homeland

>> > Security

>> >

>> > Working Group for its Medical Technology Policy Committee. He is a

>> > member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

>> > Public Policy Committee and also co-chairs the Knowledge in Motion

>> > Working Group (Telehealth, Internet & mobile Computing). He advises

>> > several Federal Departments, plus the U.S. Congress and the

>> > Executive Branch on information technology infrastructure related

>> > to health care; terrorism, e-government and homeland cybersecurity.

>> > He is also a member of the American Institute for Medical and

>> > Biological Engineering (AIMBE) since 1999 where he is the current

>> > Secretary-Treasurer.

>> >

>> > As a professor of systems management at the Information Resources

>> > Management College at the National Defense University, Dr. Kun has

>> > developed and teaches the Homeland Security curricula. He teaches

>> > courses on infrastructure control systems, supervisory control and

>> > data acquisition, which focuses on awareness and protection of the

>> > government's infrastructure devices and control centers.

>> >

>> > He spent 14 years at IBM, where he developed the first six clinical

>> > applications for the IBM PC; was one of the pioneers on bedside

>> > terminals for Intensive Care; and a developer of a semi-expert,

>> > real-time, clinical decision support system. He was also the

>> > technical manager of the Nursing Point of Care System at IBM. Dr.

>> > Kun was the biomedical engineer in the team of four that developed

>> > the first Teleradiology system and the first Picture Archival and

>> > Communications Systems to run on an IBM platform. He was also

>> > Director of Medical Systems Technology and Strategic Planning at

>> > Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA.

>> >

>> > Dr. Kun received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. in

>> > Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, all

>> > from UCLA. Para más detalles (en español) sobre la actividad

>> > profesional del Dr. Kun ver:

>> >

>> >

>> >