Newswise — CIMIT will convene its annual Innovation Congress Oct. 27-28 in Boston, with top keynote speakers, in-depth discussions about cutting-edge medical issues and close to 60 demonstrations of innovative medical devices and clinical systems in the CIMIT Exploratorium.
The theme of the conference is “Accelerating Healthcare Solutions through Technology.” Five nationally recognized leaders will keynote the two day event.
Susan Axelrod, President of CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy) is featured as the Voice of the Patient. Axelrod founded CURE along with two other mothers to spearhead the search for a cure for epilepsy.
Clayton M. Christensen, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is the architect of and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation. He is the author of “The Innovators Prescription” (2009), which examines how to fix the problems facing healthcare.
Setting the stage for the three conference tracks on Transforming Patient Care through IT, Caring for the Injured Soldier, and Introducing New Technologies into Clinical Care are:
Sean M. Hogan, Vice President, Global Healthcare Delivery Systems, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, will frame the issues to be examined in Transforming Patient Care through IT. His organization leads the development of IBM’s Healthcare Industry Solutions, Business Partnerships and Alliances and growth and investments initiatives.
Major General James K. Gilman, MD, Commander US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, will headline the track on Caring for the Injured Soldier. The USAMRMC is the Army's medical materiel developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition and medical logistics management.
Michael J. Harsh, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare, will address the general session about the challenges of Introducing New Technologies into Clinical Care. Mr. Harsh leads the global technology strategy for GE Healthcare to create and sustain global technology leadership that will provide strategic growth opportunities.
Reform is driving new thinking in healthcare delivery. The CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 will explore novel ways to transform healthcare delivery systems, improve patient safety, maximize outcomes and achieve favorable healthcare economics.
“CIMIT strives to improve patient care through innovation, collaboration and encouragement of novel ideas that catalyze change by using technology and technology-based solutions to disrupt healthcare delivery systems,” said CIMIT Executive Director John Parrish, MD. “Solutions to today’s healthcare challenges will require out of the box thinking and paradigm-shifting new approaches.”
The CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 is a unique interactive conference featuring national leaders who are shaping the future of patient care.
CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 - Accelerating Healthcare Solutions through Technology
The conference will be held Oct. 27-28 at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St., Boston. Register online to attend. Online registration closes Saturday, October 24.
To learn more about the conference or register online, go to: http://www.cimit.org/innovationcongress.html
CIMIT is the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. A non-profit consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent healthcare problems.
Members of the consortium are Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners HealthCare and VA Boston Healthcare System.
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