This month’s Communications of the ACM features a great piece about improving — and transforming — our nation’s healthcare system through the development of an information technology ecosystem: …[Health] information technology need not be limited to doctor’s visits and lab tests. [A report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) last December] envisions a more comprehensive, lifelong record that includes not only treatment history but also a genetic profile, psychological characteristics, behavior patterns, and exposures to risks that might be relevant to health. While such a record could benefit individual patients, it could provide even greater value when stripped of personally identifying information, combined with similar records, and […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for September 28th, 2011
