Mobile and home-based technologies could help stretch limited funds and create sustainable healthcare for all. That’s the assertion of Eric Dishman, director of health innovation at Intel, in this university podcast. Estimating that there is a $500 billion opportunity for health IT in developing markets, particularly via non-governmental organizations, he argues that using technology strategically could help developing countries avoid the inefficient, high-cost, error-prone infrastructure of the United States. Dishman spoke at the USRio+2.0 Conference, hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Eric Dishman is an Intel Fellow and director of health innovation at Intel. He founded Intel’s first healthcare lab in 1999 and co-founded the Intel Digital Health Group. Trained as a social scientist, Dishman leads a team that has conducted a ten-year study of the needs of over 1000 patients and hundreds of clinicians in 20 countries to inform Intel’s innovation and policy efforts. He is widely recognized as a global leader in healthcare innovation, especially home and community-based technologies for chronic disease management and independent living. He co-founded and chaired some of the world’s largest research and policy organizations devoted to advancing the cause of independent living, including the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre, the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), and the Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (ORCATECH).
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