Conference Seeks Strategy on Bio, IT Standards for Health Care
2007-07-06 02:55:03The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Biotechnology Council and the Commerce Department’s Technology Administration, is sponsoring a one-day conference on the potential of bio and information technologies to improve healthcare delivery over the next 25 years. The role of measurements and standards in enabling broad-based advances in the use of biomeasurements, computational analysis and information technology in the nation’s healthcare system will be discussed. The conference on Economic Strategy for Health Care through Bio and Information Standards and Technologies will be held in Gaithersburg, Md., on Sept. 25, 2007.
Healthcare spending accounts for nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy—the costs are expected to exceed $4 trillion a year by 2015. Rapidly developing advances at the intersection of measurement science and biology and information technology have the potential to curb the escalation in healthcare costs by shifting resources from the diagnosis and treatment of disease to the more cost-effective strategy of preventing disease in the first place, and more effective delivery of health care when necessary.
For more details, go to www.itl.nist.gov/Healthcare/conf/intro.htm
Healthcare spending accounts for nearly a fifth of the U.S. economy—the costs are expected to exceed $4 trillion a year by 2015. Rapidly developing advances at the intersection of measurement science and biology and information technology have the potential to curb the escalation in healthcare costs by shifting resources from the diagnosis and treatment of disease to the more cost-effective strategy of preventing disease in the first place, and more effective delivery of health care when necessary.
For more details, go to www.itl.nist.gov/Healthcare/conf/intro.htm
