NDLI: Opening lecture

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kun, Luis
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: National Defense University, Washington DC, USA (Kun, Luis)
Abstract	Many issues we routinely experience with respect to solving health care or public health problems, such as medical errors, occur and are perpetuated because of our silos or stovepipes of information. The scientific community and the EMBS recognize intimately that preparing for the provision of health care, and erecting our public health system of tomorrow, is not just a matter of converging heterogeneous technologies but of people and processes as well. As society prepares to shift the current systems into some where wellness and disease prevention will be the focus, society will face some major challenges. Many changes can affect positively medical and cost effective outcomes as well as the reduction and or elimination of medical errors and patient safety for example and yet privacy and security of personal medical information continue to be a major hurdle. Information Technology acting as a catalyst for change when combined with discovery and advances in research and development of new devices, and new drugs offers a multitude of avenues that were hard to imagine just a few decades ago. The convergence of science and technology open some doors of opportunity that may help diminish the polarization among the developed and underdeveloped nations. Society needs a systems approach and having a holistic view of the problem; to be able to see the whole and not just discrete pieces; and help determine, for example unintended consequences which are absent. Integration of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary orientations and activities when trying to understand the problem and moving toward generating potential solutions are needed; yet present approaches are grossly insufficient in this respect. A new Global Health strategy where the public and private sectors work together will be presented as well as a wide range of opportunities that can start at the cellular, molecular and genetics levels and go as far as population health. A Global Economy that will be pushed to integrate surveillance and epidemiology for better protection against environmental threats and food borne diseases through the use of remote sensing data and a worldwide food enterprise architecture will also be discussed
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	597676
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424441235
ISSN	1557170X
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626557
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-08-31
Publisher Place	Argentina
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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