Harnessing New Technology to Your Organizational Strategy: Its Less About Cost Than Leverage
OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
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I am fascinated with emerging treatment models that use new technologies: smart cards, personal health records, virtual reality, avatars, individually-designed drugs, brain scans to monitor those drugs, deep brain implants, synthetic body replacement parts, robots, and more. To me, they represent next generation health care akin to the impact of the invention of antibiotics. But, as we are preparing for the 2008 Institute for Behavioral Healthcare Informatics, I was struck by the gap between available and emerging technologies . . .