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Mission and Vision
The Health Technology Center (HealthTech) is a non-profit research organization and expert network that develops forecasts and planning tools for emerging technologies in healthcare, and works with a broad range of stakeholders to advance their adoption.
Our VISION is to make healthcare, better, safer and more affordable by advancing the adoption of technology-enabled innovations to make individuals and communities healthier.
Our MISSION is to build on eight years of industry-leading forecasting to drive the adoption of innovations and technologies that can transform healthcare.
We offer our partners – hospitals, health systems, government agencies and foundations, and many others – a rich array of reports, decision support tools, webinars and educations events that support planning, decisions and the deployment of emerging technologies.
Become a Partner
HealthTech Partners make multi-year financial commitments based on System size. Partners determine and guide HealthTech’s comprehensive research agenda, participate in high level working groups, and enjoy full access to online decision and market modeling tools, as well as a continuously updated library of forecasts and other research products.
To learn more about becoming a HealthTech Partner, contact Steven DeMello, Executive Director at sdemello@healthtech.org or 415.537.6964.
Announcements
The National Medicare Readmissions Summit: Sponsored by HealthTech
Onsite June 1 - 2, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Online In Your Own Office or Home live via the Internet with 24/7 Access for Six Months
Featuring
Analysis of the potential impact of the various policy options for public and private payers regarding 30 Day Readmissions reporting requirements and the financial performance of hospitals
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HealthTech partners only:HealthTech partners can register for the conference at a special partner rate. Click here to find out more
Center for Technology and Aging
The SCAN-HealthTech Center for Technology and Aging
HealthTech is proud to announce the establishment of the SCAN-HealthTech Center for Technology and Aging through a $5 million grant from The SCAN Foundation. The goal of the Center is to address the continuing challenge of adoption and diffusion of creative technologies that benefit the health and healthcare of older adults and the long-term care work force. Through applied research, tool kits, grant making, dissemination and policy development, the SCAN-HealthTech Center for Technology and Aging will support the rapid acceleration of health providers’ adoption of technologies. To learn more about the SCAN-HealthTech Center for Technology and Aging click here.
What's New at HealthTech
The release of our monthly research update reflects our ongoing effort to continuously disseminate content throughout the research process to our partners. These updates will cover specific topic areas, recent events, upcoming events, and articles written by Molly Coye. Our deliverables include: key trend reports, forecasts, technology impact projection wallcharts, interview summaries, research abstracts, and technology profiles with additional outputs growing daily.
The May Research Update includes research in Geriatrics, Children’s Services and IT. Highlights include the release of the technology impact projection wallchart from our Emerging Technologies and the Future of Independent Living Expert Panel, technology profiles on cell phones and social media, and research abstracts on home remodeling for the aging and disabled populations as well as a collaborative, interactive gaming platform to address future perspectives on caregiving and caregiver shortages.
HealthTech is pleased to announce a series of webinars on The Future of Modeling and Simulation in Healthcare. The first webinar, entitled Virtual Reality in Clinical Therapy, will be presented by Albert “Skip” Rizzo, Research Scientist and Professor at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 10:00am – 11:30am PDT.
HealthTech is pleased to announce a series of webinars on The Future of Independent Living. The first webinar, entitled Identifying and Piloting Consumer-Based Technologies for Independent Living, will be presented by Sandra Elliott, Director of Consumer Technology and Service Development for Meridian Health and will be held on May 27, 9:00am – 10:00am PDT.
A webinar stemming from the recent report on Behavioral Health IT: Seamless Care for California’s Kids by Thomas Tinstman, MD, Steven DeMello and the California HealthCare Foundation will be held on May 21, 12:00pm – 1:00pm PDT. This webinar will highlight major findings from the report while discussing implications and next steps for behavioral health IT strategies. The webinar
HealthTech is pleased to announce its latest research initiative on Future Environments for an Aging Society. To introduce this project and its objectives to our partners, we will be holding a webinar on April 15, 2009 from 8:00am – 9:00am, PDT. This research will culminate in an Expert Panel on Future Environments for an Aging Society, which will be held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 in San Francisco. Registration is now open for both events.
The April Research Update includes research in, Geriatrics, Children’s Services, Cardiovascular Services, IT, Behavioral Health and Regenerative Medicine. Highlights include the release of the updated forecasts from our Emerging Technologies and the Future of Independent Living Expert Panel, interview summary and organization profile on community health clinics, and research abstracts from the repeal of the embryonic stem cell research restriction and the Behavioral Health IT report. Our videos from HealthTech’s Expert Panel: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Independent Living are also available.
