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The Center for Body Computing
We are on the cusp of fundamental changes in healthcare that go beyond President Obama's healthcare reform efforts. As the Internet has revolutionized the dissemination of information, the Information Age still hovers outside of hospital corridors. But it is poised to make a big entrance, as a slew of networked implanted devices, wearable monitors, and a digestible chip enter the marketplace in the coming year, and beyond. Moreover, companies like Google and Microsoft are democratizing the medical information stream, creating a generation of patients who are looking at medical care in a completely different way. A paradigm shift is underway, which will have many consequences for the delivery of healthcare.
The USC Center for Body Computing is a leader in the brave new world of connected healthcare, in which medicine, engineering, communications, and entertainment are synthesized into a new paradigm.
USC's Center for Body Computing will be a place for:
- All USC schools, including medicine, pharmacy, engineering, cinematic arts, law, and communications, to work across disciplines and have a stake in the future of connected medicine;
- Pre-clinical and clinical development and testing of wearable and implanted technology, including networked devices used in every major category of medicine;
- Development of partnerships with telecom and social media companies to disseminate medical information, enhance communication and improve outcomes;
- Strategic partnerships with other institutes, as well as a leader in policy discussions;
- Developing relationships with venture capitalists and companies to co-develop products with USC;
- Global leadership in the development of a new, less expensive and robust model for clinical research involving large populations of patients that transmit physiologic data and symptoms over the network. With all of the megabytes of health data generated by networked medicine, it is not hard to imagine that new insights will emerge that can be used to discover faster cures for common diseases like heart disease and cancer. USC will be a clearinghouse for this information.
The USC Center for Body Computing will initially focus on:
- Expanding preventative healthcare by working with physicians to promote and develop a new fusion of personal health statistics, entertainment, and game design to create more health-conscious consumers
- Working with designers and medical device companies to make the storage and presentation of patients' physiological data relevant, useful, and independently monitored by a newly educated generation of consumers
- Strengthening the physician-patient rapport: transitioning healthcare away from a teacher-pupil relationship to genuine partnerships between physicians and patients as patients gain access to new technologies that educate them on their own health statistics
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