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RENATA G. BUSHKO, M.S.
"If you understand something in only one way, then you don't understand
it at all. So take this journey with Renata to envision many versions
of future health technology."
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Professor Marvin Minsky, MIT
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Marvin Minksy was talking about
Future of Health Technology (Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics, V. 80). Renata also edited
Future of Intelligent and Extelligent Health Environment: Volume
118
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics.
Renata G. Bushko, M.S. is Director of the
Future of
Health Technology Institute (FHTI), a health technology
think-tank dedicated to defining the health technology agenda for the
21st century. She founded Future of Health Technology Institute in 1996
and has since chaired eleven Future of Health Technology Summits. These
summits engage leading minds from the technology and healthcare fields
in envisioning the future of technology for global
healthcare.
The Goals of the Future of Health Technology Institute are:
- Develop a vision of the future of health care as supported by
current and future health technologies.
- Define 7 most promising health technology research areas.
- Show how technology driven cost increase of healthcare could
be
stopped, and even reversed by a new allocation of research and
development resources.
- Define fruitful emerging R&D areas with potential impact on
health and healthcare.
- Identify new technologies that are possible and needed in
health
and wellness maintenance.
- Identify R&D needed to meet future health challenges.
- Identify current best products preparing healthcare for the 21st
century.
Renata is also editor of Future of Health Technology book series for
IOS Press. She is often invited by both government agencies and private
sector to design and lead innovation sessions aimed at generating
breakthrough ideas and strategic plans for the future. Previously she
served on national healthcare programs organized by Vice
President Albert Gore, Dr. C. Everett Koop, and former secretary of
Health and Human Services, Dr. L. Sullivan. She was an advisor on
health technology investment issues in the US, UK, Puerto Rico,
Australia, New Zealand, & Poland while representing US health standards
organizations to Australia & Asia.
She worked for
15 years as an
executive in computer industry and as an analyst for IDC defining
future trends in technology. She holds a Master of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with specialization in
intelligent systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and a BA in Computer Science from Smith College. Her graduate
work at MIT was done under Professor Marvin Minsky — one of the
founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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