Support for the First AMA-IEEE EMBS Conference on Personalized Health, March 28-30, 2010 in Washington, DC

1006086博纳托该项目支持首届AMA-IEEE EMBS个性化医疗http://www.ama-ieee.embs.org/.医疗技术会议这是第一次一个主要的医学协会(即美国医学会http://www.ama-assn.org/))和一个主要的工程学会(即IEEE工程和生物学会http://www.embs.org/))齐聚一堂，举办个性化医学会议。个性化医疗从定制的患者档案和个性化治疗计划的结果开始。个性化医疗使患者受益，并吸引了临床医生，向工程师提出了挑战，要求创新者开发低成本、高效和无处不在的技术。这次会议的目标是临床医生、工程师和创新者、行业领袖、政府机构和政策制定者的参与。该计划将围绕四个主要主题组织：生物标记物和个性化基因图谱、互联健康、电子医疗记录和个人健康记录以及护理点技术。在过去的十年里，这些话题见证了令人难以置信的进步。生物标记物和个性化遗传图谱的最新发展为疾病的预防和治疗开辟了巨大的可能性。在家庭环境中管理慢性临床疾病的需求已经产生了对允许人们追求互联健康解决方案的技术的极大兴趣。通过使用电子医疗记录(这是正在进行的医疗改革的核心部分)和个人健康记录(许多人认为这将很快用更传统的工具补充临床环境中收集的信息)，临床信息的管理也取得了巨大进步。最后，护理点技术的进步提供了随时随地进行诊断和干预的方法，从初级保健医生办公室到急诊室，从家庭环境到现场。学术价值：这次会议将提供一个独特的机会，实现真正的跨学科工作，涉及临床医生和工程师。会议的形式将促进具有临床经验的个人和具有技术专长的个人之间的信息交流。将向临床医生提供与实施个性化医疗策略相关的技术的最新信息。工程师们将有机会找出个性化医学采用的主要障碍是什么，这些障碍可以通过开发新技术来解决。更广泛的影响：通过实施多项战略，私人投资机构将向广大公众提供获取会议材料的途径。首先，主办方正在大会网站上开设博客。该博客将为对会议感兴趣的个人提供机会，通过发布问题、提出讨论主题和提供有关他们自己工作的信息来塑造会议。第二，所有会议摘要将通过开放获取倡议向广大公众提供，我们将在会议网站上实施这一倡议。换言之，会议摘要将张贴在会议网站上。最后，组织者将从会议上提交的稿件中挑选稿件，为AMA和IEEE EMBS计划在会议结束后一年内推出的一本新杂志的第一期提供稿件。

1006086 BonatoThis project supports the FIRST AMA-IEEE EMBS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE ON PERSONALIZED MEDICINE http://www.ama-ieee.embs.org/. This is the first time that a major medical association (i.e. the American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/) and a major engineering society (i.e. the IEEE Engineering and Biology Society http://www.embs.org/) come together to organize a conference on Personalized Medicine. Personalized Medicine starts with customized patient profiles and results in personalized treatment plans. Personalized Medicine benefits patients and engages clinicians, challenges engineers and demands that innovators develop low-cost, effective, and ubiquitous technologies. The conference targets participation by clinicians, engineers and innovators, industrial leaders, government agencies and policy makers. The program will be organized around four major topics: Biomarkers and Personalized Genetic Profiling, Connected Health, Electronic Medical Records and Personal Health Records, and Point-of-Care Technology. These are topics that have witnessed incredible advances over the past decade. Recent developments in Biomarkers and Personalized Genetic Profiling have opened up tremendous possibilities in the prevention and cure of diseases. The need for managing chronic clinical conditions in the home settings has generated a great deal of interest for technology that allows one to pursue Connected Health solutions. Great advances are also occurring in the management of clinical information via the use of Electronic Medical Records (which are the center piece of the ongoing health care reform) and Personal Health Records (which many believe will soon complement information gathered in the clinical environment with more traditional tools). Finally, advances in Point-of-Care Technology have provided ways to diagnose and intervene anytime and anywhere, from the PCP office to the emergency room, from the home setting to the field. Intellectual Merit: The conference will provide a unique opportunity to achieve genuine interdisciplinary work involving clinicians and engineers. The format of the conference will facilitate the exchange of information between individuals with clinical and individuals with technical expertise. Clinicians will be provided up-to-date information about technology relevant to implement Personalized Medicine strategies. Engineers will be given the opportunity to find out what are the major roadblocks toward the adoption of Personalized Medicine that could be addressed by developing new technologies. Broader Impact: The PIs will provide the public at large with access to the conference material by implementing multiple strategies. First of all, the organizers are in the process of setting up a blog on the conference website. The blog will provide individuals interested in the conference with the opportunity to shape the conference by posting questions, by proposing discussion topics, and by providing information about their own work. Secondly, all the conference abstracts will be made available to the public at large via an open access initiative that we will implement on the conference website. In other words, abstracts will be posted on the conference website. Finally, the organizers will select contributions among those presented at the conference for the first issue of a new magazine that AMA and IEEE EMBS intend to launch within a year from completion of the conference.