Smith IMPACT: The Digital Transformation of Health and Medicine

Smith Impact Event
The Digital Transformation of Health and Medicine

by Dr. Ritu Agarwal

 

Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
 

Venue: Salon Room 6, Beijing Marriott Hotel Northeast

 

Digital Health and Mobile Health (mHealth) already have become the hottest topic among investors and entrepreneurs. In the United States, healthcare is the largest sector of the economy, accounting for more than one of every six dollars of spending in 2012. Health-care spending in China is projected to triple to $1 trillion annually by 2020 driven by an aging population and government efforts to broaden insurance coverage.

Today, there is substantial optimism that the digital transformation of healthcare through broad and deep use of health information technology (HIT) across the healthcare ecosystem, in conjunction with other complementary changes, can address some of the systemic problems confronting healthcare. However, a number of significant obstacles need to be overcome before the transformation becomes a reality.

 

Dr. Agarwal’s presentation will provide an overview of the challenges confronting the US healthcare system, compare the health systems in the US and China and the opportunities for digitalization.

 

If you are interested, please send your Name, Company, Job Title, and Contact # to Chen mbauibe@hotmail.com to register. to register.

About the Speaker:

Ritu Agarwal is Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research, Professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the founder and Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School.

 

Dr. Agarwal has published over 80 papers on information technology management topics in journals. Her current research is focused on the use of IT in healthcare settings, technology-enabled strategic transformations in various industrial sectors, and consumer behavior in technology-mediated settings.

 

She has served in leadership roles in a number of major professional conferences during her career, including Program Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems. She is a member of ACM, AIS, INFORMS, and the Academy of Management. In 2011 she was appointed as a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.

 

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