IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society held the seventh annual Health Innovations in Point of Care Technology Conference at the School of Engineering Medicine in Houston’s Texas Medical Center, home of Texas A&M University’s new EnMed ( Engineering Medicine) program. The conference brought together nearly 100 clinicians, industry experts, innovation experts, researchers and students to focus on the transformation of healthcare through translation of research and development into new medical technologies and clinical practice.
Roderic Pettigrew, PhD, MD, Chief Executive Officer of Engineering Health, and Inaugural Dean, School of Engineering Medicine, provided the conference’s closing keynote address.
In providing an historical perspective on point-of-care medicine and its future, he began by noting that the two-day conference had been “a marvelous expose’ on cutting edge advances from active front-line researchers from around the world.” He also said he was “inspired by the substantial participation by students and the next generation of POC innovators, many of whom presented their own work. This promises realization of the tremendous potential this field has to help transform the delivery of healthcare.”
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