Kai Worrell, President of Worrell Inc. will be speaking, along with a panel of experts, on the topic of Interface to the Consumer.
Moderator: Ed Saxon, Academy Award-winning Producer
Panelist: George Savage, Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Biomedical
Panelist: Joe Perez, Executive Vice President of Product and Marketing, Demand Media
Panelist: Kai Robert Worrell, President – International, Worrell Inc.
Worrell is proud to sponsor USC’s Body Computing and join with a body of thought leaders envisioning the future for implanted wireless devices, which can transmit up-to-the-second physiologic data to physicians, patients, and patients’ loved ones.
About the Conference
Rich in innovating technological resources, American healthcare possesses an unprecedented amount of resources and talent, and yet it has a fractured communication system that plagues outcomes, impedes progress and prevents patient satisfaction. A physician talking with a barely-clothed patient in an exam room is an antiquated model that does not always produce the best medical care. There is a medical and economic need to update the modes of communication between patients and physicians, as well as how patients’ health is managed.
Body computing can forever change the interaction between physicians and patients. Where electronic medical records have made it possible to transfer clinical data rapidly, networked devices can take this further: completing the loop by virtually eliminating the need for paper charts, desktop computers, pagers and cell phones to convey crucial information. In cases of emergency, response time is expedited tenfold as the implanted device provides emergency care physicians with the patient’s health status before the patient even arrives at the Emergency Room. On a personal level, imagine waking up every morning and receiving real-time data about a loved one on your cell phone or PDA, and the worry this new technology can assuage.
Although body computing is a relatively nascent field that raises many new issues, the caliber of speakers at USC’s Body Computing Conference is a testament to the interest among business leaders, entrepreneurs, the investment community, physicians and scholars.
The USC Body Computing Conference will bring together distinguished representatives from the fields of wireless and biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, investment banking, and governmental organizations to educate and discuss all prospects, concerns, and long-term effects that would accompany networked physiologic monitoring as it takes its place in the advancement of the medical community.