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IEEE is making great strides in supporting technology innovation that will ensure the health, wellness and safety for the global population. IEEE, alongside national and international organizations, is focused on ensuring reliable healthcare from personalized healthcare informatics, wireless communications, telepresence in healthcare IT, to standardized electronic health records and interoperability between critical patient care medical devices, to name a few.
Meet some of the extraordinary IEEE members playing a major role in the establishment of global healthcare IT initiatives for the benefit of humanity.
![]() | "IEEE takes a leadership role in addressing the future needs of global healthcare interoperability requirements.” - Chuck Adams, 2009 President, IEEE Standards Association |
![]() | "IEEE is hopeful that scientists and engineers around the globe can work together to make the advancements so desperately needed in the global healthcare system.” - Dr. Bin He, President, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS) for 2009-2010 |
![]() | "One area we are placing a significant global emphasis on is standardizing the manner in which all medical devices around the world ‘talk’ to one another.” - Todd Cooper, IEEE Senior Member and Committee Chair, IEEE 11073 Point-of-Care Medical Device Communications Standard |