We'd like to encourage our readers to attend our event this Monday, March 23, The Wireless Future of Health IT. The event will be hosted by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett, a strong believer in the benefits of using technology to deliver high quality care anywhere and everywhere.

If implemented, Health Information Technology has the potential to both control costs and improve health care outcomes. Everywhere there is a broadband internet connection, health care providers will be able to easily transport medical information, cut down on paperwork, and reduce medical errors. Health IT has already been given a place in the economic stimulus package.

The even, co-sponsored by New America's Health Policy and Wireless Future programs, will take place from 9 am to 1:30 pm in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 106. We'll address emerging aspects of telehealth, including remote monitoring, remote care and self-management of costly chronic conditions; extending specialist care to rural and remote areas, across the U.S. and the developing world; 'aging in place,' reducing institutionalization and hospital admissions; and the billions in overall cost savings from diffusion of mobile health IT.

Featured speakers include Craig Barrett, Chairman of the Intel Corporation and Chairman of the U.N. Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development; Hon. Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner; Thomas Kalil, Deputy Policy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Economic Council; Max Stachura, Director of the Center for Telehealth of Medical College of Georgia; Thelma McClosky Armstrong, Director of Telemedicine and Outreach from the Billings Clinic; Paul Meyer, Chairman and President of Voxiva, Inc.; Gregory J. Seiler, Vice President and General Manager of BeWell Mobile Technology, Inc.; David Aylward, Founder & Director of COMCARE; Douglas J. McClure, Manager of Technology & Operations at the Center for Connected Health; Michael J. Barrett, Managing Partner at Critical Mass Consulting; Carolyn Brandon, Vice President of Policy at CTIA-The Wireless Association; Julie Barnes, Deputy Director of the Health Policy Program at the New America Foundation; and Michael Calabrese, Vice President and Director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation.

To RSVP for this event, click here.