Professor Kwan-Liu Ma at
UC Davis takes data sets that can be on the peta or tera scale
and turns them into explorable, workable, and visualizable units
CITRIS Health
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy Awarded 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal
Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.
Serious Play: Using Games to Screen for Fragile X
Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.
Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare Awards from MSR
CITRIS projects at Berkeley and Santa Cruz using cell phones as a
healthcare platform are among the projects supported by a recent Microsoft Research initiative.
The Eyes Have It…Finally
Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.
Bloody Small Microscope on a Phone
by Gordy Slack The CellScope is an ordinary cell phone with an optical microscope attachment, which would allow it to serve as a necessary device […]
UC Receives $22 Million FCC Telehealth Grant
The University of California, in partnership with a coalition of government
agencies, health care providers and others, received a three-year, $22 million
award from the Federal Communications Commission to help develop
a new California Telehealth Network.
Affordable MRI Technology
Of the 1.6 million Californians with diabetes, fully half are low-income individuals and one third are elderly. Currently, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the […]
Virtual Stress Testing: Putting Virtual Skeletons under Pressure
One in three women will be affected by osteoporosis in their lifetimes, and detecting who is most at risk is part of UC Berkeley Mechanical […]
Cell phone + Microscope = CellScope
While telemedicine research continues to make remarkable strides in increasing access to care for underserved populations, obstacles such as cost, operation, and sustainability significantly limit its adoption and use.
Enhanced RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology for Disaster Preparedness and Hospital Surge Capacity
Patient tracking has long been a concern of medical community and runs hand in hand with patient data management. Recent experience from Hurricane Katrina and […]
UC Davis Medical School
The explosion of knowledge and information in the health sciences is ironically creating greater disparities in the quality of healthcare services. The Institute of Medicine […]
The Universal Language of Health
The health education of non-English speakers is an enormous California-wide challenge, where roughly 40 percent of all Californians do not speak English at home. To […]
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
CITRIS researchers are creating smart devices that promote awareness and understanding of personal activity spaces and how those spaces affect people’s health. The wearable devices […]
Replicable IT-based models for the creation of safe, reliable, and resilient care processes
Information can impact the healthcare environment in many ways. Medical errors can disable and even kill patients. To prevent errors, many healthcare providers currently use […]
Energy Harvesting for Biomedical Devices and Health Care Intelligent Infrastructure
An important aspect of the future of intelligent health care delivery lies with the promise of biomedical implants with extended wireless connectivity. These implants will […]
Primary glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy screening for underserved populations
Telemedicine can have a significant impact on the health of underserved people, including improved eye care of California residents. Glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy cause most […]
Wireless inertial measuring system for quantitative diagnosis of neurological disease
Doctors currently diagnose many neurological diseases by observing the gait of a patient; however, many patients feel uncomfortable in the medical surroundings and do not […]
Medical Devices on Networked Systems
CITRIS research on remote care, including that from John Canny's group at UC Berkeley, focuses on
diagnostic medical devices and their integration with network
technologies.
Medical Devices on Networked Systems
To improve people’s long-term health, physicians would like to monitor and measure for the symptoms of serious medical conditions on a daily basis. CITRIS research […]
CITRIS: Using Information Technology to Improve Healthcare
Message from Acting Director Paul Wright Greetings from Berkeley, California, headquarters of CITRIS, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. Since […]
Telemedicine: Bringing Healthcare to the Patient
Learn how research at CITRIS in telemedicine is improving the access to healthcare for those in remote regions throughout the state.
Paging Dr. IT
Several key CITRIS initiatives are bringing information technology to the aid of this country's ailing health care system.