How does technology accelerate the translation of discovery into practical applications to improve public health and medical care?
Sanfilippo: Technology supports Ohio State University’s medical center in all its mission areas to create the future of medicine. An important part of our agenda is organizing our research, education and healthcare delivery enterprises around a patient-driven focus in every possible way -which is greatly facilitated through advances in communications and information technology. Editor: Please give us some examples of the technology advances that are improving delivery of patient care. Sanfilippo: As we focus on the future of medicine, we see many technology advances helping us to get there quickly. For example, we no longer use x-ray film at OSU; everything in radiology is now digitized. This allows physicians to review image findings in their offices, at a hospital or wherever they may be. Likewise, the laboratories at OSU are completely automated and roboticized so that every lab test we do is essentially available as a “stat” order. Our information system hosts a tremendous number o
