The Center for Connected Health will be bringing their upcoming telemedicine symposium, “Building the Connected Health Economy” into Second Life. The symposium, being held at the RL Harvard Medical Conference Center, begins on Monday, October 22nd and continues through Tuesday the 23rd. The sessions will be streamed into SL at Connected Health Island auditorium. The SL audience will be able to ask questions during the live sessions.
A key panel session on Monday will be simulcast in Second Life and RL. At 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. SLT Monday the RL/SL panel, Second Life: Healthcare Enters the Virtual World, will explore the potential of virtual worlds in the delivery of medicine. The panelists include:
• Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, . Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare
• John Lester (Pathfinder Linden), Boston Operations Director, Linden Lab
• Daniel Hoch, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Roger Edwards, ScD, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
• Karen Gans, PhD, patient advocate
The full conference schedule is available here.
The Center for Connected Health tapped Involve, Inc. to develop the Connected Health Island sim and to provide in-world production services.
To attend the conference sessions, teleport to Connected Health Island.
October 18, 2007
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