Health
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Developed and developing countries alike face mounting challenges in providing adequate healthcare to their populations. Developed countries are facing a moral and economic dilemma in dealing with the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases among their aging populations. Developing countries face the challenge of providing quality healthcare to rapidly increasing populations without adequate infrastructure. At the same time factors like climate change are leading to new and re-emergent diseases, which are placing increased strain on healthcare systems worldwide. In an increasingly resource constrained world, traditional approaches are unlikely to lead to sustainable solutions to such problems, particularly at a time when other global challenges are likely to require significant investment to address. ICT has become one of the most important technologies in increasing quality and reducing cost of healthcare. UNU-IIST is working to help realize the potential of ICT to by working closely with healthcare practitioners to find innovative solutions to practical pressing problems. Software systems can be developed for managing, controlling and monitoring policies, processes and workflows in medical systems, and are essential to the implementation of electronic health records. However, this reliance on software raises challenging issues related to safety, security and privacy. How do we maintain the integrity of these vital systems during the design process? In developing nations, where healthcare challenges are particularly pressing, the opportunities for IT solutions are all the greater — providing there is a focused response to these challenges by computer scientists. UNU-IIST is dedicated to recognizing the health needs of developing nations, and finding creative ways to meet them through software, systems and training. UNU-IIST is applying the institute’s model-driven approach to software development to the design of healthcare applications, the management of healthcare policies, and processes and workflows that are verifiably safe and secure.
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