Trillions of dollars are invested each year to improve health worldwide, but big problems remain. Health-care delivery and drug-discovery costs continue to escalate. Health outcomes are unpredictable and uneven, and trends such as the obesity epidemic and an aging population present significant challenges. The patient experience has become fragmented, frustrating, even frightening. New, data-driven partnerships can overcome these problems. A wealth of new data is available from the dramatic "digitization of biology": personal genomics, genetic screening, electronic medical records, patient-contributed medical data, and other sources. New Media Medicine will harness this data for use by ordinary people, by creating innovations in human-computer interfaces, visualization, artificial intelligence, and social technologies. These innovations will empower patients to engage in collaborations with doctors and experts never before possible, creating powerful new sources of collective wisdom.
We are working at the intersection of health care and information technology to discover radical new ways to redefine health care and empower patients, and we seek applicants interested in furthering these goals. Toward this end, applicants should be proficient in new media skills, technically competent, hard-working, and team-oriented. Varied skills are encouraged, such as HCI, large-scale data modeling, pattern recognition, and/or collective intelligence and discovery; in addition, a background or strong interest in advanced health-care applications, drug discovery, electronic medical records, and public health, for example, are welcomed and encouraged.
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