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  • Health Awareness and Making the Transition to Preventative Medicine

    Every year more and more devices emerge that help us monitor our health. Many people, and especially the younger generations, enjoy using various gadgets to track the amount of exercise they do, their diet and daily routine. These devices can help us move forward from reactive healthcare to preventative healthcare. Dr. Anthony Faiola, is Professor and Head of the Biomedical and Health Information Sciences Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, gave a keynote at the conference “Digital Transformation & Global Society” (DTGS) at ITMO University.  He spoke about recent developments regarding mobile health information technology, and how his team uses them. Here are the highlights of his report.

    13.06.2018

  • Sberbank President Herman Gref: ”R&D That People Ridiculed Yesterday is Taking Over Markets Today”

    Sberbank President and Chairman of the Board Herman Gref delivered an open lecture at ITMO University yesterday. He stressed the importance of being the first to reach the future and developing information and digital technologies today that will change the way we live tomorrow. What are those technologies and how are they changing business models? What mode of thinking should be adopted by the professionals of the future? ITMO.NEWS sums up the key points.

    22.02.2018