Eric Dishman, PhD, BA, MSc
Eric Dishman, General Manager and Global Director of Intel's Health Research & Innovation Group, is responsible for driving Intel's worldwide research, new product innovation, and usability engineering activities in Digital Health. His group, located in the U.S. and Europe, focuses on developing information & communication technologies across the continuum of healthcare from hospital to home. Trained as a social scientist, Eric is also a Principal Research Scientist for Intel's Digital Health Group, bringing an ethnographic approach to Intel's research and product development efforts as part of the largest social science team in the technology industry.
His integrated team of social scientists, physicians, designers, and engineers study and even live with patients, family caregivers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals over long periods of time to observe and understand their specific needs. They then respond to those needs by designing and developing prototypes of new technology solutions which are tested in a variety of real-world healthcare settings.
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Eric Dishman, General Manager and Global Director of Intel's Health Research & Innovation Group, is responsible for driving Intel's worldwide research, new product innovation, and usability engineering activities in Digital Health. His group, located in the U.S. and Europe, focuses on developing information & communication technologies across the continuum of healthcare from hospital to home. Trained as a social scientist, Eric is also a Principal Research Scientist for Intel's Digital Health Group, bringing an ethnographic approach to Intel's research and product development efforts as part of the largest social science team in the technology industry.
His integrated team of social scientists, physicians, designers, and engineers study and even live with patients, family caregivers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals over long periods of time to observe and understand their specific needs. They then respond to those needs by designing and developing prototypes of new technology solutions which are tested in a variety of real-world healthcare settings. Recent projects include a global study of the needs of the aging, technologies for helping seniors take their medications through contextualized prompts, an in-home device for tracking the progress of Parkinson's disease, and new technologies for helping to detect and prevent falls from occurring in the home. Eric's group recently launched the TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Center in Dublin Ireland, co-founded by Intel and the Irish government, to become one of the world's largest academic centers of excellence for inventing and testing independent living technologies.
Eric is co-founder and serves as National Chair of the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST), a cross-industry advocacy group to accelerate technology R&D for aging-in-place. He is co-director of ORCATECH with Dr. Jeff Kaye from Oregon Health & Science University-an NIH funded Roybal Center conducting independent living technology research. Eric helped to found-and is still active in-the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer's Care program with the Alzheimer's Association. He is an internationally known author and speaker-and advises numerous associations, non-profits, companies, universities, & government officials-on personal health technologies, assistive technologies, telemedicine, and home healthcare.
Affiliation
Intel Corporation, Health Research & Innovation Group
