The ECU Bridge is a diverse communications hub that is used to link just about any point of need, such as a rural home, a clinic, and an isolated village, to any point of medial care. We are making plans to build disease-tracking capability into the Bridge, headed toward a sort of automated epidemiological knowledge system. The Rapid Prototyping Lab is an in-house facility where our engineers design, develop and test new telemedicine technologies. The space is designed to support the ergonomic and multimedia needs of the healthcare professional. Interventional Informatics is a new term for me.
Interventional informatics is the application of information to alter an outcome.
For instance, we have access to knowledge and information that, when applied properly or shared with the people that lack that information, can act as a catalyst for a desired outcome. I think this is the holy grail of interventional informatics. Telemedicine development is an accelerated evolutionary process. The applications are all so exciting. My favorite project right now is the development of the Global Telemedicine Resource Center.