Leaders of Healthcare & IT Innovation in the US to Participate in Smart Health 2018

LAS VEGAS - March 16, 2018 - PRLog -- Smart Health 2018 conference will bring together people who are in the thick of the healthcare and IT fusion. Expected to be one of the biggest platforms yet for healthcare and technology, Smart Health 2018 aims to the set the benchmark high when it comes to providing a stage for thoughtful discussions, intermingling of people with different ideas but a common goal, and making the US healthcare industry and its constituents informed about the importance of simplifying the health-IT relationship.

Smart Health 2018 conference intends to deal with topics that are critically important for letting the US healthcare industry, which is already one of the most advanced in the world, continue making strides in the right direction. It is a platform that is expected to help healthcare & IT put an end to the line that still exists and is not allowing the optimal utilization of technological resources to let US healthcare flourish as it should.

To make the participants reap the rewards of attending a conference of such significance, Smart Health 2018 has invited speakers who have not only been directly involved in this transition but have spent their lives advocating the coming together of healthcare and technology.

Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo Ph.D. Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California is one of the speakers who is going to take the stage and share his views on the viability of PTSD treatment using VR. Rizzo has pioneered the evaluation and development of VR systems directed at serving the areas of treatment resilience and rehabilitation and clinical assessment. He was bestowed with the American Psychological Association's 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Treatment of Trauma for his work that involved the treatment of PTSD using VR based therapy.

Dr. Katherine J Sullivan, President at Health, Education & Technology Institute, University of Southern California and an internationally-recognized educator, health scientist, and author will also attend the conference and lend her specialist views on the topic "Population health: Prediction of Sensitivity through Cluster Analysis." Her career spans more than 30 years – a significant part of which was dedicated to understanding the health needs of those who do not get adequate medical care and advocating the delivery of viable preventive and wellness care solutions to them.

In addition to these two speakers, Smart Health 2018 will also host other notable names from IT and healthcare industries in the US. Register now at https://www.smarthealth.tech/.