Topic: Saving Your Life with Technology

Speaker: RON BROWN, M.D., and Program Chair,
SILVERCOM COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY CLUB, Mesa, AZ

Description: In this presentation, Ron wears both his Doctor and Technology hats. We start with a fictitious patient who lives alone in an RV Resort in Mesa and develops some medical issues that nearly cause a death. We look at common medical problems in the elderly that can be helped by wearable devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) can also play a big role in helping seniors with isolation and communication.

Time: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 7:30 PM Pacific Time

Ron Brown is a retired technologist. After he graduated in Medicine at the University of Alberta in 1976, he became a flight surgeon. In 1981, he left the military to start a family practice in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. PC’s were just being produced and Microsoft Windows was going to integrate everything. He wanted an electronic office and bought an interest in a start-up software company in Calgary, Alberta that made an electronic patient record. As his family practice grew, so did his software company. Over the next 20 years it became an international company. He has traveled across Canada and the U.S. giving presentations at many conferences. The topics included patient management, lab integration, security, and data input.