USISTF work in Homeland Security leads to the development of the Israel Standard (SI) 24001, Security and Continuity Management System

On June 9, Ann Liebschutz, Executive Director of the US-Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF), will be moderating a Personalized Medicine panel titled the “Future of Healthcare IT-The Intersection with Personalized Medicine” at the US-Israel Healthcare IT Business Exchange, June 8-9, 2010 in Atlanta, GA.

The US-Israel Healthcare IT Business Exchange, organized by the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, is an important forum to help Israeli companies market their cutting edge technology in the US.  Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent for CNN will be offering keynote remarks at this event. As the Obama administration invests billions of dollars into a new Health Care System Infrastructure, new opportunities are opening for collaborative investment and R&D linking Israeli leaders in the Health Information Technology (HIT) industry with major US stakeholders in the field.   

Panelists will include:

 Dr. Yelena Yesha, an electronic commerce and assured information systems expert and Computer Science Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County

Presentation Title: “Computational Challenges in Health IT”

 Dr. Naphtali Rishe, database management and high performance computing expert and Professor at the Florida International University’s School of Computing and Information Sciences

Presentation Title: “Healthcare IT work in Florida universities in the framework of  the National Science Foundation's Industry-University Research Center for Advance Knowledge Enablement"

 Dr. Eddy Karnieli, Director of the Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the RAMBAM Medical Center in Israel

Dr. Daniel Russler of the Nationwide Health Information Network

 Dr. Joel Saltz, Director of the Center for Comprehensive Informatics and Professor in the Department of Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University . 

This panel, in the context of the Business Exchange’s efforts to facilitate Israeli companies entering the emerging HIT market, will assess the state of the industry, identifying key technological areas for development and cooperation.  Israel continues to be a leader in the HIT industry, and the USISTF is excited to be participating in this panel as we work to bring together experts from both countries to best take advantage of the opportunities unfolding in new health care technology.     

Click “here” to view the webpage for this event.
http://www.usisraelexchange.com/HIT/about.html
For more information, please contact Eve Copeland, Program Manager, U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation at Eve@usistf.org.

U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation to Organize Personalize Medicine Panel at the U.S.-Israel Healthcare IT Business Exchange in Atlanta Georgia

USISTF work in Homeland Security leads to the development of the Israel Standard (SI) 24001, Security and Continuity Management System

The Twin Towers disaster in the USA in the year 2001 was the first event that aroused the awareness of world leaders to the existing vulnerability of national infrastructures in the case of terrorist attacks or extreme natural disasters. In the lack of international standards, The Standards Institution of Israel has initiated a project, with the encouragement and support of the United States – Israel Science Technology Foundation (USISTF), for the development of an Israel standard (SI) 24001, Security and Continuity Management System, whose purpose is to assist organizations in the groundwork on how to deal with Emergency Preparedness.  This unique Israel Standard on security and continuity management, SI 24001, has recently been published. This Standard combines the requirement of risk and threat analysis to the organization within the management system as a basis for preparation of a management program. On the basis of this analysis, the organization is expected to prepare a program for preparedness.

SI 24001 is based on the assumption that a security event cannot be categorically prevented. Therefore, the Standard also contains a requirement to prepare plans for response and recovery in order to minimize the harm to the organization and its stake holders. The Standard has been submitted to ISO's Technical Committee ISO/TC 223 – Societal Security, as a proposal for an International Standard.

To learn about SII please visit www.sii.org.

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