Texas A&M University

The seventh annual IEEE EMB Strategic Conference will focus on point-of-care technologies (HI-POCT) for healthcare, emphasizing funding opportunities and the promise and pitfalls of the journey from idea to the patient. The conference will provide a strategic forum in which clinicians, industry experts, innovation experts, researchers and students will examine how to define unmet clinical needs and successfully travel along the innovation cycle towards commercialization and patient impact. Clinical, technological, regulatory, and marketing aspects of this learnable process will be stressed. Expert panels will discuss learnings in the development, translation and commercialization of technologies related to Covid-19, and challenges in bringing medical care innovation to community health.