Computer Science helps patients cope with chronic disease

Computer scientist John Davis is working with the Georgia Institute of Technology on a mobility study that will give clinicians a clearer picture of their patients' physical condition.

The IBM Open Collaborative Research (OCR) program encourages computer scientists to develop open-source code that will improve the quality of software applications for industry, government and community-based organizations.

Listen to John Davis, IBM Research, talk about the healthcare project he is working on with Prof. Gregory Abowd and other computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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computer_science_helps_patients_cope_with_chronic_disease.mp3patients_cope.doc

Producer: Barbara Finkelstein, IBM Corporation
Music: Michael DeRosa. Copyright 2006

Last updated September 6, 2007