Marc Ringel
The Information Revolution And Why It's Left Healthcare In The Dust
Benefiting the Library Endowment for the College of Natural Sciences
Marc Ringel, a Chicago native who did his postgraduate training at Cook County Hospital, has been a practicing family doctor since 1976. Starting with his first practice in Yuma, Colorado, he has asked how best to promote quality and breadth of services in any healthcare setting, from inner city to rural, no matter what the barriers. Information technology is one of the most important answers. Marc served for nine years on the faculty of North Colorado Family Medicine Family Practice Training Program in Greeley. He has written for a number of lay publications, including a newspaper column in every town in which he has practiced; a column entitled "The Zen of Science" which has appeared for five years in Nexus, a Boulder-based journal; and has delivered a commentary on health affairs every other week on KUNC public radio for ten years. Marc spends three days a week in Brush, where he has practiced for ten years. The rest of his professional time is devoted to speaking, consulting, and writing on an assortment of topics, including telehealth, rural health, and continuing medical education. Marc has three children, the youngest of whom just finished her freshman year at CSU.
Ringel will discuss the promise of information technology, it's successes, it's limitations, and the economic forces that have kept American healthcare institutions from adopting it.
Recommended Reading:
- Bauer, Jeffrey, and Marc Ringel. Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Healthcare. 1999: 23 - 35.
- Kleinke, J.D. "Dot-Gov: Market Failure And The Creation Of A National Health Information Technology System." Health Affairs September/October 2005: 1246 - 1262.
- Ringel, Marc. "The Embedded Future of Telemedicine." Telemedicine Today February 2000: 18 - 20.
- Ringel, Marc. "The Zen of Science." Nexus September/October 2002: 8 - 10.