Hermes Partnership workshop "Visions towards ICT-supported health", organized in conjunction to ISMICT-2011 conference., Venue: Majestic Suisse, Montreux, Suisse
Chair workshop: prof dr. ir. Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Aim of the workshop:
The state of the art of ICT technology, including sensor and actuator technology, is rapidly moving towards the stage where we can envisage new ways to significantly improve health care, and curb its rising costs. More importantly, avoiding health problems by pro-actively and unobtrusively coaching people to adopt health-improving lifestyles.
The development of new low-cost and dependable sensing devices, the incorporation of a multitude of different sensors in consumer devices such as smart phones, the actuation capabilities of these devices, body area networks and personal networks, etc. have created the basic building blocks for future personal healthcare. Many of these developments are the result of collaborative research projects, sometimes large-scale, which are about to yield economically feasible solutions.
The purpose of this workshop is to get a clear view of: (a) where we stand today, (b) which promising developments are on the horizon, and (c) bottlenecks and open issues. Finally the aim is to draft a road map for the different stakeholders to lead us to important ICT-driven improvements in personal healthcare.
In order to achieve this we intend to bring together experts to shed light and debate the different dimensions of ICT-driven personal health care. These are: ICT research in personal healthcare, societal aspects and economic issues in healthcare, the role of SMEs and start-ups emerging from research domains and, health care providers. Some emerging technologies that are important in this domain are body area networks and personal networks for health. In particular the aspects dependability, energy requirements, security and privacy and ease of use for the users, the stakeholders and the application developers will be considered.
The workshop will host presentations by experts drawn from all related dimensions providing ample opportunity for discussion, and followed by a panel discussion leading towards a future road map.
Program, speakers cv's, abstracts and presentations:
prof. dr. Felix Hampe, University of Koblenz, Germany. Title “E-health in practice, business opportunities”. [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
prof. dr. ir. Hermie Hermens, University of Twente, The Netherlands. Title: “Present experiences and future perspectives of Telerehabilitation”, [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
dr. ir. Wouter Serdijn, Delft University of Technology". Title: Moving diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic wireless medical devices into the homes and into the body", [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
dr. Jean Benoit Pierrot, CEA LETI, France “Nanoscale smart communication components and systems”, a research proposal of Hermes partners, [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
prof. dr. Łukasz Januszkiewicz, University of Lodz, Poland. Title: “Status e-health and telehealth in Poland”. [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
Mr. Piet Verhoeve, Televic, Belgium. Title: “e-health systems developments and business opportunities at SME-companies”. [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
dr. Paul Mitcheson, Imperial College, UK. Title: “Energy harvesting in e-health applications”. [speaker] [abstract] [presentation]
