Healthcare Special Interest Group - Telecare and Telehealth

On the morning of the 14th November 2006 Cambridge Wireless will be
holding another Wireless Healthcare Special Interest Group with a theme
of Telecare and Telemedicine at The Frank Lea Centre, Addenbrookes,
Cambridge.

We are delighted on this occasion to have Paul Williamson of Cambridge Consultants giving a presentation on ' Wireless 'wellbeing': the future of healthcare in the home'.

This session will examine the expansion of the healthcare market into
the home, exploring the target areas that are emerging in this growing
market.

We are also delighted to have Dr Alison Burdett, Director of Technology, of Toumaz Technology Ltd, giving a presentation on 'Pervasive Monitoring Systems for Personalised Healthcare: Design Challenges and Opportunities'.

The integration of cutting-edge technologies in healthcare, such as
information systems, sensors and wireless applications, will help meet
medical and quality of life challenges of the 21st century.

One vision is the Pervasive Monitoring System - a fully integrated,
user-friendly, Web-based patient monitoring system with messaging,
automated reporting, and online medication capability. This is intended
for long term care situations - for example, nursing homes - and
patients with cystic fibrosis, heart failure, or various cardiovascular
and respiratory assist devices. 

This talk will highlight some of the design and implementation
challenges involved with developing such an end-to-end system, and will
use as a basis for discussion an ongoing collaboration between Imperial
College, Toumaz Technology, and Oracle.  Topics to be covered in
brief will include; advanced sensor technologies, ultra low power
signal processing and wireless communication for body-worn applications
(the 'digital plaster'), and integration with a professional 'back
office' database (Oracle's HL7 Healthcare Transaction Base, HTB).

These systems may eventually become everyday items in clinical care,
particularly for the management of long term conditions and the
elderly.

The meeting will assess the key challenges, and requirements, and look
at examples of how wireless and other key technologies are being used
to develop products for this market.

The Wireless Healthcare SIG is Championed by Daniel Dearing of Accelerate Consulting

This Event is open to Cambridge Wireless Members for free, or £150 + VAT to non-Members.

To register please click: http://www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/pooled/articles/BF_EVENTART/view.asp?Q=BF_EVENTART_217767