The Role of Emerging Communications and Computing Technologies for Personalized Healthcare Systems

Robert S. H. Istepanian
FIET, Senior MIEEE
Professor of Data Communication, Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre, Kingston University, London
Visiting Professor, St. George’s, University of London

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Davis Centre 1304, University of Waterloo

View Video of Presentation in HI Alive Archive: Research Seminars Archive 2008-2009

Abstract

The recent advances in wireless communications, advanced medical sensors and mobile network and computing technologies linked together with parallel developments in emerging scientific and biological fields such as system biology and bioinformatics are propelling new and innovative research areas for 21^st century healthcare delivery and medical information systems. Mobile health care or (m-health) can be defined as ‘emerging mobile and network technologies for health care’. This evolving concept represents an evolutionary step for the advancement of existing e-health and telemedical systems to a new vision of healthcare systems based on the Fourth Generation (4G) wireless and web 2.0 based connectivity domains

I will present an overview of some of these advances by looking at examples of the evolving research areas of Mobile Health Care (m-health) and Personalised Health Care (p-health), and introducing a new research concept, Bio-Molecular Communication Systems, as a new cognate approach for a predictive and enhanced disease discovery at the genomic level based on digital communications and signal processing methods.

About the Speaker

Robert S. H. Istepanian is a Professor of Data Communications at Kingston University, London and a visiting Professor in the Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St. George’s University of London.  He is founder and director of the Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre (MINT) at Kingston University. He is an investigator on several EPSRC and EU research grants on wireless telemedicine and on other research/visiting grants from the British Council and the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Leverhulme Trust. Since 1994 he has held academic posts in UK and Canada He is currently the 2008 Leverhulme distinguished visiting fellow at the Centre for Global e-health Innovation in Toronto. Professor Istepanian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology and Senior Member of the IEEE. He currently serves several editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, on NanoBioScience and on Mobile Computing, the Int. J. of Telemedicine and Applications and J. of Mobile Multimedia. He has published more than 170-refereed papers and edited 3 books including chapters on mobile communications for healthcare, m-health technologies and biomedical signals processing.