Wednesday 24 June 2009

Thursday 25 June 2009

Welcome and keynote session
Co-chairs: Dag Ausen, SINTEF, and Per Hasvold, Norwegian Centre for Integrated care and Telemedicine

• Empowering citizens through pHealth - the European agenda, Roberto Giampieretti, European Commission - eHealth
• Personal Health Systems – roadmap towards 2020, Cristiano Codagnone, Milan State University (IT) 
• Digital Soldiers: Transforming Personalized Health in Challenging and Changing Environments, COL Karl Friedl, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Centre (USA)

Session 1: Topic – Medical sensors and sensor systems
Chairman: Prof. Brian MacCraith, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (IE)
Programme and speakers:

• Brian MacCraith, BDI: Next generation diagnostic platforms: Smart integration of coonvergent sciences & technologies
• Lars-Olof Hansson, Uppsala University: pHealthLab, a need for effective pHealthCare
• Clifford C. Dacso, Abramson Center for the Future of Health: The new personalised medicine: low cost sensors, robust analytics, ubiquitous computing
• Stig Morten Borch, SINTEF: In vitro diagnostic platforms of the future. Technological possibilities and challenges.
• Frank Karlsen, NorChip: Business case POCNAD

Roundtable discussion chaired by prof. MacCraith

This session will focus on biomedical diagnostics, with a particular emphasis on point-of-care or near-patient testing. Such systems typically rely on lab-on-a-chip platforms in which the concentration of selected biomarkers is measured in a small (μL) sample of physiological fluid. In this context, the selection of appropriate multiplexed assay formats plays an important role in achieving the balance between cost and performance (e.g. sensitivity; limit of quantitation, precision). The convergence of microfluidics, nanotechnology, photonics, and sensor technology is critical to the development of the required platforms. In addition, the combination of information and communications technology (ICT) with such platforms enhances the remote delivery of appropriate healthcare and facilitates the integration of integration of point-of-care diagnostics in the broader e-Health environment.

Session 2: Topic – Activity sensors and sensor systems
Chairman: Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Programme and speakers:

• Rune Fensli, University of Agder: Wearable Sensors and Systems: Integrating Technology for Clinical Applications
• Dr. Emil Jovanov, University of Alabama: System Architecture of Wireless Body Sensor Networks
• Venere Ferraro, Politecnico di Milano: Designing a Sensorized Glove for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation
• Juan Jacobo Estrada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Monitoring of motor status in Parkinson's disease

Roundtable discussion chaired by Dr. Bonato

Sensors and systems targeting physical activity, motion tracking, ambient assisted living, monitoring, micro and nano sensors, smart textiles for sensing 

Session 3: Topic – User interaction and personal health systems
Chairman: Jean Luprano, CSEM (CH)
Programme and speakers:

• Elina Mattila, VTT (FIN): Personal Health Systems for Health and Wellness Management
• Geir Østengen, NST (NO): Diabetes digital management - while waiting for the cure
• Sergio Guillen, ITACA Institute UPV (ES): Personalisation of health in Heart Failure and Coronary Artery Disease patients via closed loop systems. The Heart Cycle approach

Roundtable discussion chaired by Dr. Luprano

Personal health systems are constructed from a number of underlying technologies and services. In this session we focus on the components of personal health systems that provide a platform for computation, storage, acquisition and retrieval of data, and an interface to those data. This will include wearable computers and smart textiles, implants and actuators, as well as multi-modal user interfaces.
The targeted issues are: chronic diseases, continuity of care, efficacy of medical decisions and interventions, citizen empowerment for managing and controlling their health.

Friday 26 June 2009

Session 4: Topic – Systems integration
Chairman: Josep Roca, Hospital Clinic Barcelona  (ES)
Co-chair: Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF (NO)
Programme and speakers:

• Dr. Josep Roca: Setting the scene - the Catalonian experience
• Prof. Dr. Milan Petković, Cluster Leader Information Security, Philips Research Europe: Standardisation and security in personal health systems (Continua work)
• Stefan Ohlsson, IBM Nordic: IBM + Google - a collaboration to empower the patients and personal health records
• Aase Kari Haugeto, The Norwegian Technology Advisory Board: Taking care of the elderly people in the future

Roundtable discussion chaired by Dr. Roca

There is a clear need to reduce the societal burden of chronic disorders and ageing. There is a need for successful deployment of innovative and integrated care services supporting healthier and independent living. Many health record suppliers of today are offering pre-Internet era software that is costly and locked to proprietary technology standards that make it difficult to change vendors. The government role should be to set the rules that allow for care services that are based on open software platforms and open standards. This would allow for innovators to write services that are well integrated into an ecosystem of systems. On the organisational and political side, the experiences from the use of such care services are quintessential to ensure uptake. Clear clinical and economical evidence need to be presented. This session will bring together an international group of experts in their fields that will highlight these topics. 

Session 5: Topic – From research to innovation to implementation
Chairman: Andreas Lymberis, European Commission
Programme and speakers:

• Andreas Lymberis: Microsystems and pHealth: Relevant activities under EC-ICT program and forthcoming call for proposals
• Baldur Johnson, Hewlett-Packard (CANCELLED)
• Sverre Flateby, Forefront Innovation AS: Why is real implementation and adoption of innovative products and solutions in healthcare so hard? (CANCELLED)

Closing remarks