Removed content#
Here is some content that I found irrelevant after the first iteration of the course:
Telemedicine definition#
Exercise 144
What is the difference between medicine and healthcare?
Different definitions of telemedicine
teleconsulting between clinicians and patients
telediagnosis between physicians and clinicians
telemonitoring between nurses and patients
telesurgery between surgeons and patients
one thing in common: remote information exchange
When is a technical solution helpful & feasible?#
Exercise 145
Your grandparents live alone in a village with no doctors. The municipality decided to provide consulting over the internet. Do you see any problems and do you have solutions?
problem: children and older people may not be comfortable about technical solutions
population aging: more care and monitoring needed
case for wireless monitoring
example requirements for acceptance:
user-friendliness, e.g.,
plug-and-play or
fully automatic after deployment
comfortably worn
acceptable if a technician is needed for installation and unavoidable maintenance
Case-study: Ergonomic school bags#
Exercise 146
A municipality got significant amount of complaints from the parents. Allegedly, the school bags provided by the municipality are not ergonomic. You are a scientist and would like to look into this issue.
Your idea is to design a technical solution based on body sensors that will be distributed to the schools to carry out measurements on children.
Find at least three important questions which are crucial for the success of your project.
Healthcare informatics developments#
Healthcare has been in steady development
standards for developing medical information systems
MUMPS for patient information systems
due to increase in flights
microbes, diseases monitored by international databases
we will focus on communication and networking
The growth of eHealth to mHealth#
electronic health (eHealth)
Medicine and health supported by digital processes
mobile health (mHealth)
Medicine and health supported by mobile devices
Exercise 147 (e)
Name two solutions enabled by eHealth and then mHealth which draws the distinction between the two.
Exercise 148 (Role of internet in telemedicine)
One of the fundamental building blocks of telemedicine is the internet. Illustrate the components that enable the data from a Bluetooth-based body sensor to reach a remote data analytics server on the hospital?
The connected world between human and devices#
every device (sensor, computer, monitor) is connected to a network (not necessarily internet)
examples
IoT#
IoT simplified model:
be aware of security, especially when privacy is in stake
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infected motor controllers of nuclear centrifuges in Iran through USB sticks
spread to other plants in other countries without significant impact
Ukraine power grid attack - 2015
taking network under control, switching 30 substations off
230k people without electricity for hours
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for more details about IoT: IoT fundamentals slides