The Internet of Things for Health Care
Dr. Songpol Ongwattanakul
Acting Director
The Center for Biomedical and Robotic Technology Loboratory (BART LAB)
Faculty of Engineering
Overview
• Introduction
• IoT for Healthcare Trends
• Services and Applications
• Data -> Big Data
• What do we do?
• Obstacles
• Conclusions
Introduction
IoT for Healthcare Trends
• Forbes: • $117 Billion Market For Internet of Things In Healthcare
By 2020
• Business Insider:
IoT for Healthcare Trends
• Potential applications: • Remote health monitoring
• Fitness program
• Chronic diseases and elderly care
• IoT-based healthcare services are expected to • Reduce costs
• Saving on energy, labor, and time.
• Increase the quality of life (QOL) • QOL = The individual’s perception of their position in life in the
context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals. [WHO]
• Enrich the user’s experience (UX) • UX = A person's perceptions and responses that result from the
use or anticipated use of a product, system or service. [The
international standard on ergonomics of human system interaction, ISO 9241-210]
Services and Applications
• IoT Healthcare Services: • Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• The Internet of m-Health Things (m-IoT)
• Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)
• Community of Healthcare (CH)
• Children Health Information (CHI)
• Wearable Device Access (WDA)
• Semantic Medical Access (SMA)
• Indirect Emergency Healthcare (IEH)
• Embedded Gateway Configuration (EGC)
• Embedded Context Prediction (ECP)
Services and Applications
• IoT Healthcare Applications: • Glucose Level Sensing
• Electrocardiogram Monitoring
• Blood Pressure Monitoring
• Body Temperature Monitoring
• Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
• Rehabilitation System
• Medication Management
• Wheelchair Management
• Imminent Healthcare Solutions
• Healthcare Solutions using Smartphones
Data
• Data = Data + Metadata
• Metadata = Data about the data
• What to do with Data? • Statistics: Hypothesis, Modeling, Forecasting, etc.
• Data mining: Decision tree, Classification/Clustering, Association, etc.
• Goal = Knowledge about your services • What are the factors contributed to effectiveness?
• Know your customer.
What do we do?
• At BARTLAB, we do medical robots.
• Medical robot => Professional Service Robot
• Example 1: Medical Device
Monofilament Project
AGV Project
• Example 2: Hospital Logistics
• Monofilament Project • Under clinical trials phase.
• Expect to be in service by the end of 2017.
• AGV Project • 3rd Generation platform
• ISO 13482 compliance
• Limited vertical transportation (require IoT elevator interface)
• Note: all communications are encrypted with an asymmetric pair of keys as a baseline for security.
Obstacles of IoT for Healthcare R&D
• For medical/wellness device and system, • Ethic issues
• Animal and human testing
• Data collected from human subject
• Clinical trials • Normally expensive and take long time
• FDA Certification • Tons of documents
• HL7 (medical device only) • HL7 Standards provide a framework for the exchange,
integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.
Conclusions
• Opportunity for IoT Healthcare in Thailand • Novelty Healthcare Devices/Systems
• Healthcare Applications for better QOL
• Medical Hub
• At BARTLAB, Mahidol University, we would like to help good ideas become good benefits of mankind. Therefore, we offer, • Consultation services
• Prototyping services
• Testing services
for various kinds of medical devices both standalone and IOT. Please visit www.bartlab.org for more information.