Parag Chatterjee

Internet of Things for a Smart and Ubiquitous eHealth System

Connected data has always been considered as a primary source to knowledge. Internet of Things uses the virtue of connecting this data from different entities and creates a pool of knowledge for providing smart services to users, based on rigorous analysis and processing over the knowledge. The communication in this context scales to not only between machine to machine but also between a large number of heterogeneous entities and persons. This genius technology of Internet of Things holds paramount importance and application in healthcare technologies. Considering health technologies, a large number of devices generate huge amount of data related to a patient. Assimilating the data from heterogeneous sources and using it to generate intelligence is one of the primary tasks in a smart environment. In the context of eHealth, Internet of Things is of immense importance since connected data about patient would facilitate treatment with more efficiency and comprehensive knowledge. Virtually storing the patient data and making it ubiquitously accessible to concerned healthcare personnel would be the first step toward mutual knowledge sharing. Another important aspect of using this connected data is the design of an intelligent clinical decision support system which would assist the doctors in every possible way during the treatment phase. A model has been proposed with an inclusive approach of Internet of Things in eHealth scenario for a smart medical environment and providing ubiquitous services at its best. Several issues pertaining to the system has also been discussed accordingly. Nevertheless, the enormous spread of Internet of Things for efficient and intelligent healthcare services holds quite inevitable. Rather it adds to the foundation notion of ubiquitous services by making available to everyone and everywhere. The new age eHealth facilities are expected to enable end-to-end monitoring systems even at remote scenarios, helping medical services reach the unreached.

IoT-Based eHealth Toward Decision Support System for CBRNE Events

Recent years have seen a phenomenal change in healthcare paradigms, and Internet of Things (IoT) clubbed with data analytics has been a key player in this field. IoT provides a common platform for seamless exchange between health devices and all the stakeholders of healthcare followed by advanced analysis of the shared pool of data. Clinical decision support system is an important component of the recent eHealth systems which acts as an assistive tool for the medical personnel in getting a deeper insight to patients’ health data and to design more efficient and personalized treatment strategy. Such a fascinating platform of IoT also finds use with respect to CBRNE; especially after a CBRNE event, such eHealth-based decision support system counts significant to guide the medical personnel in treating people. Moreover, having the comprehensive health profile of the mass enables the stakeholders to analyze and identify the potential risk groups, which would enhance the efficiency of treatment and necessary actions.

MOOC on Biomedical Engineering for Latin American Students -- Unleashing the Potential of Virtual Learning

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have commanded considerable public attention due to their sudden rise and disruptive potential. As a very promising area, the biomedical world offers the integration between several domains, complementing medicine with engineering topics. This work has been focused primarily over a MOOC delivered in Spanish, covering the introductory ideas of biomedical engineering and posing a holistic view of the subject. This MOOC on biomedical engineering was the first of its kind in Latin America, creating a stir in the Ibero-American community of biomedical engineering. Centering this work, a platform has been proposed which would act as a point of connection and collaboration in biomedical engineering. This would open up new possibilities of collaborative innovation besides catering the subject to the prospective students in an interesting way, so that before taking up a career in biomedical engineering, they could have an introductory and holistic view to it. The platform would also open up a common stage of partnership between universities and associations of biomedical engineering, giving the learning community an opportunity to gain from collaborative learning. Industrial partnership with the platform would shape the profile of graduated students versatile, allowing their instantaneous incorporation to the competitive market in this vast field. Pertaining to this perspective, the prospective impact of virtual learning has been explored.