Soegijardjo Soegijoko

Development of a Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links for Urban and Rural Areas in Indonesia

This paper is a progress report on the development of a mobile telemedicine system with multi communication links. The system design goal is to provide patient monitoring during the prehospital transport and to offer health services, for people who lives in underserved areas. Therefore, medical information transmission becomes very crucial, since there is no a transmission link stability guarantee. To deal with this issue, multi communication links, which including VHF radio, internet, GSM/CDMA mobile phones, and GPRS are applied for the system. Selection of the communication links depends on the availability of the local communication infrastructure.

Personal medical assistant: Future exploration

There are four model of healthcare; two of them are preventive and curative model. In Indonesia, curative model is still dominant in the healthcare business. Curative model requires more funding and human resources compared to preventive one.

Development of A Communication Arbiter for Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links

This paper is a progress report on the development of a communication arbiter for a mobile telemedicine system with multi communication links. Communication arbiter is a functional unit that is placed at a mobile telemedicine unit. The arbiter consists of a medical information concentrator module which is responsible for polling biosignals, and a communication manager module to manage data interchange within a mobile telemedicine system. The research is imperative in order to develop a simple, compact and low cost functional unit to be used in a mobile telemedicine system that can implement data interchange through an alternative of communication links, such as GSM, CDMA, radio, fixed phones, and internet.

The Development of Cyber-Physical System in Health Care Industry

A cyber physical system involves the combination of sensors, actuators, and computation modules to solve issues that lie across the physical and computational areas. This emerging technology will lead to a significant improvement in the health care industry and also will enhance the quality of life of our communities, including older and disabled persons. Our objective in this chapter is to give insights from the current research to provide future perspectives for scientific research and development. We reviewed the current research and inventions in the field of cyber physical systems (CPS) focusing on the health care industry where computational intelligence is used for decision support. In this chapter, we discuss the current state of the art and trends in cyber physical system in health care industry and summarize the issues that need to be overcome. We conclude by identifying the future challenges in this technology that needs to be addressed in order to identify and facilitate priority research in this emerging field.

A brief review on existing cyber-physical systems for healthcare applications and their prospective national developments

One of the existing general definitions of a cyber-physical system (CPS) can be stated as: a firmly integrated engineered system consisting of electronics, computing, communication, and control sub-systems. It is a relatively new emerging multidisciplinary field, and can be thought as an intersection of physical, biological, engineering and information sciences. CPS has a number of potential applications that include: advanced automotive systems, avionics, energy conservation, environmental control, healthcare, instrumentation, process control, traffic control and safety, as well as transportation. This paper addresses a brief review on existing cyber-physical systems for healthcare related applications; some initial prospective developments of such systems in Indonesia will also be discussed. After introducing some definitions of cyber-physical systems, a review on the existing cyberphysical systems for healthcare applications will be briefly presented. Different types of cps-based healthcare applications in various sectors are covered, that include: tele-healthcare systems for chronic diseases management (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, epilepsy, hearing impairment, and respiratory diseases), medication intake management support, and telehomecare systems. Some prospective initial developments of the cyber-physical systems for healthcare applications conducted in Indonesia will also be presented. Design of mobile health systems for supporting tuberculosis management, mobile telemedicine system with multi communication links, as well as tablet PC and smart phone-based systems for supporting the integrated management of childhood illness are briefly covered. Future cyber-physical systems for healthcare applications are expected to have better reliability and high degree of trustworthiness. More and more CPS-based systems for different types of healthcare applications, in both developed and developing countries, are envisaged.

Application specific e-health & telemedicine systems: Implementation experience for community healthcare and systematic review of disaster publications

This presentation describes our experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of three different application specific e-health and telemedicine systems. There are two projects in the development, clinical implementation, and evaluation of community healthcare e-health systems dedicated for community healthcare in Indonesia with two different specific applications: [a]. Paperless Prescription e-Health System and [b]. Mobile e-Health System for Supporting Mother and Childcare. The third project is [c]. Systematic Review of Publications on the Application Specific Telemedicine/e-Health Systems dedicated for Disaster Management, meeting certain predetermined criteria.

Design and implementation of 4 channel microcontroller based electromyograph

Muscles generate electrical pulses during contraction. Device used to detect and record muscle electric pulses or signals is the electromyograph or EMG. EMG signals can be used in many applications, whether it has been recorded or displayed/analyzed in real time. Electromyographs (EMG) are rarely available in Indonesia. One of the causes of this rarity might be the high price of the EMG. This condition creates problems such as causing costly diagnosis or research. The goal of this research is to design a low cost, multi-channel microcontroller based EMG system, which can record and store EMG signals. The prototype shows promising result. The four channels can work accordingly, and portability of the prototype can be considered almost as a wearable prototype. Since connection to PC is only a single cable, the subject can position himself away from the PC, making a dynamic muscles recording possible. More works should be done if this prototype wants to be used in the clinical use.

Application of a Mobile Telemedicine System with Multi Communication Links for Disaster Reliefs in Indonesia

Natural disasters sometimes occur at locations where medical facilities are not available. Although if such kind of a facility is near, the level of damage can over load this facility and require assistance of a more mobile resource. A mobile telemedicine system is considered an appropriate means catering for various catastrophic cases. This paper offers application of a mobile telemedicine system for disaster reliefs in Indonesia. The system consists of a low cost mobile telemedicine kit and a base unit. The main significant feature of this system is the facility of integrated health services which can be run during a normal situation or in disastrous cases. Furthermore, communication between these two units can be conducted via multicommunication links, so having choice of communication means become an advantage particularly for disaster relief.

Preliminary Design of a Community Telemedicine System for Tuberculosis Control

More than eight million people develop active tuberculosis (TB) every year, and about two million die, with more than 90% of global TB cases and deaths occurring in the developing world. DOTS, a program to control TB based on diagnosis and treatment of infectious cases and incorporating the essential management tools has been promoted by WHO as a global strategy since the mid-1990s. While countries applying DOTS on a wide scale have witnessed remarkable results, most developing countries have been unable to expand DOTS as rapidly as needed. Several reasons cited include poor health system organization and TB managerial capability, poor quality and irregular supply of anti TB drugs, and lack of information.

Development of a new Biomedical Engineering Education Program at Institut Teknologi Bandung

Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology, this field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine, in order to improve healthcare diagnosis, monitoring and therapy. At Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), the Biomedical Engineering (BME) undergraduate program has been conducted since 1998, as an option within the Electrical Engineering (EE) undergraduate program. In March 2013, the Institut Teknologi Bandung obtained a mandate from the Directorate of Higher Education - Ministry of National Education to offer a Bachelor Program in Biomedical Engineering. Therefore, we have to develop a new Biomedical Engineering Education Program (including its curriculum), based on many years experiences in running the existing undergraduate biomedical engineering program. This paper presents the development of a new 2013 Biomedical Engineering Curriculum for the undergraduate level at ITB. The program strength of basic sciences and engineering will allow the graduate students to understand rapidly new Biomedical Engineering and Technologies.