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The WG aims to promote medical informatics research in the area of wearable sensor technology in healthcare by providing a joint comprehensive platform for information exchange and scientific collaboration. The group aims to attract experts from different areas of expertise, such as medical informatics, biomedical engineering, nursing and medicine.
The following areas of research will be addressed by the WG:
- sensor application and research areas in healthcare: diagnostics and therapeutics, in terms of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- methods for sensor data analysis, with a special focus on the analysis of multimodal data
- integration of sensor data resp. extracted information with health information systems and decision support systems to achieve individualization of diagnostics
- acceptance of wearable sensor technologies for healthcare, both by potential users/ relatives and healthcare professionals.
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Please consider to participate:
Joint Focus Theme Issues of
Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) and
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie – European Journal of Geriatrics (ZGG)
on
Enabling Technologies in Geriatric Medicine and Rehabilitation
Guest Editors: Michael Marschollek (MIM), Clemens Becker (ZGG)
Please find the CfP here (Deadline: March 1, 2013). |
Our WG has co-hosted the 4th international workshop PervaSense “Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health environments” (PERVASENSE2012, www.pervasense.org). It was held in San Diego, USA on May 21, 2012. It was organized in conjunction with the 6th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing in Healthcare (Pervasive Health). Please find the program here.
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Members of our working group have published a paper entitled "Wearable Sensors in Healthcare and Sensor-Enhanced Health Information Systems: All Our Tomorrows?". Please find the free full text here. |
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WG workshop results (MIE 2011 in Oslo) |
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Our working group and the IMIA WG 'Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living' has hosted a workshop at the 23rd International Conference of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) on Wednesday, Aug. 31st, 2011. The workshop was attended by some 35 participants and sparked intensive discussions.
The programme is listed below, and you may download the workshop slides here.
Programme:
- Introduction to smart homes and wearable sensor technologies: definition and state-of-the-art (George Demiris and Michael Marschollek)
part 1: organizational requirements and infrastructures
- Technical and organizational requirements for holistic health information architectures (Sabine Koch)
- An innovative informatics platform for the assessment of activities of daily living and quality of life of community dwelling older adults (G. Demiris)
part 2: exemplary applications
- Leveraging Psychophysical Data in Monitoring and Analyzing the States of Badminton Players (Feng Tian)
- Feasibility and acceptance of accelerometers in clinical and epidemiological studies (Alexander Horsch)
- Fall risk assessment with wearable inertial sensors (M. Marschollek)
part 3: concluding moderated discussion (Sabine Koch and Feng Tian) |
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