Healthcare & Life Sciences
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How Can the Internet of Clothing Benefit Our Wellbeing and Environment?
Highlights Powered by the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet of Clothing (IoC) has recently emerged as the next IoT frontier with the potential to take wearable technology to the next level.The term IoC currently is a loose concept that covers two main areas: smart fabric and smart labels.As the…
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Addressing the Need for Protecting Cybersecurity in Connected Diabetes Devices
Highlights A growing number of people with diabetes are turning to wireless diabetes devices to monitor and manage their condition.As wireless interconnections and data exchanges increase among connected diabetes devices (CDDs), smart devices, and networks, there also is an increased risk to safety and privacy of the patient.The IEEE 2621™…
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Setting the Standard for Future Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth Solutions
Highlights Reimbursements to healthcare providers and patient access and familiarity with RPM technology were among the most important factors for telehealth deployment.Creating robust standards for disparate system interoperability is needed to make RPM clinically viable with data collection and transmission. In May 2022, at the annual American Telehealth Association (ATA)…
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Podcast: Is AI Good for Medicine and the Patients It is Trying to Help?
Highlights We need to ask how pragmatic AI is in delivering good medicine and enhancing patient outcomes equally.This podcast series dives deep into conversations with multi-disciplinary experts about the pragmatic, responsible, and equitable use of AI in healthcare.Take a sneak peek at the topics covered in the series. New episodes…
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How Women are Leading the Healthcare Technology Transformation
Women play a key role in healthcare, with 77% of the healthcare workforce being women and 80% of women making healthcare decisions for their families, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) Practice brings together volunteers to…
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The Future of a Patient-Centered Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) System is Highly Competitive and Innovative
On Tuesday, 8 February 2022, nine trailblazing and innovative finalists competed in the IEEE SA Telehealth Virtual Pitch Competition hosted by IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice and the IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm Industry Connections Program. The competition officially launched the last week of November 2021 and…
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2022 IEEE Standards Association Awards Nominations Are Open
IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) recognizes outstanding standards development participation through various award categories. Nominations for the 2022 IEEE Standards Awards are now open. Nominations can be made for the following awards: IEEE SA Standards Medallion For major contributions to standards development, e.g., leadership in standardization of new technologies, achievement…
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How Blockchain Technology Can Help Address Legacy Challenges in Healthcare
Imagine that a flu vaccine shortage arises in the middle of a deadly flu season. There are likely unused doses sitting in hospital basements or doctors’ office supply rooms across the country. But because there is not a single, shared, and secure repository for the flu vaccine inventory, medical professionals…
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Three Healthcare and Life Sciences Trends to Watch in 2022
As the COVID-19 global pandemic waged on in 2021, we saw a global population continue to use mobile and remote technologies for everyday tasks: video conferencing platforms were used by workers and students, streaming content applications kept us entertained at home, and grocery shopping was done through a mobile app.…
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The Future of Patient-Centered Mobile Remote Patient Monitoring (mRPM)
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and mobile remote patient monitoring (mRPM) are forms of telehealth that utilize monitoring technologies tracking patient data beyond the health facility. RPM relies on various technologies to coordinate a multiple-point monitoring system: from source (patient device/sensor), software program (mobile app), the internet, the healthcare provider and…