Event Previews & Recaps
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EuroDig 2022 – Cybersecurity Standards For Trustworthy Digital Technologies
Highlights International standards are developed to build resilience to cyber threats and to deliver implementation benefits for global citizens and businesses. The key is to help identify and implement trustworthy digital technologies.IEEE workshops at EuroDig 2022 explored how collaborative standards development can help support the European Cybersecurity Strategy and how…
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WSIS Forum 2022: Designing A Sustainable Future
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2022 was held 15 March through 3 June. The 12 week-long event began with virtual sessions and culminated with the final week being held in person with remote options in Geneva, Switzerland. WSIS is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD,…
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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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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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Rebuilding Trust: A Path Toward More Holistic Cybersecurity
Often, the general public thinks of cybersecurity as “IT security”, yet it covers much more than that. Data collection, transparency, trust, communication, and collaboration have become increasingly vital in a world exploding with ever more connected devices. IEEE addressed this topic during an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021 Lightning Talk…
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Actions for Clean Energy, Clean Materials & Energy Efficiency: A COP26 Discussion with IEEE, BCSE, and e5
At COP26, IEEE co-hosted a panel discussion, together with representatives from the European Business Council for Sustainable Energy (e5) and International Business Council for Sustainable Energy (ICSE). COP, or “The Conference of the Parties,” is a yearly conference that began in 1994 with 197 countries signing the UN Framework Convention…
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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…
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Swarm AI For Decentralized Clinical Research and Precision Medicine
If the term “swarm” naturally makes you think of swarms of honey bees or ants, you are on the right path to understanding the concept. Swarm AI (artificial swarm intelligence) is an emerging application inspired on the social behavioral models of insects such as bees, ants, etc. What is Swarm…
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Meet the 2021 World Standards Day Video Contest Winners
In celebration of World Standards Day 2021, IEEE SA invited global communities to share their ideas on the IEEE Standards that transform our lives and work. We received videos from across the world and were impressed by the quality and diversity of topics. We would like to thank everyone who…
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Why Sensor Standardization is a Growing Need for the Internet Of Things
Traditionally, sensors have been used for camera imaging and sensing, quantifying, and communicating information about humidity, temperature, motion, speed, proximity, and other aspects of their environment. Today, they have become key enablers for a host of new technologies that are essential to business and industry, and to everyday life,…