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BROADMED: 1st IEEE/CreateNet International Workshop on

"Telemedicine over broadband and wireless networks"

(Collocated with IEEE/CreateNet BroadNets2005 conference)

 October 3, 2005

Location: Radisson Hotel, Boston, MA, USA

 

 

BROADMED'05 PROGRAM          

 8:00-9:00 Registration

 9:00-10:00 Keynote presentation

        Internet based medical information systems to support healthcare in

        developing countries Hamish Frazer [Harvard Medical School]

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

 10:30-12:30 Session 1

  • Advances in 3G telecardiology (invited lecture) Robert H. Istepanian [Kingston University, UK]
  • Wireless Patient Monitoring using Ad Hoc Networks: Reliability and Power Management Upkar Varshey, Sweta Sneha [Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA]
  • WISTA: A Wireless Transmission System for Disaster Patient Care Yuechun Chu, Xin Huang, and Aura Ganz [Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA]
  • Ambulatory Wireless Internet Electrocardiography: New concepts & Maths E. Kail [Budapest Univ. Tech. Econ., Hungary], S. Khoor [St. Stephen Hospital, Hungary], J. Nieberl [Bion Ltd., Hungary]

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

 13:30-15:00 Session 2

  • The Role of Consumer Technologies in enhancing care plan adherence (invited presentation) Joseph C. Kvedar  and Alice Watson [Partners Telemedicine and Harward Medical School]
  • Delivering e-health via Broadband Penny Jennett [University of Calgary]
  • Health Parameters and Video Live Transmission with Data Storage on Database, in Emergency Telemedicine Gianluca Bailo, Ivano Barbieri, Stefano Cevasco, Marco Raggio [Univ. of Genova, Italy]
  • Remote 3D Medical Consultation Gregory Welch [UNC Chapel Hill, USA], Diane Sonnenwald [Göteborg Univ., and Univ. College of Boras, Sweden], Ketan Mayer-Patel [UNC Chapel Hill, USA], Ruigang Yang [Univ. of Kentucky, USA], Andrei State [UNC Chapel Hill, USA], Herman Towles [UNC Chapel Hill, USA],  Bruce Cairns, Henry Fuchs [UNC Chapel Hill, USA]

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

 15:30-17:30 Session 3  

  • DICOM: Where it started, what it is now, where it is going (invited presentation) Robert Horn [Agfa]
  • Interpreter CareLink: Videoconference Technology to Enhance Patient Care(invited presentation) Peter Macaulay and Julie Lytle [Beth Israel
    Deaconess Medical Center].
  • Hardware Design & Compression Issues in Compact Bluetooth Enabled Wireless Telecardiology System Jong Min Choi [Seoul National Univ., Korea], Robert S. H. Istepanian [Kingston Univ., UK], Alvaro Alesanco [Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain] and Henry Wang [Kingston Univ., UK]
  • Reducing Hospital length of stay through the formation of a Hi-Tec Home-care Environment Vasileios Spyropoulos [Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece]
  • Application of Cluster Computing in Medical Image Processing N. Srinivasan [Anna Univ., Chennai, India], V. Vaidehi [Madras Inst. Tech., India]