CoPMRE 13th Annual Symposium: Digital Healthcare: shaping the future 12th October 2016

Research and Education (CoPMRE), Bournemouth University, is pleased to announce the confirmed programme for the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, Digital Healthcare: Shaping the future. This symposium is suitable for primary and secondary care doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, Trusts board members, academics and anyone with an interest in medical research and education.

This year’s conference will explore the escalating scale and pace of digital technology in healthcare and the benefits and challenges of transformative technologies to advance care, improve clinical outcomes and enhance the patient experience.

The conference is free to attend but please register in advance to confirm your place.

Talks include:

• Why Digital Healthcare? The national context and strategy
  Cathy Francis (Director of patients and information, NHS England)
• Digital Healthcare and the Challenge of Interoperability
  Theodoros N. Arvanitis (Professor of e-Health Innovation and Head of Research, Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH) at WMG, University of Warwick)
• Steps on the Dorset Digital Journey – The Dorset care record and beyond
  Andy Hadley (Head of IT Development, NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group)
• Digital Clinical Pathways: harnessing the power of digital health service design
  Nuno Almeida (Founder and CEO, Nourish)
• Using technology to deliver mental health at scale
  Claire Harding (Head of Impact and Research, Big White Wall)

The symposium agenda final-7812-copmre-annual-conference-a4-programme-19-09-16-v-2-7-1

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Neural Engineering for Rehabilitation

 

This is a call from our collaborative network. You may be interested in and just click link below.

Neurorehabilitation has been identified as a grand challenge for the coming decades, mainly due to the fast growing population with neurological disorders (e.g., stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, etc.). Efficient, quantitative, and automated rehabilitation services are in urgent need to release the increasing demands for long-term medical treatments and healthcare and to compensate the lack of manpower in rehabilitation professionals. Neural engineering is an active research area, where engineering technologies, such as robots, imaging, artificial intelligence, telecommunication, and sensors, have contributed to diagnosis, treatment, and long-term evaluation in rehabilitation processes. Advances in neural engineering techniques, from the fundamental research in laboratories to clinical trials, will definitely promote the automated and personalized rehabilitation in the future.

This special issue aims at compiling the latest researches and advances in neural engineering with an ultimate application in rehabilitation. We invite authors to submit original research and review articles that explore the related mechanisms and/or technologies.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

1. Brain computer interfaces
2. Neural sensors
3. Neural prosthetics and robotics for rehabilitation
4. Neumuscular electrical stimulation
5. Neural signal processing in rehabilitation
6. Quantification of rehabilitation effectiveness
7. Neural imaging for rehabilitation
8. Neural tissue engineering

Manuscript Due:  Friday, 24 February 2017

Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at

http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/bn/nere/

The call can be download here. special-issue-on-neural-engineering-for-rehab

The 1st UK-China HCI and Digital Health Forum Gallery

The 1st UK-China HCI and Digital Health Forum has been successfully closed 48 days before. We are still receiving some inquiries about the next plan, the presentation and even the photos. This is why we set up the gallery for all potential inquiries and interests.

It might be bit of late to express our gratitude  to all speakers, audience, volunteers, contributors and event partners now. However, we are highly likely to have a second chance to say in 2017. A potential forum is under planning at the moment. HCI will still be the theme. We are going to think about more broad applied areas and more business opportunities this time.

 

All documents, which are PDF files, are categorised into three themes: technologies, marketing and business cases. Especially, the business cases show an extremely booming EEG products market in China. It is very interesting the main force in this business is based in the city of Hangzhou, the hosting city for G20 2017 and the HQ of Alibaba.

 

 

• Technologies

1. eyetracking_smcdougall   2. telehealth_mfisk  3. ERP_xhe  4.qEEG_tsteffert

• Marketing

1. innovation_hli  2.southwesthealthcare_thickish  3.healthchina_amorley  4.agingcare_bzeng

• Business cases

1. magilit_mdjiang  2.enter_btong  3.talkingbrain_slin  4.histar

See you all on Tuesday

Special Offer in 1st UK-China HCI and Digital Health Forum

Regarding many enquires on registering our workshop, you need to visit the British HCI 2016 conference website and open the register webpage.

To attend our forum(workshop) in Bournemouth University, you will tick the option of “Workshops (one day)” and pay the registration fee (the figure left).  The registration fee is £100 which includes a lunch and refreshment. Also it is a one-off payment, you can choose to attend any workshop on 12th July.

For our forum, we offer a special offer for your registration. More details please refer to our forum agenda HCI_digitalhealth_agenda_V6.

* The first 5 registrants, who must submit to the JediMind Competition or article by the deadline of midnight at 10^th July, will received £50 discount for the registration fee.

 

Agenda of 1st HCI and Digital Health Forum: China and UK

For our workshop, we estimate that 15 people are likely to attend this workshop in Bournemouth University. The audience come from three areas: R&D, industry and investment. Meanwhile we have a live streaming conference in China. All talks will be broadcasted mutually in Bournemouth and China. Our partners Newford Research Institute of Advanced Technology (NRIAT) and China-UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum are responsible for running China sessions in Wenzhou and Hangzhou, the city hosting G20 2016, respectively. We expect the number of online audience will reach to 100.

Download the forum agenda HCI_digitalhealth_agenda_V6

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All You Need to Know About a Brainwave Party

Speakers at The 1st HCI and Digital Health Forum: Technologies and Business Opportunities between China and UK

• Time: 9:00-17:00, 12th July 2016

• Venue: Kimmeridge House, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB

• Organisers

1. iTalkTone Lab, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University (UK)
2. Newford Research Institute of Advanced Technology (China)
3. China-UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum

• Contact: bzeng@bournemouth.ac.uk; shong@bournemouth.ac.uk

• Registration: click here

 

 

Prof Sine McDougall (Professor in Psychology, Bournemouth University)

Title: Accessing meaning, usability and user experience: What eye tracking might and might not tell us in the healthcare context.

My research has focused on how we understand, learn, and use icons and signs used on computer interfaces and on traffic and public information signs.

Dr Malcolm J. Fisk (Director, Telehealth Quality Group EEIG, De Montfort University)

Title: Telehealth Services and Technologies: User Acceptance and Market Opportunities

Notable is the fact that he recently led the European Commission funded TeleSCoPE project that developed a European Code of Practice for Telehealth Services – this now being further developed and taken forward as an International Code – by the Telehealth Quality Group EEIG of which he is Director.

Dr Xun He (Co-founder iTalkTone Lab, Bournemouth University)

Title: ERP Components and the Application in Brain-computer Interface

extensively use the electroencephalography (EEG) technique, including event-related potential (ERP) and steady-state visual-evoked potential (SSVEP).

Tony Steffert (co-founder of Society of Applied Neuroscience)

Title: qEEG and Neurofeedback in ADHD and Dyslexia

more recently in creativity and peak-performance using “Virtual Reality” to enhance Neurofeedback learning and creativity in Actors, Dancers and Musicians.

 

Dr Tamas Hickish (Consultant Medical Oncologist, Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust)

Title: Digital Health in Bournemouth and Southwest England

 

 

 

Prof Richard Li-Hua (President of CAMOT Academy, Cambridge)

Title: China’s Innovation and Innovation Strategy

insightful observations and interpretation about what happened in the last 35 years between West and East, notably China and how a university/firm can be well positioned in the 21st century.

Pete Read (CEO, Global Growth Market)

Title: China’s Digital Health Developments in the Asian Context

specialising in healthcare in China, Asia and other emerging markets, who has led assignments for many of the world’s most successful healthcare and technology companies.

Dr Biao Zeng (Founder of iTalkTone Lab, Bournemouth University)

Title: Demands of Digital Healthcare in China: Why China is NOT an Aged People Friendly Place?

 Zeng is extremely interested in applying psychology into a variety of social behaviour changes, e.g. polling, voting, rumour in cyberspace, and violence in hospitals.

HCI and Digital Health: Technologies and Opportunities in China and UK

The workshop, hosted by iTalkTone Lab, Bournemouth University and Newford Research Institute of Advanced Technology (NRIAT, China), is a satellite meeting to the British HCI 2016 Conference and will be held in Bournemouth University on 12th, July.

This workshop initially aims to review the current digital heath technologies and explore their potentials in real world.  Under the umbrella concept of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), EEG, eye-tracking and social assistive robot are three incentive technologies we are investigating. Relevant business models and investment opportunities between China and UK will be introduced as well.

Without any assistive communication tool, locked-in syndrome patients are suffering from “nightmarish qualities, robbed of all function and trapped in a body in which you can’t communicate.” – Dr Mark Delargy,director of the brain injury programme at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dublin from BBC website.

The academia, mainly from psychology, health and IT backgrounds will present their findings in communicative behaviours and demonstrate cutting edge technologies, which facilitate wide range of communication in diverse groups, e.g. aphasia, autism and aged people, and various scenarios.

In particular, a healthcare-driven HCI approach will be under discoursed and developed. Advancement in HCI and even BCI has more and more entered into our privacy. From the perspectives of economics, ethics and business, we will answer whether technology could bring more equality, inclusion and benefit for different groups. A concept of “technology equity” will be proposed and discussed in the workshop.

The workshop themes and topics

• Tendency and business models in global digital health market
• Tendency in Human-computer and Brain-computer interfaces (BCI)
• Edge-cutting technology in healthcare, especially EEG, eye-tracking and Robot
• Cost-effectiveness analysis on HCI in digital health technologies
• Potential and future ethical issues in digital health technologies

More registration,submission and agenda details are coming soon.