E-Health Cluster Forum: Personally controlled health records, e-Health and the future: what’s happening, where are we headed?

What do personally controlled e-health records mean for ICT the Health? Where are we now, and what's happening next? Come to NICTA and find out on June 28.

NICTA’s e-Government and e-Health Clusters, in collaboration with AIIA and CollabIT, are providing a lunch forum on e-Health to give an update on what’s happening “on the ground” and “over the horizon” regarding e-Health in Australia. This forum is aimed at ICT and health companies and is open to the general public.


This is the first E-Health Cluster event held in Canberra, and we welcome everyone!

Details:
When: 11:00am, June 28
Where: NICTA Canberra Research Lab, Ground Floor, 7 London Cct Canberra
Free registration at the E-Health Cluster

Visiting radio host

We had a visitor earlier in the week: Rod Taylor, of Fuzzy Logic 2XX and "Ask Fuzzy" from the Canberra Times, came to visit the NICTA Canberra lab on Tuesday. Rod saw a few of the projects around the lab, including

• our foosball playing robot setup: a robot that plays against mortals (not well yet, but that's the point... it's an ongoing summer scholar project)
• Some of our toys, like the nifty wireless gloves
• Mark Reed and the Interferex lab: building wireless interference cancelling systems to extend the range of your phone
• The Bionic Vision clinical test lab: where NICTA researchers place volunteers in a specially designed maze to test out depth-of-field algorithms
• Automap: a team that delivers automatic sign recognition for GPS-map devices
• Opinion Watch: extracting meaningful information from the blogosphere.

Rod also took some photos: you can see them on the Fuzzy Logic blog, in gallery 1 and gallery 2.

Pusing Human Performance

This week in radio: Fuzzy Logic 2XX FM's Rod Taylor interviewed Leif Hanlen, on how NICTA is "pushing human performance"

You can listen online: http://fuzzylogicon2xx.podbean.com

What does it take to win an olympic gold medal? Humans are pushing the limits of performance. The difference between a gold and a tin medal can be a tiny percent. In today's ultra competetive events you need every ounce, and the ability to closely monitor an athelete during training can be key.

Dr Leif Hanlen is a senior researcher at Australia's IT research body NICTA where they are building devices for real-time evaluation of atheletes. But it's not just about elite sport stars because anybody who wants their health closely monitored will be interested. Then, what do you do with the data? This can be mined for insights into the individual or the population.

Leif interviewed by Rod, Arwen and Michael, who also brought his own beautiful music into this show.

In the news: Canberra Times

On Sunday, following our appearance at NICTA-Canberra Tech-Net, the Canberra Times ran an article on the swimming study we are currently undertaking. Thanks to Frances Stewart for the great story!

Your laps could help Australia's Olympic swimmers

We are currently looking for volunteers who would like to swim, to test new technology developed between NICTA and the Australian Institute of Sport.

The devices are worn by swimmers, and can tell all the major aspects of what the swimmer is doing.

More information is available from the registration page.

ABC local radio also ran an interview on the call for volunteers.