EU-Australian e-Health workshop at the ICT proposer's day Budapest

We are finalizing details for a May 17-20 European-Australian e-Health workshop in Budapest. This workshop is sponsored by NICTA, the Australian e-Health Technology Cluster and the Department of Innovation Industry Science and Research. Delegates from Australia are from several research Institutes, including Melbourne University, University of Western Sydney, University of Southern Queensland, CSIRO and NICTA.

The workshop will be held at the Le Meridien Hotel, Budapest on May 17-18, with connection to the EU ICT Proposer's Day (May 19-20).

For more information please contact and registration:
Leif Hanlen
+61 4 6677 6469,
leif.hanlen.nicta.com.au

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.

Body area networks tutorial: toward a wearable internet

On Feb 3, we delivered our Body Area Networks tutorial in Melbourne at the 2011 Australian Communications Theory Workshop. The slides are available online from the NICTA publication site doc:4690 the pdf is several Mb's so be warned!

The audience was mostly wireless and sensor network researchers - PhD students and postdocs - it looks like wireless-Body Area Network research is starting to take off in Australia.

Post-script: David Skellern is presenting some of NICTA's wireless health work at the Wireless Health conference in Sydney on Feb 18: go see what else is happening in Wireless Health in and around NICTA!

Free Seminar: eHealth, and the Austrian Institute of Technology

Seminar at Canberra Research Laboratory, by Karl Kreiner

Wed, Dec 15, 2pm NICTA seminar room (ground floor) map
Dr. Karl Kreiner

The seminar will outline work that is being undertaking by the Austrian Institute of Technology, in relation to eHealth, and Dr. Kreiner’s work both here in Australia and in Austria, in particular recent work presented at the Global Telehealth Conference in Perth.

Dr. Kreiner is currently based in Canberra, the talk will run for 20 minutes.

All welcome

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.

3 five-year trends for health data (from Health Care Blog)

Health care blog has released the most likely (top 3) trends in health care data for the next five years

1. Structured Health Data (XML) - everything will be stored.
2. Point-to-point sharing of health data - so health data networks will interconnect
3. Apps/middle-ware - less browsing more aggregating.

Have a look at the full Health Care Blog for more info