Title: WIRHE A strategy plan for wireless solutions in healthcare
1WIRHE A strategy plan for wireless solutions in
healthcare
- Prestudy-plan for Tekes
- Esko Alasaarela, Dr Tech, Docent
- University of Oulu, Department of Electrical and
Information Engineering
2Starting point for WIRHE
- The optimization of the healthcare processes
cannot be done until it is possible to get
real-time information from the processes. - In Europe (and especially in Finland) there is a
boom of developing mobile solutions for personal
health monitoring. - Wireless Sensor Network solutions and components
are breaking into market (Berkeley motes etc.) - The worldwide need of wireless technologies (also
Far-East) rising from the cost crisis of the
healthcare sector and emerging of the new age of
wellness issues. - The progress in developing ubiquitous technology
and ubiquitous healthcare initiatives. - Concluding the background
- It is the right time to plan a robust strategy
and road-map for the Wireless Healthcare
technology and business which would be followed
both in Finland and other participating countries
as a part of the European and/or global market. - The wireless sensors and wireless positioning and
tracking solutions (tracking of people,
information, equipment, goods, drugs and
material) will change drastically the healthcare
industry worldwide
3Objectives of the prestudy
- To collect and combine information from many
sources - To highlight the key points of wireless
healthcare strategy - To plan the strategy road mapping project
- To open discussion with the top level experts in
the world - The main goal of this pre-study is to prepare a
proposal of a strategy planning and road mapping
project for wireless healthcare technology and
business in European and global market. - The content will consist of a framework for
building vision, preliminary objectives and
strategic steps, an analysis of technologies
needed, collection of current and planned
applications and solutions and an analysis of the
best NOEs in the world in this area.
4Framework
- Framework of the pre-study
- Tekes, in Finland, is funding this work by two
week man-power including one week travel to
Berkeley. - Tekes has established a Theme Group of Wireless
Solutions in the Finnish FinnWell technology
program, who will take the responsibility of this
road-mapping work. - Dr., Docent Esko Alasaarela, University of Oulu,
is executing the pre-study and is one of the
board-members of the Theme Group of Wireless
Solutions. - Expected deliverables
- The pre-study produces a state-of-the-art-report
of about 10 pages concerning technologies,
applications and solutions used or to-be-used in
the hospitals and healthcare. - Plan for strategy planning and road-mapping
project.
5Wireless Healthcare Strategy highlights
- Some of the questions
- Vision elements?
- Hospital processes enhanced by wireless
technology - Mobile healthcare services available
- Wireless ad hoc networks coming to healthcare
applications - Technologies needed for reaching vision?
- Applications
- Strategic mind-set in wireless healthcare
technology and business - Statements for successful strategy plan and
implementation - How to measure success?
- Networks of excellence?
- Conducted from US
- Conducted from Finland
6Elements of vision and roadmap
7Elements of vision and roadmap
1. Health processes enhanced by wireless
technology 2. Locating and tracking of people,
information, equipment and goods 3. Integration
of different software and hardware applications
on the unified platform supported by wireless
technology 4. Collection of vital parameters
from patients by wireless sensors (human
monitoring) 6. Ubi-health services available
for self-diagnostics and self-care applications
(diabetes etc.) 7. User-friendly integration of
mobile devices and services to the last meter
wireles body area network (Bluetooth, ZigBee,
Ultrawideband, etc.) 11. Ad hoc wireless sensor
networks for ubiquitous healthcare applications
8Technologies needed for reaching the vision
9Applications of wireless technology in healthcare
10Strategic mind-set of prosperous wireless
healthcare technology and business
11Strategic mind-set of prosperous wireless
healthcare technology and business
12How to measure success in developing healthcare?
- New methods needed
- To measure improvements on healthcare services
(quality, efficiency, economy, security) - To measure success in turning product and
service development into business - To measure technological and scientific
innovativeness and vision
13Networks of excellence
- Some of them
- FinnWell-program, Theme group of Wireless
Solutions in Healthcare, Finland - HealthTech (Health Technology Center), CA USA
- CITRIS, UC Berkeley, CA USA
- Center for Health Management Research (CHMR), USA
- Wilho consortium, Oulu Finland
- Eureopean-Wilho consortium
14Next steps (tentatively)
- In 2006
- Wireless solutions presentation in
FinnWell-seminar in Helsinki in June 2006. - A workshop of wireless healthcare solutions
joined to CITRIS Europe Meeting in Helsinki in
June 2006. - An international brainstorming session on
wireless healthcare solutions collecting
participants from US, UK, South-Korea and Finland
in Helsinki in September 2006. - Some of the further milestones in the road-map
- Convergence-workshop with CTOs from healthcare
institutions, healthcare management experts,
technology providers and key experts from service
science, March-April 2007, in one of the Northern
Finland Skiing Centers (?). - EU-Wilho-research as an EU-FP7-IP?
15Thank you
Midnight sun in Lapland, Finland