IBME Digital Health Devices

This summer, the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) is proud to present the "Digital Health Devices" day, on Friday 20th June. The event features as part of the IBME's MedTech Week 2014, which showcases medical technology/innovations and biomedical engineering across UCL.

The event aims to showcase

• some of the work going on in digital health devices across UCL – a look at some ways in which the data gathered from medical devices can be used at home or in a clinical setting
• medical devices as a gateway to useful patient data and how this can best be analysed/utilised (raising questions around data formats/ unsupervised monitoring/ linkage/ validation)
• perspective of this area from representatives of the hospitals themselves – UCL Partners
• examples from Industry and small companies of their work
• goal to bring academics, clinicians and industry together offering an opportunity for networking

Event Schedule

Talks 12.00 - 17.30 - Archaeology Lecture Theatre (G6), 31-34 Gordon Square, London.

12.00 - Registration, pastries and coffee

12.30 - Opening Speech: Professor Quentin Pankhurst

12.40 - Professor Clare Elwell, Medical Physics - “Optical neuroimaging of infants in Africa”

13.00 - Dr Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology - "Analog healthcare information technology"

13.20 - Dr Vivek Dua, Chemical Engineering - "Nonlinear Model Based Control and Automation for Personalised Haemodialysis"

13.40 - Mr Keir Yong, Institute of Neurology - "Seeing what they see: compensating for cortical visual dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease"

--13.40-14.10 Coffee Break--

14.15 - Dr Vanessa Diaz, Mechanical Engineering - “Mathematical Modelling & Medical Devices: Examples and New Developments in Personalised and Digital Healthcare”

14.35 - Ms Manuela Bossi, Inst. Opthalmology - "Exploratory study of a novel home-based treatment for amblyopia"

14.55 - 15.55 - “Harnessing informatics to drive patient & population benefit” presented by:

• Dr James Mountford, Director of Clinical Quality and Value UCL Partners
• Dr Phil Koczan, Chief Clinical Information Officer UCL Partners
• David Hill, Head of ICT Business Solutions University College London Hospitals

--15.35-16.10 Afternoon Break--

16.10 - Professor Philip Treleaven, Computer Science

16.20 - Alan Payne, Group Digital Director, BUPA - “eHealth: Outcomes in the Digital Age”

16.40 - Alan Johnson, Technology Director, Tactiq - "Practical lessons from the development of a class IIa therapeutic medical device"

17.00 - Dr Alison Burdett, Chief Technology Officer, Toumaz Group- "Wireless patient monitoring on the move"

17.20 - Closing Remarks: Professor Quentin Pankhurst

17.30 - 19.00 - Networking event: South Cloisters, Gower Street, London.

You can find more information on the MedTech festival and Digital Health Devices day, here.

The event is being co-organised by the IBME and the Festival for Digital Health.

The Festival for Digital Health comprises of 10-days of events to highlight new innovations, share research, network with staff, industry and healthcare professionals and create new interdisciplinary collaborations.

>>The Digital Health Devices day will be followed by a drinks reception at the South Cloisters from 6 - 7.00 pm, providing an opportunity for networking.