Smarter automated homes for healthy ageing

Digital health advances, from robotics and automation to 3D printing, are going to play an increasingly important role in modern healthcare delivery.

New and innovative technology is allowing us to live longer, healthier lives at home, particularly supporting chronic disease management.

With growing consumer expectations around therapy and at home support, technical advances will be increasingly relied upon to save costs. Come to this event and hear latest developments from industry experts.

Program

3D printing in healthcare – what’s happening

Dr Sean Powell Academic, BioFabrication Institute, Queensland University of Technology

Sean’s research experience is in theoretical and computational modelling of particle dynamics and diffusion and MRI characterisation of diffusion in complex pore spaces. In addition, Sean has industry experience in computer software and hardware engineering, 3D visualisation systems, and solar thermal energy research. Presently, he leads the biofabrication research team within the Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology research group at QUT. His quantitative and problem solving skills as a physicist complement those of the multi-disciplinary team of biologists, organic chemists, clinicians and medical engineers. He is also passionate about learning and teaching and lectures undergraduate physics at all year levels from introductory to advanced.

Smarter safer homes platform for seniors living at home

Dr Qing Zhang Senior Research Scientist, The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Dr Qing Zhang is now a senior research scientist at the Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO and leads Health Internet of Things research team and Smart Home projects. In 2013, the CSIRO Smarter Safer Homes platform won QLD state iAward and National iAward Merit Award. He has also served as the committee member of IEEE QLD section. His research interests span a variety of topics in sensor data fusion and mining, human identification and activity recognition, data stream and approximate algorithm design. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and many appear in top conferences in computer science and engineering.

From the connected home to the connected person

Lisa Capamagian Corporate Development Manager, Tunstall Healthcare

As Corporate Development Manager of Tunstall Healthcare, Lisa is responsible for the development of new business strategies in the Asia Pacific region. She is also responsible for project management of telehealth and telecare implementations, and has managed large scale government funded telehealth programmes including; Townsville-Mackay Medicare Local Diabetes In-Home Management Trial, DVA CVC In-home Telemonitoring Trial, Western Health Home Therapies utilising Tele-Health Guidance and Monitoring Project (HUG Project), and Integrated Living and New England Medicare Local Staying Strong Program. Lisa joined Tunstall in 2006, with 20 years of sales, marketing and management experience in a variety of industries including: health, food manufacturing, travel, gaming and media. Lisa has a degree in health science and a post graduate degree in communications. She is a passionate advocate for proactive health care management and health promotion.

Registration Fees

This event is free for HISA and IEEE members and $25.00 for non-members. Please register via the above link to confirm your attendance.

Slides
Slides are available post event to HISA members only. If you would like further information on HISA membership please click here.

CPD Points

This event has been approved for up to 1.5 contact hours of continuing education credit toward renewal of the CHIA credential. Click here for more information on becoming a certified health informatics professional.

Parking
There are 2 options:
- Park at the hospital (note this can be quiet costly)
- Park along Gilchrist Ave, about a 5 minute walk from the hospital. It is paid parking until 7.00pm

This event is a collaboration between HISA and the Queensland Chapter of IEEE EMB