WIRHE A strategy plan for wireless solutions in healthcare

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WIRHE 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

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Starting 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 next generation of internet are developed
  (UC)
• 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

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Objectives 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.

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Framework

• 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.

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Wireless 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

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Elements of vision and roadmap
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Technologies needed for reaching the vision
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Applications of wireless technology in healthcare
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Strategic mind-set of prosperous wireless
healthcare technology and business
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Strategic mind-set of prosperous wireless
healthcare technology and business
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How 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

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Networks 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
• EU-Wilho consortium

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Next 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?

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Thank you
Mid-night sun in Lapland, Finland