Shaping the healthcare of tomorrow through patient-centered digital technologies

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Author
Wacker, Josias
Abstract
For the past few decades, health systems have been challenged by a series of fundamental societal trends, e.g., ageing and an increase of illnesses related to lifestyle, resulting in a continuous increase of health costs. Efficient solutions to these challenges shall be centered on patients’ needs and therefore require precise knowledge about the well-being of individuals and groups, i.e., reliable and relevant health data. With the rise of digital health technologies - based among others on wearable health sensors, ubiquitous mobile internet, and machine data processing - we now have tools at hand which allow us collecting these data in various situations, including individuals’ daily lives, and extracting and synthesizing actionable parameters. The resulting devices and systems surpass the state of the art in terms of information content, autonomy, ergonomics, and signal quality. In this talk we will present how the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) puts patients at the center of its developments and thereby shapes tomorrow’s digital health technologies with groundbreaking innovations such as a multi-signal ambulatory shirt for non-obtrusive functional lung imaging, wearables for cuffless blood pressure monitoring, and algorithms for non-invasive and continuous measurement of the pulmonary arterial pressure. The transformative potential of these developments is anticipated to materialize in reduced healthcare costs, improved quality of life of patients and caregivers, and highly individualized illness prevention.
Publication Reference
EMBEC 2024, Portoroz (Slovenia)
Year
2024-09-06
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