PhD course: Personalized Telehealth, Informatics and Person-centered Technology

Invitation to PhD course:

Personalized Telehealth, Informatics and Person-centered Technology
– an Interdisciplinary Approach

Time: August 27th – September 1st 2017
Venue: Aalborg University, Denmark

Aims

This course will give a comprehensive introduction to personalized telehealth in an interdisciplinary approach by addressing challenges in future personalized healthcare systems from design of new technologies, data mining and implementation to evaluation of telehealth programs at scale.The learning goals for the students are:

  • To give students an insight into design, testing, implementation and evaluation of personalized telehealth, informatics and patient-centered technology for patients with chronic diseases
  • To give students the possibility to create networks with other PhD students and international researchers within telehealth and health informatics

You can read more about the course in this PDF.

Future Patient at “Folkemødet 2017”

Researchers from Laboratory for Welfare Technology arrange panel discussions at “Folkemødet 2017”, The People’s Political Festival. The debate will focus on patients’ participation and expectations regarding future welfare technologies.

Two sessions will be held Thursday 15 June 2017 in Sverigesvejs Eventtelt (F21) – in Danish:

Self-tracking teknologi sætter hjertepatienter i førersædet
Time: 13:45-14:45

Sundhedsvæsen, disruption og ny teknologi
Time: 15:00-16:00

Future Patient and the Video Assist projects will be presented at Med-e-Tel

Future Patient and the Videoassist projects will be presented at Med-e-Tel den 5-7 April 2017 i Luxembourg

PhD student Claus Østergaard have had an abstract accepted and will present it at the conference:

Tele-social-rehabilitation as a tool for individualised recovery programs for citizens with mental illness.  Østergaard, Claus Ugilt; Dinesen, Birthe Irene. 2017. Abstract from Med-e-Tel, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, ISfTeH, Luxembourg, Luxemborg.

Birthe Dinesen presenting af Med-e-TelAssociate professor Birthe Dinesen have had an abstract accepted and will present it at the conference:

Development and pilot test of a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure: the Future Patient project . Dinesen, Birthe; Spindler, Helle; Leth, Søren; Hansen, John; Refsgaard, Jens; Hollindal, Malene. 2017. Abstract from Med-e-Tel, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, ISfTeH, Luxembourg, Luxemborg.

Further the research project Future Patient – telerehabilitation of patients with heart failure will be presented on a workshop within telecardiology.

Boot

As part of the conference we will have a boot on the Laboratory of Welfare Technologies – telehealth & telerehabilitation and the Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN).

TTRN Logo

Follow the conference here:  https://www.medetel.eu/