W2 | The Role of Wearable sensors in the long-term care and telemonitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases

Workshop Facilitator: Prof. Dr. Shabbir Syed-Abdul

Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Digital Health

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics

Adjunct Professor at School of Gerontology and Long-Term Care

Taipei Medical University

Workshop: The Role of Wearable sensors in the long-term care and telemonitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases

Background Ubiquitous progress in wearable sensing and mobile-computing technologies, alongside growing diversity in sensor modalities, has created new pathways for the collection of health and well-being data outside of laboratory settings, in a longitudinal fashion. Wearable and mobile devices have the potential to provide low-cost, objective measures of physical activity, clinically relevant data for patient assessment and scalable behavior monitoring in large populations. This data can be used in both interventional and observational studies to derive insights regarding the links between behavior, health, and disease, as well as to advance the personalization and effectiveness of com- medical wellness applications.

Objective: This workshop will discuss challenges and opportunities of Wearable sensors in the long-term care and telemonitoring of Patients with Chronic Diseases.

Structure of Workshop:

Group discussion, and presentation by each group

Who Should Attend?

• Doctors
• Medical students
• Postgraduate
• Researchers
• Hospital administrators

Intended Outcomes: After this workshop, participants will be able to understand the need and usefulness of the werable devices. What are the implementation challenges? How to deal with those challenges.

Duration: 4 hours

Venue: PC Lab 2 Ground Floor

Health Sciences Center

Kuwait University