SIB Council on e-Health (SIB-EH)
Keywords:
Health, remote diagnostics, patient care, telemedicine,
Scope:
To provide an environment for health care product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic & mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of health in the 21st century.
Key-Challenges:
- Halt the rising cost of healthcare without compromising quality and efficiency;
- Increase the quality of care and save lives through optimised treatments, reduction of medical errors, and prevention and prediction of diseases;
- Facilitate better management of chronic diseases by the transfer of knowledge to clinical practice;
- Lead to safer drugs and medical devices;
- Enable early warning and improved management of large-scale health crises through better risk prediction, assessment and management;
- Bridge the gap between clinical research and medical practice through better collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry, IT in healthcare, academic institutions and healthcare providers;
- Develop excellence in the use of information systems in biomedicine and molecular medicine;
- Boost the e-Health market and reinforce the e-Health industry by making it more attractive for research in all related industries, including the pharmaceutical sector.
Mission:
Due to an ageing population and increased prevalence of chronic diseases, there is a rising demand for health and social services. Expectations of citizens who want the best care available is increasing, as is the necessity to respond to emerging disease risks, the need to manage huge amounts of health information in a secure manner and the need to improve the prediction and safety through simulation environments. The health sector is clearly an information intensive sector which increasingly depends on information and communication technologies.
This SIB will bring together the clinicians, people from the healthcare industries, policy makers, government ministers, care workers and academics under one umbrella to discuss the issues surrounding the delivery of electronic healthcare capabilities to the society.
Description:
It is widely acknowledged that pressures such as treatment advances, increasing chronic disease burden of an aging population, and a falling carer-support ratio render many of the current health care provision models unsustainable. It is recognized that information and communications technology (ICT) is fundamental to enabling improvements in the way services can be delivered and the outcomes that can be achieved. However, health is perhaps the last of the information intensive industries to adopt ICT on an integrated industry-wide basis.
ICT enables more care to be delivered at home, helping to contain health costs by reducing demand for more expensive hospital care. It also provides a safer and less stressful environment for many patients. Patients and citizens are taking an increasingly active role in managing their own health and wellbeing, through seeking medical information, monitoring their physiological parameters, and participating in activity programs. These trends are creating demand for new products and services. Pervasive healthcare, an emerging research discipline of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology in health care, is a very important component in addressing these requirements.