Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems, New OrleansLA, Vereinigte Staaten

A decade ago, medical devices were largely simple standalone entities&#046; Today, wireless networking capabilities, sophisticated data processing, and new sensors and actuators are increasingly being incorporated into mobile medical devices that promise to improve a clinician’s ability to diagnose and treat a range of acute and chronic medical conditions&#046;<br>This new generation of mobile medical device systems (MMDS) faces a variety of challenges&#046; Such devices are often implanted, ingested, or worn and deployed as a part of pervasive health monitoring system&#046; Some interact directly with a patient’s biological systems in order to provide coordinated, closed&#8211;­‐loop care&#046; In order for these mobile medical cyber&#8211;­‐physical systems to be successful, one needs to develop targeted platforms and technologies&#046; This is particularly challenging because of the devices used in MMDS have to be small and unobtrusive&#046; This makes them severely resource constrained in nature&#046; Architectures developed for the desktop and hand&#8211;­‐held computing world ill suited for such applications&#046; Further, as people who have limited understanding of the underlying technologies will use such devices, the usability of such systems, from user&#8211;­‐interface to sustainability to interoperability with other devices to configuration, is very important&#046;<br>These challenges have been recognized, in the abstract, in the community for some time&#046; However, there has not been a dedicated forum for discussing ideas on building mobile medical devices&#046; This proposed workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry to address challenges facing the design and implementation of mobile medical device platforms&#046;<br>TOPICS<br>Relevant topics include but are not limited to:<br>• Novel hardware platforms and architectures for MMDS<br>• Novel sensing systems for MMDS<br>• Actuation and drug delivery systems for MMDS<br>• Efficient automatic control systems for MMDS<br>• Novel data and signal processing for MMDS<br>• Enabling device interoperability for MMDS<br>• Energy harvesting and sustainability for MMDS<br>• Trust, security and privacy technologies of MMDS<br>• Human factors and usability for MMDS<br>• Regulatory issues for MMDS<br>