La Revolution des Objets Communicants and Intelligents pour la Sante et la Handicap: Paris 19th March 2010

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Pervasive Adaptation in the Health Sector

Sensor equipped wheelchairs which aid people with motor disabilities, contact lenses which adapt by measuring voltage in the eyes, intelligent forks which analyse our nutritional needs.....the medical sector is now exploring new uses for developing technology based on the revolution in designing intelligent, communicating objects which are able to sense, adapt, anticipate, reconfigure, self-protect and self-heal. At the hospital, at home, in our travels, these new objects promise to provide both assistance and therapy in all aspects of life in the not too distant future.

With this in mind, thirty international speakers, drawn from doctors, industrialists, engineers, researchers, users and government were invited to present their views, their innovations and their vision of the future at a workshop and round-table discussion event organised in Paris on 19th October by the PerAda team of Philippe Laurier, Sylvie Vignes and Michel Riguidel. Although the date of the event unfortunately coincided with the height of the recent unrest in Paris due to striking public sector workers, preventing a proportion of the 300 registrants reaching the event, the day was still hugely successful. Topics addressed included remote diagnostics, motor disabilities, hearing & visual disabilities and remote monitoring of patients outside the hospital environment. A discussion on ‘Utilising information technologies within a hospital environment: opportunities and dangers” provided stimulating debate.

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