Information Technology has been a game-changer for many services. It is about to go big in healthcare services by meeting the growing demand for patient-convenient medical care. With the new technology remote disease prevention and treatment is now not only a possibility but a reality. The speaker will introduce her team’s design for a remote healthcare monitoring platform, capable of monitoring vital signs using various medical sensors and uploading the data to a medical datacenter via wireless networks. This capability will change the traditional hospital-centric disease treatment model to disease management outside hospital, merging in-hospital and out-hospital services into a networked treatment model, now adopted by several Mainland hospitals. The age of smart healthcare has arrived, thanks to the long arm of Information Technology.
