Presentation done during Vicente\'s stay in Tromso to explore common initiatives

1. TECNOLOGÍAS PARA LA SALUD
Y EL BIENESTAR (TSB)
Health & Wellbeing Technologies
R&D Group
Vicente Traver
Tromso, June 2009
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2. Goals
•Who is ITACA-TSB? Who am I?
•What are we doing in the e-health and e-
inclusion field?
•What are the initial intentions of my stay here
in Tromso?
•What can we do together?

3. Who are we?
Health & Wellbeing Technologies
(TSB).
R&D Group
ITACA:
Institute for the Advanced
Application of Information and
Telecommunication Technologies
CPI: Polytechnic City of Innovation
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4. UPV
The Universidad Politécnica de Valencia is a dynamic young academic institution, highly
involved in the development of its environment and with a strong international presence.
Profile Research at UPV
40 years old University 44 Departments
35.000 students 173 R&D&I groups
2.600 teaching & research staff 38 Research Centres & Institutes
3.737 graduates/year 155 PhD/year 3.277 people involved in research structures
Technology oriented 1.619 Research strands
991 Capabilities & expertise
396 Transferred / transferable results
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5. CPI
The Polytechnic City of Innovation is a new cooperation model conceived by the Technical
University of Valencia with the purpose of putting all its scientific potential at the service of
research and business development
Collaborative and commissioned R+D+I
Joint activities between the UPV and private
enterprises can be arranged through different
mechanisms:
• General Co- operation Agreements
• R+D Projects
• Software and Patent Licences
• Technological support
• Technical products or service sales
• Rendering of a technical service (measurements or
reports) or sale of a product manufactured at the
UPV as a result of UPV research.
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6. ITACA Institute
The ITACA Institute is an research and development entity of the
Polytechnic University of Valencia, created with the aim of promoting
and undertaking scientific research, technological development and
technology transfer initiatives in the field of the Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT).
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7. Technologies for Health and Wellbeing
30 people
• Telecommunication engineers • Graphical designers
• Computing engineers • Administratives
• MBAs
Activity focused on
• Competitive European and National R&D projects
• Agreements with companies
• Agreements with Public Administration, Health Sector
• Own solutions deployment
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8. Technologies for Health and Wellbeing
There are two main research areas from
the business strategy perspective within
the TSB group
E-Health E-Inclusion
These areas are sustained by the following
technology research areas:
• Information Systems Platforms
• Wireless Communication
• Knowledge Management
• Ambient Intelligence
• User Experience
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9. Participation in Research Programs
• TSB has a large experience
participating in international and
national research programs in the
e-health and e-inclusion field
including the management of
large consortiums.
• TSB is one of the leading groups, in Spain and in Europe, in the research and
development of AmI vision. It is the founder of the Experimental Research
Centre of AMbient Intelligence Applications and Services (acronym in
spanish, CIAMI)
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10. Participation in Research Programs
PROJECT START END
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
PIPS
MYHEART
SENSATION
VI FP CARE PATHS
ASK-IT
PERSONA
@HEALTH
OASIS
VII FP HEARTCYCLE
METABO
VAALID
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11. Participation in Research Programs
PROJECT START END
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
AMIVITAL
CIAMI
SALUPEDIA
Ministry of
Industry REALTH
NUADU
RECORD
HEALTHGRID
Ministry of MSV
Education
DEDALO
Ministry of
Health
CMA
Regional
Government
LIRA
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12. Participation in Scientific Groups
• International
• International Telecommunications Union – Study Group 16
• eHealth Standardisation Coordination Group (eHSCG)
• eMobility – Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology Platform
• EDeAN - European Design for All e-Accessibility Network
• National
• AENOR AEN/CTN 139, Information and Communication Technologies for Health,
Committee SC 8
• eMOV - Wireless Communications Spanish Technology Platform
• HL7 Spain
• Health Informatics Spanish Society (SEIS)
• eVIA – Technologies for Accessibility and Independent Living Spanish
Technology Platform
• REDeACC – National Network of Excellence Centers in Design for All and e-
Accessibility
• RETADIM – Elderly and Disable Supporting Technologies Network
• Prometeo – Embedded Systems Spanish Technology Platform
• Proyecto Webs Médicas de Calidad (pWMC)
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13. Investment on R&D
(2004-2007)
4,500,000.00
4,000,000.00
3,500,000.00 10%
3,000,000.00
INVESTMENT
2,500,000.00 11% EC
2,000,000.00 REGIONAL
1,500,000.00 9% NATIONAL
1,000,000.00
PUBLIC ENTITY
500,000.00
3% 67% PRIVATE COMPANY
0.00
EC REGIONAL NATIONAL PUBLIC PRIVATE
ENTITY COMPANY
Source of Funding
6 M€ = 4M€ EU projects + 2M€ National projects
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14. Process of tech transference and Innovation
from the ITACA-TSB
• Industry
Tech Transference • Telecom
• SME
• NGO
Spin off
• 12 EU projects Industry Soluciones Tecnológicas para
• 15 National la Salud y el BienestarS.A
• 6 M€ investment
• Regional HC (2)
R&D Innovation
• Public Hospital
• Private Hospital
Market
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15. Relevant Projects
MyHeart - fighting cardiovascular diseases by
prevention and early diagnosis
• ITACA-TSB led Activity Coach product development
• Main technologies: wearable sensors, on-body
electronics, 3D immersive environment, real-time
coaching
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16. Relevant Projects
PIPS – Personalised information platform for life &
health services
• For citizens  PIPS provides all the information needed at the point
of decision (home, supermarket, restaurant, gym) for maintaining a
healthy lifestyle by means of a personalised information platform.
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17. Relevant Projects
OPTIMA – Real time location system for surgery time and
equipment optimization
• Main results: indoor location system based on
Bluetooth and Zigbee (new version)
• Commercial applications for:
– New generation of teleassistance system for elderly at home
– Identification and traceability of patients in emergency
rooms
– Kids control in Summer School al the University
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18. Relevant Projects
SENSATION – Sleep monitoring disorders by body sensor
area network
• Development of different Sensors
based on micro and nano
technologies
• Connection to a Body Sensor Area
Network that makes possible the
synchronized transmission of all the
data acquired by the body sensors
• Sleep disorder applications in
medical, industrial and transport
sectors
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19. Relevant Projects
ASK-IT – Ambient Intelligence System of Agents
for Knowledge-based and Integrated Services
for Mobility Impaired users
• Aims at establish AmI in semantic web enabled
services, to support and promote the mobility of
Mobility Impaired people
• Main technologies: Intelligent
agents (over light weight
devices), integration of
wearable health devices, AI
reasoning techniques on light
weight devices, OSGi
platforms…
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20. Relevant Projects
PERSONA – Perceptive Spaces Promoting Independent Aging
• Main goal: To empower elderly people to
feel included, secure, protected and
supported, by development of Ambient
Assisted Living products and services for the
achievement of more autonomy and quality
in their lives.
• Technology development: AAL
system reference
architecture, micro- and nano-
electronics, embedded
systems, human-machine
interfaces, intelligent software
tools for decision support…
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21. Relevant Projects
CIAMI – Experimental Research Centre of AMbient
Intelligence Applications and Services
• Living Lab: Digital home with the
necessary infrastructure to deploy and
extensively test any AmI application
• Technology development: To be installed
in the house an exhaustive number of
sensors and actuators, multimedia
devices, interaction
mechanisms, software infrastructure…
everything that can be needed to build
AmI applications
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22. Other ongoing project, products and services
• Salupedia
• Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy –
epSOS project
• Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla- Home
Hospitalisation Unit, RFID in urgencies and home
monitoring
• Valencia Health Agency – Home Hospitalisation
Units and m-health applications
• Mexico - peritoneal dialysis
• Telefonica- Educasalud
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23. Special agreements and relationships
Telefonica
Fundacion Vodafone
Siemens
Argentina Medical Association (AMA)
Spanish Pediatric Association
IntraMed
Spanish Association for General Practitioner
(SEMFYC)
Hospitals
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24. Additional information
ITACA-TSB http://www.tsb.upv.es
ITACA-TSB blog (only Spanish) http://www.tsb.upv.es/blog/
2008 ITACA-TSB report
http://www.tsb.upv.es/documentos/documentos/memoriatsb2008.pdf
TSB You Tube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/tecnosaludybienestar
Spin off company http://www.tsbtecnologias.com
Educasalud http://www.educasalud.org
Campusalud http://www.campusalud.com
Salupedia http://www.salupedia.org/
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25. My background
- General manager of ITACA-TSB
- Telecommunications engineer (UPV)
- PhD on software architecture for e-health and e-inclusion
-Associate Professor for degree and master courses
-Working in e-health since 1998
- Rapporteur of ITU-T SG 16 Q.28 (2001-2008)
- Secretary of eHealth Standardization Coordination Group
(eHSCG) (2003-2008)
- Member of Editorial Board IET-Communications
-Cofounder of two spin-offs
-Vicechairman of Telecommunications Engineering School
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26. Why I am here?
-Several focus: 16th June-16th September
- Management
- Learn, share, discuss, identify,…
- Analysis of the telemedicine service provision model in
the Nordic countries
- communication networks, integration models, standards
used, level of semantic interoperability, ethical and legal
barriers already covered and the business and funding models
-R&D - p-health (personal health) and health 2.0
- user profiling, telemonitoring, participation drivers, models of
content generation, quality services, labelling, automatic
evaluation
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27. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Instituto ITACA – Edif. 8G
Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia
Tel: +34 963 877 606