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The workshop guest speakers.

Recent advances in wearable health
devices, ranging from general consumer health monitors for daily activity tracking to sophisticated medical
devices, provide a platform for gathering vital information about a user in
the event of an emergency. As healthcare service providers b e c o m e in creasingly reliant on intelligent and
interconnected devices in every aspect
of health support, critical reliability,
data integrity, and interoperability are
important considerations that need to
be thoroughly addressed. In addition
to the technical challenges, relevant
social and economic issues also need
to be solved for integrating these de vices into the national health systems
so that the electronic patient records
of individual users can be continuously updated. The workshop focused on
the biomedical aspects of these consumer health-care devices and medical systems.
The following topics were covered:
interoperability, backward, and forward
compatibility for legacy system integration as well as future trends; flexible
deployment, self-cognizant devices, and
systems; resource management and
optimization; efficiency and reliability
for emergency support; biosensing and
biomaterials in consumer health applications; and health-care development,
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The event opened with
welcoming remarks by
Hong Kong CE Society
Chapter Secretary
Dr. Robin S. Bradbeer.
the elderly, safety, biomedical sensors,
wearables, and Internet of Things (IoT)
health care.
The event opened with welcoming
remarks by Hong Kong CE Society
Chapter Secretary Dr. Robin S. Bradbeer. This was followed by the keynote
speech "IoT, Health Data, and PatientOriented Health Management," by Clube
Ng, coopted board member, eHealth
consortium, and working council member, Asia eHealth Information Network.
This was followed by the paper presentation, "Blood Sugar Estimation with
Hotoplethysmogram," by Dr. Chih-wei
Tsai, Dr. Chun-Hung Li, Dr. Ringo Lam,
Dr. C.K. Li, and Sam Ho, Add-Care Ltd.
"Safety IoT Healthcare," by Woody C.K.
Wu, K.F. Tsang, Hongxu Zhu, and
YuCheng Liu, all with City University
of Hong Kong, was also presented to the
attentive crowd.
After a coffee break, the workshop
continued with "Healthcare Product
Analysis," by Dr. Tony Lee, the Open

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University of Hong Kong; "Smart Elderly Care Robot," by Ivan Cheng and Dr.
Y.H. Shum, Department of Engineering, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational
Education (Shatin). Lunch was then
followed by the following presentations: "Wearable Devices for Health
Informatics," by Dr. Yali Zheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong; "EyeBased Mobile Health System: More
Than Meets the Eye," by Dr. Kevin
Hung, Open University of Hong Kong;
"Miniature System for Optogenetic
Neural Circuit Manipulation," by Dr.
Pun Sio Hang, Biomedical IC Research
Line, State Key Lab of Analogue and
Mixed-Signal VLSI, University of
Macau, China; "Skin Impedance
Measurement in Wearable Noninvasive
Optical Blood Glucose Monitors," by
C.K. Li, B. Fong, and Chih-Wei Tsai;
and "Restoring Severe Quantized Signals for Blood Glucose Estimation," by
Dr. Yuwei Liu and Dr. Wing-Kuen
Ling, Guangdong University of Technology, China, and Chi-Kong Li and
Sam Ho, Shu Tang Information Technology (Shenzhen) Company.
The workshop was considered a
great success and will be held again
in 2019.
-Robin Bradbeer and K.F. Tsang

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