Tutorial-2 Tarik

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KCESS 2011

Second Kuwait Conference on e-Services and e-Systems

Tutorial 2

e-Health Services: Potential, Challenges, and Way Forward

Tarik Taleb

Abstract:

The current healthcare systems are undergoing a fascinating transformation to a ubiquitous

wireless network-centric paradigm. The healthcare community is demonstrating a growing

interest to leverage commercial Internet and wireless networking technologies in order to

achieve this desired network-centric paradigm. Such a paradigm demands a robust, highly-

capable, highly-interoperable, readily deployable and manageable, and secure networking

capability to provide pervasive “anytime, anywhere” health

-care communications. This tutorial

first delineates the phenomenal advances in key wireless technologies in the recent era which

have opened up revolutionary possibilities for delivering healthcare services. The tutorial then

moves toward exploring unique challenges pertaining to designing and deploying pervasive

healthcare systems. The tutorial then continues on describing some solutions as case studies,

namely AGAPE, ANGELAH, and PEACH. Through these case studies, the tutorial discusses the

issues

of

integrating

heterogeneous

wireless

technologies

and

healthcare-specific

functionalities. In particular, the tutorial points out the formation of ad hoc support groups to

aid patients/victims who have succumbed to illnesses/accidents.

Syllabus:

I.

General introduction (30 minutes):

a.

Defines telemedicine,

b.

Addresses the needs for healthcare services, their importance,

c.

Enlists few telemedicine applications and their QoS requirements,

d.

Refers to a few examples of recent wireless technologies used in healthcare

services, and

e.

Mentions few readily deployed systems.

II.

Introduction to fundamental wireless telemedicine components and body area

networks (45 minutes):

a.

Introduces the fundamental wireless technologies such WLANs, WPANs,

WWANs, BANs, HNBs, RFIDs, and Sensors that can facilitate healthcare

infrastructures, and

b.

Discusses related open issues.

III.

Eldercare services (45 minutes):

a.

Compares “ubiquitous assistance” vs “ubiquitous networking”,

b.

Delineates the benefits of using middleware approaches in constructing

ubiquitous healthcare services, and

c.

Introduces the ANGELAH framework.

Audience:

Researchers from both academia and industry interested in the topic of telemedicine.

References:

1.

T. Taleb, D. Bottazzi, M. Guizani, and H. Nait-Charif, "ANGELAH: A Framework for

Assisting Elders At Home ", in IEEE J. Select. Areas in Commun, May 2009.

2.

D. Bottazzi, R. Montanari, and A. Toninelli, “Context

-Aware Middleware for Anytime,

Anywhere Social Networks,” in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, No. 5, Sep./Oct. 2007.

pp. 23-32

3.

W. C. Mann, “The aging population and its needs,” in IEEE Pervasive Computing Mag.,

Vol. 3, No. 2, Apr.-Jun 2004. pp. 12-14.

4.

A. Soomro and D. Cavalcanti, “Opportunities and Challenges in Using WPAN and WLAN

Technologies in Medical Environments,” in IEE

E Commun. Mag., Feb. 2007. pp. 114-

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Biography:

Tarik Taleb is currently working as Senior Researcher and 3GPP Standardization

Engineer at NEC Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to his current position

and till Mar. 2009, he worked as assistant professor at the Graduate School of

Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. From Oct. 2005 till Mar. 2006,

he was working as research fellow with the Intelligent Cosmos Research

Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received his B. E degree in Information Engineering

with distinction, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from GSIS,

Tohoku Univ., in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively.

His research interests lie in the field of e-health services, architectural enhancements to 3GPP

networks (i.e., LTE), mobile multimedia streaming, wireless networking, inter-vehicular

communications, satellite and space communications, congestion control protocols, handoff

and mobility management, and network security. His recent research has also focused on on-

demand media transmission in multicast environments.

Dr. Taleb is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE

Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and a number of Wiley journals. He is serving as secretary

of the Wireless Communications Technical Committee, the largest in IEEE Communication

Society (ComSoC). He also served as Secretary and then as Vice Chair of the Satellite and Space

Communications Technical Committee of IEEE ComSoc (2006 - 2010). He has been on the

technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and

WCNC, and chaired some of their symposia. He is the recipient of the 2009 IEEE ComSoc Asia-

Pacific Young Researcher award (Jun. 2009), the 2008 TELECOM System Technology Award

from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Mar. 2008), the 2007 Funai

Foundation Science Promotion Award (Apr. 2007), the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Japan

Chapter Young Author Award (Dec. 2006), the Niwa Yasujirou Memorial Award (Feb. 2005), and

the Young Researcher's Encouragement Award from the Japan chapter of the IEEE Vehicular

Technology Society (VTS) (Oct. 2003). Dr. Taleb is a senior IEEE member.