From Connected Health to Smart Healthcare: A Path to Equitable Care Delivery

Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. In recent years, we have collaborated closely with reputable national medical domain experts, public health institutions, private and public hospitals and other stakeholders, by making full use of the latest information and communication technology, with a viewing to addressing some of these epidemic and under-resource challenges. The projects are targeted at, respectively, secondary prevention of stroke patients in under-resourced rural regions; early detection and referral of blindness-inducing eye diseases with an intelligent eye care system; remote consultation and diagnosis of sleep disorders in a hospital network PSG cloud; coordinated activity and behavior tracking and intervention for overweight and obese school children. I will discuss briefly these case studies, explaining the motivation, the rationale, the system design, technical challenges and solutions, and the outcome.