Workshop October 13, 2011: Distributed Healthcare - Making Technology Work for Patient Benefit

The workshop will be held on October 13 in the Berzelius Lecture Hall at Campus US in Linköping, Sweden and will have the title 'Distributed Healthcare - Making Technology Work for Patient Benefit'. The workshop will be arranged as a satellite conference to the Swedish Med Tech Days in Linköping, which we hope will attract many participants.

The workshop will focus on the development of technologies for distributed healthcare, particularly with respect to the interfaces between equipment and caretakers/caregivers. The interaction between caretaker and caregiver in the homecare context will also be discussed. There will be five sessions:

1. Understanding the target group
2. Communicating information
3. Technical session I
4. Ethical dilemmas
5. Technical session II

The following speakers have been confirmed:

Donald Bruce, Edinethics Ltd, Edinburgh
Göran Collste, Linköping University
Ulf Dahlström, Linköping University
Daniel Filippini, Linköping University
Peter Håkansson, Ericsson Research, Stockholm
Stefan Holmlid, Linköping University
Peter Hult, Linköping University
Torbjörn Kronander, Sectra Imtec AB, Linköping
Sam Nordfeldt, Linköping University

Lars-Håkan Thorell, Emotra AB, Linköping
Johan Trygg, Umeå university
Faiez Zannad, CHU Nancy, Nancy

The full program will be available shortly and registration at nominal cost will be possible via www.liu.se/forskning/list/workshops?l=en