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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.

Y. Sun

Y. Sun (M’13) is a Research Fellow in the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE) at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Sun received his PhD degree in Electronics, Electricals, and System Engineering from Loughborough University, UK, in 2011 and the PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering …

Enhancing quality of life with wireless sensor technology

By E.Kartsakli, A.Antonopoulos,S .Tennina, A. Lalos, P.V.Mekikis, L.Alonso, F.Graziosi, M. Di Renzo and Ch.Verikoukis
A co-operative project involving both industry and academia is designing an innovative Wireless Sensor Network for more effective healthcare of elders.

A Patient-Centric Medical Environment

By Hsi-Pin Ma, Hung-Chih Chiu, Yi-Lwun Ho, and Yen-Hung Lin
A platform for acquiring and analyzing ECG data from mobile patients has been developed, using a smartphone as the patient’s gateway device. Using a single-lead ECG, abnormalities such as arrythmias and tachycardia can be detected at …

Highlights of IEEE HEALTHCOM 2013

By Joel Rodrigues
Prof. Joel Rodrigues provided this overview of HEALTHCOM 2013 in his opening remarks to the Conference. (NOTE: The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by IEEE. See IEEExplore for access to articles from this and previous Healthcom Conferences.)

Welcome to the December 2013 IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter

The 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (HEALTHCOM 2013) was held in Lisbon, Portugal on October 9-12 this year. We bring you an interview and an overview of the Conference by Prof. Joel Rodrigues, who chairs the HEALTHCOM Steering Committee. Also, …

Christos Verikoukis

Christos Verikoukis received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Catalonia in 2000. He is currently the Head of the SMARTECH department at CTTC and he is an adjunct associate professor in the area of ICT for Healthcare at Barcelona University (UB). He has published …

Marco Di Renzo

Marco Di Renzo received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. In 2013, he received the H.D.R. degree from the University of Paris-Sud XI, France. Currently, he is a faculty member of the Laboratory of Signals …

Fabio Graziosi

Fabio Graziosi received the Laurea degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 1993 and in 1997, respectively. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of WEST Aquila s.r.l.. He is also an Associate …

Luis Alonso

Luis Alonso received the PhD from UPC (Barcelona) in 2001 and got a permanent position at UPC becoming an Associate Professor in 2006. Co-founder of the Wireless Communications and Technologies Research Group (WiComTec), to which currently belongs.

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