The Global Need for Distributed Healthcare
By Olaf Such
Globally, we face a crisis as countries attempt to deal with a continually increasing need for healthcare. A change to a distributed healthcare system can address this problem.
IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
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By Olaf Such
Globally, we face a crisis as countries attempt to deal with a continually increasing need for healthcare. A change to a distributed healthcare system can address this problem.
Olaf Such, PhD, MBA, is Global Head of Clinical Science for Philips Healthcare. Interviewed at the recent 2nd Annual IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium, he gives his predictions on how today’s technology breakthroughs will influence the practice of medicine 10 years from now.
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By Atam Dhawan
What are the emerging medical and healthcare technologies of the next decade? A new report provides a view of 10 areas to watch. We present part 1 of the report in this issue. Part 2 will follow next month.
Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D. obtained his B.Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India. He was a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Manitoba where he completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Medical Imaging …
Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, MD, MPA, is Medical Director of Loyola University Health System’s Occupational Health Services, and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer guides Loyola’s occupational medicine programs. An IEEE Fellow and global consultant regarding electrical safety, …
Olaf Such is currently the Global Head of Clinical Science, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems, Philips Healthcare, based in Best, the Netherlands. He has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA from RWTH Aachen, Germany.
Richard B. Stein (DPhil, Physiology, Oxford University, Oxford UK, 1966) is currently a Research Professor of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada and co-director of the Rehabilitation Neuroscience Group.
Vivian K. Mushahwar (M’97) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, in 1996.
Kevin Mazurek is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, working on his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering. He finished his undergraduate in electrical engineering from Brown University in 2008 and received his MSEE from Johns Hopkins University in 2010.
Bradley J. Holinski is currently a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. He obtained a BSc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Albeta in 2007.