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2022 Year in Review
Meeting proceedings of a seminar by the same name, held December 14-15, 2022
PAINTING THE SKY BLACK
Dieter Häussinger, Direktor des HITM und der Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie und Lehrstuhlinhaber für Innere Medizin an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, ist im Bereich der klinischen und experimentellen Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie aktiv. Er engagiert sich für die Weiterentwicklung der klinischen Infektiologie. In diesem Zusammenhang erfolgte die Zertifizierung seiner Klinik als Zentrum für Infektiologie, der Aufbau einer tropenmedizinischen Ambulanz und Infektionssprechstunde, die Errichtung des Leber- und Infektionszentrums mit der einzigen Sonderisoliereinheit in Nordrhein-Westfalen für hochinfektiöse Patienten sowie die Gründung des Hirsch-Instituts für Tropenmedizin
Validation of design artefacts for blockchain-enabled precision healthcare as a service.
Healthcare systems around the globe are currently experiencing a rapid wave of digital disruption.
Current research in applying emerging technologies such as Big Data (BD), Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR),
Digital Twin (DT), Wearable Sensor (WS), Blockchain (BC) and Smart Contracts (SC) in contact
tracing, tracking, drug discovery, care support and delivery, vaccine distribution, management,
and delivery. These disruptive innovations have made it feasible for the healthcare industry to
provide personalised digital health solutions and services to the people and ensure sustainability
in healthcare. Precision Healthcare (PHC) is a new inclusion in digital healthcare that can support
personalised needs. It focuses on supporting and providing precise healthcare delivery. Despite
such potential, recent studies show that PHC is ineffectual due to the lower patient adoption in
the system. Anecdotal evidence shows that people are refraining from adopting PHC due to
distrust.
This thesis presents a BC-enabled PHC ecosystem that addresses ongoing issues and challenges
regarding low opt-in. The designed ecosystem also incorporates emerging information
technologies that are potential to address the need for user-centricity, data privacy and security,
accountability, transparency, interoperability, and scalability for a sustainable PHC ecosystem.
The research adopts Soft System Methodology (SSM) to construct and validate the design artefact
and sub-artefacts of the proposed PHC ecosystem that addresses the low opt-in problem.
Following a comprehensive view of the scholarly literature, which resulted in a draft set of design
principles and rules, eighteen design refinement interviews were conducted to develop the
artefact and sub-artefacts for design specifications. The artefact and sub-artefacts were validated
through a design validation workshop, where the designed ecosystem was presented to a Delphi
panel of twenty-two health industry actors. The key research finding was that there is a need for
data-driven, secure, transparent, scalable, individualised healthcare services to achieve
sustainability in healthcare. It includes explainable AI, data standards for biosensor devices,
affordable BC solutions for storage, privacy and security policy, interoperability, and usercentricity,
which prompts further research and industry application. The proposed ecosystem is
potentially effective in growing trust, influencing patients in active engagement with real-world
implementation, and contributing to sustainability in healthcare
Advanced Trends in Wireless Communications
Physical limitations on wireless communication channels impose huge challenges to reliable communication. Bandwidth limitations, propagation loss, noise and interference make the wireless channel a narrow pipe that does not readily accommodate rapid flow of data. Thus, researches aim to design systems that are suitable to operate in such channels, in order to have high performance quality of service. Also, the mobility of the communication systems requires further investigations to reduce the complexity and the power consumption of the receiver. This book aims to provide highlights of the current research in the field of wireless communications. The subjects discussed are very valuable to communication researchers rather than researchers in the wireless related areas. The book chapters cover a wide range of wireless communication topics
Updates
Richard Bud Meade worked in Human Resources at the College at Brockport from 1968-2000. He knew many of our faculty and staff and in retirement he began to circulate an email newsletter which passed on stories and news about various college retirees. This remarkable, ongoing project has captured a tremendous amount of information about the folks who built the college over the last 50 years.
This collection of his Update is searchable, and covers from the beginning in 2001 up to August, 2020. More will be added as time goes on..
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