International Center for Health Information Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
International Center for Health Information Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2018 Jul;161:233-237. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.04.026. Epub 2018 Apr 30.
The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2017) was held August 21-25, 2017, in Hangzhou, China. It provided a valuable platform for sharing the latest medical and health informatics research and related applications to the scientists, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs, and educators as well as students. During this event, on August 23, 2017, an important related topic was presented in a panel discussion entitled "Wearable technologies: Advancing the healthcare in ageing population" by panelists Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Panagiotis Bamidis, Chun-Por Wong, and Xinxin Zhu. Recent advances in health technologies, focusing on the aging population, their benefits and challenges were discussed, and these topics are summarized in this paper. The need for technology to improve of the life of older population, influential and beneficial technologies, for delivering these technologies to patients are described in this paper.
第十六届世界医学与健康信息学大会(MedInfo 2017)于 2017 年 8 月 21 日至 25 日在中国杭州举行。它为科学家、医疗从业者、企业家、教育工作者以及学生提供了一个分享最新医学和健康信息学研究及相关应用的宝贵平台。在此次活动中,2017 年 8 月 23 日,一个名为“可穿戴技术:推进老龄化人口的医疗保健”的小组讨论会上提出了一个相关的重要议题,小组成员有 Shabbir Syed-Abdul、Panagiotis Bamidis、Chun-Por Wong 和 Xinxin Zhu。本文总结了此次讨论会上针对老龄化人口的健康技术的最新进展、其优势和挑战。本文还描述了技术在改善老年人口生活、有影响力和有益的技术以及向患者提供这些技术方面的需求。