T3: Wireless Telemedicine Presenter: Yang Xiao, University of Alabama

Abstract

Telemedicine brings together science and applications of medical practice and medical care at a distance. Telemedicine is an information technology that enables doctors to perform medical consultations, diagnoses, and treatments, as well as medical education, away from patients. For example, doctors can remotely examine patients via remote viewing monitors and sound devices, and/or sampling physiological data using telecommunication. Telemedicine technology is applied to areas of emergency healthcare, videoconsulting, telecardiology, telepathology, teledermatology, teleophthalmology, teleoncology, telepsychiatry, teledentistry, etc. In this talk, the speaker will give a survey on telemedicine, particularly on wireless telemedicine.


Biography

Dr. Yang Xiao is a member of American Telemedicine Association. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA) (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijta/). He has more than 30 paper publications in telemedicine fields in journals, conferences, and books. His research in telemedicine has been supported by US NSF. He serves as lead Guest Editor for Special Issue on "Wireless Telemedicine and Applications" of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, in 2007. He served as special session Co-Chair, on Ambient Technology for Health Care of Aging People, in conjunction with IEEE CCNC 2007. He serves as an editor for the book: Mobile Telemedicine: A Computing and Networking Perspective, in 2007.