About DHD
Mission Statement
The mission of the Digital Health Division is to promote excellence in the research and development of Digital Health to foster good health and well-being, as well as quality of education in Digital Health in accordance to the sustainable development goals of the UN and to link structures for the dissemination and exchange of information among key stakeholders.
Highlights
Regional IFMBE Conference
Series on DH
Call for organization of the IFMBE Conference Series on Digital Health:
- IFMBE European Conference on Digital Health
- IFMBE African Conference on Digital Health
- IFMBE Asia-Pacific Conference on Digital Health
- IFMBE South American Conference on Digital Health
- IFMBE North American Conference on Digital Health
If you want to apply for the organization of one of these conferences, please contact us: [email protected]
NEWS
October 30, 2024 – November 2, 2024
NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan
October 3, 2024 – October 5, 2024
Panama City, Panama
Digital – Health Scientific Challenge
The Digital Health Division organizes regularly Digital Health Scientific Challenges in IFMBE sponsored conferences.
Want to contribute with data or to host a scientific challenge? Please contact: [email protected]
Challenge @ EMBEC 2024
June 9, 2024 - June 13, 2024
Portorož, Slovenia
Challenge @ ICBHI 2024
Call for participation in the IFMBE Scientific Challenge at EMBEC2024 organized by the Digital Health Division. In this edition of the IFMBE Scientific Challenge, the goal is to identify emotions encoded in brain images and physiological data.
October 30, 2024 – November 2, 2024
Taipei, Taiwan
Resources
Open Data
Webinar Series
Latest Publications
We will publish books/ebooks and data/software tools and repositories on connected health, Big Biodata analytics and management, Precision and Translational Medicine, Telehealth and public health.
International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics 2022 Proceedings of ICBHI 2022, November 24–26, 2022, Concepción, Chile
Future Trends in Biomedical and Health Informatics and Cybersecurity in Medical Devices, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, ICBHI 2019, 17-20 April 2019, Taipei, Taiwan
Precision Medicine Powered by pHealth and Connected Health, ICBHI 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-21 November 2017
Thematic Activities
Connected Health
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[email protected]
Trustworthy AI in Health
This activity aims to foster and support the development of trustworthiness in AI for the health domain. Explainable AI methods, along with pointwise reliability measures, are central to this activity. In parallel, other issues such as privacy, ethics, reliability, verification, and certification in software are also focal points of this activity.
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[email protected]
Adherence to
Technology
The digitisation of health, harnessing the power of technology and data for patient care, disease prevention and personalised treatments, to enhance quality of life. Redesign health systems and reformulate traditional models of health and social care through technological innovation and research.
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E-Health in
developing countries
This activity aims to foster and support the development of trustworthiness in AI for the health domain. Explainable AI methods, along with pointwise reliability measures, are central to this activity. In parallel, other issues such as privacy, ethics, reliability, verification, and certification in software are also focal points of this activity.
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[email protected]
Open Data in Health
Aggregate medical data can easily be shared and global sources such as WHO’s are available; mechanisms to safely share individual data to the benefit of all are currently being explored. At the institutional level, the International Science Council related bodies WDS (World Data System) and Codata advocate the FAIR principles.
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[email protected]
Standards and
Interoperability
There are many standards from different standard developing organizations (SDO) related to digital health. Our goal is to provide a global overview of current and coming stardards related to activities covered by our DHD.
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[email protected]
Cybersecurity in Health
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DHD education in
Biomedical Engineering
Programs
Digitization in health care is a significant topic that must be reflected in upgraded curricula of biomedical engineering introducing artificial intelligence, big data and data science. Our goal is to provide an updated survey of curricula of current biomedical engineering programs with the analysis how the new trends in technologies and methods are reflected.
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Board Members of DHD
IFMBE Students and Recent Graduates
Specializations
Summer School
Networking Activities
Martha Zequera
IFMBE – AC member
Chair of IFMBE Students & Recent Graduates Working Group
Full profesor Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
de Bogotá – Colombia
CONTACT:
[email protected]
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