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Dependable Wireless Body Area Network (BAN) for Advanced Medical Healthcare

Professor, Director, Medical ICT Center, Yokohama National University, Japan 
Finnish Distinguished Professor, University of Oulu, Finland 
CEO, University of Oulu Research Institute Japan – CWC-Nippon, Japan
 

Abstract: Medical healthcare must be the most important social services for citizens because population ageing may degrade social healthcare service due to exceeding expense for high cost and long-term treatment.  From a viewpoint of industry, it can create very profitable business. In fact, advanced medical healthcare using sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT), so-called medical ICT, can promote a new big business and improve medical healthcare services among hospitals, homes and people in remote areas by IoT. Ultimately, advanced ICT will carry out “Dependable Medicine,” so that ubiquitous medical healthcare can be guaranteed highly reliable, secure and safe, i.e. dependable ICT such as wireless body area network (BAN) for anyone, anytime and anywhere.
    
This talk will introduce a comprehensive scenario of dependable wireless BAN for advanced medical healthcare including research, education, development, standard, regulation, social services and business. Various technical requirements to carry out dependable medicine based on multilayer of advanced ICT and multidisciplinary subject between social and natural sciences “Regulatory Science” to guarantee dependability in social medical healthcare services. For sustainable service and business of dependable medical healthcare services, standardization of dependable BAN must be keen for a global market, so international standard activities of wireless BAN IEEE802.15.6 and its extendable IEEE802.15 IG-DEP of which the speaker has been chairing will be introduced. 

Biography:  Ryuji Kohno received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He has been a Professor of Graduate School of Engineering since 1998 and a director of Medical ICT Center since 2005 in Yokohama National University in Japan. He has been playing multiple roles in Japanese and international companies, universities and government agencies such as director of Sony CSL/ATL, CEO of CWC-Nippon, distinguished professor in University of Oulu, Finland, director of the UWB Technology and Medical ICT Institutes of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) etc. He is IEEE and IEICE Fellows. He was a BoG member of the IEEE Information Theory Society, editors of the IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Trans. Communications and Trans. ITS, and was a vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE, an editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals. He was awarded IEICE Greatest Contribution Award and NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award in 1999 and 2002, respectively.