Predavanje: Delivering Smart ICT-enabled Healthcare

Summary:
Patients and healthcare professionals around the world are facing similar challenges. The challenges are insufficient funding, inefficient cost control, complex legal policies, stressful environments, administrative overload, and skilled professionals shortages. As a result, healthcare expenses are constantly rising while healthcare quality is deteriorating. These trends have been reported by the World Health Organization and governments in various countries. In order to address these challenges, private and public institutions are driving the eHealth incentive that promotes the use of ICT for more efficient healthcare.

The lecture presents an overview of eHealth technologies and explains how they are being used in three distinct fields of healthcare: inpatient care, outpatient care, and national healthcare. Inpatient care professionals use ICT systems during clinical treatment in health delivery organizations. Outpatient care is based on ICT systems for patient care at home, workplace, or other types of community settings. Finally, national healthcare requires ICT systems that support nationwide exchange and management of healthcare data. Building eHealth systems for each of these three domains is a demanding task because requirements are subject to complex medical practice, legislation, and regulations. As a real-life case study, the talk will include an overview of the Ericsson Nikola Tesla eHealth portfolio including hospital information system (Care4U-HIS), remote patient monitoring system (EMH), and nationwide healthcare integration platform (Care4U-HNIS).

Bio:
Daniel Skrobo is eHealth portfolio manager at Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia. He is a member of the product management team working on market research, requirements analysis, and design of ICT products and services for the healthcare domain. Before joining Ericsson Nikola Tesla, he was a research assistant at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing where he obtained his Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science. During his doctoral studies he worked as a research intern at Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, USA, gave several talks at the Berkeley University, University of Santa Clara, and Irvine University, and published several research papers in the field of distributed computing and interactive web-based systems.