Abstract: The world’s ageing population results in escalating healthcare costs and social-economical burden. In response, many parties have developed telehealth systems as solutions for elderly care. The conventionally monitored physiologic signals include electrocardiogram, photoplethysmogram, blood pressure, body temperature and movement. However, these systems usually require considerable user intervention and specialized sensors attached to the body. At the same time, there is continual search for innovative measurement methods and alternative physiological parameters to provide better accessibility and deeper understanding of the patients’ health. This talk first gives an overview of the development of telehealth, then discusses the future trends of wearable technologies for diagnostics and prognostics of health. Related research in modeling of physiological and biomechanical systems will also be presented.

摘要：世界人口老龄化导致医疗成本和社会经济负担不断上升。为此，许多国家开发了远程疗法系统以应对老年人医疗问题。常规监测的生理信号包括心电图、光电传感测量、血压、体温和运动。但是这些测量需要将特殊传感器安装到身上，会对用户产生许多不便。与此同时，需用创新的测量方法不断去探索及深入了解生理参数，从而更深入探讨患者健康情况。本次讲座首先概述远程医疗的发展概况，然后讨论可穿戴技术在诊断、预测健康方面的未来趋势，最后介绍当今通过建模方式模拟人体构造的相关研究。

Speaker Bio：Dr. Kevin Hung received his B.Sc. from Queen’s University, Canada, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently Assistant Professor and Programme Leader of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). He has been the principal investigator of several school and government-funded projects on mobile health and telehealth. Before joining OUHK, Dr. Hung had been project manager at a biomedical engineering research center, coordinating commercialization of innovative medical products; and engineer at a medical device company, where he focused on development of respiratory diagnostic devices and IP management. Dr. Hung is the co-authors of 5 books in tele-health area.  He is a founding officer of the IEEE-EMBS Hong Kong Chapter, Vice-Chair of the Electronics and Communications Section of IET Hong Kong, and founding Counsellor of the IEEE OUHK Student Branch. Dr. Hung’s research interests include mobile health, eye-tracking, ocular informatics, wearable sensors, biosystem modelling, and engineering education.

主讲人简介：熊景辉博士本科毕业於加拿大女王大学，后于香港中文大学获得硕士和博士学位。目前，熊博士是香港公开大学科技学院副教授，同时担任电子与信息工程课程项目主任。他曾是多所院校和政府支持的流动健康和远程医疗项目的首席研究员。在香港公开大学任教之前，熊博士曾担任生物医学工程研究中心的项目经理，负责协调创新医疗产品的商业化；他曾在医疗设备公司担任工程师，专注于开发呼吸诊断设备和知识产权管理。熊博士是英国电子及电机工程师学会英国工程技术学会香港分会的创会主任，同时担任IET香港电子及通讯部副主席及IEEE香港公开大学学生分会创会顾问。他的研究领域包括流动健康、眼动仪、眼信息学、可穿戴传感器、生物系统建模和工程学教育，目前合作出版了5本远程医疗专业书籍。