Internet of Things (IoT) - How and where is it adding value in Healthcare?

In the broadest sense, IoT encompasses everything connected to the internet. It is increasingly being used to define objects that "talk" to each other. Devices ranging from simple sensors, smartphones and wearables to complex medical devices inside people or pills that can be swallowed. This meetup will explore the value of IoT in Healthcare and showcase a few examples of its potential.

Agenda

5:30 PM - Arrival and Networking
6:00PM - 7:30 PM Talks and Discussion
7:30PM - 8:00 PM Food and networking

Talk 1 - Industry 4.0, a hype or a bit more?
Dr. Christos Papanagnou, Salford Business School

Talk 2 - IOT in Healthcare Estates: The development, deployment, and production use of LinkThru
Paul Collins - Founder and CTO, Spica Technologies
Kevin Belben - Technical Applications Manager, Cistermiser

Talk 3 - An IoT-based telemedical device for monitoring patient recovery following total knee replacement surgery
Michael Callaghan, Ph.D., M.Phil., MCSP, Professor of Clinical Physiotherapy, Manchester Metropolitan University

Speaker Bios

Dr. Christos Papanagnou

Dr Christos Papanagnou teaches Logistics & Supply Chain Management at the University of Salford and has worked extensively in academia, research organisations and industry. He has served as Researcher and Consultant in several manufacturing companies investigating efficient modelling and simulation methods of shop floor and supply chain processes. Dr Papanagnou has applied, with great success, advanced techniques based on control theory, data analysis, probability and stochastic systems in order to improve inventory management, distribution of products, Work-In-Process, production efficiency and productivity. Dr Papanagnou is an advisory member of the European Commission Technical Working Group and stakeholder for Flexible Manufacturing SIG Workshop at Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. Amongst others, his research interests include logistics and supply chain integration, Factories of the Future, Industry 4.0 and the implementation of advanced optimisation techniques through big data analysis and use of cloud computing to enable effective decision-making, co-operation, storage capacity problems and supply sourcing.

Paul Collins

Paul is the Founder and CTO of SPICA Technologies Ltd, a fast-growing startup focused on delivering IOT solutions into the built environment. SPICA’s purpose is to provide solutions that benefit the health, wellbeing and productivity of workplace users and visitors. Our solutions exploit Internet-of-Things sensing, indoor positioning technology, digital twins, predictive analytics, and enterprise systems integrations to create compelling building user experiences. SPICA partnered with Cistermiser to create and deploy LinkThru, a solution designed to help organisations meet the compliance requirements of HSG274. See https://www.linkthru.com.

Kevin Belben

Kevin is the Technical Applications Manager at Cistermiser and Keraflo, has 23 years of commercial and technical business development experience, including 4 years specialising in providing practical solutions for effective bacteria control in NHS estates applications, tailored to meet specific customer needs.

Professor Michael Callaghan, Ph.D., M.Phil., MCSP

Michael Callaghan is Professor of Clinical Physiotherapy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He holds an honorary research fellow post at the University of Manchester in the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research and is also a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
His work has focused on musculoskeletal problems of lower limb. With Prof Patrick Gaydecki, he has been working in the area of telemedicine in the NHS. They have developed a digital knee monitoring system to cut the need for intensive physiotherapy for knee replacement patients. The project, named ‘Tap and Go’, straps to the knee of patients when they are ready to do their rehabilitation exercises from the convenience of their own home.