MD; FRCS(ophth) | Shura Council Member | Professor of Ophthalmology | College of Medicine; Alfaisal University | King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center

TBA

Chief Executive Officer at King Abdullah Medical City - Makkah

TBA

FIEEE, FEIC, FCAE Distinguished Professor and University Research Chair, University of Ottawa, Canada

DEPUTY RECTOR (RESEARCH AND INNOVATION), INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA

Security and Privacy in e-Health

Mohamed Ridza Bin Wahiddin

Department of Computer Science

Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia

Abstract

Cyberspace is somewhat like (outer) space where it offers virtually unlimited opportunities and anyone can do almost anything imaginable there. Today people from all walks of life can get themselves connected to the internet. They can play video games, tweet, access computer-aided design (CAD) programs and even experience virtual reality. Unfortunately, just like many other technologies there is the darker side of cyberspace – cybercrimes, cyberterrorism and cyber warfare.There is an old Malay saying: “Takkenalmakatakcinta” which in the present context translates as “To know something is to love it”. Traditionally accountants have difficulty to put a price tag on data. Companies and universities included have a better sense of the value of their office furniture than their data assets. Ironically, the assets of the 21^st century are data that make up intellectual properties such patents, trademarks and industrial designs. These are intangible assets that drive the Knowledge Economy.Realising how much your data is worth will naturally lead to the need of protecting data from unauthorised access. Against this backdrop I will discuss e-Health security and privacy issues.

GROUP LEADER OF REHABILITATION AND ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS IN THE LABORATORY OF ROBOTIC SYSTEMS AT EPFL (SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUT OF TECHNOLOGY), SWITZERLAND

Robotic Rehabilitation Devices: from developments to products

Dr Mohamed Bouri
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne- Laboratory of Robotic Systems

Abstract

Rehabilitation therapiesoften consist of mobilizing the affected limb by a therapist. Different objectives depending on the pathology may be addressed. We may seek to reduce hypertonia, increase the joint range of motion, improve the plasticity, increase muscular forces, decrease spasms or reach various other objectives. The research in the last few years has taken up the task of providing assistive devices for rehabilitation therapies. It has become clear, that tremendous gains in availability as well as efficiency of rehabilitation are possible. The first devices for specific pathologies,such as SCI and stroke subjects, have appeared on the market, Switzerland is clearly a leading country in this emerging and very promising domain.Currently available rehabilitation devices are robot-like structures providing repetitive, precise and totally instrumented mobilization of the limbs.
Our laboratory LSRO (“Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques”) at EPFL has a long track record of biomedical realizations, especially in therapeutic devices for paraplegics andstroke patients ((Schmitt 2004) (Bouri 2006) (Stauffer 2009) (Bouri 2013) (Olivier 2014)). This presentation will introduce the use of robotic devices for rehabilitation purposes. Examples of developments for lower limbs and upper limbs will be presented in details as well as clinical results. Industrialization use cases will particularly be pointed out with time lines, numbers and challenges.

References

Schmitt, C., Métrailler, P., Al-Khodairy, A., Brodard, R., Fournier, J., Bouri, M., Clavel R. "The MotionMaker™: a rehabilitation system combining an orthosis with closed-loop electrical muscle stimulation". 8th Vienna International Workshop on Functional Electrical Stimulation. 2004

Bouri, M., Stauffer, Y., Schmitt, C., Allemand, Y., Gnemmi, S., Métrailler, P., Brodard, R., Clavel, R. The WalkTrainer™: A Robotic System for Walking Rehabilitation, Robio, December 17-20, Kinming, China, 2006

Stauffer, Y., Allemand, Y., Bouri, M., Brodard, R., Clavel, R., The WalkTrainer—A New Generation of Walking Reeducation Device Combining orthoses and Muscle Stimulation, IEEE Transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, Vol. 17, No. 1, February 2009.

Bouri, M., Baur, C., Zedka, M., Newman, J. C., Clavel, R.,“Handreha” a new Hand and Wrist Haptic Device for Hemiplegic Children, Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions ACHI, Nice 2013.

J. Olivier, A. Ortlieb, M. Bouri, H. Bleuler, Mechanisms for Actuated Assistive Hip Orthoses,. Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Online October, 2014