Health care technologies
Expertise and relevant sectors
We apply our expertise to the benefit of companies and institutions in the sectors of health care, social security and family.
Our competences
Our competences in health care technologies are focused around eight main areas:
- advanced ICT applied to health care
- eHealth
- ICT supported managed care
- medical engineering, processes, semantic and technical interoperability in health care
- public health
- image processing
- the security and protection of personal data
Find a detailed list below of the competences developed in our research department Resource Centre for Health care Technologies.
Advanced ICT applied to health care:
- Hospital and medical information systems: specialised medical or hospital applications, electronic hospital / patient record
- Mobile and wireless computing
- Medical databases
- Software development, quality and testing
eHealth:
- Patient related records and applications
- Electronic prescription
- Clinical decision support and expert systems
- Technical interoperability
- Patient identification
ICT supported managed care:
- Telemedicine and home monitoring
- Disease management
- Managed care
Medical engineering:
- Medical devices and hospital equipment
- Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
- Intelligent sensors
Processes, semantic and technical interoperability in health care:
- Processes in health care
- Processes and interconnections of the “care chain”
- Clinical pathways
- Clinical intelligence and performance
- Standardisation in healthcare
- Terminologies, classification and codification systems
Public health:
- Health economical evaluations
- Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
- Evaluation of the impact of new methods, systems and/or solutions on quality of life and costs
- Analysis of use and efficiency of new methods, systems and/or solutions
Image processing:
- General image processing
- Medical imaging: RIS-PACS, imaging modalities, DICOM standard and DICOM tools, image quality, image visualisation and interpretation
- Bio-medical imaging
- Medical radiation and dose issues
