This webinar will offer the opportunity to hear from Academics from the Open University who will be discussing their work in developing and studying technologies to enable effective, secure and innovative TeleHealth solutions.
This event is in partnership with The Open University Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Presentations will include:
– Future trends in engineering design, where telehealth can support
– COVID-19 antibody test/vaccination certification mobile app prototype, based on blockchain technology
– Decentralised Trust and Privacy for Digital Health
– Trends in product development to 2040 and their implications for Telehealth
– Plus we will be hearing from Hospital Services Limited (HSL) a specialist distributor of medical supplies and surgical equipment and consumable products. As we hear about their latest technologies and how they’ve been able to respond positively to the COVID-19 pandemic, as they look at – what is the future of Telehealth?
DURATION: 1.5 hours
This free to attend event is held as part of the ACTIS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses, the value of which is £190, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants.
Speaker Profiles:
Gaynor Henry-Edwards, Research Manager, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies – The Open University
Gaynor manages the Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area at The Open University. The Strategic Research Area supports, coordinates and promotes health and wellbeing research across the university. Open University researchers conduct research in health and wellbeing across various disciplines and areas including healthcare management, ageing studies, reproductive and sexual rights, assistive technologies, patient data management, mental health and biological health sciences. The scope of University expertise ranges from the science underpinning health and disease through to the medical humanities. The Open University is committed to working towards social justice specialising in participative and inclusive research methods with marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Professor Claudia Eckert, Professor of Design, The Open University
Claudia is Professor of Design at the Open University. Her background is Mathematics and Philosophy. She has an MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in design from the Open University. She spent nearly ten years in Cambridge in the Engineering Design Centre before returning to the Open University. She carries out empirical studies of design processes in engineering, construction and fashion; and researches on understanding and supporting designers in industry. She also works on theoretical concepts underlying design practise. She has published over 250 papers in reviewed journal and conferences. She is a member of the board of management of the Design Society and a co-chair of the Design Process Special Interest Group of the Design Society.
Dr Allan Third (she/her), Research Fellow with the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Allan (she/her) is a Research Fellow in the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, researching the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Blockchains, with applications to education, healthcare, and the scientific process. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester, in the logical analysis of the semantics of English, and has worked on various topics within her research areas at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford and the Open University. She has extensive experience in UK and European research projects, as contributor and work package leader, primarily in the fields of digital healthcare (VPH-Share, CARRE) and education (SlideWiki, Up2U, QualiChain, DEL4ALL). She is heavily involved in the blockchain and education components of the ongoing Institute of Coding and QualiChain projects, in which KMi is a partner. She has been a tutor multiple times at the ESWC Summer School, and produced research papers on the impact of Blockchain technologies for the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. Dr. Third is a member of several related past and current Web standardisation efforts, including the W3C Blockchain and Credentials Community Groups, and the Verifiable Credentials Working Group. As well as her extensive technical knowledge, Dr. Third has a background in Philosophy, and a strong interest in social issues, and the effects of technology on society.
Dr Manoharan Ramachandran – Research Associate and mobile application developer, The Open University
Manoharan is a Research Associate and a mobile application developer at the Open University. Manoharan received his PhD in Intelligent Transportation Safety from Bournemouth University in 2018. After completing his PhD, Manoharan joined the Open University as a Research Associate in 2018. His current research focuses on how Blockchain can be used to store lifelong learning records of students and to create an industry-standard accreditation tool for learners in the UK. His research is funded by the Institute of Coding, which is the UK’s initiative to increase graduate computing skills and employability. Manoharan has also developed several award-winning mobile applications in the field of transportation safety. Particularly for his work on drowsy driver alert mobile application, he has received the Qualcomm developer of the month award in the year 2016 (Qualcomm is the primary manufacturer of Android mobile phone processors). Manoharan developed the COVID-19 antibody test/vaccination certification mobile application prototype on top of iOS/Android platform along with his colleagues at the Open University. He also runs Tamil-language Blockchain news and tutorial Youtube channel with 38,000+ subscribers mainly focusing on the Tamil speaking people around the world.
Sam McMaster, Director of Telehealth, Hospital Services Limited
Sam attended Belfast Royal Academy, he then spent 1 year as a Community Service Volunteer and then went on to attend University at Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined Plessey Telecommunications in Nottingham as a Lecturer. Developed and delivered course work on the digitisation of networks and integrated digital communications systems.
Sam’s career saw him move from Lecturing to Product Development and Management, which is where he was first involved with VC. He then moved into Project Management designed and deployed some of the largest private voice & data networks in existence at the time, including the Government Telephone Network, Whitehall; and the Post Office network across all of the UK.
He then went on to form a telecommunications consultancy company, INTAC, operating out of the University Science Park in Nottingham. Contracts from the Government, the Post Office, European Space Agency, Cisco, Motorola and more. He also formed Questmark (initially in New Zealand but followed quickly in Europe). Owned and managed the business until sale in 2017. Became the premier videoconferencing systems and services supplier in the UK.
In parallel was founder and VP of Technology at Access ISDN Inc in Dallas TX, founded 1993 sold in 1997. Sam joined HSL to head up development of Telehealth business unit in 2018.
He loves his family (now have 9 grandchildren!), football, writing and photography, and much more too much to list. Fundamentally love this precious life we have.
