Healthcare and Life Sciences

Overview

Providing a global platform of excellence to improve the global standard quality of life at every step through affordable healthcare and access to medicines; support innovation to improve overall wellness and improve societal outcomes; and to enable innovation through open and standardized means. The practice is focused on three main priority areas – clinical health, bio/pharmaceutical value chain, and wellness.

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IEEE Global Registry for Mobile Health Apps

The global standardized registry will serve as a directory of apps that have attested and been assessed for satisfying technical, ethical, and clinical criteria requirements to attain an IEEE standard identifier for inclusion in the registry.

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Re-Think Health Podcast

In this interview-style podcast, global healthcare stakeholders– technologists, researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, regulators, and more– re-think the approach to healthcare, from therapeutic discovery through bedside practice, utilizing new technologies and applications.

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Digital data security

IEEE Cybersecurity TIPPSS for Industry Virtual Workshop Series | June 2024 - November 2024

Security by design for hardware, firmware, and software needs to be the first step in the development process and the TIPPSS architecture framework provides the blueprint for the design. The focus of each of these workshops is to introduce the application and use case requirements for the IEEE 2933-2024 architecture framework for TIPPSS in IoT, in the context of dynamic environments such as clinical trials subject monitoring, precision agriculture, connected vehicles, and transactive energy.

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IEEE Global Registry for Mobile Health Apps

The global standardized registry will serve as a directory of apps that have attested and been assessed for satisfying technical, ethical, and clinical criteria requirements to attain an IEEE standard identifier for inclusion in the registry.

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Market Collaborations

Bio/Pharma

Optimizing the pharmaceutical value chain from R&D through drug distribution with new technology applications that enable a more inclusive and efficacious approach enhancing patient outcomes.

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Clinical Health

New technology applications enabling a patient-driven approach to monitoring, diagnosis, and therapeutic delivery with precision and efficiency for all individuals.

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Wellness

Enabling foundational technology frameworks for immediate response to national emergencies, disease outbreaks, and climate impact on food sustainability and security, while protecting the security and privacy of the most vulnerable.

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Featured Standards and Projects

Strategic Collaborators

Supporting Partners

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Decentralized Clinical Trials

Technology and data harmonization for decentralized clinical trials certification incubator program.

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Transforming Telehealth

Transforming telehealth paradigm – connectivity, privacy, and security.

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Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies

Ethical assurance of data-driven technologies for mental healthcare.

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Maria Palombini, Director, IEEE SA Healthcare & Life Sciences

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