IEEE SA Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Connections Programs

Openly Collaborate and Incubate Solutions to Drive Trusted Adoption of New Tech Applications

The IEEE Industry Connections (IC) program helps incubate new standards by facilitating collaboration among interested stakeholders as they hone and refine their thinking on rapidly changing technologies. Check out the Healthcare & Life Science related activities below.

IC22-005 Enabling a Smart and Equitable Agriculture Ecosystem with Accessible Tech and Data Tools

The goals of this group are to understand the current state of ag data interoperability and recommend best practices and guidelines for increasing collaboration around ag data collection, security, and management.

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IC21-007 Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies for Mental Healthcare

The focus of this project will be to explore how ethical assurance can promote trust in the use of digital technologies for mental healthcare and support transparent communication between stakeholders.

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IC21-004 User-Centered Approach to Designing a User Interface for Rural Communities

The aim of this IC program is to develop a model for the design and implementation of user interfaces for rural communities.

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IC20-027 Responsible Innovation of AI and the Life Sciences

The proposal for a dedicated IC for biosecurity and AI provides tangible, practical and actionable tools and resources, as well as knowledge-building for biotechnologists, life scientists and A/IS Creators to help guide the development and deployment of AI-based technologies in the life sciences.

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IC20-019 Digital Resilience — Tools and Methods to Support Response and Recovery from Crises

This Industry Connections program aims to develop a framework that enables communities, villages, cities, regions, and countries, to deploy architectures and select standardized technologies.

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IC20-018 Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm Sustainable Connectivity, Accessibility, Privacy, and Security for All

The purpose of this activity is to enable collaboration, build consensus, and develop technical and data solutions for accessibility, connectivity, security, validation, and privacy in the use of devices, platforms and infrastructure in telemetric health delivery and clinical research.

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IC20-014 Sustainable Infrastructures and Community Development Program

This Industry Connections program is intended to support the creation of a broad global and active community providing a formalized focal point for program activities, information, and available expertise across the wide range of IEEE initiatives and standards associated with sustainable infrastructure and design, power sector transformation, and energy efficiency.

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IC20-011 IoT Ecosystem Security

The activity will raise awareness at the consumer and manufacturers sector and work with regulators to promote secure practices in the IoT ecosystem with a view of IoT as an inextricably linked ecosystem comprised of people, and processes.

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IC20-005 Global Initiative on Blockchain-based Omnidirectional Pandemic Surveillance

With the latest advancements in digital technologies, we should be able to improve the efficiency and transparency of pandemic surveillance by building an omnidirectional platform that integrates the data interfaces of multiple industries to better detect and respond to a pandemic.

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IC19-004 Technology Data Harmonization for Decentralized Clinical Trials

This multi-year, multi-phased program will work with a global community to utilize and harmonize viable uses of breakthrough technologies.

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IC19-003 MyData Health

This group will create a series of thought-leadership whitepapers on key topics for creating a patient-centric digital transformation that optimally protects and serves the interests of patients.

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IC17-007 Neuro Tech for Brain-Machine Interfacing

The possibility of deploying and commercializing brain machine interface (BMI) and brain computer interface (BCI)-based solutions requires researchers, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies to ensure these devices comply with well-defined criteria on their safety and effectiveness.

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IC17-002 Digital Inclusion Identity Trust and Agency (DIITA)

DIITA considers causes of exclusion which can be addressed by advancing technology for humanity through standardization and related solutions.

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