News: ABSPIE recent initiatives

The 31^st of May there will be the launch of the European Parliament Interest Group on Biomedical Engineering. This event will see the participation of Professor Jari Hyttinen, President of EAMBES, Dr. Edgardo Maria Iozia, Rapporteur of EESC report on biomedical engineering, Dr. Adriana Velazquez, Senior Advisor and Focal Point of Medical Devices at World Health Organization, Dr Leandro Pecchia, IFMBE HTA Division Chairman, Mr. Andrzej Rys, Director Health systems, medical products and innovation DG SANTE.

Agenda

The first paper proving an association between depressed HRV and risk of falling was published on IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in March 2016.

Enrolling 150 subjects, we trained and tested an automatic classifier basing on Multinomial Naïve Bayes enabled to predict first-time fallers. This achieved sensitivity, specificity and accuracy rates of 72%, 61%, 68% respectively.

This was the first sutdy proving this association.

ISAHP2016

London / August 4-7, 2016

http://www.isahp.org/

First Call for Papers

Divide, compara, aggrega et impera

Divide, compare, pool and rule

Taking decisions has never been easy, especially in complex and dynamic circumstances, in which our choices may affect people’s health, work, social and physical assets, and future life in general.

In all of history, important decision makers have based their own choices on personal experience, intuition and knowledge. Nowadays, especially when we take decisions of public relevance and interest, we are called to demonstrate that our choices are based on the best available evidence, that we acknowledge uncertainty, and that we considered the costs and risks. Today turbulent socio-economic environments make these efforts even more compelling.

The ambition of ISAHP 2016 is to explore how the AHP/ANP can be used to respond to those challenges, its strengths and weaknesses and how it can be used in combination with other Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods. In other words, the ISHAP2016 aims to demonstrate how the AHP/ANP and the community of AHP/ANP users can have a real impact on our continuously evolving global society. In conclusion, the theme of the ISHAP2016 is how this method can support decisions affecting the public interest and how its use can be improved in order to better serve society.

(Deadline for paper submission 30^th of November 2015)

“Clinical Engineering” and “Health Technology Assessment” are two fast growing fields of interest for Biomedical Engineers (BMEs), as the IFMBE widely recognises. Nonetheless, there is a lack of spaces for BMEs to publish their researches or projects results in those fields. For the first time a whole track will be dedicated to those topicts in an IFMBE Confeerence.