Connected Health Summit

NOKIA

Nokia’s vision is to reinvent health care by transforming the relationship people have with their wellbeing. Leading the way towards vast improvements in collective health by unlocking the potential of connected health devices - revealing a new level of connectivity between individuals, their health, and healthcare professionals.

We believe that the key to making a big impact on health is by providing the tools people need to make small but meaningful changes over time. For us, the answers to healthcare’s biggest challenges center on connecting people with data, data with insights, and insights with the clinicians and researchers that can effect societal health improvements.

Through connected devices, connected communities and connected health solutions, we’re healthier together.

imec

In less than two decades, Internet and mobile phones have revolutionized our communication methods. In the same way, digital technologies will revolutionize the health sector.

Take for example wearable devices that people can use to gain insight and to live a more healthy life. On a meta-level, these data can even be used to follow behavior patterns of entire populations. In its imec.ichange program, imec conducts research on behavior change and prevention related to stress, activity levels, smoking behavior and eating patterns. It involves large-scale and long-term clinical trials and big data analytics Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, bio-statisticians, sociologists and clinicians are working together to develop new forms of telemedicine that serve patients and health professionals, enabling the transformation of healthcare from cure to prevention.

Also precision medicine – a necessity to control healthcare costs – will be enabled by new technologies. The goal is to develop and administer highly effective drugs for specific (groups of) patients..The study of a patient’s genome is key in this.

Imec is active in this domain, for example by developing high performance genome analysis software. Complementing this genomic data with patient data and sensor data, greatly enhances the predictive accuracy of machine learning algorithms to down select the appropriate treatment for patients. Also, imec works on privacy-preserving machine learning that can tap into multiple datasets without compromising privacy. Combining all these information sources, from DNA information over data from wearables and from other patients, in patient trajectories will form the basis for precision medicine and a more efficient healthcare.

Matthieu Vegreville
Head of Patient Solutions
Nokia Tech

Matthieu is the head of Patient Solutions at Nokia Digital Health. For the past few years, he has been working with life sciences companies to create digital programs empowering patients to take charge of their health. Matthieu holds a MSc from Ecole Polytechnique.

Bert Hartog
Sr Director, Janssen Clinical Innovation
J&J

Bert is senior director at Janssen Pharmaceutica, and currently Innovation Leader in their R&D Operations division, where he leads transformational innovation projects that have the goal to shape the future of clinical trial execution and position Janssen as a role model in patient-centered clinical research. Bert has 25 years’ industry experience in Global Clinical Operations and related functions. He received his MSc in Biomedicine and PhD in Medicine from Utrecht University in the 1990’s, and started his career as CRA with Eli Lilly in the Netherlands. He joined JNJ Global IT Services in 2005 and Janssen Global Clinical Operations in 2008. His main focus today is to develop capabilities for digital health in clinical trials, including digital outcome measures and technologies for remote patient monitoring.

Hugo Verbandt
Connected Health Solution Manager
Nokia

Hugo Verbandt joined Nokia-Bell Belgium in 1984 and acts since 2010 as a lead solution architect for Connected Health, IoT and Customer Experience Management solutions engaging with major telecom operators as well as with XL enterprise customers worldwide (e.g. Schneider Electric) to introduce Nokia solutions within their networks and offerings.

Chris Van Hoof
Senior Director Wearable Health Solutions & imec fellow, Professor KU Leuven
imec

Chris Van Hoof leads imec’s wearable health R&D across 3 imec sites (Eindhoven, Leuven and Gent). Imec’s wearable health teams provide solutions for chronic-disease patient monitoring and for preventive health through virtual coaching. Chris has taken wearable health from embryonic research to a business line serving international customers. After receiving a PhD from the KU Leuven in 1992 in collaboration with imec, Chris has held positions as manager and director in diverse fields (sensors, imagers, 3D integration, MEMS, energy harvesting, body area networks, biomedical electronics, wearable health). He has published over 600 papers in journals and conference proceedings and has given more than 80 invited talks. He is full professor at the KU Leuven.

Bert Hartog
Sr Director, Janssen Clinical Innovation
J&J

Cyril Krykwinski
Programme & Policy Officer
European Commission

Cyril recently joined the European Commission in the Future Connectivity Systems Unit. For the previous ten years, he has acquired a significant biomedical engineering expertise working within hospitals, universities and companies active in the eHealth R&D domain, to design and develop solutions for clinical decision support systems and medical devices. Cyril holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology.