1. The Future is Cyber-Healthcare
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Payam Barnaghi
Institute for Communication Systems (ICS)/
5G Innovation Centre
University of Surrey
Guildford, United Kingdom

2. The Future is Cyber-Healthcare?

3. 3
IBM Mainframe 360, source Wikipedia

4. Apollo 11 Command Module (1965) had
64 kilobytes of memory
operated at 0.043MHz.
An iPhone 5s has a CPU running at speeds
of up to 1.3GHz
and has 512MB to 1GB of memory
Cray-1 (1975) produced 80 million Floating
point operations per second (FLOPS)
10 years later, Cray-2 produced 1.9G FLOPS
An iPhone 5s produces 76.8 GFLOPS – nearly
a thousand times more
Cray-2 used 200-kilowatt power
Source: Nick T., PhoneArena.com, 2014
image source: http://blog.opower.com/

5. Computing Power
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−Smaller size
−More Powerful
−More memory and more storage
−"Moore's law" over the history of computing, the
number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit
has doubled approximately every two years.

6. Smaller in size but larger in scale
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7. The old Internet timeline
7Source: Internet Society

8. The World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee

9. Connectivity and information exchange was
(and is ) the main motivation behind the
Internet; but Content and Services are now
the key elements;
and all started growing rapidly by the
introduction of the World Wide Web (and
linked information and search and discovery
services).
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10. Early days of the web
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11. The Internet/Web in the early days
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12. Source: Intel, 2012

13. 13P. Barnaghi et al., "Digital Technology Adoption in the Smart Built Environment", IET Sector Technical Briefing, The Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET), I. Borthwick (editor), March 2015.

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Sensor devices are becoming widely available
- Programmable devices
- Off-the-shelf gadgets/tools

15. Internet of Things: The story so far
RFID based
solutions
Wireless Sensor and
Actuator networks
, solutions for
communication
technologies, energy
efficiency, routing, …
Smart Devices/
Web-enabled
Apps/Services, initial
products,
vertical applications, early
concepts and demos, …
Motion sensor
Motion sensor
ECG sensor
Physical-Cyber-Social
Systems, Linked-data,
semantics, M2M,
More products, more
heterogeneity,
solutions for control and
monitoring, …
Future: Cloud, Big (IoT) Data
Analytics, Interoperability,
Enhanced Cellular/Wireless Com.
for IoT, Real-world operational
use-cases and Industry and B2B
services/applications,
more Standards…

16. 1G
AMPS, NMT,
TACS
2G
GSM. GPRS,
TDMA IS-136,
CDMA IS-95, PDC
3G
UMTS, CDMA2000,
4G
5G
LTE, LTE-A
People
Things
Voice
Text
Data
5G technologies
and standards
Connection + Control M2M/IoT
Communication technologies

17. 5G –Vertical Applications
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Image source: The Brain with David Eagleman, BBC
Speed of light?

18. The IoT is a dynamic, online and rapidly
changing world
18
Conventional (Big) Data Analytics
IoT Data Analytics
Image sources: ABC Australia and 2dolphins.com
Motion sensor
Motion sensor
ECG sensor

19. Live data
19
3D Map- Alexandra Institute, Aarhus, Denmark

20. Live events
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21. Extracting city events
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http://iot.ee.surrey.ac.uk/citypulse-social/
Nazli FarajiDavar, Payam Barnaghi, "A Deep Multi-View Learning Framework for City Event Extraction from Twitter Data Streams", submitted to ACM
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Nov. 2015.

22. Medical/Health Data
− The average person is likely to generate more than one
million gigabytes of health-related data in their lifetime. This is
equivalent to 300 million books.
− Medical data is expected to double every 73 days by 2020.
− 80% of health data is invisible to current systems because it’s
unstructured.
− Less than 50% of medical decisions meet evidence-based
standards. (source: The rand corporation)
22Source: IBM Research

23. Unstructured data!
Heterogeneity, multi-modality and volume are
among the key issues.
Often natural language!
We need interoperable and machine-interpretable
solutions…
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24. Device/Data interoperability
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25. Medical/Health decision making
− One in five diagnoses are incorrect or incomplete and nearly
1.5 million medication errors are made in the US every year.
− Medical journals publish new treatments and discoveries
every day.
− The amount of medical information available is doubling every
five years and much of this data is unstructured - often in
natural language.
− 81 percent of physicians report that they spend five hours per
month or less reading journals.
25Source: IBM Research

26. Medical/Health data in decision making
− Patient histories can give clues.
− Electronic medical record data provide lots of information.
− Current observation and measurement data and fast analysis
of the data can help (combined with other data/medical
records).
− This needs fast/accurate/secure data:
− Collection/retrieval
− Communication
− Sharing/Integration
− Processing/Analysis
− Visualisation/presentation
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27. IBM Watson
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Watson can process the patient data to find
relevant facts about family history, current
medications and other existing conditions.
It can combines this information with current
findings from tests and instruments and then
examines all available data sources to form
hypotheses and test them.
Watson can also incorporate treatment guidelines,
electronic medical record data, doctor's and
nurse's notes, research, clinical studies, journal
articles, and patient information into the data
available for analysis.
Source: IBM
Watson can read 40 million documents in 15 seconds.

28. Sensely
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Source: http://sense.ly/

29. kHealth for Asthma
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Source: Kno.e.sis, Wright State University

30. Healthcare data analytics
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31. Technology Integrated Health
Management (TIHM)
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Internet of Things testbed for healthcare

32. The Health Challenge: Dementia
 16,801 people with dementia in Surrey – set to rise to 19,000
by 2020 (estimated) - nationally 850,000 - estimated 1m by
2025 (Alzheimer’s Society)
 Estimated to cost £26bn p/a in the UK (Alzheimer’s Society):
health and social care (NHS and private) + unpaid care
 Devices in the IoT will provide actionable data on agitation,
mood, sleep, appetite, weight loss, anxiety and wandering – all
have a big impact on quality of life and wellbeing
TIHM

33. The Health Challenge: Falls
 Surrey spends £10m a year on fracture care – with 95% of hip
fractures caused by falls
 People with dementia suffer significantly higher fall rates that
cause injury – with falls the most common cause of injury-
related deaths in the over-75s
 Devices in the IoT will monitor location, activity and incident,
supporting health/care staff and carers, enabling early
intervention
TIHM

34. The Health Challenge: Carers
 5.4m carers supporting ill, older or disabled family members,
friends and partners in England - expected to rise by 40%
over the next 20 years.
 Value of such informal care estimated at £120bn a year – but
carer ‘burnout’ a key reason why loved ones require
admission to a care/nursing home.
 Devices in the IoT will support carers in their caring asks –
and support their own health and wellbeing.
TIHM

35.  Infrastructure
 Interoperability, integration
 Security
 Data governance
 Scalability
Technical Challenge

36. Innovation Partners
Nine companies with 25+ devices and services, including monitors, sensors,
apps, hubs, virtual assistants, location devices and wearables

37. Device/Data interoperability
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Multiple providers/multiple gateway (not ideal)

39. TIHM Middleware
Connectivity/Device Association Layer
Data Exchange/Interoperability Layer
Service/Application Layer
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“Each single data item is important.”
“Relying merely on data from sources that are
unevenly distributed, without considering
background information or social context, can
lead to imbalanced interpretations and
decisions.”
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41. KAT- Knowledge Acquisition Toolkit
http://kat.ee.surrey.ac.uk/
F. Ganz, D. Puschmann, P. Barnaghi, F. Carrez, "A Practical Evaluation of Information Processing and Abstraction Techniques for the Internet of
Things", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2015.
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https://github.com/UniSurreyIoT/KAT

42. Gateway
Gatewa
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Data Analytics
Engine
IoT Test Bed Cloud
External NHS, GP IT systems
Possible links to
Other Test Beds
HyperCat
Gateway
HyperCat
HyperCat
HyperCat
Data-driven and patient
centered Healthcare
Applications
TIHM Testbed Architecture

44.  Extend into homes – year 1
via two CCG areas, rolling
out across four more CCGs
in year 2
 Reach 350 homes – with a
control group of 350 – via
dementia register
 Focus on most effective
product combinations – with
potential for more via an
open call
Roll Out
NE Hants & Farnham
Living Lab
Guildford
& Waverley
Rest of Surrey
And beyond…
TIHM

45. In Conclusion
− Great opportunities and many applications;
− Enhanced and (near-) real-time insights;
− Supporting more automated decision making and in-depth
analysis of events and occurrences by combining various
sources of data;
− Providing more and better information to citizens;
− Citizens in control
− Transparency and data management issues (privacy, security,
trust, …)
− Reliability and dependability of the systems
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46. More connected wearable devcies
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47. Boundary between human, technology and devices
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48. Cognitive systems era
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connected and intelligent systems

49. Accumulated and connected knowledge?
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Image courtesy: IEEE Spectrum

50. Other challenges and topics that I didn't talk about
Security
Privacy
Trust, resilience and
reliability
Noise and
incomplete data
Cloud and
distributed computing
Networks, test-beds and
mobility
Mobile computing
Applications and use-case
scenarios
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51. Q&A
− Thank you.
http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/P.Barnaghi/
@pbarnaghi
p.barnaghi@surrey.ac.uk
http://www.sabp.nhs.uk/tihm