The UCL/ICTEAM IEEE Student Branch along with prof. David Bol & Laurent Francis is glad to invite you to the following seminar :
“The Future of Health Care: Beyond the Pill Solution”
given by Hans De Clercq (PhD), co-founder & CTO at Byteflies (solutions in digital health).
The event will be held on Monday 19th of December at 4:15 pm in the SCES03auditorium (Sciences building, Sciences square). Drinks and appetizers will be served afterwards. Registration is free but mandatory, please sign up at the bottom of this page.
Abstract: There has been a crucial turning point within healthcare to include wearable technologies in the strive for more specialized treatments and ‘beyond the pill’ solutions. The motive is a straightforward and currently unmet need: having continuous and accurate patient feedback for medically relevant and informative disease-specific readouts that can tremendously increase the medical value of a treatment. This seminar will discuss the technical challenges to build wearable devices that fulfil the needs of patients and that can provide true clinical benefit.
Biography: Hans De Clercq received his PhD on medical wearable systems from the MICAS research group at ESAT KU Leuven in July 2015. During his IWT funded PhD, he accumulated valuable experiences by participating in several clinical studies involving neonatology, cardiovascular diseases and implantable devices. Hans collaborated with several specialists in the medical field and with signal processing research groups. His work was awarded by a KVIV engineering price (2010), the EMEA Engibous price for innovation in analog design (2012) and the Texas instruments analog design award (2013). In April 2015, Hans De Clercq joined forces with Hans Danneels and turned the experiences from his PhD into wearable health start-up Byteflies. As co-founder and CTO, Hans De Clercq focuses on the development of the data platform and the Byteflies wearables toolkit, together with his team of engineers and medical experts in the Byteflies headquarters in Berchem, Antwerp (Belgium).