Today, there is an increase in the number of heterogeneous wireless networks being used for diverse tasks as patient diagnostics and monitoring, personnel and equipment tracking, data analysis plus many other tasks. The rise in computing power in the modern healthcare environment requires the ability to extract additional knowledge from the increased storage of relevant data.
The Center for Advanced Engineering and Research (CAER), Wireless@VT within Virginia Tech, and the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (MBC) recently formed a collaborative partnership. This partnership called the “Spectrum Management Research Testbed for HealthCare” or referred to as (SMART-HC) seeks solutions to meet the needs for wireless technologies.
SMART-HC is working specifically in areas of wireless networking, spectrum management, data mining, and cyber security with key strategic industry partners to investigate, implement, and test novel spectrum management solutions for healthcare environments.
SMART-HC is currently looking for collaborative partners from the following sources:
- Medical schools
- Medical equipment manufacturers
- RFID tag manufacturers
- Inventory control service providers
- Secure cloud computing service providers
- Data mining companies
- Research Organizations
The strength of SMART-HC is to provide a collaborative research environment that combines the expertise of healthcare providers, medical equipment vendors, insurance companies, technical associations, and university/research organizations.
The partners will be able to set the direction for future technology, have the rights to non-exclusive, royalty-free licenses to all intellectual property through the membership supported generic research program, and be able to form collaborative interdisciplinary research teams to pursue large research funding opportunities.
For more information on SMART-HC, email Bob Bailey, Executive Director for CAER at bbailey@caer.us or call 434-477-5060 or email Dr. Jeff Reed, Director for Wireless@VT at reedjh@vt.edu or call 540-231-2972.