Archived Talks

University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series

“Informatics Infrastructure for Supporting Telerehabilitation”
Speaker: Bambang Parmanto, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Information Management
Health Information Management Department
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Friday, October 26, 2007
11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Room M-184 VALE [?]
200 Meyran Avenue

Abstract: The goal of informatics infrastructure in telerehabilitation is to support remote delivery of rehabilitation and home health care services. Since telerehabilitation is an emerging field, we will start by presenting examples of telerehabilitation services. The relationships between telerehabiliatation and telemedicine will also be discussed. We will then briefly outline the activities in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. We will use “Remote Wheelchair Assessment”, one of the tasks within the RERC, to illustrate the challenges in developing informatics infrastructure to support a telerehabilitation service.

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