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Asia-Pacific u-health research Global Collaborative Research Centre (APuHC) to support ubiquitous • UNSW Research Centre set up in Dec 2006 Healthcare (u-Health) involving UNSW faculties of Business, Engineering and Medicine and UNSW Asia for three years (2007-2009) with a total A/Prof Pradeep Ray, funding of $3million from various sources Director, Asia Pacific ubiquitous • Strong Partnership with international bodies (e.g., WHO, ITU-D), Industry (Netstar and Healthcare Research Centre CAL2CAL) and overseas institutions (APuHC), • Inaugurated in UNSW Asia (the only research University of New South Wales centre) in Jan 2007 1 2 Broadband Infrastructure and International Ubiquitous Ubiquitous Healthcare Healthcare (u-Health) Initiative • Ability to reach healthcare anywhere at • Launched at Med-e-Tel (one of the largest anytime (e.g., in emergency) events in e-Health in Europe, organised by • Need for broadband mobile infrastructure to the International Society for Telemedicine) carry images, voice and data 2006 in Luxembourg on April 6, 2006 • Some Asian countries have highest • Current Partners: Australia, France, Greece, broadband coverage (nearly 80%) in the world and growing service sector India, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, USA • Many problems (e.g., inefficiency and error) in healthcare system and ageing population in • Resolution to set up a series of APuHC nodes most countries all over the world • Need for privacy and security e-Health 3 4 APuHC Research Goals Research Programs 1. Cooperative Management and Semantic • u-Health Systems in different layers (Network, Interoperability- attracted 6 (including four ARC) Applications, Service, Process and Governance) Research grants since 2000 with UNSW (CSE), • Ontology-Based Multi Agent Systems (OBMAS) strategies for semantic interoperability and disaster WCH (Aust), CGU,SNHU. SJSU (USA) management 2. Service Level Management and icare- attracted 5 • Studies on the Impact of u-Health (including one ARC, one international and 1 • Models for integrating u-Health in governance and industry) research grants since 2004 with NCCU business processes (Taiwan), IBM-Global, Netstar (Aust), UC-Irvine, • Paradigms for Promoting Healthy Life with the help of RPI (USA), I2R Singapore governments and businesses 3. E-Health for Developing Countries- attracted 2 • Pandemic and Bio-terrorism Control in collaboration (including WHO and ITU-D initiatives) since 2005 with other global centres, such as WHO GOARN, with NTU (Taiwan) and six developing countries APEC EAN-HIV, Korean Centre for Genome (India, China, Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines) Sciences and APEC EINET • To Showcase the u-Health technologies, processes, and services at IEEE Healthcom 5 6 1

Program 1 Projects Program 1 Projects-I • Cooperative Management and Semantic Interoperability (3 Ongoing ARC Grants) • TOPIC: Intelligent Situation Management: A New – Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery2007 Grant- paradigm for Disaster Management (UNSW Goldstar2008) ” Managing E-Business using Ontology-Based Multi-Agent • Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, N. Parameswaran, Systems (OBMAS)” (Approx $230,000) for 2007-2009; Fethi Rabhi (UNSW), Lundy Lewis (USA) and Detlef Seese Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, Ram Bhar, N. (Germany) Parameswaran, R. Jamieson UNSW) and Lundy • Collaborators : Karlsruhe Univ (Germany), WHO Lewis(USA) • Complex, dynamic, inter-organisational systems (e.g., in e- – Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage-Projects2005 Health) often present challenging management problems that Round 2 Grant- MULTI-AGENT FRAMEWORK FOR expose the weaknesses of current solutions and models in SREVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT (Approx $220,000) for situations as evidenced during some events, such as Katrina 2005-2008; Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, N. in New Orleans, USA. In this project, we propose to develop a Parameswaran (UNSW) and Lundy Lewis(USA), Industry new paradigm called Intelligent Situation Management based Partner: Netstar on multidisciplinary inputs from organisations in Australia, – Distributed Autonomic Management: A New Paradigm for USA, Europe and Asia. Integrated Network Management- 2004-2007 (ARC • One M.Phil Discovery 2004) Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, N. Parameswaran (UNSW) and Lundy Lewis (USA) 7 8 Agents for HealthCare 1 2 3 4 5 Program 1 Projects-II INVE S TIG A TIO N INVE S TIG A TIO N TR E ATME N T TR E ATM E NT PA TIE NT HIS TO R Y TR E ATME NT TR E ATM E NT P ATIE N T HIS TO R Y DIAG NO S IS C O M P LE TIO N C O M P LAINT DIAG NO S IS E X AM INATIO N P LAN C O MP LE TIO N C OM P LAIN T E XAMINATIO N P LAN & R E S O LU TIO N TE S TS & R E S O LU TIO N TE S TS • Managing E-Business using Ontology-Based Multi-Agent THE HE A L THC A RE C YC L E Systems (OBMAS): 2007-2009 (ARC Discovery 2007) • Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, R. Bhar, N. P ATIE NT 7 6 Parameswaran, R. Jamieson (UNSW) and Lundy Lewis 8 P ATIE NT (USA) S poradic C ontact • Collaborators: NICTA Smart Applications For Emergencies (SAFE) Program 6 8 • Many Internet based e-business applications (e.g. e-finance DO C TO R 7 DO C TO R and e-Health) are now susceptible to security threats (e.g. fraud, terrorism) and defence against such threats calls for a collaborative approach across organizations all over the world. However, automated collaboration is hindered by the � Most Healthcare Technology is dedicated to the resolution lack of common understanding of cultures, terminologies, of a patient’s complaint processes and tools across organizations. This project aims to develop and validate a methodology using Ontology Based � There is a lack of software that fulfills the patient and doctor’s needs when Multi Agent Systems (OBMAS). • Two PhD, one M.Phil NOT actively managing a complaint (activities 6-8). 9 10 � The Agent paradigm offers a solution to this issue. Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Systems Program 1 Project -III (OBMAS) • Multi-agent Framework for Service Level Management: 2005-2008 (ARC Linkage Projects 2005) • Development of Ontologies for driving • Chief Investigators: Pradeep Ray, N. Parameswaran (UNSW) and Lundy Lewis (USA) Intelligent Agents • Industry Partner: Netstar • The Internet based e-services are being used by many • A Generic Multi-layer Framework for businesses as part of the modern e-business environment (e.g., e-Health). Management of e-services over the Internet Ontologies to work with any Agent involves complex correlation of events, and their sequences over geographically dispersed networks, systems and Platform software applications. The integration of management information is a challenging problem due to the semantic • Applications in Healthcare, Finance and differences of services across different business sectors (e.g., healthcare). This project aims to develop a new framework for Telecommunications the integrated management of networked services using multiple software agents; some of them are already a part of the current Internet infrastructure. Management of Privacy and Security are major concerns. 11 12 • One APAI PhD, Two M.Phil, two honours (completed) 2