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AIIHPC All Island Seminar on Designing and Developing Technologies for Palliative Care

All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC) with funding support from the HSC R&D Division of the Public Health Agency and Health Research Board held an all island seminar (12 June 2019, Dublin) which focussed on the unique opportunity technology offers to support people with palliative care needs and their families, latest national and international research in palliative care and technology and what this means for researchers if they are to generate knowledge that can support the introduction of technology.

The video presentations and more information from the seminar are available if you click here.

 

Pictured below is Dr Tobias Steigleder, University of Erlangen, Germany who presented findings from an investigation into touchless monitoring of vital signs of severely ill people using radar technology.