Sensors sin Medicine 2019

Keynote 7 Wearables, Ingestibles, Invisibles: technology contributing to the IOT for Health Dr. Chris Van Hoof Vice President R&D, imec Chris Van Hoof leads imec’s Connected Health Solutions R&D across 3 imec sites (Eindhoven, Leuven and Gent). Imec’s Connected Health Solutions teams provide solutions for chronic-disease patient monitoring and for preventive health through virtual coaching. Chris has taken wearable health from embryonic research to a business line serving international customers. Chris likes to make things that really work and apart from delivering industry-relevant qualified solutions to customers, his work has already resulted in 5 imec startups (4 in the healthcare domain). “We need to prevent people from becoming patients in the first place”