The Australian Research Council has officially launched its newest research center in connected health at the University of New South Wales.
Sponsored by the ARC Industry Transformation Research Program of AU$24 million (US$16.6 million), the ARC Connected Sensors Research Center for Health focuses on developing medical technologies wearable economy.
This new research center, which went live in August, brings together seven Australian universities and 26 companies to build a national end-to-end ecosystem that will design, manufacture and commercialize sensing and predictive analytics at the clinical level. It integrates existing Australian capabilities in sensors, security, software systems, data analytics and digital health.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
The research center, comprised of 37 principal investigators and 26 partner investigators, seeks to “achieve its vision of building wearable technologies for better health that benefits humanity.” .”
According to Professor Chun Wang, dean of the UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, “[c]Connected health sensors are emerging as a transformative technology to solve many pressing problems, such as remote health management of chronic diseases for those at risk, rehabilitation and chronic disease management for the elderly and frail, monitoring of acute pain and blood lactate levels in athletes, and intelligent rehabilitation and treatment of neurological diseases.”
TREND TO BIGGER
The Australian Government has always wanted to improve citizen health monitoring by investing in research projects focused on wearable health technologies. In October, it provided grants to three projects aimed at improving the monitoring of the health status of patients with cerebral palsy, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.
In 2021, the federal government implemented a An investment of AU$10 million (US$7 million) through the Medical Research Futures Fund to support projects testing new applications of existing wearable devices.
ON PROFILE
In a comment, ARC CEO Judi Zielke said the new connected sensor research center “promises to develop wearable sensor technologies that will deliver better health outcomes for people.” Australia.”
“Developments like those coming from the Research Center will help propel Australian products up the global value chain, expanding our economic complexity and securing our supply chain, Australian Senator Tim Ayres, Assistant Secretary for Trade and Manufacturing, also commented.
