Empower People to Live Quality Lives

mmWave technology
in non-contact vital signs monitoring & care application

An Example of Healthcare Transformation via ICT + Med + AI

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 Contents

• Megatrends Influencing the Medical Industry

• ICT + Med + AI = Healthcare Transformation

• Case Sharing – mmWave in Vital Signs Monitoring

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 Megatrends Influencing the Medical Industry

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 Global Health Care Expenditure Continues to Grow

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 The World is Aging
• Globally in 2020, there were 727m (9.3% of population) persons Increasing lifespan
aged >65 years, doubling by 2050 to over 1.5 billion (16%)

Decreasing birth rates

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 Bad Diets & Lifestyle = Chronic Diseases = -$$$

Smoking

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 Global Caregiver Shortage

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 Healthcare Trends
Covid-19 accelerated
healthcare transformation

• Point of Care
• Preventive
• Personalized

Convergence of ICT and

Medtech brings new
• Centralized solutions to address the
• Treatment megatrends affecting the
• Generalized medical industry, enabling
increasingly digitalized,
remote and personalized
healthcare services.
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 ICT + MedTech + AI = Healthcare Transformation

Miniaturized Electronics
Broadband
Surgical robots
Service robots

AR/VR/MR
Telehealth
AI, BD, CV, NLP, Cloud, HPC,
Edge

Wearables, IoT, Apps

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 AI in Drug Discovery & Drug Design

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 Robots + AI in Surgery

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 AR-VR-MR in Medical Education & Patient Care

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 Wearables, IoT, Cloud in eHealth

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 5G Broadband in Telemedicine

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 Miniaturized Electronics, Wireless in Smart Medical

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 Wistron Medical
ICT + MedTech + AI
Case Samples

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 Wistron Smart Healthcare Examples

Robotics Rehab exoskeletons

Big Data Dialysis BP prediction

Chronic patient
AIoT ， CV
telecare, wound care
English-Chinese
NLP
mixed processing

Database ICD10

Motion detection for

CV, Motion
dementia screening

RF, AI mmWave + AI for

vital sign monitoring
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 Keeogo Rehabilitation & Assistive Exoskeleton

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 DAS Smart Hemodialysis Decision Support
Real-time
data collection
Predictive model

Decision support

Ethernet
Dialysis
equipment
Maya
Bluetooth,
Vitals Gateway
WiFi or Backend
USB, WWAN CIS/HIS
RS232
Database
Dialysis Actionable
Information for
Assistant Healthcare
Encode data to Modem System Professionals
HL7 Standard (Big Data Analytics)

ICT + Electronic Health Records + AI/Big Data = Precision Medicine

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 Vitals Gateway 1-to-1 Connection to Dialysis Machines

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 Published Papers

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 Chronic Disease Care Platform

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 BestShape® VS
Non-Contact
Vital Signs Monitor
 mmWave Application in New-Born & Elderly Care

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 BestShape VS
Detects the respiratory rate and heart rate
without contact with the human body, and
use these information to determine and
predict various clinical conditions.

Offers better patient privacy

and comfort compared to
cameras & wearable devices.

Nurses monitoring Covid-19 and other communicable disease patients can reduce the need
to get close to the patient unless necessary which improves the nursing staff’s own safety.
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 Baby Monitoring and Elderly Care Applications
Heart Rate: 106 rpm, Respiration Rate: 32 rpm

Algorithms convert the

signals into breathing &
heartbeat frequencies
to derive applications in
sleep monitoring, sleep
apnea detection, out of
bed detection, lying in
bed too long (bed sore
prevention), baby
restlessness, sudden
changes in physiological
conditions, etc.

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Installation

The sensor can be fixed on the top of

the bedside wall or on the side wall

Records are uploaded in real-time to the

database and displayed as a dashboard;
provides alerts, predictions and trend
analysis to improve the quality of care
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System Overview
24-Hr Monitoring Transmit Data Data Analysis
Motion detection
Elderly Abnormal behavior
Raw Data
1.8 m 1
Cloud
Computing Algorithms
AP/Router
HR
Local RR
Infants 2 Server Movement
Feedback Status
0.5 m Alert
Customer
Team User Interface

Nursing Wistron
Team
Customer
Provide care Family
& services Members
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Dashboard Abnormal values, out of bed too
long, displayed in red as an alert

訊號中斷顯示符號
24hr real-time HR, RR

Status:
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Sleeping / on-bed activity / bed-side activity / out29of bed / out of bed too long alert / abnormal values alert
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Alerts are also sent via Line social media

- Bed/room
number or
patient name
- Alert type
- Time
- Abnormal
RR/HR

No need to stay in front of

the computer at all times

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Reports are automatically generated

Physiological condition trend analysis; Hospital telehealth

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 Saving Lives
• Over 4,000 new-born babies in Taiwan have been monitored via BestShape VS,
and nearly 1% have experienced discomforts or life-threatening moments
– Alerted staff to difficult breathing due to blanket
– Provided early warning for heart condition
• Among elderly people and chronic patients, BestShape VS has saved lives by
detecting and alerting unexpected situations such as:
– Abnormal RR & HR caused by accumulation of phlegm in stroke or comatose patients
– Unexpected stop of heartbeat (cardiac arrest), and resuscitated successfully
– Abnormal heartbeat resulted in early detection of "hyponatremia"
– Abnormal breathing before death in hospice & palliative care facility

om protecting the beginning of life, to offering comfort & peace at the end of life

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