FHT news channel

18 Oct | In this round of PhD seminars, four researchers will share ongoing work in assistive technologies and assessment of recovery after stroke, and identifying gait quality for fall prevention.

FHT held its first-ever Open Day on 11 July, showcasing solutions that bring high-value care to the community.

FHT will hold their first-ever Open Day on Tuesday, 11 July, bringing together a community of experts and enthusiasts to jointly shape the future of healthcare.  

14 Jun | FHT will feature their research at an SIT Health and Social Sciences cluster webinar.

30 May | Christy Li of g.tec will present on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology and demonstrate its effectiveness in rehabilitation.

FHT is inviting stroke survivors to participate in a study to try out devices aiming for improving post-stroke upper limb rehabilitation.

22 Mar | Four FHT researchers will showcase their ongoing projects in detecting dementia, just-in-time mobile interventions, stroke rehabiltation and reducing hip fracture risk.

Ludovic Dovat will address the challenge of commercialising a technology or device from ideation, and present a methodology to industrialise concepts based on the example of Helbling Technik.

16 Jan | James Scheibner of Flinders University will explore the challenges and competing legal and ethical imperatives of health data transfers, and put forth strategies for privacy-conscious data sharing.  

In this FHT guest lecture, Prof. Elgar Fleisch will outline an engineer's vision of how to overcome the current issue of chronic diseases ravaging humanity, and present his current work at ETH Zurich's CDHI. 

Dr Sowjanya Kallakuri spoke to students University College for Women, Koti in Hyderabad, India, about FHT's activities on 22 Dec.

12 Dec | Dr Varun Mishra of Northeastern University will discuss the people's receptivity to digital interventions, and what, when and how to deliver them.   

7 Dec | Dr Shehroz Khan, from the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, will talk about novel uses of A.I. for dementia and patient care, and examine ongoing studies on virtual rehabilitation.

[Updated with video] Robert Jakob will examine factors influencing adherence to Digital Health Interventions (DHIs), with the aim of helping stakeholders design more effective mobile health apps.

On 7 Feb, Prof. Eric Finkelstein spoke about classical economic theory, rationality and addressing biases in efforts to increase effectiveness of chronic disease prevention.

Assoc. Prof. Bernadette Richards from FHT discussed methods for engaging communities at the Virtual Conference on Trustworthy Health Data Governance panel on 1 Sep.

Future Health Technologies invites health experts and medical practitioners to share their experience and views on digital health interventions for the prevention of diabetes in Singapore.

29 Jul | The FHT conference session on digital biomarkers for post-stroke limb recovery addresses achievements and challenges in using digital biomarkers to monitor recovery and predict rehabilitation outcomes.

FHT is recruiting participants for a focus group on smartphone lifestyle apps for diabetes prevention in Singapore. We want to know your experience in using smartphone lifestyle apps!

23 Mar | Prof. Tobias Kowatsch from FHT's Mobile Health Interventions module describes how conversational agents can help in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases.

4 Feb | In this guest lecture, Professor Florian von Wangenheim will give a marketing perspective on how to reach vulnerable populations and build long term relationships with self-services in a digital health context.

2 Dec | In this guest lecture organised by the Mobile Health Interventions module team, Prof. Elgar Fleisch will discuss how digital technologies can combat chronic diseases as well as mental disorders.

6 Dec | Call for Papers: Workshop on Scaling-Up Healthcare with Conversational Agents, under the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2021.

13 Nov | A team from the Future Health Technologies has been working together on a race like no other - to drive the advancement in assistive technology for those who are physically challenged. 

17-18 Sep | The Cybathlon Symposium goes virtual! It continues to promote user-driven designs and evaluate assistive technologies. Register now!

25 Sep | At this CREATE webinar, Dr Rea Lehner explains how brain-​computer interface (BCI) technology can help an individual control an application or device.

4 June | Prof. Nicole Wenderoth joins the Science for Humanity panel to discuss how we can harness scientific efforts for society and people and some of the challenges faced.