An interdisciplinary centre of excellence in healthcare technologies serves to foster innovation, research, and development in the field of Healthcare Engineering and Technology. It brings together experts from various disciplines including Medicine, Engineering, Computer science, and Data analytics to collaborate on projects aimed at advancing healthcare through technology. The Healthcare Engineering sector is evolving at a great pace, due to the advancements in software and medical devices.
The focus of the centre is to utilise the state-of-the-art technologies in Signal Processing, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Instrumentation, IOT, and Cloud Systems to develop Intelligent Wearable/Assistive devices, Decision support systems, mHealth and to encourage healthcare research. The Centre will follow the prevailing ethical standards in biomedical research and engineering research. Some of the Research focus areas are briefed below: