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The EMB Standards Committee (EMB-SC) is a standing Committee within the EMB Society and recommends standards of engineering practices.

About the Standards Committee

The EMB Standards Committee (EMB-SC), also known as EMB/StdsCom, is a standing Committee within the EMB Society and recommends standards of engineering practices to be followed in the field of Engineering in Medicine and Biology by the electrical, electronic, and allied industries, and by health care providers. In relevant areas this Committee shall coordinate its activities with the IEEE Standards Board and other appropriate standards committees.

This Committee is responsible for the development and coordination of standards projects, including their maintenance after their approval as standards by the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board (IEEE-SASB) for which EMB-SC has been identified or assigned as either the sole technical sponsor or the primary sponsor to oversee its standards Working Groups. (An IEEE-SA Sponsor is not a financial sponsor.) The scope and activities of the Committee shall conform to the operations and principles of the IEEE, IEEE-SA, and IEEE EMBS.

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IEEE EMBS Welcomes Professor He (Helen) Huang as Editor-in-Chief of TNSRE Journal 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

IEEE EMBS Welcomes Professor He (Helen) Huang as Editor-in-Chief of TNSRE Journal

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) – IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), today announced…

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IEEE EMBS Hosts Inaugural Women in Biomedical Engineering Forum in Sydney to Promote Diversity and Inclusion Across the STEM Fields 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

IEEE EMBS Hosts Inaugural Women in Biomedical Engineering Forum in Sydney to Promote Diversity and Inclusion Across the STEM Fields

PISCATAWAY, NJ, 28 July, 2023 – IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), today…

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IEEE EMBS-NUS iHealthtech Forum DataScience and Engineering in Healthcare, Medicine and Biology 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

IEEE EMBS-NUS iHealthtech Forum DataScience and Engineering in Healthcare, Medicine and Biology

IEEE EMBS in partnership with National University of Singapore hosted iHealthtech Forum on DataScience and Engineering in Healthcare, Medicine, and Biology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore on…

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Two Decades of Unleashing the Power of Neural Engineering and Brain Discovery 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Two Decades of Unleashing the Power of Neural Engineering and Brain Discovery

IEEE EMBS Celebrates 20 Years of Impactful Contributions In March 2003 the inaugural International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference (NER) brought together more than 200 researchers from 30 countries on…

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Optogenetics: Using Light to Excite the Brain 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Optogenetics: Using Light to Excite the Brain

Author(s): Jim Banks By changing the electrical signaling of neurons in the brain using light, optogenetics is revealing novel treatments for hearing loss and other neurological disorders Read the Full…

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The Future of Brain–Computer Interfaces 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

The Future of Brain–Computer Interfaces

Author(s): Zara Abrams Technology that allows the human brain to communicate with an external device can help patients with some of the most severe neurological issues Read the Full Paper

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A Health-Monitoring Wearable That Measures Vital Signs 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

A Health-Monitoring Wearable That Measures Vital Signs

Author(s): Kathy Pretz This telehealth tech could ease overcrowding at care facilities. Read the Full Paper

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Rory Cooper’s Wheelchair Tech Makes the World More Accessible 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Rory Cooper’s Wheelchair Tech Makes the World More Accessible

Author(s): Joanna Goodrich He has introduced customized controls and builds wheelchairs for rough terrain. Read the Full Paper

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Report on New AI Tool Details Improved Colorectal Cancer Survival Rate 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Report on New AI Tool Details Improved Colorectal Cancer Survival Rate

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) today announced the publication of a study…

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COVID-19

Sharing Analytics: Developing A Standard To Employ High Impact Analytics Without Stressing Networks

Since the recent outbreak of COVID-19, clinical researchers, drug manufacturers, economists, social scientists, and other experts have sought access to data for analytics. Much of the data resides in disparate networks and within organizational boundaries. It takes considerable time and effort to obtain permission to acquire this data, to gain authorization from ethics committees or institutional review boards (IRBs) to use it, and to transfer it across overstressed networks. Most researchers would prefer to spend the precious time consumed by these rather tedious tasks on analysis. A more efficient approach would be to have a directory that says what data is where and what it contains, and then develop analytics to leverage the data in a way that preserves privacy and minimizes latency.

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IEEE Standards for Responding to Global COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

IEEE is providing no-cost public access to important IEEE standards, used by technologists, engineers, scientists, manufacturers, as they respond to the global COVID-19 public health emergency. Click “Access Standards” to access and download a PDF of the standards relevant to the global health pandemic.  Several of the standards were developed by the EMB Standards Committee Working Groups. See EMB Published Standards.

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COVID-19 and Beyond: New IEEE 2791-2020 Standard Uses Bioinformatics to Speed Drug Development

Genome sequencing has enormous potential for personalized medicine, mitigating the next pandemic, and more. But it can’t live up to that potential if researchers don’t have a standardized way to communicate and share genome data analysis methods.

Today, there are dozens of platforms, scripts, and tools for analyzing genome data, used by tens of thousands of researchers worldwide—an abundance that reflects the burgeoning nature of the genomics field. But it also creates barriers to exchanging all of the key information that other researchers, as well as regulators such as the FDA, need to understand the results and replicate the tests.This lack of “information interoperability” undermines their ability to quickly and effectively respond to emerging pandemics such as COVID-19. Even during normal times, it creates unnecessary delays and expenses every step of the way, from drug discovery to treatment delivery.

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Chair

Esteban Pino

Dr. Esteban J. Pino

Esteban J. Pino is Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department in the Universidad de Concepcion, Chile. He was director of the undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering from 2010 to 2016. Dr. Pino was a research fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, working on remote patient monitoring. His research interests include physiological monitoring using unobtrusive sensors and medical devices for Point of Care Testing (POCT). He is currently the director of the Engineering for Life Center of the Engineering school, whose goal is to translate research into practical solutions to improve life quality.