22nd & 23rd June 2009

Guest Speaker : Johan Muskens

Title:  Continua Health Alliance - The Impact of a Personal Telehealth Ecosystem

Biography J. (Johan) Muskens

Currently, Johan is a scientist at Philips Research Europe in the area of healthcare systems architecture. From a technology perspective, he supports Philips businesses in medium-to-long term growth opportunities. In scope are applications and services for remote patient management and personal and consumer healthcare. In this context, he has been participating in the Continua Health Alliance Technical WG. As a chair of the end-to-end architecture sub-team, he has been focusing on the impact of new use cases on the overarching and longer-term architectural aspects of the Continua interoperability framework. In parallel to these activities Johan works on projects searching for new personal disease management concepts.

Previously, Johan Muskens worked as a scientist in the area of component based middleware for high volume embedded devices that support robust and reliable operation, runtime upgrading and extension and component trading contributing to Philips corporate research programs, external research projects with European partners and standardization efforts in MPEG (Multi Media Middleware). Before is work at Philips Research, Johan worked at a scientist at Eindhoven University of Technology on the topics predictable assembly of components and software architecture analysis.

Johan Muskens is a M.Sc. in Computing Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He lives in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and his hobbies include sailing, skiing and driving a motorbike.