1st & 2nd Schools

From November 18 to November 22, 2024, Stichting Amsterdam UMC (AUMC) hosted two training activities, Schools 1 & 2, at Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The first School, entitled “Healthcare 4.0: Challenges and opportunities”, provided essential training on requirements, main challenges, and enabling technologies in Healthcare 4.0, including secure information handling, data analytics, AI in healthcare, and challenges related to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The second School, entitled “3GPP architecture and introduction to the 6G enabling technologies towards Healthcare 4.0”, focused on the architecture of 3GPP, 6G requirements, technology enablers, and sustainability considerations for 6G networks that support Healthcare 4.0.

Both schools, delivered by our academic and industrial partners alongside invited experts, offered valuable skills to professionals and researchers working towards the future of healthcare technology.

All presented material can be obtained here.

1^st School: Healthcare 4.0: Challenges and opportunities

Date	Speaker	Title	Syllabus
Monday 18^th of November 2024	AUMC Prof. Henk Marquering & Dr. Praneeta Konduri	Requirements, main challenges and enabling technologies in Healthcare 4.0	What is healthcare 4.0? How does it differ from previous versions - evolution. Elements of Healthcare 4.0; AI, DTs, IoT, Robotics Aims and of objectives of Healthcare 4.0 How did Healthcare 4.0 change stroke care? Assignments: role of ICT in Healthcare 4.0
Monday 18^th of November 2024	TU Delft Dr. Marcela Tuler	Secure information handling and ubiquitous access to the healthcare services	Privacy and Security in Healthcare 4.0. Secure information exchange. Privacy enhancing techniques. Blockchain in healthcare
Tuesday 19^th of November 2024	SUIT Dr. Minas Pertselakis	Data analytics and AI in healthcare	What type of problems in healthcare can AI solve? What restrictions does GDPR bring to the table? Data analytics: descriptive vs predictive, AI vs Machine learning. Examples. Explainable AI in healthcare
Tuesday 19^th of November 2024	MCS Mr. Sai Chintha	Challenges of IoMT and the way forward	IoMT and the MCS ecosystem Challenges in IoMT AI and Data in Healthcare
Wednesday 20^th of November 2024	MCS Mr. Sai Chintha	Challenges of IoMT and the way forward	Data privacy methods Low energy computing An application of AI for Pain estimation
	CHAR Prof. Andreas Pfeiffer (online)	Prognostic and diagnostic tests for diabetes	Definition and Diagnostic criteria Background: How is blood sugar regulated? Pathological impact – why is dysregulated blood sugar a problem Impact of Diabetes mellitus worldwide on healthcare systems Use of wearables and digital devices in diabetes diagnostics and management – continuous glucose monitoring Therapy – (and why do so many people want to take diabetes therapeutics?)
	AUMC Dr. Dave Bouman	Connected ambulance	What is a connected ambulance? Role of ICT in connected ambulance.

2^nd School: 3GPP architecture and introduction to the 6G enabling technologies towards Healthcare 4.0

Date

Speaker

Title

Syllabus

Wednesday 20^th of November 2024

ORAN

Dr. Lechoslaw Tomaszewski

3GPP architecture, its main components and path to 6G

Fundamentals of mobile networks
Evolution from 1G to 5G
3GPP – how to search, read, and understand their documents; 3-stage standardization process; approach to releases
3GPP 5G System – fundamental underlying pradigms
3GPP 5G System – architecture, network functions, focus on Control Plane
3GPP 5G System – User Plane and how the QoS is provided
3GPP 5G System – procedures: fundamental ones, how to read and understand system procedures
3GPP 5G System – a bit about RAN (bands and their propagation/capacity characteristics, time/frequency multiplexing + “channelisation” in 5G, uplink/downlink, interference management, antenna systems – SISO/MISO/SIMO/MIMO, softwarisation + O-RAN and RAN splits)
3GPP 5G System – what went wrong: drawbacks, wrong choices, gaps – why we are looking forward to having 6G?

Date	Speaker	Title	Syllabus
Thursday 21^st of November 2024	AUTH Dr. Agapi Mesodiakaki	6G requirements, technology enablers and challenges	Evolution of the mobile networks (from 0G to 6G) Present and future with numbers 6G service requirements and KPIs/KVIs 6G enabling technologies Challenges Solutions
	NOKIA Dr. Ali Rezaki (online)	Sustainability aspects of 6G networks supporting H4.0	Sustainability terminology, concepts and methodologies, Use case design for value outcomes with target setting, value indicators and assessments, 6G technology enablers for sustainability, From energy efficiency and savings to sustainability outcomes – a systems perspective.
	LIU Prof. Nikolaos Pappas	Semantic communications for massive IoMT	Motivation and current approaches towards semantics-aware goal-oriented communications Measuring timeliness and freshness of information - an introduction to Age of Information (AoI) Semantics beyond AoI Real-time tracking and actuation Applications: Industrial IoT, semantic source coding, and autonomous systems Future outlook of task-oriented and semantics-aware communication and networks

Date	Speaker	Title	Syllabus
Friday 22^nd of November 2024	LU Dr. Konstantinos Ntontin	Introduction to Multiple-Antenna Communications and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces	Fading channels Diversity combining Beamforming Spatial multiplexing Multi-user multiple-antenna communications Capacity Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
	AUTH Dr. Marios Gatzianas (online)	Fundamentals of Channel modeling	Mobile radio propagation channel Classification of channel models 3GPP channel models
	HU Dr. Holger Schlingloff (online)	Quality assurance of AI in healthcare	How can we achieve trust in AI solutions which is necessary for healthcare applications? Types of related applications Development of different technologies for the verification and testing of deep learning, different application areas, strengths and limitations. Summarize recent results Directions for further research.