Erik Vavrinský
Doc. Ing. Erik Vavrinský, PhD. is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Informatics (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, majoring in Microelectronics. PhD degree. won for the topic Thin-film microelectrodes for electrochemical conductivity sensors applied in biomedical stress monitoring. From 2021, he works at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology STU as an associate professor in the field of telemedicine. Since 2015, he has also been working as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Medical Physics, Biophysics, Informatics and Telemedicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Scientifically, he is active in the field of sensor systems, development of telemedicine devices and medical electronics. The dominant part of his multidisciplinary research is focused on human physiology. He is the researcher and co-researcher of dozens of domestic and international projects and the author of more than 150 scientific publications.
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History of telemedicine
The aim of the lecture is to present the history of telemedicine - from the telegraph to modern wearable electronics. Guests will learn about individual stages in the history of telemedicine, such as the transmission of an ECG signal by telegraph and telephone, the collection of data from NASA's space research, the advent of the Internet and the transmission of image data, etc. At more significant events, the motivation and main contribution of telemedicine to society will also be clarified. The conclusion of the lecture will be a short vision of the future based on the automated collection of telemedicine data by wearable electronics.
