The role of this Technical Committee (TC) is to provide an interface between the community of biomedical engineers and medical physicists served by EMBS and the community of physiologists and clinicians within the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). In particular the TC needs to develop standards and tools for linkingcomputational biology approaches and the Physiome modeling framework to the following areas of expertise within EMBS:

• Biosignal processing
• Biomedical imaging and image processing 
• Bioinstrumentation, including wearable devices
• Medical device and database standards

One major goal therefore is to interface with work done as part of the Physiome modelling framework. The Physiome Project is a worldwide public domain effort to provide a computational framework for understanding human and other eukaryotic physiology. It aims to develop integrative models at all levels of biological organisation, from genes to the whole organism via gene regulatory networks, protein pathways, integrative cell function, and tissue and whole organ structure/function relations.

The CBaP TC needs to help coordinate modeling-focused activities, such as conference sessions and workshops, with other bioengineering, physiological, medical physics and clinical societies (for example: AIMBE, BMES, IFMBE, ISCB and IUPS.

The CBaP TC will also liaise closely with other IEEE EMBS TCs specifically those on Information Technology for Health, Biomedical Signal Processing and Wearable Biomedical Sensors & Systems.

One initial focus will be on the formulation of a SubCommittee to promote a markup language for BiosignalML - XML standards, software & databases for biomedical signals.