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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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Comprehensive Study from 50 Top Scientists Details Five Cutting-edge Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Their Applications in Medicine 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Comprehensive Study from 50 Top Scientists Details Five Cutting-edge Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Their Applications in Medicine

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 (IEEE EMBS), today published…

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Biomedical Technology Veteran Mike Hess Joins IEEE Pulse as Editor-in-Chief 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

Biomedical Technology Veteran Mike Hess Joins IEEE Pulse as Editor-in-Chief

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 Executive Committee Appoints Dr. Erika Ross Ellison as President-Elect, Along With Two New Vice Presidents 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

IEEE EMBS Executive Committee Appoints Dr. Erika Ross Ellison as President-Elect, Along With Two New Vice Presidents

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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A Novel Lightweight Wearable Device to Perform Balance Exercises at Home 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

A Novel Lightweight Wearable Device to Perform Balance Exercises at Home

Details of the 2023 International Conference on Data Science and Engineering are listed below: Maintaining balance and posture is quite a complex skill, even though it comes naturally to most…

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IEEE EMBS Hosts Data Science and Engineering Conference in Malta to Promote Data Revolution in Healthcare, Medicine and Biology 150 150 Standards Community (SC)

IEEE EMBS Hosts Data Science and Engineering Conference in Malta to Promote Data Revolution in Healthcare, Medicine and Biology

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 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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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.