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Mobility

Pierre Boucher - Mobility

Ericsson

Mobile technologies: their contribution to every day life

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With the integration of IP services, mobile telephony and interactive TV, new applications are now emerging in areas such as public security, interactive entertainment and the health sector, to name only a few. This document offers a preview of a healthy mobile solution. The overlying objective of all healthcare organizations is to provide more and better health to every citizen who needs it. It may either be a patient who is sick and will be provided for by society or it may be a healthy individual who wants to achieve more health or to have a better quality of daily life. Many people nowadays want to lead a better life, for instance to stop smoking, loose weight or do more physical exercise just to live longer and thereby get a “longer” life with “more” quality altogether. The Ericsson Healthcare Solutions will greatly enhance the way patients and health-customers may attain both better contacts with their healthcare professionals and the freedom of mobility. Bodily data either from medical sensors (objective data) or patient diary responses or messaging (subjective) are sent, in real time, by a safe and validated Ericsson Bluetooth/GPRS communication to a central server with a hosted service. The data is available to the end users (healthcare professionals and service chain professionals) at all times. The end user application ensures that data may be retrieved in the form that is best suited for the end user.

Pierre Boucher holds an Electrical Engineering degree from l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Initially employed as a senior computer analyst and project manager, he later joined the Cantel team (now Rogers) as head of network research. Pierre Boucher is now part of the Ericsson team and has been for the past fourteen years. He contributed to the introduction of open systems technologies at Ericsson, attracting several new mandates for the Montreal team. Among these is the creation of support systems for operators, as well as third generation systems. In 2001, his team received the “Prix des Mercuriades” for “Innovation of the Year” in large scale organizations. In 2004, Pierre Boucher received the “Prix Carrière industrielle” from the “ADRIQ”. At the present time, Pierre Boucher is employed as Research and Innovation’s Director for Ericsson Canada. His responsibilities include overlooking activities relating to third generation wireless systems, open system platforms and technological innovation. He is also Co-Chair of the Ericsson Canada Innovation Council. Pierre Boucher is also a member of the International Institute of Telecommunications (IIT) Science Committee in Montreal, as well as a member of the board of directors of Prompt-Québec and of the ADRIQ.