Glossary

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — an HL7 standard for exchanging health data. SMART on FHIR adds an app-authorization layer so apps run securely on any compliant system.

Surface electromyography — non-invasive sensing of muscle electrical activity, used here to gauge muscle activation and effort during training.

Inertial Measurement Unit — combines accelerometer and gyroscope (often 6-axis) to track motion, posture and gait.

Irreversibly stripping personal identifiers from data (e.g. live video) so monitoring can run without exposing identity — key to privacy-compliant care.

AI + Internet of Things — connected sensors/devices whose data is analysed by AI, common in continuous care monitoring.

Processing data on the local device (often via a Neural Processing Unit) instead of the cloud — lower latency and data never leaves the premises.

Age-related decline in strength and muscle mass; AI assessment tools flag risk early to guide rehab and fall prevention.

Measuring vital signs (heart rate, breathing, sleep) without wearables — e.g. a sensor under the mattress or radar — reducing burden on residents.

Hospital Information System / Electronic Medical Record — the core software that runs clinical and administrative workflows in a hospital.

A quality-appraisal step in evidence synthesis / meta-analysis; AI can grade the risk of bias of studies automatically.

Mixed-reality surgical navigation — overlays positioning guidance for the clinician, with sub-millimetre localisation algorithms.

Automatic Speech Recognition — converts speech to text; multilingual ASR (Mandarin/English/Taiwanese/Hakka) speeds clinical documentation and communication.

A stage session where vendors pitch solutions to potential partners/buyers — a core matchmaking format at this expo.

Using individual health data and AI prediction to act before disease onset, rather than treating after the fact.