UAC Grants Europe Services Technical University Gheorge Asachi

UAC Grants Europe Services Technical University “Gheorge Asachi” Iasi Romania October 24 th 2012

Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” Iasi, Romania Technical University “Gheorghe Asachi” is the 2 nd largest university in Romania with more than 17. 500 students, existing since 1912. 2011 UTI has been nominated to be the 3 rd most important research center in Romania, with more than 24 ongoing research projects. Professor Iulian Ciocoiu, the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, conducts research activities related to neural networks, pattern recognition and biometrics. He has been the main coordinator of 5 national research projects and a team member in more than 15 contracts. 2

Xerox PL – Alina (Bogdanescu) Pasalau Relevant responsibilities in Xerox q Innovation Lead for Xl World (Romania), acquired by Xerox at the beginning of 2012 q Applying existing Xerox innovation to Xl World projects q Services Center Manager and Software Development Manager for Xl World, part of CBPO Europe q Providing services to all Xl World locations q Coordinating the developers’ team for the internal CRM Relevant experience for the project q more than 8 years of experience in Xl World in coordinating software development projects, having the role of software analyst, tester and implementation/integration of new apps or functionalities q. Procedure analyst and procedure implementation and enforcement in Xl World Role of Liaison Manager q. Weekly meetings with the University PM and Team in order to evaluate the experimental results and offer suggestions for improving the implementation of the project q. Good opportunity to start working with local universities on new services (health) in view of future new Xerox services in Eastern Europe 3

Automated monitoring, management and pre-diagnosis system for patients witch cardiac diseases This proposal aims at expanding an already existing and functioning application for telemonitoring the patients with cardiac diseases, implemented within a bilateral research project Romania(UTI, Iasi) – South Korea (INHA, Incheon) The present project proposal targets the following items: a) monitoring the patients “from home”, outside of cabinets equipped with standard electrocardiograph, using ECG acquisition systems such as holter/bracelet type b) design and implementation of dedicated compression methods, adapted to the ECG signals c) automated methods of processing ECG signals received by the server, including pre-diagnosis, identification of ECG signals with critical pathologies and generation of warning messages d) management of the databases stored on the server and generation of reports and statistics e) localization of the patients based on geographic coordinates (GPS) – optional 4

Research and development benefits q saving human lives of patients facing medical emergencies q increasing the quality of life of those people suffering from cardiac diseases q convenient update of a database with significant recordings for every enrolled person q significant decrease of public health expenditure by: a) care or supervision of the patients at their homes; b) shortening the hospitalization time in post-op cases; c) reducing the need for actual intervention of the doctors only to major risk cases q improving the quality of medical care by collecting data useful for diagnosis and specific therapy of patients with cardiac diseases 5

Innovative aspects q Extend/adjust the compression algorithms already published by the team members for the ECG signals recorded on the ECG – telemedicine platform and reduce the size of the ECG file, important for long-term storage and internet transmission q. Pre-diagnostic facility of the ECG platform implies using intelligent solutions for classification of the ECG signals based on some pathologic correlations – this classification approach / algorithm will be improved and adjusted according to the direct feedback of the medical colleagues and from the real-life annotation 6 04 September 2021

Finances and Timetable Our estimate is that the amount of time necessary for the implementation of this proposal is 1 year, at a cost of $30. 000, 00 for the purchase of packages/software licenses and specific medical equipment or computers. • Months 1 -2: Defining system requirements; Defining system architecture; Software and hardware specifications of all component modules; Designing software modules and integration of the specific medical equipments; • Months 3 -5: Acquisition of HW and SW equipment • Months 6 -12: Implementation and testing of the software modules 7 04 September 2021

Xerox Benefits q Consolidating the relationship with local Universities; q Local visibility – recruiting; q Market penetration – new services in Eastern Europe 8