Dr Io Hui is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng), and a visiting researcher at the Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, The University of Edinburgh. She has extensive industrial and academic experience in leading digital health development and implementation, technological expertise spans from connected platform, AI to city-scale smart infrastructures.

She is the Chair of the mhealth/ehealth group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the co-lead of the ERS CRC CONNECT (WPIII), leading international researchers in 17 countries to identify the key successful factors, enablers, and barriers for implementing digital respiratory health in routine care.

She obtained her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research, Connected for Asthma (C4A) explores how patients and clinicians prefer to use a connected system, and the technological features required to support effective respiratory self-management. She believes digital technology has the potential to unlock the power of data to improve patient care. However, it is not a panacea for all healthcare challenges. Digital health technologies must be truly user-centric, inclusive, and well-integrated into the local healthcare system.