Smart Supports
Last Updated: April, 2010
The goal of the Imagine! SmartHomes project is that through the application of technology, we will improve the quality and efficiency of supportive services for individuals with developmental and other disabilities in a permanently affordable, cost effective, and energy efficient community setting.

FamiliLink- Online communication solution for older adults to stay digitally connected to others
Last Updated: April, 2010
FamiliLink empowers families to more easily provide care and support to their elderly loved ones by including them in the digital loop through accessible and user friendly technology. FamiliLink offers a subscription based service for individuals and a hosted solution (software as a service) for senior care facilities and senior communities.

Set-Top Box for Home-based Delivery of Health Care
Last Updated: April, 2010
Our research centers on the use of multi-point videoconferencing, using small set-top boxes (the DocBox) which are placed in patient's homes. These units, about the size of a paperback book, connect to a home television and to a broadband internet connection. Our videoconferencing unit requires little or no interaction from the patient, and is controlled centrally by the health care or wellness provider.

Creative Music Technologies for Alzheimer Assessment and Treatment
Last Updated: April, 2010
A large number of older individuals are at risk for, or may be in the early stages of, cognitive decline. Unfortunately, there is no reliable screening method for such impairments, and a thorough diagnostic workup to detect mild memory and thinking deficits can be complex and time-consuming. Tod Machover, B.M., M.M., and colleagues are working to develop a cognitive assessment tool that can be easily integrated into supervised activities for older adults.

Virtual Reality Visuospatial Assessment as a Predictor of Mild Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type
Last Updated: April, 2010
Visuospatial perception-the ability to process and interpret visual informa-tion about where one is in relation to his or her environment-becomes impaired in people with Alzheimer's disease. Deficits in this ability can contribute to disorientation, difficulty performing daily activities and loss of independence. Albert Rizzo, Ph.D., and colleagues are investigating the utility of virtual reality (VR) technology for assessing visuospatial perception.

Novel Tools for Assessing Dynamic Brain Networks and Cognition in Dementia
Last Updated: April, 2010
The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain in which thought processes take place. This area consists of nerve cells and the pathways that connect them. In Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders, the orchestration of brain activity in large sections of the cerebral cortex may become dysfunctional.To study this loss of function, researchers use imaging tools, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). George V. Simpson, Ph.D., and colleagues propose to develop computer programs that will make the process of analyzing brain activity images much faster.

Cell Phone Video Streaming in Alzheimer's Disease
Last Updated: April, 2010
Remaining at home as long as possible can be personally, socially and economically beneficial for many people with dementia and their families. Innovative schemes using assistive home technologies may reduce isolation and improve functioning for these individuals. Such technologies may ease the demands on caregivers and help people who might otherwise need to consider institutional care. David Craig, M.D., and colleagues have developed a protocol for the novel use of cell phone technology to increase communication between individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their remote caregivers.

NeuroPage from The Oliver Zangwill Centre of the National Health Service, UK
Last Updated: April, 2010
NeuroPage uses radio-paging technology to send reminders of things to do. The individual wears an ordinary pager and reminders are stored on a central computer at the Oliver Zangwill Centre.

NeuroText from The Oliver Zangwill Centre of the National Health Service, UK
Last Updated: April, 2010
NeuroText will work in a similar way to NeuroPage whereby reminder messages decided upon by the individual, are sent to them on specific days and at specific times. The reminders however will be sent in the form of SMS or text messages, and to mobile phones instead of pagers.

ActivHealth: A PHR System for At-Risk Sedentary Adults
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. The Research Triangle Institute team will design innovative personal health record tools that assist sedentary adults that are at risk for or suffering from chronic diseases in becoming more physically active.

Living Profiles: Transmedia Personal Health Record Systems for Young Adults
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. This effort aims to help adolescent youth play a more active role in their health and health care at a pivotal moment – as they transition from pediatric to adult care systems.

Assisting Older Adults with Transitions of Care
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. The University of Colorado at Denver’s Care Transitions Intervention has improved the quality and safety of transitional care by using a paper personal health record (PHR) to inform and empower patients and caregivers.

A Customized Care Plan for Breast Cancer Patients
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. This team will design an application that builds a customized care plan for patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

Personal Health Management Assistant
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. The grant team will design a Personal Health Management Assistant tool intended to assist patients diagnosed with heart failure and heart disease (HF/HD) in self-managing their condition at home.

Personal Health Application for Diabetes Self-Management
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. This team will design a personal health application for patients with diabetes that integrates and analyzes data including nutrition intake, physical activity levels, medications and biometric information collected through personal monitoring, such as blood glucose levels and weight.

Chronic Disease Medication Management Between Office Visits
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. University of Washington researchers aim to design three interrelated personal health applications for overweight patients that exhibit one or more conditions that make up the metabolic syndrome.

My-Medi-Health: A Vision for a Child-focused Personal Medication Management System
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. The grant team will design a bold personal health record system for medication management that recognizes the role that children living with chronic diseases may play in their own care process.

Supporting Patient and Provider Management of Chronic Pain with PDA Applications linked to PHRs
Last Updated: April, 2010
Project HealthDesign support pioneers in health information technology to design next-generation personal health record (PHR) systems. A July 2006 call for proposals generated more than 165 applications from technology pioneers across the country. This project team will design an application to run on a handheld personal digital assistant, which will interface with an individual’s personal health record, to better meet the treatment and information needs of patients following common pain therapy plans.

Telemedicine Experiment - NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS)
Last Updated: April, 2010
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propusion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology have been working with the medical community to provide improved medical services to the more remote parts of the country by way of high-bandwidth satellite communications.

Internet-Based Support Services - eHealth Innovation
Last Updated: April, 2010
The internet-based caregiver support service (ICSS), will provide caregivers access to a secured website where they will be able to communicate with a professional care provider at a time that is convenient to them. The online professional will address caregivers’ concerns about caregiving, their personal health care needs, and jointly service goals for meeting these needs will be specified.

IBM Mobile Health Toolkit from IBM Zurich Research Lab
Last Updated: April, 2010
IBM Research, working with medical device and mobile phone handset manufacturers, has created a unique solution to track vital signs.

Electrocardiogram Hardware Prototype - University of Tampere, Finland
Last Updated: April, 2010
This hardware prototype is used to measure electrical activity of the heart (electrocardiogram, ECG).

Heart Rate Monitoring Software Prototype - University of Tampere Technical Univeristy
Last Updated: April, 2010
This prototype software has a graphical user interface allowing the user to select a warning and an alert threshold. When the pulse rate of the subject exceeds the warning threshold, an agent with speech and face synthesis instructs the subject to calm down.

Implantable Biosensor - Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Last Updated: April, 2010
The Wireless research project is developing miniscule subcutaneous sensors, which can be used to monitor, for example, the function of the heart or prosthetic joints even over long periods of time.

Gloucester Smart House - Dementia Voice
Last Updated: April, 2010
In partnership with Housing 21 and the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, Dementia Voice has converted an ordinary 3-bedroom house on a sheltered housing complex into a dementia-friendly environment that demonstrates how new technology can assist people with dementia to remain independent for longer.

Pill Pet - MIT Age Lab & Rhode Island School of Design
Last Updated: April, 2010
AgeLab researchers, in partnership with colleagues in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Rhode Island School of Design, have developed an Electronic Pill Pet that uses play and emotion to remind older adults to take their medications.

Untethered Monitoring - Body Sensor Platform - CIMIT
Last Updated: April, 2010
An on-body sensor array patch that is capable of transmitting information such temperature, a respiration, motion sensor, and heart rate from this tiny patch to a hub such as a cell phone, or pager sized computer because there is also radio transmitter within this patch.

Real-time, Wireless Monitor - NASA / MetroHealth System
Last Updated: April, 2010
To find out, a team from NASA Glenn Research Center and the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, has developed a method for doctors to monitor astronauts hearts in space. This technology may also improve care for thousands of patients on Earth every year.

ECG Glove by iNeedMD
Last Updated: April, 2010
The ECG Glove contains sensors that provide a complete electrocardiogram transmitted to an ECG machine without a tangle of wires or messy creams or pads.

Vibrating Insoles - Boston Univ. Dept. Biomedical Engineering (BUBME)
Last Updated: April, 2010
Sending imperceptible vibrations through the feet of diabetics and stroke patients significantly improves their balance, according to a study coauthored by James Collins, a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering.

Patient-Specific Seizure Onset Detection - MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab
Last Updated: April, 2010
Approximately 1% of the world’s population exhibits symptoms of epilepsy. a serious disorder of the central nervous system that predisposes those affected to recurrent seizures. A seizure is a sudden breakdown of the neuronal activity of the brain that is clinically manifested by an involuntary alteration in behavior, movement, sensation, or consciousness.

Telzuit Bio-Patch Wireless Holter Monitor
Last Updated: April, 2010
Telzuit flagship product, the Bio-Patch Wireless Holter Monitor is a full 12-lead, wireless holter monitor, which measures, records, and transmits physiological signals associated with a patient’s cardiovascular system.

Smart Scalable Medical Alert & Response Program - MIT (CSAIL)
Last Updated: April, 2010
Brigham & Women’s Hospital proposes to combine existing and new technologies to develop SMART: Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology, a system for patient tracking and monitoring that begins at the emergency site and continues through transport, triage, stabilization, and transfer between external sites and health care facilities as well as within a health care facility.

The Physician's Hand by iNeedMD
Last Updated: April, 2010
The Physician’s Hand is a glove in which are imbedded a variety of sensors

Brilliant Intelligent Wristband from Brunel University
Last Updated: April, 2010
The Brilliant Intelligent Wristband is designed to make sure that patients are given the right medicine.

Sunshine Heart C-Pulse
Last Updated: April, 2010
The Sunshine Heart C-Pulse is an implantable mechanical heart assist device powered by an external driver/controller/power supply unit.

HeartPOD by Savacor
Last Updated: April, 2010
HeartPOD involves a permanently implanted device designed to define the presence of worsening CHF hours to days before the onset of symptoms and provide early preventative treatment according to the physician’s individualized prescription.

CIRCA: High-tech Memories - University of Dundee, Scotland
Last Updated: April, 2010
Impaired short-term memory can have severe impact on a person’s conversations, resulting in topics being repeatedly introduced, and giving the appearance that the person is not listening.

Park Ridge at Home Telehealth Pilot
Last Updated: April, 2010
Park Ridge at Home, Long Term Home Health Care agency of Rochester NY is participating in a New York State Telehealth grant/piolt initiative to demonstrate cost effectiveness of using "Health Buddy" devices in chronic care patients. 30 of our cardiopulmonary patients will use the device for daily monitoring of vitals and health status questions, which will be tracked through a web-based program by our nursing team.

Flooring Technology
Last Updated: April, 2010
A passive flooring technology to reduce injuries from falls in the aged.

Eskaton Residents Explore the Use of Personal Health Records
Last Updated: April, 2010
Eskaton, a California nonprofit corporation is collaborating with Intel Corporation to investigate the use of Internet-based personal health records for its residents. Eskaton began the pilot program with residents in July 2006, who volunteered to participate, to enable them to manage their own health and medical information online.

In home wireless monitoring and medication impact study.
Last Updated: April, 2010
Using IR sensors our product learns the behavior patterns of individuals in their home. When a disruption in those patterns occurs or when an abnormal event takes place a three tiered response is initiated. Activity levels are monitored, stored and cross referenced with medications for greater data relevance.

Passive In-Home Health Status Monitoring in Independent Living: Psych-Social Impact Assessment Study
Last Updated: April, 2010

Passive In-Home Health Status Monitoring: Psych-Social Impact Assessment Study in Home Care Setting
Last Updated: April, 2010

Nurse Staffing and Scheduling Seminars and Trial Research Projects in Health Care Facilities
Last Updated: April, 2010
The QE Foundation is currently helping long term care facilities and hospitals better understand how nurse staffing and scheduling methods directly impact their quality and cost efficiency. The most important factor causing poor quality nursing care and the most important factor causing out-of-control nursing care costs in health care facilities are the same; namely, the unregulated and unaddressed issue of 24/7 nurse staffing and scheduling methods. The typical chaotic methods used today are causing billions of dollars to be spent unnecessarily and causing most of the poor quality care.

Behavioral Monitoring with wireless motion sensors for independent living
Last Updated: April, 2010
Evaluation of behavioral monitoring using wireless motion sensors of seniors living independently within our apartment buildings as well as seniors living independently within NORC communities where we provide supportive services

Impact of In-Home Health Status Monitoring on Older Adults’ Quality of Life in Assisted Living
Last Updated: April, 2010

Potential Economic Impact of Passive In-Home Health Status Monitoring in Assisted Living
Last Updated: April, 2010

Wesley Manor smart residence
Last Updated: April, 2010
Provide all types of residents with means of alerting/communicating with staff

Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) & Totally Wireless Sensor Monitoring of Elders Well-being at
Last Updated: April, 2010
Funded by the Dept of Commerce's Technology Opportunity Program (TOP), we developed and tested the first completely wireless based system designed to support working caregivers concerned about older adults alone at home during the caregiver's worktime. Known as the Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) project, it offerd workplace Internet access via PC/PDA/cellphone to a uniquely integrated 4 feature system providing a caregiver support group, resource linkages, and remote home monitoring elders via motion sensors.

Home Assurance Monitoring System Project
Last Updated: April, 2010
Northeast Health and General Electric Global Research and Development are collaborating on the beta testing of an in-home monitoring system utilizing standard security sensors. This non-video, non-audio system allows caregivers (formal and informal) to observe activity events that translate into an understanding of how the elder patient/loved one is faring in their home environment.

Intelligent Environment for Older Adults with Dementia
Last Updated: April, 2010
The goal of this project is to develop a system that can autonomously monitor the actions of a user during common ADL and provide intelligent assistance and prompts when errors in completion are detected.

Presbyterian Pilot Project~ Cost effective holistic innovations in providing technology solutions.
Last Updated: April, 2010
A state-of-the-art and technologically advanced Parkinson's disease movement impairment residence that is serving as a national model in the care and treatment of Parkinson's and other movement impairment diseases both on campus and within the community.

House_n
Last Updated: April, 2010
MIT research group developing proactive health technologies for the home

Context Aware Devices to Support Independence
Last Updated: April, 2010
Intelligent, computer-based devices that support older adults and others with memory deline, by using wireless sensor networks to determine when reminders of daily activities are needed, and generating personalized reminders as appropriate.