FamiliLink- Online communication solution for older adults to stay digitally connected to others
Submitted: 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
Submitted: 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.

Personal Health Management Assistant
Submitted: 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.

Chronic Disease Medication Management Between Office Visits
Submitted: 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
Submitted: 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
Submitted: 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.

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

Pill Pet - MIT Age Lab & Rhode Island School of Design
Submitted: 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.

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

HeartPOD by Savacor
Submitted: 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.

Nurse Staffing and Scheduling Seminars and Trial Research Projects in Health Care Facilities
Submitted: 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.

Worker Interactive Networking (WIN) & Totally Wireless Sensor Monitoring of Elders Well-being at
Submitted: 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.

Presbyterian Pilot Project~ Cost effective holistic innovations in providing technology solutions.
Submitted: 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.