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.

Creative Music Technologies for Alzheimer Assessment and Treatment
Submitted: 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.

Cell Phone Video Streaming in Alzheimer's Disease
Submitted: 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.

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.

NeuroPage from The Oliver Zangwill Centre of the National Health Service, UK
Submitted: 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
Submitted: 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.

Living Profiles: Transmedia Personal Health Record Systems for Young Adults
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 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.

A Customized Care Plan for Breast Cancer Patients
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 team will design an application that builds a customized care plan for patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

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.

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.

Telemedicine Experiment - NASA Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS)
Submitted: 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
Submitted: 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.

Telzuit Bio-Patch Wireless Holter Monitor
Submitted: 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)
Submitted: 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.

CIRCA: High-tech Memories - University of Dundee, Scotland
Submitted: 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.

In home wireless monitoring and medication impact study.
Submitted: 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.

Eskaton Residents Explore the Use of Personal Health Records
Submitted: 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.

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.

Wesley Manor smart residence
Submitted: 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
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.

Home Assurance Monitoring System Project
Submitted: 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.

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.

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Submitted: April, 2010
MIT research group developing proactive health technologies for the home