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.

Vibrating Insoles - Boston Univ. Dept. Biomedical Engineering (BUBME)
Submitted: 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.

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

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.