AbleData
Organization: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the Department of Education
Information on Assistive Technology, sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the Department of Education.

Administration on Aging
Organization: Department of Health and Human Services
AoA is one of the largest providers of home- and community-based care for older persons and their caregivers. The agency's mission is to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective system of long-term care that helps individuals maintain their dignity in their homes and communities

Aging Boomers: Technology to the Rescue? (Video from CAST Technology Demo)
Organization: Intel Sensor Networks at CAST Technology Demo
The first baby-boomers will reach retirement age just six years from now. Already, healthcare is America's biggest cost, and fastest growing too. It's a huge challenge - but technology, healthcare and education leaders say it is also a huge opportunity.

Alzheimer's Association
Organization: Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is the first and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to finding prevention methods, treatments and an eventual cure for Alzheimer’s. Their Web site is a resource for caregivers, health professionals, and persons with memory loss.

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Organization: AAHSA
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) is committed to advancing the vision of healthy, affordable, ethical aging services for America.

American College of Physicians
Organization: American College of Physicians
Description: The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the nation's largest medical specialty society. Its mission is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine.

Case Study: EHRs in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
Organization: US Department of Health and Human Services
This study was focused on electronic health records (EHRs) and information systems that are used to exchange clinical information across providers.

Caregiving Blog by Philips Lifeline
Organization: Philips Lifeline
Caregivingblog.com is an online resource to aid in the eldercare issues currently facing families. It will provide useful information and a sense of community for those facing similar circumstances.

Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA)
Organization: Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech has launched a revised assistivetech.net website that provides people with disabilities, service providers, and educators with a resource for assistive technologies and a link to a wide array of disability-related information and services.

Center for Connected Health
Organization: Center for Connected Health
The Center for Connected Health focuses on extending the care community beyond the traditional walls of healthcare institutions by bringing healthcare to the everyday surroundings of the health consumer and their families.

Changing Aging Blog
Organization: Ecumen
A Place to Share & Discuss Ideas, News, Innovations & Opinions That Are Changing Aging.

CITRIS Distinguished Speaker Series: Eric Dishman
Organization: University of California - Berkeley
In the midst of disruptive demographic changes that will double the number of people over age 60 to more than 1.2 billion by 2025, we are faced with an enormous global challenge: how do we improve the quality of life for this massive number of people in need while decreasing the costs of healthcare?

Connecting for Health Common Framework
Organization: The Markle Foundation
The Common Framework provides an essential set of technical and policy resources for private and secure health information sharing among existing and developing health information networks. All of the Connecting for Health Common Framework resources are available here at no cost.

Dossia-enabled Personal Health Records
Organization: Dossia
Employers are creating the Dossia Network to provide consumers with an important new health benefit: a lifelong personal health record that they own and control.

e-CareManagement Blog
Organization: Better Health Technologies, LLC
A place to share and receive information on chronic disease management, technology, strategy, issues and trends.

Ecumen Age Wave Study - Minnesota
Organization: Ecumen
Ecumen commissioned Decision Resources, Ltd., a Minneapolisbased public opinion research firm to conduct the largest survey ever of Minnesota baby boomers to learn what they’re thinking about the future.

eHealth Initiative
Organization: eHealth Initiative
http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org/communities/community.aspx?Section=288

Family Caregiving Alliance
Organization: National Center on Caregiving
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) serves as a public voice for caregivers, illuminating the daily challenges they face, offering them the assistance they need and deserve, and championing their cause through education, services, research and advocacy.

Future of RFID
Organization: Technology Review
Gain expert insight into future implications, privacy concerns, and the economics of RFID. Watch TR's Webcast now!

Health Politics
Organization: Pfizer, Inc.
“Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee” is a weekly Internet-based electronic media program that explores complex topics at the intersection of health care and policy.

Healthcare Standards Landscape
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a Web site that allows users to search for and publish information on health IT standards, organizations and related references

HIT Dashboard
Organization: HIMSS and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Want to learn what's going on in health IT right now? The HIT Dashboard provides a color-coded, easy-to-read visual interface that tracks over 500 state, federal, and private HIT initiatives so you can stay informed on the latest health IT initiatives across the country.

Home-Centered Health Care
Organization: Health Politics
Our current health care system – reactive, interventional rather than preventive, constrained by time and space, and lacking family or community context – is ill-equipped to address the demands of a rapidly aging population.

How to Select an Electronic Health Record System
Organization: American Academy of Family Physicians
These 12 steps will help make the selection process easier and lead you to the EHR that's right for your practice.

iHealthBeat
Organization: California HealthCare Foundation
iHealthBeat is a free, daily news digest reporting on the Internet's impact on health care. iHealthBeat is part of the California HealthCare Foundation's commitment to important issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing.

Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Organization: Illinois Assistive Technology Program
Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) is a not-for-profit agency that promotes the availability of assistive technology (AT) services and programs for people with disabilities.

Institute for the Future of Aging Services
Organization: IFAS
The Institute for the Future of Aging Services is a policy research institute within the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.

International Association of Homes & Services for the Aging
Organization: IAHSA
IAHSA is an international network of provider organizations, businesses, researchers, individuals and government officials, with representation in approximately 30 countries. IAHSA’s mission is to connect and support care and service providers worldwide to enhance the quality of life for the aging.

The International Longevity Center
Organization: The International Longevity Center
The International Longevity Center is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, research, policy and education organization with a mission to help society understand and harness the benefits of an aging population and increased longevity through research and education.

Journal of the International Society for Gerontechnology
Organization: International Society for Gerontechnology
This is the first international scientific journal devoted to gerontechnology. The website contains articles that juxtapose research in aging and technology with the broader categories of housing, mobility, health, communication, leisure, and work.

National Adult Day Services Association
Organization: NADSA
The National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) is the leading voice of the rapidly growing adult day service (ADS) industry and the national focal point for adult day services providers

National Aging Information Center
Organization: Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services
This database contains references to program- and policy-related materials on aging not referenced in any other computer system or print resource. Among others, the database is intended to serve national aging organizations, aging services providers, policy makers, and the general public

National Council on the Aging
Organization: NCOA
The National Council on the Aging is a national network of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the health and independence of older persons and increasing their continuing contributions to communities, society and future generations

Our Technological Future Blog
Organization: Our Technological Future
This blog put together by Jan-Willem Bats, features news and articles about upcoming technologies such as nanotechnology/molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology.

Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Lending Library
Organization: Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
Pennsylvania's Assistive Technology Lending Library is a free service that loans assistive technology devices to people with disabilities. It's available to Pennsylvanians of all ages and disabilities.

Perspectives on the Future of Personal Health Records
Organization: California Healthcare Foundation
As a hub of information and information-management tools controlled by the patient, personal health records present a number of promises, perils, and challenges in the years ahead.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio blog
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The idea behind the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio is simple–focus on the future of health and health care and promote innovations that may lead to breakthrough improvements.We intend for this blog to support the work of the Pioneer Portfolio.

Standard for Personalized Health Informatics
Organization: IEEEP
Jose C. Lacal developed the concept of Personalized Health Informatics starting in 2004 as a Family-centered, portable, personalized, prevention-oriented Seamless Health Record platform of services to maintain, enhance, and restore an individual’s health.

Technology and Aging Group of the Gerontological Society of America
Organization: Gerontological Society of America
GSA-TAG is a Formal Interest Group of GSA that promotes and supports research and applications of technology to improve the quality of life for older persons in a world-wide society.

Technology Review
Organization: MIT
Technology Review and Technologyreview.com are published by Technology Review Inc., an independent media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technology for Long Term Care
Organization: Polisher Research Institute and IDEAS
Information about available technology products. A collaborative effort of Polisher Research Institute and IDEAS, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services

Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL Centre)
Organization: Technology Research for Independent Living
The TRIL Centre is a coordinated collection of research projects addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing, all informed by ethnographic research and supported by a shared pool of knowledge and engineering resources.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Organization: Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
The report on the applying HIT standards to the nursing home Minimum Data Set (MDS) describes the need to apply HIT standards to patient assessment instruments, to support implementation of an interoperable HIT infrastructure and how specific HIT standards were applied to the MDS.

Welcome to the Project HealthDesign blog!
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
This is a place to share and learn about changes in the policy and media landscape that impact the development of personal health records (PHRs), and the field of health and information technology generally.

White House/VA Conference Emerging Technologies
Organization: Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
The Department of Veterans Affairs hosted the White House Conference on Emerging Technologies to Promote Emerging Technologies for the Disabled. Eric Dishman, CAST Chairman, represented CAST on a panel discussion that focused on technologies that enable independent living.

I/UCRC Model Partnerships
Organization: National Science Foundation
Over the past two decades, the I/UCRCs have led the way to a new era of partnership between universities and industry, featuring high-quality, industrially relevant fundamental research, strong industrial support of and collaboration in research, education and more.

Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
Organization: Georgia Tech
CERCS brings together researchers from Georgia Tech's College of Computing and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering who share a common focus on the design and evaluation of computer and software systems through experimental methods.

NSF Center for e-Design
Organization: National Science Foundation
The NSF Center for e-Design uses the Internet and special software platforms to manipulate a common design in cyberspace and in unison, allowing multiple partners to interact in the design process.

Center for Fuel Cells
Organization: University of South Carolina
The NSF has selected the University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Information Technology to help lead the nation’s fuel cell initiatives by performing research with industry aimed at developing and commercializing the use of fuel cells.

5th Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference
Organization: THE CENTER FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION (TCBI)
San Francisco, CA - 7/7/2008 CAST is organizing the Aging Services Track at the Fifth Healthcare Unbound Conference, which takes place from July 7-8, 2008 in San Francisco.

AAHSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
Philadelphia, PA  - December, 2008
AAHSA's 2008 Annual Meeting theme, ONE VOICE will deliver more than 200 education sessions addressing today's innovations and challenges.

The 2009 Int'l Consumer Electronics Show
Las Vegas, Nevada  - January, 2009
CAST will be an active participant in the Silvers Summit and will also sponsor a "BOOM AND BEYOND: Experience the Future" pavilion on the CES Show floor on Jan. 8-11, 2009. The pavilion, a hands-on, interactive environment, will feature emerging technologies for kitchens, living rooms, game rooms, bathrooms and other living spaces. It will also focus on cutting-edge technologies designed to enhance the safety, health and wellness, social connectedness and entertainment/ "theraputainment" of boomers.

A New Vision for Personal Health Records
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  - June, 2007
"A New Vision for Personal Health Records" explains how Project HealthDesign's vision of next-generation PHRs can empower patients to improve their health.

Caregiver Report
International Longevity Center  - January, 2007
This report provides an overview of the current state of caregiving in America, and highlights the challenges ahead with a call for action.

New Expectations From Older Users
Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD.  - January, 2007
Innovative product design is increasingly crucial as the generally educated and wealthier boomer consumer rises to the fore of the marketplace with a lifetime of technology experience and rising expectations in tow.

Technology Assessment Tool for Providers
CAST  - June, 2007
CAST developed a technology tool to provide you with ideas and suggestions for practical action steps you can take today to prepare for the new care paradigms of tomorrow.

Personal Health Records: Employers Proceed with Caution
Janlori Goldman, J.D.  - January, 2007
With health care spending on the rise, employers are increasingly at the forefront of shaping solutions to promote employee wellness. Some are beginning to offer personal health records (PHRs) as a tool to improve health and manage costs.

The Advanced Medical Home: A Patient-Centered, Physician-Guided Model of Health Care
Michael Barr & Jack Ginsburg  - December, 2006
This policy monograph highlights some of the major problems with the health care system in the United States today and proposes a fundamental change in the way that primary care and principal care are delivered and financed.

A Day in the Life of a Medical Record
John Morrissey  - January, 2006
This report, published by the National Alliance for Health Information Technology, compares the security of electronic medical records to that of paper records

Snapshot: Home Health Care in California: An Overview, 2006
Charlene Harrington and Janis O'Meara, UCSF  - December, 2006
As Americans live longer they are facing more health problems that require medical support. Many are opting to get that care from home health agencies that provide various home-based services.This CHCF snapshot tracks home health care in California from 1996 to 2004.

The Future of the Personal Health Record
Dr. Mike Magee  - November, 2006
Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee is your guide to important trends in health. This article discusses the future of the PHR.

2005 White House Conference on Aging Final Report
WHCOA Policy Commitee  - September, 2006
The 2005 White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) and its Final Report are about the future. The future is reflected in the theme of the 2005 WHCoA, “The Booming Dynamics of Aging: From Awareness to Action.” The theme shines a spotlight on the changing face of aging in the 21st Century and the need f

Nurses Talk Tech - 2006
CDW Healthcare  - September, 2006
CDW Healthcare conducted a study of nurses to understand: How nurses use IT in executing their duties, Nurses’ attitudes on the potential of IT to improve patient care, and Nurses’ views on the effectiveness of IT within their own organizations

Chronic Disease Management Systems vs. Electronic Health Records for Managing Chronic Illnesses
California Healthcare Foundation  - July, 2006
A new report, IT Tools for Chronic Disease Management: How Do They Measure Up?, examines the comparative value of these two systems. The report finds that CDMSs scored higher in product function and are significantly less expensive. EMRs received higher ratings based on vendor services and technolog

Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology
Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center  - April, 2006
This report was prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

AAHSA/CAST Technology Issue Brief
Russ Bodoff, CAST Executive Director  - April, 2006
This article discusses how technology may be the most important opportunity to help seniors maintain their quality of life and facilitate continued improvement in the quality of aging services.

Connecting Americans to Their Healthcare
The Markle Foundation  - March, 2006
Working group on policies for electronic information sharing between doctors and patients

Leading Change: An Opportunity to Transform Healthcare Services
Scott Cooper  - January, 2006
CAST presented this paper to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging

The Use of Technologies to Help Meet the Healthcare and Quality of Life Needs of an Aging Population
Jim Albert, Masonicare  - January, 2006
This paper was sponsored by the CAST Vision task group and presented to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging

Federal Government Grants for Aging Services Technology Research: Problems and Recommendations
Dr. Majd Alwan and Dr. Diane Mahoney  - January, 2006
This paper was produced by the CAST Funding Aging Services Technologies (FAST) task group.

Impact of Passive Health Status Monitoring to Care Providers and Payers in Assisted Living
Majd Alwan, Elena Brito Sifferlin, Beverely Turner, Steve Kell, Peter Brower, David C. Mack, Siddhar  - May, 2007
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of passive health status monitoring on the cost of care, as well as the efficiencies of professional caregivers in assisted living.

Impact of Monitoring Technology in Assisted Living: Outcome Pilot
M. Alwan, S. Dalal, D. Mack, S. Kell, B. Turner, J. Leachtenauer, R. Felder  - May, 2007
Described in this article is a study designed to assess the acceptance and some psychosocial impacts of monitoring technology in assisted living.

Validation of Rule-based Inference of Selected Independent Activities of Daily Living
Majd Alwan, Jon Leachtenauer, Siddharth Dalal, Steve Kell, Beverely Turner, David Mack, Robin Felder  - May, 2007
This paper explores the validity of a rule-based inference method of selected independent activities of daily living (ADLs).

Objective Remote Assessment of Activities of Daily Living: Analysis of Meal Preparation Patterns
Majd Alwan  - May, 2007
This work shows how readings from sensors installed within a person’s residence can be analyzed and combined to provide a probabilistic evaluation on the ADL/IADL scales.

Healthcare Technology Solutions To Enhance Senior Care
Rob Scheschareg and Sherri Dorfman  - July, 2006
Intuitive Care Advisors collaborated with Stepping Stone Partners to understand the mindset of the boomer audience, their role as a caregiver and their needs for healthcare technology.

In-Home Monitoring of Persons with Dementia: Ethical Guidelines
Majd Alwan  - May, 2007
This paper offers an analysis of the ethical issues surrounding home monitoring, a model framework, and ethical guidelines for technology research and development for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.

Perspective on Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care
Intel Corporation, The Alzheimer's Association  - May, 2007
The Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer’s Care (ETAC) initiative was launched by the Alzheimer’s Association and Intel Corporation in 2003 to identify and fund promising research in the use of technology for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Development of Survey Instruments to Guide the Design of Health Status Monitoring Systems
Majd Alwan, Beverely Turner, Steve Kell, Kim J. Penberthy, Wendy Cohn, and Robin Felder  - May, 2007
This paper describes the development, content and content validity evaluation results of three custom survey instruments designed to assess the feasibility of using in-home health status, monitoring technologies.

Psychosocial Impact of Monitoring Technology in Assisted Living: A Pilot Study
Majd Alwan, Jon Leachtenauer, Siddharth Dalal, David Mack, Steve Kell, Beverely Turner, Robin Felder  - May, 2007
This paper describes a study designed to assess some psychosocial impacts of monitoring technology in assisted living.

Psychosocial Impact of Passive Health Status Monitoring on Caregivers and Older Adults
Majd Alwan, Steve Kell, Beverely Turner, Siddharth Dalal, David Mack, and Robin Felder  - May, 2007
This paper describes a study designed to assess some psychosocial impacts of monitoring technology on seniors living in Independent Senior Housing.

A Smart and Passive Floor-Vibration Based Fall Detector for Elderly
Majd Alwan, prabhu Jude Rajendran, Steve Kell, David Mack, Siddharth Dalal, Matt Wolfe, Robin Felder  - May, 2007
Falls are very prevalent among the elderly. They are the second leading cause of unintentional-injury death for people of all ages and the leading cause of death for elders 79 years and older.

A Passive and Portable System for Monitoring Heart Rate and Detecting Sleep Apnea and Arousals
Majd Alwan, David C. Mack, Beverely Turner, Paul Suratt, Robin A. Felder  - May, 2007
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Sleep Disorders Research Plan expresses a need for methods that can non-invasively monitor sleep characteristics.

Impact of Passive In-Home Health Status Monitoring Technology in Home Health: Outcome Pilot
Majd Alwan  - May, 2007
This paper describes a study designed to assess the impacts of passive health status monitoring technology in home health.

Stability Margin Monitoring in Steering-Controlled Intelligent Walkers for the Elderly
Majd Alwan, Prabhu Jude Rajendran, Alexandre Ledoux, Cunjun Huang, Glenn Wasson  - May, 2007
This paper emphasizes the importance of assessing stability index for steering-controlled three-wheeled walkers.

Shared Navigational Control and User Intent Detection
Majd Alwan, Cunjun Huang, Glenn Wasson, Pradip Sheth, Alexandre Ledoux  - May, 2007
This paper describes the navigational control scheme used in the CO-Operative Locomotion Aide (COOL Aide), an intelligent walker designed to assist the elderly or the disabled with normal, and routine walking tasks.

A Rule-Based Approach to the Analysis of Elders’ Activity Data
Majd Alwan, Siddharth Dalal, Reza Seifrafi, Steve Kell, Donald Brown  - May, 2007
In this paper, we present a rule-based approach to the inference of elders’ activity in two primary application areas: detecting IADLs and and the detection of possible emergency conditions passively and unobtrusively.

Passive Derivation of Basic Walker-Assisted Gait Characteristics from Measured Forces and Moments
Majd Alwan, G. Wasson, P. Sheth, A. Ledoux, C. Huang  - May, 2007
This paper describes a method that passively assesses basic walker-assisted gait characteristic, including heel strikes, toe-off events, as well as stride time, double support and right & left single support phases using only force-moment measurements from the walker’s handles.

A Physics-Based Model for Predicting User Intent in Shared-Control Pedestrian Mobility Aids
Majd Alwan, Glenn Wasson, Pradip Sheth, Cunjun Huang, Alexandre Ledoux  - May, 2007
This paper presents a physics-based model approach to infer navigational intent of the user of a walker, based on measuring forces and moments applied to the walker’s handles.

User Intent in a Shared Control Framework for Pedestrian Mobility Aids
Majd Alwan, Glenn Wasson, Pradip Sheth, Kevin Granata, Alexandre Ledoux, Cunjun Huang  - May, 2007
This paper presents a novel approach to infer navigational intent of the user of a walker, based on measuring forces and moments applied to the walker’s handles.

Health Status Monitoring Through Analysis of Behavioral Patterns
Majd Alwan, Tracy Barger and Donald Brown  - May, 2007
With the rapid growth of the elderly population, there is a need to assess the ability of elders to maintain an independent and healthy lifestyle. One possible method is to employ the concepts of ambient intelligence to remotely monitor an elder’s activity.

Non-Invasive Analysis of Physiological Signals (NAPS)
Majd Alwan, David C. Mack, Steve W. Kell, Beverely Turner and Robin A. Felder  - May, 2007
To date, there are few systems that provide a low-cost, passive way of acquiring important sleep monitoring data that requires no additional action from the subject outside of their normal daily routine.

Derivation of Basic Human Gait Characteristics from Floor Vibrations
Majd Alwan, Siddharth Dalal, Steve Kell, Robin Felder  - May, 2007
This abstract describes a passive unobtrusive gait-monitoring device, based on a highly sensitive optic fiber floor vibration sensor.

ROP: A Resource Oriented Protocol for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Majd Alwan  - May, 2007
Sensor networks have been an active area of research during the past several years. Much previous work deals with issues related to networks having homogenous sensor nodes.

Passive Unobtrusive Gait Monitor: An Economical Device to Detect Gait Anomalies and Falls
MAJD ALWAN, SIDDHARTH DALAL, STEVE KELL  - May, 2007
A passive unobtrusive gait-monitoring device is being developed at the Medical Automation Research Center (MARC) with the growing elder population and their informal caregivers in mind.

Objective Remote Assessment of Activities of Daily Living: Analysis of Meal Preparation Patterns
MAJD ALWAN, TRACY BARGER, STEVE KELL, BEVERELY TURNER, SARAH WOOD, AMIT NAIDU  - May, 2007
With the rapid elder population growth, there is both need and market for ffective tools that assess an elder’s ability to maintain independence and a healthy lifestyle.

Non-Invasive Analysis of Physiological Signals
MAJD ALWAN, DAVID MACK, STEVE KELL, BEVERELY TURNER, MATT WOLFE, ROBIN FELDER, TOM SKALAK  - May, 2007
To date, there has not been a low-cost effort to provide a passive way of cquiring important sleep monitoring data that requires no additional action from the subject outside of their normal daily routine.

MARC-ED: An Electronic Diary for Activity Data Collection in Smart Home Environment
MAJD ALWAN, BEVERELY TURNER, DANNY COHEN, TIM REYNOLDS, STEVE KELL  - May, 2007
The reliability of data provided by research subjects and subject compliance with a research protocol are serious issues that require careful consideration during the development of these protocols, as well as during the active and analytical phases of the study.

Wireless Sensor Network Model and Protocol
MAJD ALWAN, SIDDHARTH DALAL, YONG MA, BEVERELY TURNER, STEVE KELL  - May, 2007
Reliability and security of data are essential to data communications, particularly when the transported packets contain medical information or physiological measurements.

Advanced Home Healthcare Products and Services
Rob Scheschareg  - May, 2006
The macroeconomic trends of an aging population, escalating cost of healthcare and consumer technology advancement are well-documented, and widely accepted. However, actionable intelligence that assists product developers and distributors in bringing products to market is not as readily available.

Technologies for Heart and Mind: New Directions in Embedded Assessment
Margaret E. Morris  - October, 2007
Embedded assessment is a technology design strategy to drive preventive health care and early disease detection. This approach addresses barriers to early detection observed through ethnographic research. Health monitoring is integrated into everyday devices and then translated into personalized fee

• Peter Kress, Chief Information Officer, ACTS Retirement-Life Communities
• Sunni Herman, Assistant Administrator, Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center
• Leah Klusch, Executive Director, Alliance Training Center
• Nathan Lake, Director of Clinical Design, American HealthTech

• Russell Bodoff, Executive Director, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• Lydia Lundberg, Owner, Elite Care
• Bruce Rosenthal, Director, AAHSA Quality First, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
• Rebecca Scritchfield, Director of Programs and Operations, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• Audrey Weiner, President and CEO, The Jewish Home and Hospital Lifecare System

• Majd Alwan, Ph.D., Director of Robotics & Eldercare Technologies, Medical Automation Research Center (MARC)
• Wayne Olson, Senior Vice President of Operations, Volunteers of America
• Rebecca Scritchfield, Director of Programs and Operations, Center for Aging Services Technologies
• Kelly Soyland, Director of Purchasing and Research and Innovation, Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

• Peter Kress, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc.
• Susan Mitchell, Director of Clinical Systems, Omnicare Information Solutions

• Mary Jo Deering, Ph.D., Director for Informatics Dissemination, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics
• David Lansky, Ph.D., Senior Director, Health Program, and Executive Director, Personal Health Technology Initiative, The Markle Foundation
• Ramesh Srinivasan, Vice President, Marketing, MedicAlert Foundation
• Daniel Wilt, Senior Director of Information Technology, Erickson Retirement Communities

• Craig Lehmann, Ph.D, Dean of School of Health Technology and Management, Professor/Chair of the Division of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Tom Plocher, Staff Scientist, Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions Advanced Applications Laboratory

• Sandra Elliott, Director, Aging & Senior Services Development, Meridian Health Systems
• Lisa Gaudet, Manager, Office of Remote Care Technology, Northeast Health & The Eddy

• Majd Alwan, Ph.D, Director of Robotics and Eldercare Technologies Program, Medical Automation Research Center (MARC), University of Virginia
• Maureen Weaver, Esq., Partner, Wiggin & Dana LLP
• Peter Swire, Professor, Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University, John Glenn Professor of Public Policy Research and Consultant, Morrison & Foerster, LLP (presentation did not include slides)

• Russell Bodoff, CAST Executive Director
• Becky Salus, CAST Program Manager

• Helen Higgins, Business Development Manager, Hewlett-Packard Company
• Kari Miner-Olsen, Chief Information Officer, Front Porch

• Peter Kress, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc.
• Pamela Martinez, Project Manager/Clinical Systems ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc.
• Bill Russel, Vice President and Regional Medical Director, Erickson Retirement Communities