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bartcollet  //  Workflowhacking, mHealth, unwitching & Elderly Care

Aug 31 / 2:22pm

Increase possibilities of independent living by technology

Ambient Assisted Living
CAALYX aims at increasing older people's autonomy and self-confidence by developing a wearable light device capable of measuring specific vital signs of the elderly, detecting falls, and communicating automatically in real time with his/her care provider in case of an emergency, wherever the elderly person happens to be, at home or outside.
TRAIL In TRAIL, we develop innovative research that explores the implications of these changes and how they can promote sustainable collaboration between public, private and voluntary service providers. We utilise academic, business and community partnerships focused on participative research and design, encompassing living lab and open innovation methodologies and practices.
PERSONA aims at advancing the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence through the harmonisation of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies and concepts for the development of sustainable and affordable solutions for the social inclusion and independent living of Senior Citizen, integrated in a common semantic framework.
Grand Care The GrandCare system supports standard protocols which means that the list of supported sensors will continue to grow. Depending on the situation, we will provide sensors based on wireless X10, powerline X10, Zwave, or Zigbee standards. You can always start small and add new sensors as the situation requires.
eNeighbor (Healthsense wi-fi) Healthsense Integrated Solutions offers completely integrated systems including: Wi-Fi Wireless Nurse Call, Remote Monitoring, Telehealth and campus-wide Wi-Fi communication. These systems are scalable, flexible, and based on proven open network communication standards.
Fall prevention
Artesis + VUB Accelerometer based gait analysis
myHalo is a step ahead for you and your caregivers and it brings the future home. This is the only system offering automatic 24/7 vital signs and activity monitoring, including advanced fall detection. That means, you don’t have to push a panic button, because the system already knows when you have fallen.
U.Va.'s School of Engineering Wireless body sensor networks that monitor gait, being developed by University of Virginia researchers, could offer a solution on both fronts.
GE Ecumen Quietcare Video shot at Ecumen's Lakeview Commons community in Maplewood, Minnesota, was shown at GE and Intel press conference announcing proactive health technology partnership between the two companies. 
GeriatricAssistant (bug labs) This application is the combination of various geriatric assistance ideas(two to be exact). The first function of the application is a more modern “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” device which actually attempts to detect when a fall has occurred using the Motion/Accelerometer module. If a fall is detected, a log is posted to a tumblr account complete with an image which pin-points the location of the fall based on the GPS coordinates retrieved from the GPS module. The second function of the application is used to help people with memory issues (Alzheimer's patients, etc.) by recording images throughout the day and allowing them to review those images in rapid succession before they go to bed, which has been proven to help increase their recollection of events.
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Jun 27 / 3:39pm

Updating blogs with mobile

Using a Nokia N97 and the new functionality of Posterous, which is autopostr.
This is no 'groundbreaking' technology, but I only want to stress the ease of use. The very simple keyboard (which allows reasonable fast typing) of the N97 and its 5 megapixel camera are the base for this lightweight type of communication. The posterous autopostr updates posterous + blog by sending ONE email. Can't get any easier then that.
Could use a spellcheck though.
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Apr 22 / 2:25am

Lifelink: 3G-Based Mobile Telemedicine System (cardiac patients)

Lifelink, a mobile real-time telemonitoring and diagnostic facility, linked by mobile phones, was evaluated. Thirty 2-hour electrocardiogram (ECG) signals from cardiac patients were analyzed using detrended fluctuation analysis. This analysis detects long-range correlations embedded in non-stationary temporal series. The patient population was categorized in three classes: healthy, congestive heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. This system permits a physician to evaluate the mobile phone–based system as a novel approach to analyze ECG at a distance.

Current wired telemedicine systems encounter difficulties when implemented in archipelagic developing countries because of the high cost of fixed infrastructure. In this research, we devised Lifelink, a mobile real-time telemonitoring and diagnostic facility to command and control remote medical devices through mobile phones. The whole process is phone-based, effectively freeing offsite medical specialists from stationary monitoring consoles and endowing the system with the potential to increase the number participating consultants. The electrocardiogram (ECG) readings are analyzed using a detrended fluctuation technique and classified into pathological cases using an unassisted K-means clustering algorithm. We analyzed 30 batches of 2-hour ECG signals taken from cardiac patients (20 males, 10 females, mean age 46.7 years) with pre-diagnosed pathologies. The method successfully categorized the 30 subjects without user intervention into the following cases: normal (at 86.7% accuracy), congestive heart failure (86.7%), and atrial fibrillation (80.0%). The synergy of mobile monitoring and fluctuation analysis presents a powerful platform to reach remote, underserved communities with poor or nonexistent wired communication structures. It is likely to be essential in the development of new mobile diagnostic and prognostic measures.

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Mar 23 / 7:14am

Things everyone in China knows, but... - James Fallows (SMS email IM usage)

  • Instant messaging, combined with SMS, is a hugely popular means of communication. China's leading IM platform, QQ (Company: Tencent (HK:0700)), has 350 mm users-over 50 times the audience of Twitter! [Two days ago on the Beijing subway, I counted 25 people in the same car as me all typing out or reading text messages and only two actually talking on the phone. Also, you're never out of mobile-phone coverage in China -- on subways, in elevators, wherever. Discussion of reasons some other time.]

  • Only 56% of all Chinese internet users have email addresses. [If you want to reach a busy American, you send email to the Blackberry. That gets you nowhere here.]
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    Mar 9 / 9:16am

    Google Translation of 10 trends in mhealth

    1. Having mobile internet on your cellphone is more important than having a laptop 
    2. The personal electronic patient file (EHR / EMR) will be a part of your mobile phone instead of a stick or web-based data.
    3. Doctors are increasingly using mobile to faster diagnosis and quicker effective implementation of a treatment plan
    4. 3G calling-with-images will be used by people and patients in emergency use as they are not in the vicinity of a doctor but require urgent help or medical advice. It can also be used as remotely control and diagnostisize.
    5. Mhome and mtechnologie will replace the current, computer controlled, home automation. Everything in your own home with a Smartphone, domotics in the future will be the rule rather than the exception that people more independent in their own homes can continue to function.
    6. mHealth, part of the eHealth replace.
    7. MFitness applications will offer more results in the fight against obesity and will improve the sports and exercise than the regular gym.
    8. The use of smart phones in care will greatly increase.
    9. mHealth knowledge will open up faster in the care
    10. mhealth the healthcare in Second and Third World access to a wider audience
    MHealth the next revolution in healthcare, it will be the basis of many applications, it will save costs, the power of the Internet in the care and improves the quality of healthcare. I expect the first results of mHealth in 2009.


     

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    Mar 3 / 2:52pm

    Microsoft’s HealthVault highlights AllOne Mobile mhealth

    Crouse wrote that all speakers agree on one thing that the cell phone has become an indispensable tool not only for business but for each and every one of us in our personal lives… we are only now beginning to uncover its full potential in health; in the management of chronic diseases, as a tool for accessing timely information, as an essential device for capturing information, as a way to collaborate across time and distance, as a means to interact in new ways with our patients, and as a platform for education and entertainment. That’s a good summation of the mHealth opportunity.

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