Home Sensor Fusion to Support Aging in Place
Submitted: August, 2010
This technical report describes an NIH SBIR-funded prototype activity tracker that tracks activities of daily living, creates alerts about meals and medications and infers changes in the health status of an individual over time. These data are used to infer and track the risk of falls over time.

Aging Care Health Network
Submitted: April, 2010
Internet application linking patients, family and care providers.

Group Tele-exercise for Improving Balance in Elders by Microdesign Consulting, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a communication system that will be used to create a tele-exercise program for those elders who are home-bound, at risk for falls or fall-related injuries.

Pearl - Personal Robotic Assistant / Nursebot - University of Pittsburgh / Carngie Melon University
Submitted: April, 2010
Personal robotic assistants have the potential to assist elderly persons in: Intelligent reminding, Tele-presence, Data collection and surveillance, and Mobile manipulation.

Off-Body ECG Monitor Using Through-Clothing Electrodes- Quasar - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
The goal of this program is to determine whether a new class of sensor that measures electric potentials off the body at the microvolt level can provide a signal for pediatric ECG monitoring that is equivalent or better than a conventional, skin-contacting electrode.

Lifezig System for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease by PhotoZig (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The goals of this project is to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and their families/caregivers with the new TOM-VC intervention (Therapeutic Old Memories-Video Channels) and the novel Lifezig system

Non-Intrusive Monitoring of High Functioning Elderly Red Wing Technologies Inc (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Technology developments aimed at extending the ability of the elderly to live independently often target those people with a disability, chronic condition, or other known reason requiring help with their care.

Untethered Monitoring - Software algorithms by CIMIT
Submitted: April, 2010
Our vision is that CIMIT will be the leader in minimally intrusive, reliable, low-cost wireless monitoring systems utilizing sensor platforms for life signs detection and health status assessment.

Analysis of Movement Patterns Aids Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease (Hungary, The Netherlands
Submitted: April, 2010
The movement patterns are characteristic for a person. The changes in his/her movement patterns indicate changes in his/her state.

Machine Video and Audio Understanding for Monitoring Dementia Behavior - Carnegie Mellon University
Submitted: April, 2010
Howard D. Wactlar, B.S., M.S., and colleagues will evaluate whether auto-matic video and audio monitoring of people with dementia improves quality-of-life assessments.

Automated Health Assessment / Motion Understanding - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
We are developing concepts and prototypes of "ambient health monitoring" technologies that become an invisible part of the user’s environment and aggregate information in a private personal health record.

Conversational Personal Medical Assistant - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
How can automated systems best help people solve their problems and get things done? Answering this question requires multi-disciplinary basic research in areas ranging from linguistics and psychology to computer science and systems engineering.

Remote Arrhythmia Monitoring - NASA & MetroHealth System
Submitted: April, 2010
NASA Glenn Research Center has partnered with the MetroHealth System, to develop a heart arrhythmia monitoring system that utilizes Embedded Web Technology to wirelessly transmit real-time EKG data to physicians anywhere in the world.

Computer-Based Cognitive Interventions for Persons w/ Alzheimer's Disease - California State
Submitted: April, 2010
Nidhi Mahendra, Ph.D., and colleagues will investigate if the use of computer technology can enhance these cognitive capabilities, particularly the recall and retention of information.

Technology Enhanced Management of Incontinence by Sabolich Research & Development, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Clinical practice guidelines recommend implementation of nighttime incontinence care that minimizes sleep disruption for nursing home residents. However, these guidelines offer no specific intervention recommendations.

Visable light Minder/Guider System for Elderly (ESCORT) from Talking Lights LLC (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
This Phase II SBIR project will develop and qualify a new assistive technology to aid persons who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias of aging.

Wireless Movement Disorder Monitor from Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The objective is to design, build, and clinically assess a Wireless Movement Disorder Monitor (WMDM) specifically tailored to Parkinson’s disease (PD).

Digital Danskins - MIT Age Lab with EDS
Submitted: April, 2010
Leveraging research done by NASA, MIT’s Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL) and the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence’s Leg Lab the AgeLab has been seeking ways to bring innovations from Mars to Mom’s kitchen.

Home Sensor Data Fusion to Support Aging in Place from eshoppertools.com Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The research objective of the proposed work is to fuse sensor data to infer behavior of occupants in a home setting.

Impact of Running Poles on Older Adult Exercise Walking by Martinus Van Breems Inc (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Develop device to increase exercise walking in patients with knee, hip, balance or other problems.

Autonomous Sensing - Image Understanding (Army Research Lab)
Submitted: April, 2010
Image Understanding, Acoustic Sensing, Magnetic Sensing, Sensor Integration

System for Monitoring Social Cognitive Brain Function by SAM Technologies, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The emerging field of social neuroscience is bridging the knowledge gap between brain mechanisms of cognition and affect and the social and motivational factors that impact interpersonal attitudes and behaviors.

Intelligent Electric Stimulator with Sensor Capabilities from Herbst Research, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The ultimate objective of this project is to develop intelligent electrical stimulation devices, which will automatically adjust the stimulator signal based on the conditions prevailing in the tissue, or in the media.

Improving Healthcare Efficiency using Real Time Location from Radianse (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Radianse Inc. (formerly Sentinel Wireless, LLC) has created an automatic, continuous, real-time indoor positioning system (IPS) specifically for the healthcare environment.

Web-enabled Longitudinal Detection of Alzheimer's by Headminder, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The aim of this research is to determine whether cognitive markers of dementia in older persons presenting to a primary care physician’s office can be effectively detected using a computerized, Internet-based cognitive screening system.

Floor Monitor for Gait Assessment and Falls Detection by Empirical Technologies Corporation (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Falls among the elderly, one of the most common reasons requiring medical intervention and a contributing factor in 40% of nursing home admissions, are a major health problem.

Functional Alertness Monitor for Sleep Disorder Patients by SAM Technology Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
This Phase II project aims to further develop and evaluate the Functional Alertness Driving Evaluation (FADE), a system for measuring treatment-related changes in the ability to consistently pay attention during driving behaviors.

Individualized Expert Systems for Weight Management by Prochange Behavior Systems (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Clinic-based programs for weight management are costly and serve only a small percentage of individuals. Population-based behavior change programs are needed to reach larger percentages of at risk individuals more cost-effectively. Preliminary research on the application of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) to weight management suggests that the model has the potential to guide the development of effective multiple-behavior interventions.

Automated Health Assessment- Molecular Monitoring - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
Smart bandage is a platform of technologies targeted to reduce the burdens of chronic wound care. Smart bandage technologies integrate nanoporous optical sensors, photonic crystals and biodegradable silicon nanoparticles in a hydrogel polymer support.

Integrative Research- Continuous Assessment- Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
We are currently conducting a study involving the home monitoring of Alzheimer’s patient, funded by the Alzheimer’s Association’s Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care (ETAC) initiative, General Electric Global Research and Home Free Systems.

Integrative Research -Middleware - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
Enabling the home to provide medical assistance requires that the home be equipped with distributed, cooperative computation devices, physiological and environmental sensors, and both wired and wireless communication capabilities.

Health Care Monitoring of Moblie Patients - University of Pisa, Italy
Submitted: April, 2010
ICT has been employed in medicine and health care for many years now with great success. However, the upgrade of existing medical instruments and the design of new medical applications as a result of continuous advances in information technology must not lead to a neglect of the real needs of patients and physicians.

Multimedia Support for Caregivers of the Seriously Ill - Oregon Center for Applied Science - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
This project is the final program in the ORCAS eldercare worksite series. It will provide interactive multimedia support for employed family caregivers who are assisting with activities of daily living (e.g., dressing, bathing, feeding).

Subcutaneous Monitor/Alarm for Cardiac Arrest - AJ Medical Devices - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
It is the goal of our company to develop and deploy new and innovative technology that improves survival of cardiac arrest by lessening the time to treatment.

Monitoring of Heart Failure Patients via the Internet- Insight Telehealth Systems (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
To facilitate patient to provider communication, Insight Telehealth Systems, Inc. supported by a Phase one SBIR, has developed an Internet-based communication system (ITS MyHealthfile) that provides heart failure patients with frequent communication with their health care providers for management of their medical status and allows patients to gain understanding and control of their health care.

Personal Electrocardiographic Expert System- Pinmed Inc - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
The overall goal of the project is to design and develop an easy-to-use Personal Electrocardiographic Expert (PELEX) system for real-time, on-site registration, analysis, and wireless transmission of electrocardiographic (ECG) data using structured pattern recognition approach for tracking changes in individual ECGs.

Non Contacting Bioelectric Array for Sleep Monitoring- Quasar - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
The goal of this program is to develop a non-contacting array of bioelectrodes for monitoring EEG, EOG, EMG and ECG on the head.

An Electrical Impedence Monitor - Medical Physics Inc (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Knowledge of Hematocrit (Hct) is important in several chronic and critical care situations. Presently, Hct measurement requires finger sticks, heel sticks, and blood withdrawals, causing patient trauma as a result of such blood sampling. The development of noninvasive Hct measurement instrument is proposed which will eliminate the trauma of present invasive measurement methods as well as provide immediate results.

Automatic Evaluation of Speech Quality from Communication Disorders Technology Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Tests of several different approaches to the automatic evaluation of the quality of speech segments are proposed. Previous systems for use in pronunciation training have typically employed either automatic speech-recognition (ASR) technology, or have used templates based on a limited number of utterances rated as excellent by L1 listeners (and sometimes also employing a second set of utterances containing a common pronunciation error).

Biobehavioral Measurements of Alertness in Sleep Apnea by Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The proposed research evaluates the efficacy of the Alertness Profiling (AP) System as a method for objectively quantifying alertness in Sleep Apnea (SA) patients.

Child-Friendly Medminder to Improve Compliance, Safety by LIFETECHniques, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Electronic compliance monitoring has provided new options for tracking dosing adherence.

Computerized Activities of Daily Living System by Neurocomp Systems, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Research and development of new treatments is critically dependent on accurate and reliable assessment methods. Assessment of common daily living skills is an essential component of evaluation of new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease in controlled, sponsored clinical trials.

Computerized Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale by Neurocomp Systems, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The project objective is to develop a computerized version of the ADAS that is equivalent to the standard paper-and-pencil version while conferring the advantages of contemporary information technologies.

Depression Management System for Cardiac Patients from Polaris Health (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The proposed Outcomes Management System for Depressed Cardiac Patients (OMSDCP) will assist cardiologists by screening for depression, helping to determine the most promising treatment alternative for depressed patients (Treatment Selection), and monitoring patients’ progress in relation to a predicted course (Treatment Management).

A Low-Cost Fall Monitor for Geriatric Subjects from Barron Associates
Submitted: April, 2010
A method for characterizing fall dynamics (e.g., impact velocity and orientation, fall direction, impact energy) would assist in identifying elderly persons at high risk for hip fracture.

A Multimedia Program to Promote Exercise by Older Adults by Oregon Center Applied Sciences (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Exercise is crucial to the health and quality of life of older persons. This project will develop an interactive system to help older users (>60 years of age) adopt and maintain an exercise program tailored to their personal interests.

A New Walking Aid to Prevent Falls from Innovative Health Solutions (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Our overall goal is to provide products that improve the ability to walk and perform other activities of daily living independently.

A Real-time Multifunctional System for Home Telehealth by KC Scientific & Technologies (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The focus of this research is remote care delivery and monitoring between a health care provider and a patient living outside of a clinical facility (e.g., home or assisted living residence).

A Wireless EMG Data Collection and Analysis System from Barron Associates (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Development and demonstration of a wireless system for measuring and recording surface myoelectric (EMG) activity is proposed herein.

A New Device for Dietary Assessment from Barron Associates (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Instruments to assess food intake and dietary habits are used in a variety of research settings.

Adaptive Wireless Computer Mouse for Movement Disorders from Cleveland Medical Devices Inc (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The objective is to design, build, and clinically assess an Adaptive Wireless Computer Mouse (AWCM) for movement disorders.

All Digital Home Use System for Mole Monitoring Western Research Company, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
We propose development of a highly refined, all digital, completely portable, low cost imaging tool which can dramatically improve the ability of people to assist in finding new and changed pigmented moles at home.

Automated Cognitive Assessment System by Brain Resource Company (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
In pilot studies we administered the computerized tests to a small sample of healthy elderly individuals and patients with probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Preliminary analyses reveal that the battery is sensitive to the cognitive changes in the elderly.

Automated Detection of Sleep Disordered Breathing from Advanced Brain Monitoring Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The Apnea Risk Evaluation System (ARES) is an inexpensive, in-home method assessing for sleep-disordered breathing.

A Handheld Personal Health and Fitness Wizard from Barron Associates
Submitted: April, 2010
The project proposed herein involves the creation of a handheld health and weight management device, the LogaPDA.

Low Cost Wearable Monitoring System(Sensors,Microcontroller,Mobile/Cellular Phone)
Submitted: April, 2010
The project is related to an emerging area of applied research called “wearable computing”. Our task in this project is to design, implement and test a wearable healthcare monitoring system. The main idea is to develop a complete unit consisting of sensors, a digital signal processor or microcontroller, a small battery, etc, that monitors a patient condition and sends information wirelessly to a nurse room or to a doctor’s cell phone alerting them to the condition of the patient and perhaps the location. The unit has to be light, wearable, and consume power efficiently.

Aging Services Research Needs Your Survey Answers
Submitted: April, 2010
Research will take national survey responses on how technology is used for aging services. Project will study emerging technology and research and make recommendations to parent aging services organization.

Health Monitoring in an Agent-Based Smart Home
Submitted: April, 2010
The MavHome smart home learns models of inhabitant behavior and uses the models to automate the home and provide health monitoring assistance.