Current Projects
Five project teams are working to demonstrate how to improve participants' health and well-being by helping them capture, understand, interpret and act on observations of daily living (ODLs) data. Current project teams will work with clinical partners and patients to:
- Identify, capture and store several types of ODLs for their target patient population;
- Analyze and interpret ODL data to extract clinically useful information;
- Use this information to provide feedback to patients so they can better manage their conditions and improve their health;
- Enable patients to share this information with members of their clinical care team in a way that can easily integrate into their clinical workflow;
- Identify and explain opportunities and challenges associated with this overall approach to policy-makers and clinical leaders.
Projects
BreathEasy
RTI International and Virginia Commonwealth University are designing an application for patients with asthma to provide a clearer picture of their health in everyday life for treatment and self-monitoring.
Crohnology.MD
University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with Healthy Communities Foundation and University of California, San Francisco, is helping young adults who suffer from Crohn’s disease create visual narratives of their condition and treatment to provide concrete feedback to providers about how they feel from day to day.
dwellSense (formerly Embedded Assessment)
Carnegie Mellon University is developing and evaluating sensor technology that monitors the routine of elders who have arthritis and are at risk for cognitive decline, providing data for long-term functional assessment and treatment.
Estrellita (formerly FitBaby)
University of California, Irvine is collecting ODL information from high-risk infants and their primary caregivers to allow them to more easily interface with their health care providers to improve care and communication.
iN Touch
San Francisco State University is working with low-income teens who are obese to see whether and how tracking ODLs informs the participants' health management and well-being.
