Estrellita (formerly FitBaby)
University of California, Irvine
Early health decisions for high-risk babies can make a big difference in how well they do down the road. The Estrellita team will create a mobile application for collecting information from high-risk infants and their primary caregivers that will allow the caregivers to more easily interface with clinicians to improve care and communication. Caregivers will use the Estrellita technology to record observations of daily living (ODLs) like the baby’s temperament, communication, feeding and sleeping activities as well as the caregiver’s stress levels. Providing nearly real-time data to clinicians will help alert them to early signs of health problems, which is crucial with high-risk infants.
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What the Estrellita team is saying ...
“This work is particularly innovative in that we make it convenient for parents to record daily information about their babies. Pediatricians and other clinicians will have access to the information to make earlier diagnoses, which can improve the health outcomes of babies and caregivers.”
Gillian Hayes, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator
University of California, Irvine
“Parent well-being is often ignored in infant care. By helping parents monitor and understand the patterns of their own emotional and physical well-being, we believe that parents will be encouraged to take better care of themselves, leading to better quality of care for the babies.”
Karen Cheng, Ph.D., Co-Principal Investigator
University of California, Irvine
