Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

mHealth Services Science Science in the Service of Life Quality

Dr Katarzyna Wac, Senior Scientist, University of Geneva (CH)

Katarzyna.Wac@unige.ch

ITU Experts Group Meeting on m-Health: Towards Better Care, Cure and Prevention in Europe

Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

Ongoing Projects

!   Ambient Assisted Living: user-centric care services !   TraiNutri !   MyGuardian !   WayFiS

!   Chronic Disease Management !   COPD24

2 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

[Details: www.qol.unige.ch]

[A. Dey, K. Wac, et al., Getting Closer: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of User to Their Smart Phones, ACM UBICOMP, 2011 ]

AAL TraiNutri

TRAINing and NUTRItion Senior Social Platform

Physical Activity Level Monitoring

4 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

TraiNutri

Targets !   Raise consciousness about self wellness !   Help people (50-65) developing healthy habits !   Enable the exchange of knowledge related to

healthy physical and nutritional habits

!   Consortium !   Spain, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands

!   www.trainutri.com

5 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

Algorithm: Raw Data & Sample Median

6 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

[Papers: GHF’12, AAAI‘12, IWFAR’11, SAA‘11]

AAL WayFiS

Way Finding Seniors

WayFiS Application

8 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

[Papers: ERCIM’12, WIGPT‘11]

WayFiS

Targets !   Improving the capability of seniors to plan,

manage and execute travel and transportation projects taking into account their specific limitations and habits

!   Facilitating the elderly feeling of being healthy-well and safe at any point of the trip

!   Consortium !   Spain, Switzerland, Hungary

!   www.wayfis.eu

9 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

AAL MyGuardian

A Pervasive Guardian for Elderly

with Mild Cognitive Impairments

Example Use Case

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[Screenshots by Dutch Freeband AWARENESS project]

Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

MyGuardian

Targets !   Facilitating safe & secure mobility of seniors with

mild cognitive impairments while preserving their autonomy and dignity

!   Improving wellbeing and efficiency of voluntary caregivers by ensuring their peace of mind and keeping them informed !   Human-centric approach

!   Consortium !   Spain, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands

!   www.myguardian-project.eu

12 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

COPD24

Tele-monitoring and Tele-Treatment of

Chronic Obtrusive Pulmonary Disease

Example Use Case

Geneva, Switzerland, 26-27 April 2012 14 [Papers: IEEE IM‘11]

mHealth Technical Challenges

!   Performance !   ‘Best-effort’ network

infrastructures !   Delays: one way or

round-trip delays !   Throughput: consumer-

producer paradigm !   Mobility: horizontal and

vertical handovers !   Intra- and inter-

operator !   Scalability

!   Data priority (over voice) !   Communication costs

!   Per MByte vs. ‘flat-rate’ !   Security and Privacy

!   Data encryption !   Power consumption !   Miniaturization of sensors/

actuators !   Service personalization

!   Individual user’s needs !   Standardization and

interoperability

15 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

[Papers: IEEE COMMAG‘12, IEEE TMC‘12, ACM UBICOMP’11, IEEE JSAC’09]

Conclusions & Recommendations

!   Challenges Ahead !   Interoperability,

standardization !   User acceptance !   Privacy, trust !   Evaluation methods vs RCT !   Organizational issues,

pathways !   Legalization, liability !   Financial aspects,

reimbursements

!   Recommendations !   mHealth technologically

feasible for non-critical cases !   Inter/trans-disciplinary

approach needed !   User-centered design

!   Bridge the gap via an open, trustworthy dialogue

!   Encode implicit expectations & requirements

!   Innovation: “who’s turn is now”? !   Innovating the intervention

vs the mHealth delivery

16 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

[K.Wac, Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review, IMIA Yearb Med Inform 2012 ]

Thank You!

!   Quality of Life group !   Researching efficient and effective mobile systems

in the healthcare domain delivering validated services to patients and healthcare professionals "anywhere-anytime-anyhow”

!   Publications & info

www.qol.unige.ch

17 Geneva, Switzerland, 25-26 September 2012

QoSIS

Quality of Service Information System

QoSIS