e-Health in ResearchCatedra Telefonica&Univ. Sevilla

”Inteligencia en la Red”

Sevilla 19.11.2009

Ellen Brox, Senior research scientist

Luis Fernandez Luque PhD student

e-Health themes

1. Personal e-health technology and services

2. Health and the social web

3. Serious games and gamebased applications

• Applied research institute located in Northern Norway.

• Majority owned by the University of Tromsø

• Norut’s history goes back to 1984. • More than 100 researchers: technology, social

science and innovation.

• More than 90% project funding

ICT at

Research, development and innovation

• Peer-to-peer technology and digital media distribution

• Distributed and self configuring data storage systems

• Spatial Information Systems and Environmental informatics

• Robust and seamless communication services

• Serious game technology and e-learning

• Personal e-health technology and services

Tromsø, Norway

Campus in Tromsø

UniversityUniversity

University HospitalUniversity Hospital

Norwegian Center for TelemedicineNorwegian Center for Telemedicine

NorutNorut

e-Health themes

1. Personal e-health technology and services

2. Health and the social web

3. Serious games and game-based applications

Personal e-Health services

• Build personal health technologies and services for home environments– Follow-up– Physical exercising– Health education– Psychosocial support for the chronically ill

• Systems and services for improving self management skills– with support and guidance from health care personnel

• Long-term collaboration between Norut and the Norwegian Center for Integrated Care and Telemedicine

Personal e-Health: MyHealthService

• Services are available on one or several Patient Devices• A Residential Patient Device is the home HUB• Health and fitness devices are used to support a rich set of services• COPD the main focus (Spanish: EPOC)

– 200.000 suffers from COPD in Norway. – In Andalusia 179.000 have COPD, growing tendency. – Around 5% of the population older than 40 has COPD– COPD causes 2.7 million deaths per year worldwide– Accounts for 20 % of the emergency admissions in Norway

• People with more than one chronic condition

Personal e-health; research challenges

• Further improvement and evaluation of services, especially for physical exercising and social interaction

• Support of new patient devices and terminals• Enhancement of the environment with pervasive technologies• Inclusion of new health and fitness devices with open protocols• Develop and evaluate new services • Air quality monitoring and information

e-Health themes

1. Personal e-health technology and services

2. Health and the social web

3. Serious games and gamebased applications

Health 2.0

• Most of the Europeans use the Web to search Health Information

Health 2.0

Web 2.0 -> Social Web-> The Web of the User.

Web 2.0

• The new ePatients 2.0: Active, Empowered, Creative and Social

Health 2.0: Research Challenges

• Information Overload-> Recommender Systems for web Health resources, e.g. videos, blogs other users (Luis PhD)– Extracting knowledge about the users and resources from the Social

Web

– Integration with Personal Health Records (Indivo), virtual cummunities, YouTube, etc.

• Lack of knowledge about how the Web 2.0 is being used (e.g. privacy, ethical issues, fake patients, etc.)

• Personalization in the Social Web. • More information:

– www.slideshare.net/luis.luque

e-health themes

1. Personal e-health technology and services

2. Health and the social web

3. Serious games and gamebased applications

Game-based approach

Trend: using games and elements from gaming

in education and e-Health

Serious pervasive gaming coming up

• Background in serious gaming – roleplaying game for language learning

– simulation in an acute situation

• Use games to learn• Use exergames to move• Use social games to share

– Possible to learn from each other

– Change attitude?

Example 1 – children with diabetes

• Starting project for children with diabetes 1• Aim to make requirements for a social

gamebased platform• Those children want to ignore the

disease but cannot• They want to be like everyone else

but are not• Long distance to others – feel alone

Can they and friends learn about

the disease while they have fun?

Can they be cool too?

Example 2 – Exergames in virtual worlds

Movements can be registered by

accelometers

dance mats

wii remotes or exercise platform

spinning bikes

treadmills etc

Possible to exercise together in a virtual world

Can also exercise with game characters

Motivation

Social when isolated at home

Example 3 – elderly playing games together online

• New AAL (Ambient assisted living) to lookat online games for elderly– card and board games

– exergames

• Stay mentally alert• Avoid isolation• Motivation for physical activity

• Challenges:– technology

– physical ability

– network

Serious e-Health games – research challenges

• Security and safety in social networks; particularly for children• Motivation and influence – for the desired effect• Games that are fun and engaging –

but does not keep players at the screen• What works and what does not – assessment of learning• New technologies: pervasive, ubiquitous, effective computing

Project portfolio e-Health

• MyHealthStation (2005-2006)– COPD (stage 4) and Diabetes, Prototype, Field trials– Technology and user evaluation

• TTL - MyHealthService (2007-2011)– Multiple and severe chronic diseases – Technology, services, lab trials– A project in the Tromsø Telemedicine Laboratory (TTL), PhD

• Better Breathing (2007-2009): EU / eTen– COPD (GOLD stage 2, 3 and 4), Field trials, – Medical evaluation,Marked validation

• Well@Home (2007 - 2009)– Technology research and development. Local Research and innovation fund

• IsActive (2009-2011) – AAL– Technology research and development.– Activity, sensors & COPD

• JOIN-IN (2010-2013) - AAL- Physical exercising and gaming- Negotiation phase

• Meet, Play, Learn (2009-2010) InterReg• – gamebased tools for children with diabetes

Collaboration opportunities

• Collaboration in ongoing activities• New project proposals (Nationals and European)• Exchange of students to do Master Thesis • Visiting scholars (Norut can help to find funding)• Exchange of experiences in Workshops and Seminars

• Your suggestions…

Other areas of activities for colaboration

UAV and real-time earth monitoring• operational platform• system and robust networking• instruments and algorithms

Satellite Earth observation of theEnvironment (algorithms, GIS datasystem)

• Environmental informatics• Robust networking and computing

Computing in Communication Challenged Regions (robust computing, hand-held terminals, delay-tolerant networking, ad-hoc communication)

Contact information

• Ellen Brox

ellen.brox@norut.no (twitter: @ellentos)

• Luis Luqueluis.luque@norut.no (twitter: @luisluque)

www.slideshare.net/luis.luque

• Lars Vognild (research director)

lars.vognild@norut.no

www.itek.norut.no