Talk for BioBusiness, 15 September 2011, Dundalk, Ireland

1. Made in Ireland – Looking
Global
Prof Maurice Mulvenna
TRAIL Living Lab
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Ulster

2. A University of Ulster Innovation Lab
Visit us at trail.ulster.ac.uk

3. Outline
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Connected Health
Dimensions of Connected Health
Examples
Action steps
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4. § Population norms…
§ Connected health:
– Ageing in place
– Independent living
– Domiciliary care
– Assisted living
– Sheltered housing
– Supported housing
– Retirement home
– Nursing home
– Care home
§ ...> Medical intervention
Services
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5. Dimensions
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Technical
Business Model
Timing
Engagement

7. Ofcom research

8. § Provide therapeutic support and guidance to this
group of people during the hours of darkness
– Investigate the needs of people with dementia at
night time
– Research new technological capabilities that
support sophisticated service offerings
– Offer therapeutic interventions using music and
familiar images at bedside device
– Sleep measurements variables: quantity of sleep,
quality of sleep, rhythm of sleep

11. § Needs-driven (ABC/UCD…)
§ Mainstreaming

12. Academia
State
Users
Industry
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13. § Investigating the unmet
needs of older people living
in the local community.
§ Talking with older people in
order to prioritise problems,
seeking the best available
evidence to meet needs
§ working with people to
implement and evaluate the
evidence in practice.

14. § eParticipation
empowering and
involving citizens in
transparent decisionmaking in the EU
§ TRAIL leading user
engagement across EU
and defining 10-20
electronic town
meetings (eTMs)

15. § eTMs:
– Allied health Professionals
– Open Data
– User Centred Innovations
– Town centre management
– Interfaces
– Connected Health

16. Openisland.net

17. …THANKS