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One Health Approach for Health Innovation and Active Aging in Campania (Italy)

Category: User Experience

Campania's strategy for digitalization of health and care and for healthy aging is based on a person-centered, life-course, ?ne Health?approach, where demographic change is considered capable of stimulating a growth dynamic linked to the opportunities of combining the ?ilver Economy?with local assets and the specific health needs of the population. The end-users (citizens, patients, and professionals) contribute to the co-creation of products and services, being involved in the identification of unmet needs and test-bed activity. The Campania Reference Site of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Aging is a flexible regional ecosystem to address the challenge of an aging population with a life-course approach. The good practices, developed in the context of research and innovation projects and innovative procurements by local stakeholders and collaborations with international networks, have been allowing the transfer of innovative solutions, knowledge, and skills to the stakeholders of such a multi-sectoral ecosystem for health.

Category: Taxonomies

Taxonomy of Pervasive Healthcare Systems (PHS) that extends the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

PHArA-ON

Category: Projects

PHArA-ON project will maximise the use of advanced services, devices, and tools from IoT, artificial intelligence and robotics to cloud computing, smart wearables, Big Data and intelligent analytics. Its aim is to create a set of integrated and highly customisable interoperable open platforms. Platform interoperability will be implemented within Pharaon ecosystems and platforms, which will be validated in two stages: pre-validation and large-scale pilots (LSPs) conducted at pilot sites in Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain (Murcia and Andalusia).

Category: User Experience

Treatment of actinic keratosis (early skin cancer) with light emitting smart textiles instead of rigid big light panels.

PROGRESSIVE

Category: Standards

PROGRESSIVE (H2020 CSA) was looking at how standards for ICT based products and services can help to meet the needs and preferences of older people and respond to the challenges and opportunities arising from an ageing population, so that everyone can enjoy healthy lives. PROGRESSIVE accompanied standardisers, policy makers, manufacturers, service providers, and European citizens by helping them adopt new approaches to standards development in the field of ICT for ageing well. A standards database is available at: https://progressivestandards.org/standards

Sense Garden solution and products

Category: User Experience

SENSE-GARDENs are used in dementia care and combine virtual places, digital media and multi-sensory stimuli to create immersive environments adapted to the life story of the person with dementia. The SENSE-GARDEN Association facilitates cooperation between developers of technological solutions, offers support to the organizations in the health and care fields, facilitates discussions with users and user organizations, organizes voluntary activity around the SENSE-GARDEN idea.

Silver & Home

Category: Projects

Living lab project for testing gerontechnologies with older adults. A categorization of 150 companies active in this field is available (airtable dataset, accessible upon request).

Category: Other

A model for digital neural impairment screening and self-assessment, which can evaluate cognitive and motor deficits for patients with symptoms of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), or dementia. The data was collected with an Android mobile application that can track cognitive, hand tremor, energy expenditure, and speech features of subjects. We extracted 238 features as the model inputs using 16 tasks, 12 of them were based on a self-administered cognitive testing (SAGE) methodology and others used finger tapping and voice features acquired from the sensors of a smart mobile device (smartphone or tablet)

Category: User Experience

Ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies are increasingly presented and sold as essential smart additions to daily life and home environments that will radically transform the healthcare and wellness markets of the future. An ethical approach and a thorough understanding of all ethics in surveillance/monitoring architectures are therefore pressing. AAL poses many ethical challenges raising questions that will affect immediate acceptance and long-term usage. Furthermore, ethical issues emerge from social inequalities and their potential exacerbation by AAL, accentuating the existing access gap between high-income countries (HIC) and low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Legal aspects mainly refer to the adherence to existing legal frameworks and cover issues related to product safety, data protection, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and access to data by public, private, and government bodies. Successful privacy-friendly AAL applications are needed, as the pressure to bring Internet of Things (IoT) devices and ones equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) quickly to market cannot overlook the fact that the environments in which AAL will operate are mostly private (e.g., the home). The social issues focus on the impact of AAL technologies before and after their adoption. Future AAL technologies need to consider all aspects of equality such as gender, race, age and social disadvantages and avoid increasing loneliness and isolation among, e.g. older and frail people. Finally, the current power asymmetries between the target and general populations should not be underestimated nor should the discrepant needs and motivations of the target group and those developing and deploying AAL systems. Whilst AAL technologies provide promising solutions for the health and social care challenges, they are not exempt from ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). A set of ELSI guidelines is needed to integrate these factors at the research and development stage.

Category: Other

It analyses trends in the generation and uptake of advanced technologies, entrepreneurial activities and skills supply and demand in the medical devices industry, and secondly, it also explores trends in the related healthcare sector from a demand-side perspective.