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My presentation to the 2015 IoT Global Summit about keeping seniors healthier and happier, in their homes, through a combination of Internet of Things devices
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Please cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. Creating self-aware and smart healthy cities. Invited plenary keynote address followed by sub-plenary round table at WHO 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference, Athens, Greece, 25 October 2014. http://www.healthycities2014.org/ehome/89657/192014/?&
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The next few slides are our attempt to bring some of these learnings home with an emphasis on why the message is relevant to healthcare marketers. Enjoy!
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A key contemporary trend emerging in big data science is the Quantified Self (QS) - individuals engaged in the deliberate self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or transactional information as n=1 individuals or in groups. This is giving rise to interesting pools of individual data, group data, and big data which can be interlinked to create a new era of highly-targeted value-specific consumer applications. There are significant opportunities in big data to develop models to support QS data collection, integration, analysis, and use for personal lifestyle and consumption management. There are also opportunities to provide leadership in designing consumer-friendly standards and etiquette regarding the use of personal and collective data. Next-generation QS big data applications and services could include tools for rendering QS data meaningful in behavior change, establishing baselines and variability in objective metrics, applying new kinds of pattern recognition techniques, and aggregating multiple self-tracking data streams from wearable electronics, biosensors, mobile phones, genomic data, and cloud-based services. Potential limitations regarding QS activity need to be considered including consumer non-adoption, data privacy and sharing concerns, the digital divide, ease-of-use, and social acceptance.
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A breakthrough is not actually breaking through something and coming out with something never seen or imagined. A breakthrough is the byproduct of multiple innovations combined into one big evolution. Evolution in any medium of our lives takes place when multiple small innovations, experiments, and discoveries combined together to create a new, never before seen feature or a product that leverages our existing lives.
"Smart Aging" combines two aspects of the Internet of Things, Quantified Self devices to record your health and fitness data and smart home technologies, specifically to allow seniors to "age in place" and improve their health, while simultaneously reducing their living costs.
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Health: to insure or to ensure? Welcome in the new normalKoen Vingerhoets
Slideset about health and how it affects our culture. With the increasing pace of change, new business models emerge. They're supported by new technological evolutions (healthtech), enabling new companies to challenge incumbent insurance companies.
The Industrial strategy challenge fund: healthy ageing consortia workshop was held in Birmingham on the 2 may 2018.
The £98 million ‘healthy ageing programme’ will drive the development of new products and services which will help people to live in their homes for longer, tackle loneliness, and increase independence and wellbeing.
Unexpected: Five Ways Technology Will Challenge ConventionsCognizant
A journey into the advanced technologies and changing business models that will radically alter the ways in which we live and work, today and tomorrow.
Held on the 26 april in exeter.
Slides are from the consortia workshop for the Healthy ageing grand challenge fund, as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Mark Scrimshire (ekivemark) HIMSS 2012 presentation from the "Leading From the Future" education stream in Las Vegas, February 2012. Empowering Health Care Engagement. Break the Glass Wall in Health Care, Sensors and Designing for Engagement.
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Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
Quantified Self Ideology: Personal Data becomes Big DataMelanie Swan
A key contemporary trend emerging in big data science is the quantified self: individuals engaged in the deliberate self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or transactional information, as n=1 individuals or in groups. The quantified self is one dimension of the bigger trend to integrate and apply a variety of personal information streams including big health data (genome, transcriptome, environmentome, diseasome), quantified self data streams (biosensor, fitness, sleep, food, mood, heart rate, glucose tracking, etc.), traditional data streams (personal and family health history, prescription history) and IOT (Internet of things) activity data streams (smart home, smart car, environmental sensors, community data). This talk looks at how personal data and group data are becoming big data as individuals and communities share, collaborate, and work with large personalized data sets using novel discovery methods such as anomaly detection and exception reporting, longitudinal baseline analysis, episodic triggers, and hierarchical machine learning.
SiDE Presentation by Prof. Paul Watson of Newcastle UniversityAlex Kavanagh
This is a presentation given by Professor Paul Watson of Newcastle University about the digital inclusion project SiDE (http://www.side.ac.uk) that was given at SuperMondays SuperAgeing on Tuesday 31st August 2010 at the Culture Labs at Newcastle University, UK
A key contemporary trend emerging in big data science is the Quantified Self (QS) - individuals engaged in the deliberate self-tracking of any kind of biological, physical, behavioral, or transactional information as n=1 individuals or in groups. This is giving rise to interesting pools of individual data, group data, and big data which can be interlinked to create a new era of highly-targeted value-specific consumer applications. There are significant opportunities in big data to develop models to support QS data collection, integration, analysis, and use for personal lifestyle and consumption management. There are also opportunities to provide leadership in designing consumer-friendly standards and etiquette regarding the use of personal and collective data. Next-generation QS big data applications and services could include tools for rendering QS data meaningful in behavior change, establishing baselines and variability in objective metrics, applying new kinds of pattern recognition techniques, and aggregating multiple self-tracking data streams from wearable electronics, biosensors, mobile phones, genomic data, and cloud-based services. Potential limitations regarding QS activity need to be considered including consumer non-adoption, data privacy and sharing concerns, the digital divide, ease-of-use, and social acceptance.
Amazing Breakthrough Technologies That Can Potentially Change the WorldMarie Weaver
A breakthrough is not actually breaking through something and coming out with something never seen or imagined. A breakthrough is the byproduct of multiple innovations combined into one big evolution. Evolution in any medium of our lives takes place when multiple small innovations, experiments, and discoveries combined together to create a new, never before seen feature or a product that leverages our existing lives.
"Smart Aging" combines two aspects of the Internet of Things, Quantified Self devices to record your health and fitness data and smart home technologies, specifically to allow seniors to "age in place" and improve their health, while simultaneously reducing their living costs.
When developing products, don't forget this one generation. The number of elderly population is increasing each year, people are living longer, healthcare costs are increasing, yet Medicare spending is down.
Learn why its important to develop products for this generation.
The average age of world population is increasing exponentially. It is predicted that by 2050, life expectancy is going increase by ten years. The growth of aging population places higher demands on public healthcare systems which increases the cost associated with healthcare services. Due to this demographic shift, service provided for elders has become an integral part of the service industry of Internet of Things. This paper aims to discuss existing IoT-based technologies (smart devices) for elders and propose a framework which incorporates different components from IoT architectures proposed in the literature, to efficiently develop cloud-centric IoT based smart devices for seniors.
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The Ultimate Test of the Internet of Things: Smart Aging
1. “Smart Aging”
ultimate test of the Internet of Things
W. David Stephenson
Stephenson Strategies
Wearables + Things
October 21, 2014
Hello! I’m excited to talk with you today about a new concept, “Smart Aging,” that I believe has the potential to improve seniors’ health, reduce the cost of our health care, allow us to “age in place” in their own homes, and help
both individuals and society deal with the cost of aging
It’s an idea that occurred to me recently when I was interviewed by the Boston Globe about the Internet of Things, which I’ll explain in detail later, and how it would affect seniors. During the interview I had an “aha moment!” I
realized:
1. I love the Internet of Things and want it to be used to improve our lives
2. I have gray hair.
Suddenly, at age 69, I had a life’s mission: to use the IoT to improve the aging process. Hence, “Smart Aging!”
2. Can Run, But Can’t Hide
Guess what: you may be young and independent today, but some day you too will age, so this is your fight too!
3. Something’s Gotta Give
• 10,000 baby boomers retire daily.
• “..aging..will be the dominant force in
spending increases”
• 1st year med school enrollment declined
since 1980. 250,000 docs older than 55.
• By 2020, 1 in 9 worldwide over 60.
It’s about time for Smart Aging, because, frankly, we, as individuals and a society, just can’t afford to live without it.
Consider a few overwhelming pieces of data:
• 10,000 baby boomers in the US now retire every day. Every day!
• According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, “Through 2037, aging will be the dominant force in spending increases not only on Social Security and health care programs, but also in the overall non-interest budget”
• There also ain’t gonna be enough doctors to care for us, either. In fact, 1st year medical school enrollment has declined since 1980. Even worse, current doctors are going from being part of the solution to being part of the problem:
250,000 of them are older than 55, and they’ll also retire soon.
• The problem is global: by 2020, 1 in 9 people worldwide will be over 60.
Help!
4. But, what if…
You could easily record daily health data
& that might improve seniors’ health?
But what if there was a radical shift in how we deal with aging?
What if a senior could easily and without anyone noticing, record her real-time health indicators? What if, provided she gave her permission, her doctor could actually see that data? Instead of the un-natural setting of a few tests in her
office, she could monitor what her daily life was like, including factors such as diet and exercise, to get a better picture of her overall health. She could actually become an active partner in her own health care!
5. But, what if…
Seniors could run their homes
— just talking to them?
But what if, instead of the current situation, where it becomes increasingly hard for a senior to run his home or apartment’s daily operations as he aged, he could actually control critical functions such as lighting or heating, just by
speaking a few basic commands?
Instead of being institutionalized, which has been shown to not only radically increase someone’s living costs but also contribute to a decline in his health and sense of wellbeing, he’d be able to stay at home, among his favorite
possessions and his neighbors.
6. “Smart Aging”
Senior-friendly home and health technology to
cut their health and living costs, improve their
health & quality of life — & keep them in their
own homes.
Put these two innovations together, and you get what I call “Smart Aging.” That’s the concept of using senior-friendly home and health technology to cut seniors’ health and living costs, improve their health and quality of life, and keep
them in their own homes as long as possible.
I believe it can bring unprecedented health and happiness to our senior years — while saving them and society money!
7. Made possible by
the Internet of Things
This revolution — and I do mean revolution — is made possible by the Internet of Things.
8. Two Aspects:
• Quantified Self movement
• Smart Home Devices
While there have been efforts for a while to specifically use technology to improve aging, I believe Smart Aging will instead result from tweaking efforts underway as part of the Internet of Things to improve life for everyone, of all ages. As
Joe Coughlin, director of MIT’s AgeLab, says, “Counterintuitively, making home automation mainstream and cool means that it's likely to end up in the hands of older adults sooner than if home automation technologies were only
designed specifically for older people.”
Two aspects of the Internet of Things combine to make “Smart Aging Possible.”
First is the “Quantified Self”movement and wearables in general.
The second is Smart Home devices that automate previously manual processes.
10. Ultimate Test of IoT
“… when technology recedes into the
background of our lives..” —Mark Weiser
When I think about this issue, I think about what Mark Weiser, the “father” of the Internet of Things, said about the third generation of computers, in which “technology recedes into the background of our lives.” It seems to me that
“smart aging” is both the ultimate challenge, and, potentially, the ultimate proof of this idea: seniors, even the most tech-savvy, don’t want to fool around with tiny interfaces, and are looking to enjoy their twilight years, not be challenged
by them. Thus, IoT devices that are simple to use & can become part of their daily lives without setting them apart or stigmatizing them will really transform the aging process.
11. Already here!
How about a beautiful necklace?
Smart Aging, without a formal agenda or mandate, is already evolving as part of the general IoT movement.
What woman wouldn’t like a beautiful necklace?
This one, which I suspect will be joined in the near future by a variety of jewelry that also listens to your body, has sensors on the back that detect early signs of a congestive heart failure episode, so that caregivers can intervene to
minimize the attack, or perhaps avoid hospitalization. Neat, huh?
12. Already here!
Smart Home devices that
automate your house just by speaking
My favorite Smart Home device that works for everyone but especially well for seniors, is the Ivee hub. It looks like a normal clock, but all you have to do is talk to it — not fiddle with switches or anything, and it automatically does things
such as turning up the heat. You don’t have to master any new technology — just talk!
13. Even better…
put them together
Even better, what if your health devices could trigger your home ones? The Nest thermostat, which has artificial intelligence, learns from your living patterns how to regulate your heating and cooling. The Jawbone UP bracelet includes
an alarm function that will wake you at the ideal moment in your sleep cycle to minimize the hassle of waking. Now, the same alarm that wakes you will automatically adjust the Nest, so that you’ll get up in a warm house! Isn’t that
incredible?
This synthesis may really take off next year. You may have heard about the new Apple Watch, which will be introduced next year. It will be loaded with sensors that detect your heart rate and other bodily functions. And, it will be
accompanied by two new iPhone Apps, Health and Home, which will aggregate data from all the different quantified self and smart home devices that you have.
14. Even better…
put them together
This synthesis may really take off next year. The new Apple Watch, will be loaded with sensors that detect your heart rate and other bodily functions. And, it will be accompanied by two new iPhone Apps, already available now, Health
and Home, which will aggregate data from all the different quantified self and smart home devices that you have.
15. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Encourage healthy new habits such as
more sleep, more walking, better diet.
So what will this neat new technology do to improve seniors’ lives?
It can encourage them to adopt healthy new habits such as getting more sleep, walking more, because it not only records their activity, but also tracks it over time, so they can quickly see whether they’re making progress toward the goals
they set for themselves.
16. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Share data
Or, they can choose to share your personal fitness record with friends for mutual support and encouragement — my wife and I just created a two-member team to share our Jawbone data and egg each other on. They can even choose to
share that data with their adult children to reassure them that they’re staying active.
17. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Transform doctor-patient relationship
And, carrying this data sharing to its logical conclusion, Partners Healthcare is now experimenting with allowing patients (provided they opt in, because privacy and security is so important) to share their Quantified Self device data with
their doctors.
That probably won’t be widespread for a while, but it is likely to result in better diagnoses, because the doctor won’t just have to rely on a few tests, given months apart, but instead can see what patients’ lives are like day in and day out!
18. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Automate household processes
Their living spaces will benefit because they’ll now be able to manage a variety of formerly manual processes, such as adjusting the heat or turning lights on or off, automatically.
19. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Peace of mind monitoring 2nd home.
Since a lot of seniors are snowbirds and have second homes, they’ll be able to monitor the conditions in their other homes while far away, controlling costs and giving peace of mind.
20. How Will Seniors Benefit?
Coordinate actions
And, as with the example I gave you earlier about the Jawbone alarm activating the Nest thermostat, increasingly, as the number of these devices increases and they link together, seniors will be able to activate a variety of coordinated
functions simultaneously: they won’t just wake up and have the heat go up — the lights will go on gradually, and the coffee maker will start. Won’t that be both pleasant — and more economical?
In that regard, I’m so excited about the potential of IFTTT “recipes” to democratize Smart Aging, by making it possible for people without programming experience — yes, even seniors themselves — to create recipes that really make IoT
devices serve real peoples’ real needs. This is a great example: if your father’s Hue Alarm broadcasts a CO2 emergency, the Hue lights will all turn red to warn him to leave.
21. It Won’t Be Easy
Security & Privacy Critical!
This revolution won’t happen automatically — and without some pain, cost and debate.
Most important is making sure that seniors control their own medical and home information. It is absolutely essential that manufacturers build-in advanced privacy and security protections, and constantly update them.
NOTHING will undermine public confidence in the Internet of Things and especially Smart Aging in particular than a few well-publicized security breeches. It’s good that the Federal Trade Commission has already made a big thing out
of fining one of the companies that disregarded privacy and security.
22. It Won’t Be Easy
Person Must Opt In
& Dignity Comes First
Similarly, there’s also a big matter of seniors’ personal choices when it comes to Smart Aging.
They must be the boss: the default choice with any device or service must be that you aren’t included or you don’t share data unless YOU specifically agree to it, and the terms must be laid out clearly, and simply.
And, when it comes, for example, to wearable devices, their design and appearance can’t stigmatize seniors: they must be either inconspicuous or so accepted by the public that anyone would want to wear them and even show
them off. Contrast the Holter monitor for heart functions on the right to the Zio patch on the left: which would you rather wear? Which would your grandfather rather wear?
23. It Won’t Be Easy
Health and fitness devices
must be accurate
You can bet that, as the health and fitness devices become more accurate, doctors come to rely on their data, and as the manufacturers begin to make claims for them, the Food and Drug Administration will become involved,
requiring extensive testing in order for the devices to be certified — and they’ll penalize manufacturers who don’t meet these tests.
24. It Won’t Be Easy
Must Be Simple, Affordable,
Easy to Control
Finally, any Smart Aging devices and services will have to be simple, affordable, and easy to control. That’s still not the case with many of them, but the trend is definitely toward usability. For example, one of my favorite devices
is Ivee: it looks like an attractive clock — which it in fact is — but it also links a growing number of Internet of Things devices and is activated simply by talking to it, from as far as 25’ away. How neat is that?
25. Worth It In The End!
• Improve seniors’ health & fitness
• Cut their medical bills
• Build their self-esteem
• Cut their living costs
• Let them stay at home, safely
While “Smart Aging” is still in its early stages, the devices and services are evolving quickly, and what’s called “network effects” are already at work: the more of them, and the more they are linked, the more valuable each becomes. It is
likely to be a full-fledged reality within the next five years.
When that happens, seniors will enjoy multiple benefits. It will:
• Improve their health & fitness
• Cut their medical bills
• Build their self-esteem
• Cut their living costs
• Let them stay at home, safely.
Smart Aging is already becoming a reality, but I believe it also should become a public policy priority, and receive r & d money and active government support. When it is affordable and robust, everyone, from seniors to taxpayers, will
benefit.
Thank you.
26. “Smart Aging”
For more information:
W. David Stephenson
Stephenson Strategies
508 740-8918
D.Stephenson@stephensonstrategies.com
Twitter: @data4all