Service consolidation and support for personalised healthcare and independent living

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Service consolidation and support for
personalised healthcare and independent living

• Marius Mikalsen
• SINTEF ICT
• Norway
• eMatch 2009
• Oslo

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That was then
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This is now
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The age wave
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Shortage of resources
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Preparing for ageing in times of economic
resession

• It states For the first time in history, the
  vast majority of Europe's citizens are able to
  lead active, healthy and participative lives well
  into old age. At the same time, ageing societies
  bring new opportunities to innovative firms
  through the demand for new or adapted goods and
  services. However, the combination of ageing and
  low birth rates also poses major economic,
  budgetary and social challenges.

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Preparing for ageing in times of economic
resession (cont.)

• In order to limit the expected increase in
  public expenditure, policy measures which can
  either reduce disability, limit the need for
  formal care amongst elderly citizens with
  disabilities, favour formal care provision at
  home rather than in institutions or, more
  generally, improve the cost-effectiveness of
  long-term care provision, e.g. through
  introduction of eHealth and telecare, must be
  developed.

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Opportunities and relevance for internet of
things social networks
Source Ambient assisted living roadmap (August
2009)
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However

March 26,
2009 Dr. Kenneth D. Mandl and Dr. Isaac S.
Kohane portray the current health record
suppliers as offering pre-Internet era software
costly and wedded to proprietary technology
standards that make it difficult for customers to
switch vendors and for outside programmers to
make upgrades and improvements. Instead of
stimulating use of such software, they say, the
government should be a rule-setting referee to
encourage the development of an open software
platform on which innovators could write
electronic health record applications. As
analogies, they point to other such software
platforms whether the Web or Apples iPhone
software, which the company has opened to outside
developers. In the Mandl-Kohane model, a
software developer with a new idea for health
record features like drug allergy alerts or care
guidelines could write an application, and those
could be added or substituted for a similar
feature. - Steve Lohr, The New York Times,
March 26th 2009. Referring to two articles in the
New England Journal of Medicine
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Also true for independent living

• Barriers related to secondary and tertiary
  stakeholders
• A misunderstanding of the requirements and
  objectives of devices and services
• The lack of standards and references for
  technological design
• The partial broadband coverage in various
  European geographical areas

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The lack of standards and references for
technological design

• domain models that are concepts, functions and
  qualities for AAL systems to make explicit the
  demands and contributions
• open-reference architecture that facilitates the
  efficient integration of diverse assistance
  devices and services into personalized, trusted
  and manageable assistance solutions
• standardized solutions for unobtrusive,
  affordable sensing of context (location,
  activity, vital data)
• advanced user-interfaces that can be adapted to
  the changing needs of users
• guidelines for privacy and security of data
  management
• system management and interoperability of
  heterogeneous components.

Source http//www.aaliance.eu/public/documents/aa
liance-roadmap
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EUs initiative for one universal platform for
Independent Living - universAAL

• 17 partners
• 4 years
• 14.8 M Euro budget

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Senior citisens
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Senior (and junior) engineers
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Hiding the complexity of connecting things
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Achieving industry relevance adoption
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It will be open
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Get involved in EUs initiative for one universal
open, available and standardised platform for
Ambient Assisted Living

• Use the platform to build your services
• Inform us of open and available platforms
• Inform us of your needs
• Contribute to the platform
• Contribute to the standardisation
• Lets create projects together

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New projects
SOA - Service-oriented architecture. Projects and
technologies
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Inspired by the famous rhyme from Tolkeins Lord
of the Rings
One ring to rule them all,One ring to find
themOne ring to bring them all,And in the
darkness bind them
We can summarise the approach to service
development, composition, discovery and
deployment as follows
One way to build them all,One way to bind
themOne Store to save them all,And help the
users find them
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I would like to hear from you

• Marius.mikalsen (at) sintef (dot) no