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Networking roadshowfor the ideas generation

‘Age Friendly Sector’Facilitated by Sean McNulty, DolmenInnovation & Design Consultancy

June 14th 6.30pm –

9.30pm 

What Happened

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Guest Speakers

Presentations:

Gerard Butler, Enterprise IrelandAmbient living – growing business opportunity

Petra Wilson, Cisco SystemsConnecting Health and Care

Andrew McFarlane, Programme LeaderCASALA Project and its opportunities

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Guest Speakers

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1. Ideas:Idea gatheringGroup Ideas

2. Develop Opportunities:Map OpportunitiesSelect OpportunitiesShare Opportunities

3. Business Feasibility: Develop the Business potentialRate your business feasibility!

Ideagen process

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Idea Gathering

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Idea Gathering

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Ideas!

• Social Networking of Sensor Data• Monitoring:• Water levels in Bath, Waste water monitoring• Blood pressure• Bathroom & Electricity usage per day• Alzheimer Patient, Diabetic patients • Mobility, Metres travelled per day, Outdoor time Time

alone or with friends• Location• Pet tracking• Food Stock levels• Sensors for invigilation and education• Local environmental control for diverse horticulture• Preventative measures – smoke/ radon detection, Co2

emissions, dehydration, Ecoli-monitoring, heat/cooling

Telehealth & New Uses for Sensors

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Ideas!

• Electronic shared care plan• Social day care combined with homecare• Minimise social isolation• Virtual care giver, TV channel interactive, Local web

based information calendars• Personalised voice prompts • Communities of interest• Using existing structures like parish etc. - Provide

information at events e.g. mass/bingo• Co-ordinated care services (across all platforms)• Accessibility or inclusion, pet sharing• Learning young, sharing experiences for education• Remain active and participating• Telephone prompts text for events• TV notice board for elderly

Multi-level Social Networks

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Ideas!

• No tech – passive • Coping with speed of change• Laugher and fun• Community – mixed• Combined child/old spaces – interact with children• Mutual respect generation • Family structure - Family near? What schools?• Contact, Cheap calls after 6pm, Video calls – skype• Alarm call if need help• Ownership of property that is shared• Fridge product monitoring, Remote earphones for tv

watching, ambience – light/scent• Getting around – transport• Goal is to stay out of hospital • Dying with dignity

Environments for the elderly

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Ideas!

• Analysis and intervention• Clinical measures• Prevention• Connected• Stay independent• Telephone• Genetic data• Interoperability• Tidal wave of data• Monitoring watch

Managing data- personal and health

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Ideas!

• Social context – remove isolation• Social network services• Family connect is good• Attitudes – old people using tech• Computer training older people• Kids – older folk• Services – phones• Knowledge and information• Quality health info, peer market• Access services via tech• Touch screens, Voice recognition• Common familiar interfaces• Wii for older people• Graphical definitions• Costs balanced with needs

Overcoming barriers to use of technology

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Ideas!

• Memory prompts• Cyber mate• Automatic personalised surround room settings

AAL – Ambient Assisted Living

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Idea Grouping

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Idea Grouping

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Opportunity Mapping

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Opportunity Mapping

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Opportunity Mapping

Give your   opportunity a 

‘nifty’

name!

Define the  customer

What is the  concept? 

What are the  benefits?

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Title: Recover‐eye

Concept:Recovery monitor –

recovering from the 

luxury of your own helpProactive monitoring 

through real‐time dataEase of mind through 

visibilityPatient in control 

Benefits:Faster recoveryReduced risk of infectionReminders that will 

ensure patientAvoiding white‐coat 

syndromeBalance of lifestyleAbility to involve all –

carers, community

Customers:OAPsPatients who can be 

treated at homeFamiliesCarersOther medical 

professionalsCommunities

Opportunities!

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Title: Russian DollsOpportuni

ties!

Concept:Multiplatform 

coordinated 

communication, tailored 

specifically to the needs 

of the individual

Benefits:One stop shopFamiliar interfacecostValue – social 

intervention, cost 

effective

Customers:Older peopleFamiliesCarers – formal, informalPrimary care providersCommunity care 

providers

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Title: Mate for LifeOpportuni

ties!

Concept:A service which grows with needsSim card – data capture, RFID scanAddresses the problems of ‘compliance’, ‘meds’ and ‘trust’

Benefits:‘Attractive’, ‘Cross 

generation’‘Healthy eating –

behaviourReduced health care 

costs

Customers:All generationsConsumer productHeavily subsidised by 

people/companies who 

need data

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Title: CocoonOpportuni

ties!

Concept:Cocoon NetworkConnects communities with a common interestSocial hobbies and interestEntertainmentFamily connected/care connectLocal services

Benefits:Easy accessCognitive stimulationRemover isolationSharingWorth and purposeBulletin board

Customers:People (55+)User interestCouponsPromotions –

Products/SectorsAdvertisement (limited)Community and focus

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Opportunity Sharing

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Q&A Session

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Issue 1: Connected Health – a fragmented market

Answers:

• To do with standards ‐

there isn’t an awareness to have standards. 

• There is a push pull situation. • Ask a doctor to describe a hospital – they’ll say  how many beds it 

has inside; “how many people I can get in, not how many people I 

can help out there”.

• Connected health will most likely be  a private market, at least

in the 

short term

• Difficult to get people to talk to each other –

standards are so wide

Q&A Session

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Issue 2: Who’s going to pay for health technology assessments?

Answers:

• Primary and secondary markets coming together but flow of data 

must be managed (there are standards that are being driven)

• A way to get in – through pharmaceutical funding.

• To do with where is the value for money and who needs the 

services? We need a deeper look into what’s going on out there –

political will and strength to do it

Q&A Session

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Issue 3: Socialised Medicine 

The state has taken over ‐

why don’t they give that back to where it 

belongs? People want to keep older people healthier for longer in 

their own environments

Answers:

• A financial decision needs to be made at a point in time, and this 

must be balanced against a bigger financial decision. There is a

cost 

to all of this – people have to take that into account

Q&A Session

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Issue 4: EI and HSE Spending 

Lots of money has been invested in connected health, telehealth. With 

the HSE spending millions in this area, can’t EI encourage the HSE to 

spend money differently to allow connected health be a test bed in 

Ireland?

Answers:

• There is huge resistance – the “not invented here”

problem

• Need to try to get government bodies in general to spend money. 

There are lots of politics but things are beginning to move

• Could learn from other countries e.g. Germany – law that doctors 

must submit invoices electronically, otherwise they don’t get paid. 

These hard measures worked.

Q&A Session