HealthXL Hack Aging

HealthXL HacksHackathon by HealthXL

July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne

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1. HealthXL Hacks

2. Hack Aging, a hackathon by HealthXL in Melbourne

WHATA short focused event where, over the course of weekend, programmers and developers combine with relevant stakeholders e.g. clinicians, care providers, patients to build prototypes to address set challenges.

A HealthXL Hack aims to bring together our network of partners, start-up companies and entrepreneurs to work on proposed challenges set in collaboration with the leading clinical provider.

WHYInnovation requires collaboration. The event brings together an exciting mix of participants, relevant subject matter experts, mentors etc. over the course of a weekend to work on solutions to real healthcare problem. The process is designed to build networks for future collaborations, rapidly ideate on potential solutions and offer opportunities to test the winning solution in cohorts of relevant patients.THE PARTICIPANTS

Experienced, like-minded people, with different backgrounds, eager to hack and collaborate AND early stage companies

THE JUDGES AND MENTORS

Global digital health thought leaders will be mentoring the teams from across the network

THE SOLUTIONS

To enable the participants to create intuitive, delightful and empathic solutions, we’ve design the briefs with a human-centred design to address end user problems.

Introducing HealthXL Hacks

1. Silo Busting: They Unite Diverse Stakeholders

The healthcare industry has been notoriously siloed, a challenge which is felt now more than ever as experts agree that system-wide collaboration is needed. Healthcare-focused hackathons have become a global phenomena bringing together highly diverse stakeholders across the world.

2. Rapid Results: They Produce Tangible Outcomes for Participants

Working in such highly cross-functional teams facilitates iterative conception and testing of ideas—and eventual development into more complete functional prototypes, all of which offer immediate benefits to innovators.

3. Create Runway: They Provide a Petri Dish for Experimentation for Sponsors

One of the biggest results we’ve seen from hackathons is the benefits they provide to the host organization’s own ability to breed a culture and mindset of innovation - from opening up their data sets, learning from failure, and understanding the potential and challenges that new technologies bring.

Hack’s can be a useful tool to build trust and understanding

Before, During & After

Before

• Relevant start-up companies identified and invited to attend

• Individuals with relevant experience register to attend

• Discussion groups formed of both start-ups, attendees, judges, mentors to create pre-event momentum

• All challenges will be set with a focus on human-centred design, this process keeps patients and end-users at the focus of design and solutions

During

• For pre-existing start-ups the weekend will be spent refining offering with help from clinicians involved in setting challenge.

• For newly formed teams, focus groups and mentors will be available to help guide the prototype solution.

• Winners selected that best address the challenge set

After

• Winning solutions will work with the HealthXL network, lead Partner and clinicians to refine an MVP for testing.

• Prototypes will be tested on cohorts of patients to understand the impact of the solution (perception testing initially).

• Working solutions will be integrated into the wider proposed solution to tackle the overall Challenge area

Day 1

• Team ice-breakers• Keynote speaker• Challenges

Announced• Networking

Day 2

• Developing solutions all day

• Focus groups - stakeholders sense check proposed solutions from teams

Day 3

• Complete prototyping of solutions

• Prepare solution pitches

• Judging & award ceremony

The Weekend Format

Start-ups• Early stage companies working on technology with the ability to address the challenges set.

Individuals/teams• Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, healthcare providers and teams of such are also invited to

ether form teams or seed start-up teams to broaden expertise.

Participants

Summary: Active collaboration based on solving real patient problems

Test partnership opportunities

• Actively work with other members of the network to define and promote innovation

Open innovation approach to solve real problems

• Bringing together a cross section of individuals and teams to actively work on real problems

Kick-start longer projects to tackle the challenge

• Using the proposed solutions and teams formed to continue their work post-hack to improve the process

Hack AgingHackathon by HealthXL

July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne

The age structure of the world’s population is shifting, with a projection for close to 20% of the population over 80 yrs by 2050.

For this hackathon we focused on some of the most important health concerns

• Dementia

• Malnutrition

• Social isolation & physical activity

What’s the problem?

Meet our older adult personas Living with dementia Affected by social

isolationAt risk of malnutrition

Anne has lived with dementia for the past 8 years. Supported by her husband Jim and community care

workers, Anne has remained living at

home.

Ted was diagnosed with

Alzheimer’s disease in 2012. As his disease

worsens he relies more and more on his wife Pippa to remember daily tasks, important dates and even

family members.

Julie lives in a rural community, where

she is delivered her meals on wheels

dinner daily. She is no longer able to go

to the shops to purchase her

groceries and family and care workers are worried about her daily calorie

intake.

Tony is a widower, living alone for the

past number of years. Tony’s

community care team, including his

dietician is concerned with

Tony’s daily calorie intake. A problem if it continues could

lead to malnutrition and complications with Tony’s health

in general.

Illias was born in Greece and came to Australia as a young

child. Having worked all his life,

Illias is finding retirement difficult, struggling to fill his

days and find a sense of purpose.

Brenda lives on her own in a retirement village. It is quite a distance from her family and Breda is finding it difficult

to build a new social circle and find activities that

interest her.

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Challenges set to help our seniors

Living with dementia Affected by social isolation

At risk of malnutrition

Design a solution that:• Connects Anne with family and care

providers.• Accompanies Anne as she moves

through her day ensuring Anne remains in a safe environment.

• Stores memories and daily tasks for Ted and enables others to learn more about his life story.

Design a solution that:• Connects Brenda with her

community to build a welcoming atmosphere where she would be comfortable to physically attend.

• Connect Brenda to a wider community where she can share conversations and interactions on her hobbies and passions

• Gets Illias more involved in his local community

• A mechanism by which Illias can connect with a wider community and utilize his professional experience.

Design a solution that:• That is capable of engaging with

the Julie’s living environment and understanding if the meals and wheels were delivered and if so eaten.

• Capturing information for carers and family members on Julie’s meals that day - if there is a handover this information is captured and passed from one to the next.

• Interacting between Tony and his dietician Helen so she can easily monitor his weight remotely and alert her to trends indicating malnutrition.

Participants

130 participants over the weekend

18 teams pitched solutions on Sunday night

More than 40% of the participants have 10+ years of experience

Judges

Annette Hicks Health Industry

Lead, IBM

Michael Dillhyon Founder,

HealthBank VP, VitalConnect

Sridhar Iyengar

Founder/Director of Misfit, Founder of AgaMatrix

Assoc. Prof. Kwang Lim

Chief Medical Officer at Northern

Health

Martin KellyCEO &

Cofounder, HealthXL

Chris Gray Managing Director,

iCareHealth

Annette Schmiede

Executive Lead, Bupa Health Foundation

The SolutionsHackathon by HealthXL

July, 10th – 12th, Melbourne

Watch a video about the hackathon

TelexHealth allows patients to confidentially and verbally share key information about their health - such as weight, blood sugar, blood pressure - via an automated telephone service.

The data is digitally recorded, analyzed and tracked on a dashboard, and can be accessed via a mobile application by the patient, their doctor, family or carer.

1st

There is currently no easy way to objectively measure whether someone is a safe driver – and as a result, licenses are often revoked even when the driver is still fit to drive. Olive is a smart dash cam for elderly drivers. Olive will detect the response time of drivers and pick up near misses. With Olive we can ensure that elderly drivers can maintain their independence for as long as possible whilst ensuring they are still safe on the roads.

Heston is a personalize meal creation and food delivery service. To learn about people’s nutritional requirements, Heston uses your biometrics, medical history and weight goals combined with individualized food preferences (including allergies), preferred meal sizes, location and budget. Powered by IBM Watson, Heston uses features including trade-off analytics and personality insights to create the ideal meal plan. The food required to prepare these meals is supplied in the form of a shopping list and can be ordered and delivered to the person’s door.  

Team OutingsA solution to address social isolation using a platform to enable social care coordination. The solution was capable of adaptive learning to the users perference and personalising suggested outings based on previous experiences.

Neighbour & other informal support

Businesses & community

Council, NGOs& government

Family & friends

Health careteams

Care 4 CarersProviding support in the moment for carers1. Stress (Event)2. The AftermathAn application that helps to turn negative emotions into positive experiences. Quick and easy steps to manage situations like aggressiveness. Offering quick wins to the unpaid carers.

“Our Town”“With age comes wisdom”

Our Town gives the wise members of the community easy access to events on in their local community. The accompanying toolkit including VR, videos of previous events and transport options providing the necessary options to assist in over coming commonly reported barriers.

help and guides to the carers, personalized therapy and care for the sufferers, all whilst gathering vital analytics to help improve the community. Focused on a tablet application so that there is portability and users feel comfortable using the application

An application to empower care givers and improve the quality of life for all those involved with the disease by providing

Pandit is a web based service that lets anybody tap into the wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom of seniors. The system matches members based on common interests, background and skills. Once matched, members of the system are able to communicate via their preferred medium (phone, sms, email, snail mail).

Opaque Multimedia and FriendsProvides an augmented reality that uses image processing and feature extraction to simulate effects of dementia.It really communicates the importance of a dementia friendly environment through experiential learning

Guardians of the galaThe Gala system takes unstructured text from a wide variety of clinical sources and categorizes it using Watson Cognitive Computing into the main areas they saw as been important to dementia decision-making: Medical, Nutrition, Sleep, Environment, Activity, Behaviors, Family, Social and Mood.

Full Story is an information storage system which chronicles personal, clinical and behavioral information on an elderly person in order to allow care and medical facilities to provide a more personalized and complete care experience. The personal information system is first set up by the elderly person or a carer who knows them well. This solution allows for easy expansion to automatic monitoring devices.

Team Aegis developed a platform that aims to close the time between carers seeking information and finding actually finding the information they are looking for. This platform also has the capability to connect care givers and family to various sources of information

Connect2Fit a team combined of students from RMIT and an exercise physiologist addressed the problem of social isolation and physical inactivity in older adults. They created a beautiful avatar platform through which the instructor of the class can interact with the participants of the class. It provided functionality where by the seniors could under take the class in their homes and interact with each other via text and chat.

Carers of people with dementia consistently express that managing agitated behaviors of people with dementia is the most challenging aspect of dementia care. The Ambient room aims to improve this experience by monitoring the stress levels of a person with dementia by capturing heart rate variability data and automatically modulating the environment to make it more calming. This closed loop sensor system is modular can be used by activating any combination of lighting, music/sounds, digital displays and aromatherapy.

Quanticare: The Footprints Walking FrameThe Footprints walking frame is a gait aid with a integrated sensor system which measures how well an elderly person walks to prevent falls. Health care professionals will be empowered to deliver interventions based on the deterioration of gait as well as measure the effectiveness of those interventions. The data can also be used to engage the elderly person in self-management of their mobility challenges by giving them feedback about walking quality and assistance in setting and tracking mobility goals.

Solution to be used on the TV at home. Interactive calendar of daily activities. Command centre where families can log in through Facebook to organised their activities with the elderly and at the same time get input to the interactive calendar. Also a version on iPad, they will be able to do some planning. Subscription model, partnership with a Telco.

La Trobe University Team This team developed a holistic care model

to tackle dementia and social isolation. The solution can be applied through different devices but in this case it was demonstrated through the use of a robot. In a wide sense they look to find the point of multi-device convergence and real-time user-centered interaction.

A mobile based application - data collection point. Generate strategies to work out the problem faced at that time by the carer. It is fed by different users and the solutions are rated by other users. It is envisioned that it could be used for people that are not trained in aged. Funding based on organisations looking for data.

With Thanks to Sponsors and Collaborators

Contact:

Brian Flatley,Lead Research Analyst at HealthXLbrianflatley@healthxl.org