From the lab to the consumer - a practical overview of mHealth deployments by Shimmer Research's Kieran Daly

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From the lab to the consumer - a practical
overview of mHealth deployments
11th February – Science Gallery
Shimmer Overview Shimmer platform overview
• Founded in 2008
• Clients in over 60 countries
• Over 150 peer reviewed papers published on/using
Shimmers
• HQ in Dublin, R&D Centre in Boston
• Strong engineering team with expertise in hardware
development, embedded programming, biomechanics,
physics and clinical grade application development
• Consistent YOY revenue growth
• Revenue split 70/30 between Enterprise business and R&D
• Enterprise products on the market – Telefonica, Statsports,
Sensum – three more with FDA
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Shimmer Sensing capabilities Shimmer User Profile
• Research and Academic • Partners
Community – Healthcare
– Biomechanics – Sports & Fitness
– Bionics – Marine
– Computer Science – Telecoms
– Aging in place – Networking
– Remote patient monitoring – Consumer Electronics
– Activities of daily living – Oil & Gas
– Falls & Gait – Defence
– Physiotherapy & rehab
– Social wellness
– List is varied and evolving
Telefonica – Tele Rehabilitation Statsports – Player Monitoring
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BioZen – US Dept of Defence Discovery Channel – Superhuman Showdown
More patient care, not less
7% 19%
21% Patient Care
Med Admin
Documentation
18% Care Coordination
Assesment/vitals
35%
US figures for nursing staff, <20% of day is spent on patient care
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Drivers of change This will be AWESOME!
• Usual macro areas – growing population, demographic
shifts et al..
• Skilled staff shortages
• Must move away from “mainframe” healthcare to more
distributed model
• Focus on health care as opposed to sick care –
prevention is key
• Quick response word association
– Q Healthcare
– A Doctor, Nurse, hospital
This is already here Engaged Study – NorthWestern
• Randomised control trial,
N=96
• Feasibility and efficacy of
a smartphone-supported
weight loss program
• Standard, Tech
supported and Self
directed
• Results being written up
GSMA MHealth Tracker – 903 deployments worldwide – only 3 listed in Ireland!!
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Example Clear MD
Why don’t we see more?
• Clinicians – information overload, liability,
workflow
• Payers – scaled evidence based deployments,
resistance to pricing models
• Patients – who really wants to be monitored?
• Cost savings – is someone losing?
• Political will given election cycles?
• Are the Media playing a role in setting
expectations?
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• The $10 million global • The $2.25 million global
competition to put personalized competition to advance essential
• The leading organization solving the world’s Grand Challenges by healthcare in the palm of your sensing technologies
creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize hands
competitions for the benefit of humanity. • Comprised of two Challenges to
• Offers the first reliable and develop a broad range of sensing
• Active prizes include: understandable diagnosis of 15 and sensor technologies that
common health conditions plus support the mobile health
– $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE real-time monitoring of 5 key revolution
– $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts vital signs.
– $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE • 115 pre-registered teams to date
• 290 pre-registered teams to date
– $2.25 million Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE • Registration for Challenge #1
• Registration closes Sept. 2013 closes April 2013
Headphones or medical device?
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