The 2nd COMFORTage Community Forum webinar – TA1
The second COMFORTage Community Forum webinar dedicated to Service Delivery Models for affected patients and their carers
Assessing Interventions supported by Digital Health Technologies
- Understanding the technologies which have the potential to address the needs and the conditions to be met for their actual use.
- Analysing the dementia related m-health market and its adequacy to the needs and possible business models.
This series of webinars explores how people living with dementia are currently supported and what short-term or medium-term opportunities - including the use of digital technologies - can be seized to improve the well-being of both themselves and their carers.
In the EU, dementia prevalence in people over 60 increased from 5.9 million in 2000 to about 9.1 million in 2018. However, behind the words “dementia” and “frailty”, are very different clinical conditions. Furthermore, the personal and social environments play critical roles. Every person with dementia is unique and would thus require a personalised approach to his or her needs. Starting with the patients, we will explore the solutions proposed and viewpoints of all the main actors who can make a difference: social and healthcare professionals, industry, policymakers, and researchers.
In this webinar we want to consider digital health technologies from different angles:
- Their objective: Assessment, prevention (addressing physical, cognitive, nutritional aspects), monitoring, motivation, and coaching or quality of life.
- Their target users: Consideration of the demographics, the type of impairment, and the stage of the disease.
- Their level of maturity: Certification, market availability, and affordability
- The type of technology used such as apps, sensors, virtual reality, serious games or robots of different types integrating one or several objectives assistive, recreational, sensory, social, etc..) or
What's in it for you
By attending the webinar you will:
- acquire a global understanding of the current state of play of digital health technologies.
- learn how these tools can contribute to new services delivery models which can be provided by an extended number of actors.
- learn what are the business models which have been successful and how digital intervention tools innovators can play a key role in advancing research
Speakers:
- Luc Nicolas, EHTEL, Belgium: Introduction to the topic (overview of tools and technologies) and speakers
- Sergi VALERO, ACE - Barcelona, Spain: Choosing and testing tools, the ACE experience
- Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis, iSprint, Greece: Heathentia - a virtual companion, an integrator and a tool to connect the patient with clinical research
- Marco Pirini, Khymea, Italy: What are the main products and tools which have found their way to the market ?
Panellists:
- Manolis RIGAS, AUth, Cyprus: The Training and Education Marketplace - facilitating access to validated tools
- Stelios Pantelopoulos, Maggioli, Greece: Reflecting in particular on the actual use of serious cognitive games
- Raquel Losada, INTRAS, Spain: reflecting in particular on how to transfer digital cognitive training to patient’s daily life
The webinar welcomes an interactive discussion: join us to ask your questions and have your say.
