Shaping the Future of Digitally Enabled Health and Care

Abstract

People generally need more support as they grow older to maintain healthy and active lifestyles. Older people living with chronic conditions are particularly dependent on healthcare services. Yet, in an increasingly digital society, there is a danger that efforts to drive innovations in eHealth will neglect the needs of those who depend on healthcare the most—our ageing population. The SHAPES (Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems) Innovation Action aims to create an open European digital platform that facilitates the provision of meaningful, holistic support to older people living independently. A pan-European pilot campaign will evaluate a catalogue of digital solutions hosted on the platform that have been specifically adapted for older people. ‘Medicines control and optimisation’ is one of seven themes being explored in the campaign and will investigate the impact of digital solutions that aim to optimise medicines use by way of fostering effective self-management, while facilitating timely intervention by clinicians based on remote monitoring and individualised risk assessments powered by artificial intelligence. If successful, the SHAPES Innovation Action will lead to a greater sense of self-sufficiency and empowerment in people living with chronic conditions as they grow older.

How do nurses work in chronic management in the age of artificial intelligence? development and future prospects

“…SHAPES aims to develop an open European health digital platform that advocates comprehensive and meaningful support for independently living elderly individuals, simultaneously monitoring data of elderly individuals with chronic illnesses and predicting disease deterioration. 16 …”

Challenges of deploying assistive robots in real-life scenarios: an industrial perspective

“…• Integration of a 4-mic Microphone Array, the ReSpeaker Mic Array v2.0 19 , with capabilities for Voice Activity Detection, de-reverberation, and echo cancellation [25]; • Easy integration of multiple speech recognition (ASR) systems, both online (Google and ALANA in SPRING [19], Adilib recognizer from VICOM on SHAPES [14]), and offline (Vosk 20 ); • Acapela text-to-speech in different languages 21 ;…”

“…When developing assistive robotics solutions, adopting approaches involving end-users through the design and development process, such as User Centric Design (UCD), Participatory Design (PD), or Research Through Design (RtD), are considered of great importance during the different stages to favor user benefit and in turn, impact on user acceptability [21], [22].…”