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Shimmer Platform

Shimmer is a wireless sensor platform that allows the user to record and transmit a wide range of physiological and kinematic sensor data.

Shimmer enables interaction with your environment by providing a wireless sensing solution that is small, lightweight, and has low power consumption, which can easily integrate and interact with existing technologies.

Shimmer Research Timeline

Present

Summary

Expansion

Shimmer – User profile

• Research and Academic Community

– Biomechanics

– Computer Science

– Aging in place

– Remote patient monitoring

– Activities of daily living

– Falls & Gait

– Physiotherapy & rehab

– Social wellness

– List is varied and evolving

• Partners

– Healthcare

– Sports & Fitness

– Marine

– Telecoms

– Networking

– Consumer Electronics

– Oil & Gas

– Defence

The Continuum of Care

(Source: Intel Digital Health)

More patient care, not less

Drivers of change

• Huge cost pressures on health systems worldwide coupled with increased demand

• Percentage of GDP spend is unsustainable • 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

Where are we today?

• It’s not a technology problem – what's the app?• Challenges around workflow and workload• Mindset shift in how healthcare is delivered • Patient as consumer• Small iterative deployments will succeed over big system

wide change• Lots happening in Ireland – several Irish companies leading

the charge • Change is coming…

Collaborative Research

• Parkinson's drug regime optimisation with Dr. Paolo Bonato at Partners Healthcare/Harvard Medical

• Knee joint prehab to minimise impact of lengthy waiting lists with Dr Peter Choong at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and University of Wollongong

• Automated Falls Risk Assessment with Intel/Care Innovations in Ireland / US

• COPD Activity classification with Dr Seamas Donnelly at St. Vincent's Dublin

Rehabitic – Tele-Rehabilitation

Biosensics – Activity Classification

Insight Diagnostics – Wireless EMG

The future is not what it used to be..

“That it will ever come into general use, notwithstanding its value, is extremely doubtful because its beneficial application requires much time and gives a good bit of trouble, both to the patient and to the practitioner because its hue and character are foreign and opposed to all our habits and associations”

The London Times 1834

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