Patients with chronic illness require frequent and avoidable hospital visits. This project aims to develop a new class of battery-less, low-cost, disposable, wireless electronic patch sensors to monitor a variety of physiological signals and a custom smartphone app to monitor their health status and to elect to share their anonymized events-of-interest with their community towards a smart and connected community (S&CC). This will empower users, permit the community stakeholders to assess population health status, reduce the need for frequent hospital visits, and help identify potential individual and community actions to achieve improvement in health status. The project also involves the training of undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary research activities on emerging technologies, and is expected to impact public and private sector efforts to improve healthcare.
Project Personnel and partners: PI: Dr. Bashir Morshed, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Memphis Co-PI: Dr. Brook Harmon, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Memphis Consultant: Dr. M. Rahman, Baptist Minor Medical Center, Memphis, TN Collaborator: Memphis District of the United Methodist Church (UMC)
Links: SCC Memphis Web Portal: http://sscmemphis.com/index.php Github (public access of app codes and sensor designs): https://github.com/esarplab NSF website related to this fund: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637250 CPS-VO project portal: http://cps-vo.org/node/29309 Youtube channel of this project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO1huaFZzTzNaBK5Pbde1GDeGRdCXOhUm
Project Updates: Jul. 2017: The project has been presented by Drs. Harmon and Morshed to a Methodist Men's group to inform the community about the research and seek interest in recruitment to the Pilot Study. Jul. 2017: IRB has been approved for the Pilot Study recruitment. The recruitment flyer can now be publicly distributed. Jul. 2017: The SCC web-server with mock data has been deployed (Click http://sscmemphis.com/index.php and use Guest Login) For more updates, visit: http://www.memphis.edu/esarp/nsf_scc/index.php
EAGER: Events of Interest (EoI) Capture Using Novel Body-worn Fully-passive Wireless Sensors for S&CC