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Receives NIH Grant for digital Aframe Phase II funding of telemedicine

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Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) 29 March 2012

Aframe Digital today announced that the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the company was awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The grant of over $ 1 million for a two-year study to evaluate the use of new mobile technologies to healthcare and remote monitoring to improve the wellbeing of older people.

The project will train 90

adults 65 years and older (including 60 patients with congestive heart failure), for six months. Research is on the usability of the system and for older people and their ability to easily monitor the health status, the likelihood of unforeseen medical events that focus represented a large proportion of healthcare costs in the U.S. reduced. States.

The purpose of remote control solutions for the quality of life and independence to improve the monitoring at the people? Amy says Papadopoulos, DSC, Principal Investigator for the project and a senior researcher at the Digital Aframe. ? We believe that patients and their relatives can be a more comprehensive overview of their welfare on a regular basis leading to fewer medical emergencies and complications, while improving their quality of life, would also increase the cost of health care.?

Aframe

digital? s approved by the FDA MobileCareTM monitoring system uses sensors embedded in monitors discreet, unobtrusive wrist, bring to the activity, location, and data on the impacts (including impacts related to falls) in real time, continuous remote monitoring. The system transmits data via wireless LAN on secure servers to process and display data on the Web accessible devices. The doctors have easy access to the web access to dashboards and alerts surf configurable settings, to improve production of exception-based reports and automatic alerts to situation awareness and mobility of nurses.

Mobile Care System Monitor performs a continuous development of a sensor-based data from baselines with personalized alerts on significant deviations from baselines? Christine Tsien Silvers says MD, PhD, of the company? Chief Medical Officer. He adds:? The intention is to combine existing capabilities with intelligent alerting based learning machine predictive analysis of sensor data.

at an earlier stage of the NIH SBIR study Aframe Digital has with Neil Charness, PhD, professor of psychology at Florida State University and an expert in the study of human factors that affect the operation worked by technical systems. The results of the Phase I study, the feasibility of the adults showed 65 years, tracking monitor with Mobile Care System, including the wrist monitor and mobile devices from other manufacturers to collect integrated blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, weight and Self-assessment of survey data.

During Phase II of the project will work with digital Aframe Dr. Charness. The company is Ernest Brown, MD, medical director of the health of the occupants, an organization that home care provides to the underserved population works in Washington, DC The company is (working CCR) with Commonwealth Care of Roanoke operates the rehab centers throughout the state of Virginia. CCR will use the system to monitor patients from its facilities in an effort to reduce hospital readmissions discharged.

About

Aframe Digital, Inc. (Reston, VA).

Aframe Digital is a technology company specializing in research-based solutions, innovative mobile wireless health and wellness. Its commercial MobileCare Monitor? System provides real-time continuous monitoring of health and safety for older people, the conditions for the treatment of chronic and other people in danger. Aframe digital? S advanced FDA-approved, secure and HIPAA-compliant solution detects falls and proactive issues, exceptions to status reports and alerts to help you on customized profiles of well-being physicians to react quickly and prevent the crisis based. The system is currently installed in senior living, hospital and individual settings of origin. Since 2005, the Digital Aframe by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the NIH has supported and continues to work closely with physicians in all major military treatment facilities.

This project is supported by award number R44 AG29196-02 from the National Institute on Aging. The content is solely the responsibility of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Institute on Aging, or the National Institutes of Health.

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http://www.AFrameDigital.com.

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