Affiliations: | |
Project Leader: | Faysal Altaher fta130030@tamu.edu Industrial Engineering |
Faculty Mentor: | Michelle Alvarado, Ph.D. |
Meeting Times:
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Summer 2016 (complete) |
Team Size:
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3 (Team Full) |
Open Spots: | 0 |
Special Opportunities:
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This project will help students utilize their academic knowledge in real world problems that will have a huge impact. |
Team Needs:
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Student interest in healthcare and specifically in understanding chronic disease management is highly desired. Interest in health device technology is also preferable. |
Description:
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This project is in the early phase of an ongoing effort to design and develop an integrated smart remote health system for chronic disease management. Chronic diseases are those that require long-term management such as diabetes, sleep apnea, and asthma. This system will remotely monitor patient health and activity, continually update assessments of patient compliance and risk, select and trigger interventions based on health risk assessment, track the implementation and effectiveness of interventions on patient outcomes, and continuously learn and improve based on experience. We want a team of undergraduate student to identify indicators for each chronic disease (e.g. blood glucose levels for diabetes), to catalog which indicators can be collected and monitored using remote device technology, and to identify specific devices with open-access data than can be implemented in the smart remote health system. |