Time: 8:30-10:00 am
Location: Mid-America Regional Council, 600 Broadway Blvd #200, Kansas City, MO 64105, USA
Admission: Free
Both of the presentations for our October meeting deal with the use of sensors to engage patients better and enhance their ability to participate in their own health promotion and status.
First we will hear from Naveen Gogumalla, the CEO of NthJEN. Naveen is a strategic business leader with 30 year of experience in the Healthcare, Telecommunications and Financial industries where his focus has been on building programs and business units. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree with a focus on Marketing and Computer Information Systems and a MBA with a focus on Strategic Ethical Leadership from the University of Central Missouri.
NthJEN expresses its company vision as: “Your Health in Your Hands” – We know what we need to do to be healthy, stay healthy and live well! Incentivizing the behavior will engage the patient at a deeper level. MEIDIDOC is a true patient engagement platform that uses Wearables and Reward Based Programs to promote healthy living. Patient behavior is tracked between visits using sensors, positive behaviors are rewarded with points and these points can be redeemed to reduce healthcare costs.
In our second presentation, we will hear from Dr. Marjorie Skubic who will discuss advances her team has made in their research and pilots in the time since she was a keynote at one of our Digital Health Innovation Forums. She is particularly focused on a current NIH grant. Dr. Skubic is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri, with a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department. She serves as the director of MU’s Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology (CERT), an interdisciplinary group focused on investigating sensing, pattern recognition and IT methods to help seniors stay functionally active and independent. Dr. Skubic’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Naval Research Lab and the U.S. Administration on Aging.