KnL We have just received a grant of 5 million kroner for the continuation of Future Patient – telerehabilitation of cardiac patients. We will work on preparing an implementation of the project, and adapt the Hjerteportalen.dk to rehabilitation of atrial fibrillation patients.
We are looking forward to the next steps in the process, and would like to thank the Aage og Johanne Louis Hansens Foundation for the support.
A new report on “Analysis and mapping of welfare technology research”, prepared by the Ministry of Education and Research, shows that Aalborg University (AAU) is the most active research environment in Denmark regarding welfare technology.
Future Patient for heart patients will be presented at EHiN 2018 in Oslo, Norway, on November 14:
E-rehabilitation: Currents status, benefits and challenges, “Pros and cons on telerehabilitation of patient with heart failure” by professor Birthe Dinesen
And on November 15 at Innovasjonskonferensen 2018 i Værnes:
“Future patient” – Telerehabilitering av hjertepasienter ved bruk av ny egenoppfølgingsteknologi by professor Birthe Dinesen
– see Program (PDF).
21 August at 21:55 Birthe Dinesen features in Sundhedsmagasinet on the national Danish TV channel DR1.
The program, “Is being your own doctor healthy for you?”, is about smartwatches and how you can track, e.g., your heart rate, sleep and activity, and whether this is healthy for you.
Birthe Dinesen will present research on the use and testing of smartwatches.
The Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) is having the 2nd PhD course at UC Davis and UC Berkeley this week in California.
The PhD course is called “Research Methods in Personalized Health Informatics”.
The program focus on the current and next generation of technologies, research design methodologies, health communities and models of digital health care, taught by interdisciplinary faculty from policy to engineering.
There are faculty and PhD students from UC Davis, Betty Irene Moore Nursing School, UC Berkeley, Aalborg University, Southern Danish University, CIMT Odense University Hospital, Danish Technical University and Aalborg University Hospital. In 2019 the TTRN PhD course take place at CIMT, Odense University Hospital in Denmark.