DISCRETE - Supporting incontinence management in nursing homes through ambient monitoring and actionable data
From 01-10-2018 to 30-09-2020
Description
DISCRETE aspires to support incontinence management in nursing homes. A multi-sensor approach will be developed using ambient parameters to unmask urinary and faecal incontinence episodes. DISCRETE will unlock the data of non-obtrusive sensors in the room via a smart bed and by leveraging the nurse call system. DISCRETE aims to provide an IoT ready infrastructure with open interfaces by designing a connectivity and interfacing middleware focusing on secure plug’n play deployment enabling new sensors to be seamlessly coupled. Furthermore, DISCRETE will augment this sensor data with available data from the nurse call system and the care file via intelligent algorithms, profiling and recommender techniques to create actionable data. This actionable data will be coupled back to the care team by providing smart alerts, making registrations in the care file, recommending specific care actions and creating dynamic dashboards. Insights will be further translated into resident incontinence profiles to help optimize care plans. The ultimate goal of DISCRETE is to innovate in care management in order to improve quality of care for residents, reduce the workload for caregivers, and optimize the cost efficiency for nursing homes.
Team
- Bart Vanrumste, Promoter
- Pieter Crombez, Proposal Manager (External)
- Steven Vandeput, Team member
Financing
Funding: imec - imec
Program/Grant Type: imec ICON - imec-ICON
Events
2/09/2024:
PhD defense - Martijn Oldenhof
Machine Learning for Advanced Chemical Analysis and Structure Recognition in Drug Discovery
3/09/2024:
Meet the Jury Igor Tetko on Advanced Machine Learning in Drug Discovery
12/09/2024:
Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA for sensitive cancer detection in low-coverage and low-sample settings
Seminar by Antoine Passemiers
News
STADIUS Alumni Herman Verrelst – new CEO of Biocartis
08 June 2017
Herman Verrelst, the founder of KU Leuven spin-off Cartagenia, who has been working in Silicon Valley, US for the last few years will be returning to Belgium to follow the steps of Rudi Pauwels as CEO of the Belgian diagnostic company, Biocartis.
Supporting healthcare policymaking via machine learning – batteries included!
29 May 2017
STADIUS takes the lead in the data analytics efforts in an ambitious European Project MIDAS.
Marc Claesen gives an interview about his PhD for the magazine of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences "Geniaal"
10 February 2017
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Joos Vandewalle is nieuwe voorzitter KVAB
09 October 2016
Op 5 oktober 2016 heeft de Algemene Vergadering van de Academie KVAB Joos Vandewalle verkozen tot voorzitter van de KVAB.