Personalized eHealth Technology Symposium

eHealth experience 
Including demo's & guided tours ehealth House

In Council of Coaches, multiple virtual coaches form a personal council that supports the user in their health and well-being. Individual coaches have their own area of expertise, personality, and style of coaching.

The happy eating dinning table registers how much someone eats and how quickly. This is done by sensors in the tabletop that measure the weight of the plate with food or glass with drink. Eating can be a problem for residents of nursing homes. You can stimulate food by showing certain colors or images.

Introudction Personalized eHealth Technology
Prof.dr.ir.Hermie Hermens

Biological (e.g. genetic pre-disposition), behavioral (e.g. lifestyles) and environmental (e.g. physical and social context) factors influence the surge and progression of chronic diseases. eHealth also allows to target this challenge of diversity, for example, by providing personalized solutions adaptable to each user, and also to changes over time. Every individual, dealing with any specific condition presents a distinctly unique case, highlighting the need for Personalized eHealth Technology.

Malnutrition and loneliness in elderly  
Dr.ir. Femke Nijboer

Malnutrition and loneliness often occur in the elderly. These factors are related to lower quality of life, longer and more frequent hospital stays and more complex care. What wishes and concerns do elderly have about this? How can we develop happy eating interventions and promote social inclusion of elderly? We will present recently started initiatives to tackle these challenges.

Pioneers in Healthcare: Wearable breathing trainer  
Prof.dr.ir Geke Ludden 

The Pioneers in Health Care (PIHC) Innovation Fund (a joint fund by UT, MST, ZGT, Deventer Ziekenhuis, Saxion and Menzis) aims at faster introduction of innovative technology in clinical practice by bottom-up collaboration between the world of new technology and medical practice. On December 11, we received a voucher of 70.000 euro from this fund for the further development of a Wearable Breathing Trainer for children with respiratory problems. In this presentation, the team will present the latest developments and a new prototype of the Wearable Breathing Trainer.

Rehalbilitation & eHealth
Dr.ir. Monique Tabak

In this session we will take you on a short tour through this field, covering early innovations for rehabilitation using virtual reality, research into using monitoring data to improve and personalize the pre and post rehabilitation for surgery and the application of eHealth technology in daily practice that shows the benefits from patient, professional and costs perspective. Some of the technologies can be tried during the lunch break.

Ehealth in motion
Have you been active enough today? A surprising end of a day full of eHealth inspiration: Get in motion! Sensors wil register your activity. How fun is this?

Sensory Interactive Table (SIT)
Juliet Haarman PhD en Roelof de Vries post docs at the University of Twente

The research around Happy Eating aims at finding solutions to create a happy eating experience for people by a design-driven approach. By enriching eating experiences and make it more pleasant people should able to make healthy and personalized choices in food and drinks.

Happy Eating! A healthy ever after for the young ones
Janet van den Boer, PhD

As a postdoc within the personalized eHealth programme of the University of Twente I am contributing to technical solutions to the nutrition field. I, for example, am involved in the Council of Coaches-project. Before coming to Enschede I studied Nutrition&Health at Wageningen University and did my PhD at the Division of Human Nutrition of Wageningen University. During my PhD I investigated how we can reduce eating rate and thereby make it easier for people to eat less. I believe it is very important that people can make informed choices regarding their health and that they receive support to act upon these choices. It is my passion to make healthy choices easier and more enjoyable.

Two Aspects of the Eating Body
Bas de Boer PhD

When we are eating we usually do not pay attention to the involvement of our bodies. For example, we do not experience the bodily movements required to move food from my plate into my mouth, and neither do we explicitly thematise how our digestive system processes what we are eating. In this short presentation, I show how technologies can be used to establish a relationship between the lived activity of eating and the body's involvement in it, and potentially give rise to new eating experiences.

Developing the Twente ecosystem on eHealth
Rob Nijhuis - Technology and Zorgacademie (TZA)

The Technology & Care Academy (TZA) offers an inspiring state-of-the-art environment. In this environment, students and professionals can become acquainted with developments aimed at maintaining independence and self-reliance in the home situation. The founders of the TZA are: ROC van Twente, Livio, Loohuis Installation technology, Loohuis Communication & Security, Roessingh Research & Development and the Municipality of Enschede.

Developing the Twente ecosystem on eHealth
Ina Flierman - Programme coordinator Innovation at Roessingh Center for rehabilitation

Developing the Twente ecosystem on eHealth
Jan-Willem van 't Klooster - Managing director BMS LAB at University of Twente 

Developing the Twente ecosystem on eHealth
Mathilde Hermans - Technical physician: Research & Education at University of Twente

Wearable breathing trainer (PIHC collaboration)
Hellen van Rees - Researcher at Research Group Smart Functional Materials at Saxion

Wearable breathing trainer (PIHC collaboration)
Lara Siering MSc - Research Assistant at the University of Twente

Dysfunctional breathing in children
Pascal Keijzer, MSc

Dysfunctional breathing is a fairly common but often unrecognised phenomenon that causes respiratory symptoms. It involves inefficient upper chest movement, frequent sighing and an increase in residual volume. In our lab we are capable of distinguishing between different origins of respiratory symptoms, including dysfunctional breathing. The exercise challenge test involved in correctly diagnosing the origin of these symptoms however is expensive and time consuming. They require the presence of a paediatrician, sports physician , a climate controlled room and exercise equipment. In the current wearable breathing trainer project we aim to develop a measurement tool that directly provides feedback to the patient, capable of aiding the patient outside of the hospital setting.

eHealth monitoring for improving the peri-operative trajectory for surgery
Marjolein Haveman, MSc.

Telemonitoring could provide for better insight in the perioperative trajectory of patients undergoing (major) surgery and facilitate migration of healthcare towards home. In this presentation, I will discuss the potential, current status and challenges in peri-operative telemonitoring from a large academic hospital perspective.

How using eHealth technology can benefit care of children with asthma in daily practice

Dr. Boony Thio; paediatrician at Medisch Spectrum Twente and OCON, and dean of medical school Twente