NUCoach模块化平台由AlyxHealth授权-新东方前途出国

　　Professor Holly Jimison’s NUCoach Modular Platform Licensed by AlyxHealth 

　　Holly Jimison教授的NUCoach模块化平台由AlyxHealth授权

　　February 26, 2020

　　2020年2月26日

　　By Tracy Miller Geary

　　特蕾西·米勒·盖里

　　According to data from World Population Prospects, by the year 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65, and the number of persons aged 80 years or over is projected to triple — from 143 million in 2019 to 426 million in 2050.

　　根据《世界人口展望》的数据，到2050年，全世界将有六分之一的人超过65岁，预计80岁或80岁以上的人口将增加两倍——从2019年的1.43亿增至2050年的4.26亿。

　　“Most healthcare money goes to chronic conditions and aging,” Holly Jimison points out. She cites findings by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that approximately 75% of total health care spending is associated with chronic illness. Jimison, a Professor of Practice in both the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences, also directs the Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care, an interdisciplinary research group based at Khoury and Bouvé that draws in collaborators from other universities and industry.

　　霍利·吉米森指出：“大多数医疗费用都用于慢性病和老龄化。”。她引用了美国疾病控制和预防中心的调查结果，即大约75%的医疗支出与慢性病有关。Jimison是霍利计算机科学学院和布韦健康科学学院的实践教授，他还领导了主动护理技术联盟，这是一个跨学科的研究小组，总部设在霍利和布韦，吸收了其他大学和行业的合作者。

　　Jimison and her team have built NUCoach, a modular health coaching and research platform supported by mobile health technologies, and created a company, Novowell, to develop it. NUCoach allows researchers to gather vast amounts of participant data in real-world contexts in near real time. This information can be used to learn more about each participant’s behavior and provide just-in-time feedback and motivation for achieving health goals. This framework helps researchers propose or design new healthcare interventions.

　　Jimison和她的团队已经建立了NUCoach，一个由移动健康技术支持的模块化健康教练和研究平台，并创建了Novowell公司来开发它。NUCoach允许研究人员在接近实时的真实环境中收集大量参与者数据。这些信息可用于了解每个参与者的更多行为，并为实现健康目标提供及时的反馈和动力。这个框架帮助研究人员提出或设计新的医疗干预措施。

　　Working with AlyxHealth — a local startup with a mission to improve access to healthcare and to empower nurses and clinicians with approaches to care delivery that are more proactive, timely, and scalable — Northeastern has arranged an exclusive license of NUCoach for commercialization. “A mentor in the program, Tim Simard, liked the idea of the health coaching platform so much that he decided to license it and absorb our start-up Novowell into his start-up,” Jimison explains.

　　与AlyxHealth合作——这是一家本地初创企业，其使命是改善医疗服务，并赋予护士和临床医生更主动、更及时和更可扩展的医疗服务方式——东北安排了NUCoach的独 家商业化许可。Jimison解释说：“该项目的导师Tim Simard非常喜欢健康教练平台的理念，因此他决定授权该平台，并将我们的初创企业Novowell吸收到他的初创企业中。”。

　　She predicts that the commercialized version of NUCoach will launch in March 2020.

　　她预测，商业化版本的NUCoach将于2020年3月推出。

　　A one-bedroom apartment that assesses health behaviors?

　　评估健康行为的一居室公寓？

　　Jimison’s design of NUCoach grew out of her work in the NUHome Lab, a 600-square-foot enclosed space approximating a one-bedroom apartment that is actually a behavioral assessment and intervention laboratory. Created with her husband, Misha Pavel, who also holds a joint faculty appointment in Khoury College and Bouvé College, NUHome Lab is located on Northeastern’s Boston campus on the fourth floor of Richards Hall.

　　Jimison对NUCoach的设计源于她在NUHome实验室的工作，这是一个600平方英尺的封闭空间，近似于一个单卧室公寓，实际上是一个行为评估和干预实验室。努霍姆实验室位于美国东北部的波士顿校区，理查兹大厅的四楼，由她的丈夫米莎·帕维尔（Misha Pavel）创建，她同时在科里学院和布韦学院（BouvéCollege）担任联合教师职务。

　　Designed as a shareable research site for behavioral informatics, “it can be used for quality assurance or usability testing of new technologies or to test our algorithms, and faculty sometime use it for focus groups to help participants visualize the future,” Jimison says. With sensors on everything from the refrigerator to the microwave to the bed, the facility goes “way beyond Alexa and Google Home.” Interactive video exercise technology, passive infrared sensors, contact switches, and microphones are just some of the sensors that make accurate assessments of the participants’ behaviors.

　　Jimison说，作为一个可共享的行为信息学研究网站，“它可以用于新技术的质量保证或可用性测试，或者测试我们的算法，教师有时也可以将其用于焦点小组，帮助参与者设想未来。”。从冰箱到微波炉，再到床上，设备上的传感器无所不包，远远超出了Alexa和Google Home。互动视频练习技术、被动红外传感器、接触开关和麦克风只是对参与者行为进行准确评估的传感器之一。

　　Linked to patient-centered research approaches, the technologies at play in the NUHome Lab — including the integration of home and mobile sensing, just-in-time assessments and interventions, data fusion, and predictive algorithms — use computational methods to model and assess a patient’s state. Jimison explains, “The goal of our behavioral informatics research is to facilitate healthy, independent living for older adults, as well as people from disadvantaged populations or those with disabilities.”

　　与以病人为中心的研究方法相联系，NUHome实验室的技术正在发挥作用——包括家庭和移动传感的集成、实时评估和干预、数据融合和预测算法——使用计算方法来建模和评估病人的状态。Jimison解释道：“我们行为信息学研究的目标是促进老年人以及弱势群体或残疾人的健康、独立生活。”

　　This new model of care is applicable to a wide variety of people, with Jimison and her group focused on the elderly and people who have suffered neurological or traumatic brain damage. “The ultimate goal,” Jimison stresses, “is to provide continuity of care to the home where people can better improve health and maintain independence.”

　　这种新的护理模式适用于各种各样的人，Jimison和她的团队主要关注老年人和遭受神经或创伤性脑损伤的人。“最终的目标，”Jimison强调，“是为人们能够更好地改善健康和保持独立的家庭提供持续的护理。”

　　A bridge between health informatics research and health interventions

　　健康信息学研究与健康干预之间的桥梁

　　“Oftentimes, the biggest stressor for older adults is loneliness,” Jimison states, emphasizing its effect on health and drawing in findings from her research. She points out that socialization is a health risk on par with smoking, yet not addressed in standard clinical visits. Robotic video conferencing and protocols for connecting people remotely with family members and other members of a group are two ways the NUHome Lab addresses isolation.

　　“通常，老年人最大的压力源是孤独，”Jimison说，她强调了孤独对健康的影响，并从她的研究中汲取了一些发现。她指出，与吸烟一样，社会化也是一种健康风险，但在标准的临床就诊中并未得到解决。机器人视频会议和协议，用于远程连接人与家庭成员和其他成员的一个组是两种方式的NUHome实验室地址隔离。

　　The benefits of innovations in home health include integrating both the patient and his or her family into a plan for care and extending the reach of lower cost professionals. To maintain security with the sharing of personal data, the staff of NUHome Lab uses top encryption software and plans to connect with the university’s new Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.

　　家庭健康创新的好处包括将患者及其家人纳入护理计划，并扩大低成本专业人员的服务范围。为了通过共享个人数据来维护安全，NUHome实验室的工作人员使用了顶 级加密软件，并计划与大学新成立的网络安全和隐私研究所建立联系。

　　Jimison notes that adult children of patients are the ones who worry more about a loss of privacy with this data collection, and not as much the patients themselves. As she points out, “in reality, we’re giving up data all the time. The patients themselves are happy to give up data when they perceive the benefit of being independent.”

　　Jimison指出，患者的成年子女更担心这些数据收集会失去隐私，而不是患者本身。正如她所指出的，“实际上，我们一直在放弃数据。当患者意识到独立的好处时，他们自己也乐于放弃数据。”

　　Back in 2013, when Jimison and Pavel accepted offers of joint appointments from the deans of both Khoury College and Bouvé College, Jimison had been on leave from her position as Associate Professor at Oregon Health & Science University to work as a technology adviser on big data in the home with the National Institute of Health (NIH). Similarly, Misha Pavel was on rotation at NSF, creating and directing the new Smart & Connected Health Program. Their plan had been to return to Oregon Health & Science University, but Northeastern’s offer was particularly attractive because it emphasized the university’s commitment to health, aging solutions, and interdisciplinary research.

　　早在2013年，当Jimison和Pavel接受了Khoury College和BouvéCollege两个学院院长的联合任命时，Jimison已经从俄勒冈健康与科学大学副教授的职位上请假，到美国国家卫生研究院（NIH）担任大数据技术顾问。同样，米莎·帕维尔在NSF轮换，创建并指导新的智能互联健康计划。他们的计划是回到俄勒冈健康与科学大学，但东北大学的提议特别有吸引力，因为它强调了该大学对健康、老龄化解决方案和跨学科研究的承诺。

　　At Northeastern, Jimison has found a balance between teaching and research. “I was first part of the School of Nursing to help grow their research efforts, to help give nurses at Northeastern an opportunity to conduct research using state-of-the-art self-management health interventions without having to worry about data transfer, storage and inference algorithms,” Jimison continues.

　　在东北部，Jimison找到了教学和研究之间的平衡点。Jimison继续说：“我是护理学院的第一部分，帮助他们加大研究力度，帮助东北地区的护士有机会使用最先进的自我管理健康干预措施进行研究，而不必担心数据传输、存储和推理算法。”。

　　With her emphasis on new models of care needed to emphasize prevention, self-management and social connections, Jimison and her fellow researchers are continuing to test their technology in “living laboratories” in the Boston area. New data will inform the ongoing development of NUCoach and help make “aging in place” a possibility for more older people.

　　随着她对强调预防、自我管理和社会关系所需的新护理模式的重视，Jimison和她的研究员们正在波士顿地区的“活实验室”继续测试他们的技术。新的数据将为NUCoach的持续发展提供信息，并有助于让更多的老年人有可能“就地老龄化”。