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Invitation to webinar, Dec. 16th: “New Horizons for Digital Health & Future Technologies”

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Invitation to webinar:

New Horizons for Digital Health & Future Technologies

How can Japanese and Asian companies and researchers benefit from the Nordic frontrunners

Time: December 16, 2021 at 10.00 am – 11.30 am (CET) / 18.00 – 19.30 (JST).

The aim of the webinar is to facilitate cooperation between Japan and Denmark within Digital Health.

See the program here. It is free to participate.

Registration at this link.

The webinar is organized in collaboration between Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Invest in Denmark, Danish Embassy Deloitte, Japan and JD TeleTech Network.

New publication on telerehabilitation of heart failure patients

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Effects of Telerehabilitation Interventions on Heart Failure Management (2015-2020): Scoping Review by Schacksen et al 2021 in JMIR Rehabil Assist Technol 2021;8(4):e29714.

The paper has been written in close collaboration with researchers from the Future Patient Project and Jutendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Objective

The aim of this scoping review was to assess the effects of telerehabilitation in the management of heart failure by systematically reviewing the available scientific literature within the period from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2020.

Conclusions

It was found that there is a tendency toward improvement in patients’ quality of life and physical capacity when telerehabilitation was used in heart failure management. The outcome measures of depression, anxiety, and adherence to the intervention were found to be positive. Additional research is needed to determine more precise and robust effects of telerehabilitation.

Online lecture on Danish Healthcare system and telehealth

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Sct Luke 20210909

Thursday September 9, 2021 professor Birthe Dinesen gave an online lecture on the Danish Healthcare system and telehealth in Denmark for Master students and Phd students at Sct Lukes International Hospital in Tokyo.

The students had also prepared a lectures on the Japanese Healthcare system. It was a very fruitful session with good discussions.

The social robot LOVOT has become a media darling

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LOVOTs

The LOVOT project (the social robots) has been presented on nationally and regional TV during the last week:

The LOVOT project has in the past week been mentioned on 62 other Danish media as can be seen here.

It is great to see that there is interest in our research here at the Laboratory for Welfare Technology at AAU. We thank Groove X, Japan for lending us the LOVOTs, many thanks to the municipalities of Aalborg, Viborg and Skive and TUCV for their dedicated participation in the experiment. The National Board of Health has supported the project financially and thank you for this.

New publication: Use of Orihime

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Collaboration between master students in Clinical Science and Technology, AAU, Aalborg Municipality & Ory Lab, Japan:

The telepresence avatar robot OriHime as a communication tool for adults with acquired brain injury: an ethnographic case study

OriHime

We conducted an exploratory ethnographic case study, applying the framework ‘community of practice.’ The intervention consisted of sessions where ABI patients at home interacted with a member from Aalborg Rehabilitation Club using OriHime. Data collection consisted of documentary materials, participant observations and semi-structured interviews.

Findings: The patients at home found nonverbal communication valuable, while the members at the rehabilitation center felt that OriHime lacked human features and preferred direct verbal communication. The technology facilitated a feeling of being a part of a community of practice between the participants, and it motivated the patients at home to participate in the rehabilitating activities at the center.

Reference: Vikkelsø, S., Hoang, T-H., Carrara, F., Hansen, K. D., & Dinesen, B. (2020). The telepresence avatar robot OriHime as a communication tool for adults with acquired brain injury: an ethnographic case study. Intelligent Service Robotics.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-020-00335-6

Invitation to Japan-Denmark TeleTech Webinar on Oct. 14th 2020

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Exploring the Future TeleHealth: eHealth accelerates the change of healthcare in the Post-Corona Era

Information in Japanese is available here.

Wednesday, October 14th at 18:00 JST (Japan) / 11:00 CET (Denmark)

It is hard to see or predict the end of coronavirus problem. Under these circumstances, the society pay more attention to Telemedicine and Tele-rehabilitation. This webinar focuses on the new initiatives/technologies that accelerate Telemedicine and make people continue Tele-rehabilitation with a joy. Also be touched upon the Japanese companies’ challenges in the Era of post-corona. In addition, we would like to introduce what JD Teletech has done so far.

Listening to the new ideas or difficulties from many of the participants (as many as possible), we hope this webinar could be an opportunity of investigating other new initiatives in the Era of Post-Corona.

Please register here – You will receive a link to the webinar after your registration.

For more details, incl. program and registration link, see PDF in English and in Japanese.

JD TeleTech was established in April 2019. Since then, JD TeleTech has organized roundtables and workshops in Japan as well as in Denmark. JD TeleTech is going to continue these activities in both countries.

LOVOT calls for joy and smiles for elderly with dementia

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LOVOT

LOVOT is a social robot developed by Groove X in Japan. In March Laboratory for Welfare Technologies was about to begin to test the LOVOT with citizens with dementia at nursing homes in Aalborg, Viborg and Skive Municipality in Denmark as the first place in the world. LOVOT was brought to the nursing homes and ready to interact with the citizens. Unfortunately, Covid-19 started spreading, causing Denmark to go into lockdown and stopped us from testing LOVOT at the nursing homes. This has brought us in quite a unique situation: LOVOT being in lockdown together with citizens with dementia at the nursing homes. We are therefore excited to see how LOVOT will interact with the citizens in a lockdown period. The nursing homes now report back that the citizens have enjoyed the LOVOT and it has created joy and a lot of smiles for the citizens with dementia. We have postponed our scientific test supported by the National Health Authorities (Sundhedsstyrelsen) in Denmark to the fall 2020.

New publication: Individualized asynchronous sensor-based telerehabilitation program

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Mohammad Reza Naeemabadi, PhD student at Laboratory for Welfare Technology, Aalborg University, has published a study aimed to identify patients’ requirements after a total knee replacement following a self-training rehabilitation program, leading to the design and development of a telerehabilitation program.

Telerehabilitation programs can be employed to establish communication between patients and healthcare professionals and empower patients performing their training remotely. Let us hope it will be used more in the future.

You can see and read the paper here.