Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Clinical determination and usability testing for contactless monitoring and remote care for older adults
Agreement Number:
987919
Agreement Value:
$299,728.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 4, 2022 - Jun 30, 2025
Description:
There is increasing demand for contactless monitoring technologies to provide timely and precise levels of care for older adults, manage high demand for healthcare services and overcome the expense and limited accessibility of invasive and wearable devices. This contactless monitoring technologies can be done interactively by health professionals and intelligently through continuous surveillance. UBC will collaborate with NRC to develop and implement a contactless
monitoring system by providing clinical and patient insights, acceptability assessment and analytics, clinical and community care contexts and system usability testing and validation.This continuing collaboration between UBC and NRC will result in
accelerating the use of the VitalSeer suite developed under the NRC PRCP program to support older adults and caregivers to effectively manage their physical health and activities of daily living through contactless physiological monitoring.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V6T 1Z3
Reference Number:
172-2021-2022-Q4-987919
Agreement Type:
Grant
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
108161779
Recipient Type:
Academia
Additional Information:
This agreement has been amended 2 time(s). The end date of this agreement has been modified by 91 days.
Amendment Date
May 14, 2025
Recipient's Legal Name:
The University of British Columbia
Federal Riding Name:
Vancouver Quadra
Federal Riding Number:
59040
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives
Program Purpose:
Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.
NAICS Code:
541710
Amendments: