Video-Game Device Prevents Patient Falls
From: Wireless Design & Development - 03/18/2014

Technology alerts health provider and offers valuable data about risk factors
for falls

Technology used in video games is making its way to hospital rooms, where
researchers at the University of Missouri hope to learn new ways to prevent
falls among hospital patients.

If the system detects a person on the floor, it automatically reviews the
preceding events as the person moved to the floor. Does the movement
represent a fall, or a person kneeling to tie a shoe lace? Applying a precise
algorithm created by Skubic, doctoral graduate Erik Stone and an
interdisciplinary team, the computer calculates the probability that the
changes represent a person's fall.

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http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2014/03/video-game-device-prevents-patient-falls

Links:
University of Missouri-Columbia's Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology
https://eldertech.missouri.edu/

Marjorie Skubic
http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~skubicm/

Marilyn Rantz
http://nursing.missouri.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/rantzm/

Heal Early, Heal Often
http://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/2013/05/heal-early-heal-often/