Meeting of Minds 4: How can technologies better support patients?

On February 23-24, the ‘Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-being’ Cluster will hold its 4th Meeting of Minds, the first to be open to the public, as patients and survivors will be part of the audience. In fact, the event will revolve around the question “How can new technologies better support patients?“.

The event aims to engage patients to gather important feedback from end-users, offering them the unique chance to share their insight and contribute to the design of a better tool based on their needs as cancer patients and survivors. Cluster members will also present their projects providing an overview of their work, the scope of their research and how they apply new technology in their solution designs.

The ‘Cancer Survivorship – AI for Well-Being’ Cluster is headed by the Irish-led FAITH project team with consortium partner and cluster coordinator TFC Research and Innovation Limited.

As many as one in five cancer sufferers experience depression and mood change post diagnosis. The FAITH project managed by Walton Institute, aims to monitor a range of established depression markers via survivors’ smartphones including activity, nutrition, sleep and voice. The goal, to develop a model that leverages these markers to predict depression, ultimately improving their quality of life and aftercare.

Meeting of Minds 4 will span over two days, from 23 to 24 February. Guest speakers will include Technical coordinator of FAITH, Walton Institute’s Philip O’Brien, and Gerd Murphy from University Hospital Waterford.

Registration is now open and the full agenda can be viewed here.

The FAITH project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 875358.