Johns Hopkins Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Aging Research, or JH AITC, has announced the recipients of its third round of grant funding. Totaling just over $1.5 million, this round supports the collaboratory's mission by funding the development of artificial intelligence technologies to improve the health and independence of older adults.
This round, the JH AITC has invested in research that leverages AI to support healthy aging and mitigate the effects of dementia. Pilots including Hopkins researchers are:
AI Enhanced Scheduling for a Neighborhood Model of Affordable Quality Home Care (Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins University, and Dew-Anne Langcaon, Vivia Cares Inc.): This pilot aims to build a data and AI-driven scheduling module to automate the multidimensional, complex process of scheduling senior home care appointments to reduce the cost per visit and drive a higher service capacity.
ADPIE: Deep phenotyping of people with AD using portable integrated equipment (Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Johns Hopkins University): This pilot aims to develop and validate noninvasive Alzheimer's disease–specific multimodal biomarkers obtained with Portable Integrated Equipment—a platform that is portable, easy to use, and cost-effective.
Smart Rep: Smart automation to respond to patient portal messages for care partners of persons with dementia (Kelly Gleason, Johns Hopkins University): This pilot proposes to develop and test Smart Automation to REspond to Patient portal messages, or "Smart Rep." Smart Rep will apply natural language processing to patient portal messages involving patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, or ADRD, searching for word patterns that indicate the identity of the person writing the message and the expression of targeted concerns.
Learn more about the JH AITC and the five additional awarded pilots here.
