Hotfix releases are now available for QTUG and Gait to handle recent Android 12 changes to Bluetooth connection permissions.
The following software updates are now available: QTUG 2.5.2, QTUG 3.2.2 (US and UK versions), Gait 1.4.4 and Gait 2.0.1 (US and UK versions).
Updates can be installed via each app by pressing 'Check for update' on application settings.
At the 77th Session of The United Nations General Assembly Science Summit in New York last week, Kinesis Health Technologies was announced as one of Ireland's ‘First 25 Irish Digital Health Solutions’.
The announcement was made by the CEO of Enterprise Ireland, Leo Clancy and the Health Service Executive's Director of Digital Transformation and Open Innovation, Martin Curley.
The announcement forms part of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) preventative healthcare strategy:
‘Shift Left, Stay Left - 10X: A paradigm, policy, platform and prescription for wellness and better health’.
Fall prevention
has been adopted as a strategic objective of this strategy, with Kinesis' fall prevention technologies playing an important role.
The Shift Left, Stay Left strategy aims to help patients to better manage their own health, delivering care closer to home,
supporting citizens to stay well and out of hospital wards and clinics where possible.
In Ireland, this strategy is being advised by the Irish Digital Health Leadership Steering Group (IDHLSG),
a community of Irish and international leaders (clinicians, patients, CEOs, Academics, policy makers), intent on transforming Ireland’s Health system through digital.
We are delighted and honoured to be listed among the best Irish companies in Digital Health!
Click here >> for more information on Ireland Digital Health Transformation.
A major new version of Kinesis Balance™, version 2.0 is available and now includes a Five Times Sit to Stand (FTSS) assessment!
Kinesis Balance™ version 2.0 also now supports Android 12 and includes a number of additional bug fixes and minor performance improvements.
Click here >> for more information.
A major new version of Kinesis Gait™, version 2.0 is available, providing many new features including:
- User login management
- Clinician facing portal for data export and management (Kinesis portal)
- Custom assessment locations
Kinesis Gait™ version 2.0 also now supports Android 12 and includes a number of additional bug fixes and minor performance improvements.
Click here >>> for more information.
A study published this week in Wearable Technologies reports a new method to assess balance impairment, cognitive decline and falls risk in older adults.
This research provides support and validation for our Kinesis Balance™ product, which includes Five Times Sit to Stand module.
The paper is a collaboration with University College Dublin and explores the use of the Five Times Sit to Stand (FTSS) test and wearable sensors as a screening tool and digital biomarker for balance and falls risk and its relationship with cognitive impairment.
Click here to read the research paper.
We are delighted to announce that Kinesis Health Technologies Ltd has been acquired by Linus Health Inc, a Boston-based digital health company focused on brain health.
The two companies share a focus on utilizing cutting-edge machine learning and widely accessible digital devices to make proactive health screening more practical and prevalent.
Given the established relationship between physical function and brain function, the acquisition will further Linus Health’s ability to generate a robust view of an individual’s brain health
to facilitate early detection of issues.
Click here for more information.
A study published this week in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering reports a new method to assess balance and falls risk in older adults.
This research provides additional support and validation for our Kinesis Balance™ product and is a collaboration with University College Dublin.
We demonstrates the reliability of the single inertial sensor derived measures of balance and report the development and validation of the Balance score included in Kinesis Balance™.
Click here to read the research paper.
A new paper published today in Sensors reports a method to predict fall counts from wearable sensor data. This research, entitled "Predicting Fall Counts Using Wearable Sensors: A Novel Digital Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease"
aims to create a novel digital biomarker for Parkinson's Disease (PD), to help improve the assessment of PD in clinical trials.
The article reports research we have conducted with University College Dublin and Lundbeck A/S in the development of a digital endpoint for Parkinson's Disease using a wearable sensor algorithm trained to predict the number of falls experienced by a person with Parkinson's Disease.
Click here to read the research paper.
We are delighted to announce that our Kinesis QTUG™ product was selected as winner of the Innovation of the Year - Productivity category at the 9th Eldercare Innovations Awards 2021,
organised by Ageing Asia.
The category highlighted best practices that demonstrate improved productivity in organisational efficiencies and quality of care delivery.
The submission was made by our customer Thye Hua Kwan Nursing Home in Singapore.
Click here for more information.
A new study from researchers at Dundalk IT has found that Kinesis QTUG™ is a valid tool for assessment of step counts under a variety of walking conditions.
The paper aims to evaluate if the QTUG™ system can provide objective, quantitative measures of step-count over short distances in older adults. Results are reported for 10 healthy young and 10 healthy older adult volunteers. The method is validated using manually annotated video recordings.
Click here for more information.
A new article by our CTO discusses whether predicting fall counts from wearable sensor data can be a novel digital biomarker in Parkinson's Disease.
The article discusses recent research we have completed with a pharmaceutical client developing a novel digital biomarker for Parkinson's Disease using a wearable sensor algorithm trained to predict the number of falls experienced by a person with Parkinson's in a particular time window.
Click here to read the article.
Kinesis Balance, our smartphone solution for remote self-assessment of falls risk and balance is now updated on Google Play.
Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!
Click here>> for more information on Kinesis Balance.
Barry Greene and Killian McManus will be presenting their recent research supporting the Kinesis Balance™ remote assessment platform at the IEEE Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) 2021 and the IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2021 (BHI-BSN 2021).
BHI-BSN is a leading conference in the field and will be held virtually from the 27th-30 July 2021 and features cutting edge research across wearables and data science.
Barry is presenting a paper entitled "Self-directed assessment of standing balance and falls risk", while Killian is presenting a paper entitled "Single IMU assessment of postural sway and falls risk in older adults".
The Kinesis team have produced a new paper entitled: "Unsupervised assessment of balance and falls risk using a smartphone and machine learning"
published today in a Special Issue ("Wearable Sensors for Assessment of Gait in Older Adults") of Sensors.
The paper reports analysis of data from 594 assessments using the Kinesis Balance smartphone app and has found a strong association
between self-reported falls history and the falls risk and balance impairment scores produced by the app, suggesting they may be clinically useful outcome measures.
In addition, analysis of the quantitative balance features produced seems to suggest that unsupervised, self-directed assessment of balance in the home is feasible.
Click here for more information.
Our CEO Seamus Small discusses a recent survey of older adult experience with Kinesis QTUG assessments in four senior living facilities in the US.
Results were very encouraging, with 91% of participants feeling that the QTUG™ assessment was informative
and 93% saying they would recommend a QTUG™ assessment to other residents in their community!
Click here>> to read Seamus's blog.
Allowing older adults to stay healthy and happy at home! Kinesis Balance, free smartphone app.
Check out our new video explaining how it works.
A new paper from the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, uses Kinesis QTUG™ to provide reference values of various gait parameters measured on a sample of 659 older adults above from India.
The paper was published in Gait & Posture and is entitled Basic gait pattern and impact of fall risk factors on gait among older adults in India.
Click here>> to read the paper.
Regulation (EU) 2017/745 is a European Union regulation on the clinical investigation and sale of medical devices for human use.
We are delighted to announce that we are now compliant with the EU Medical Device Regulations MDR 2017/745 as of April 2021.
In addition, our products are now registered medical devices in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia through our distributor United BMEC.
In our new case study, we analysed from data 1,133 clients, assessed with Kinesis Gait™ in a US physical therapy clinic.
The case study highlights the value of gait analysis solutions for physical therapy practices, how measuring the impact of physical therapy on a client over multiple visits
and comparing clients across the population can be easily achieved using Kinesis Gait™.
Click here>> to read the case study.
A new paper from our team, uses Kinesis Gait™ to show reliable assessment of gait in older adults can be obtained from just a small number of strides.
The paper, published in Gait & Posture entitled Reliability of inertial sensor based spatiotemporal gait parameters for short walking bouts in community dwelling older adults.
Click here>> to read the paper.
Our CTO Dr. Barry Greene, will be speaking at Medical Wearables 2020 on “Assessing the Risk of Falls in Older Adults with Inertial Sensors and Machine Learning” on 8-10th December 2020.
Click here>> for more information.
Kinesis Balance, our smartphone solution for remote self-assessment of falls risk and balance is now updated on Google Play.
Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!
Click here>> for more information on Kinesis Balance.
Kinesis CEO Seamus Small participated in the finals of the EIT pitch 2020 competition.
The event brought together 10 finalists selected from 60 startups who participated in the 5 EIT bootcamps that were run across Europe this year.
The pitch event was part of the EIT Health "Best of Bootcamp" Central Bootcamp Tour Event, a Europe-wide competition for innovative health technology startups.
Click here>> for more information.
We analyzed the mobility metrics produced by an iPhone using Apple HealthKit and compared their accuracy against Kinesis Gait™ in a new blog, results were rather mixed, showing large errors across different gait types and speeds.
Click here>> to read a blog by our CTO.
A new paper, entitled Detecting subtle mobility changes among older adults: the Quantitative Timed Up and Go test published today in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research by Erin Smith, Caitriona Cunningham, Barry R. Greene, Ulrik McCarthy Persson and Catherine Blake shows that Kinesis QTUG is a sensitive tool for assessment of mobility changes in older adults.
Click here>> to read the paper.
Our CTO Dr. Barry Greene was interviewed in an article in the Irish Times. The article examines how COVID-19 restrictions and frailty combine to reduce mobility in older people, increasing their risk of experiencing a fall.
Kinesis Balance™ and QTUG™ are featured as a way to empower older adults to reduce their risk of falls.
Falls among older adults have increased significantly in recent times, due to physical deconditioning and increased frailty due to restrictions imposed due to COVID-19.
Click here>> to read the article.
Kinesis Balance, our smartphone solution for remote self-assessment of falls risk and balance is now available on Google Play for Beta testing.
Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!
Click here>> for more information on Kinesis Balance.
A new study on the analysis of short bouts of gait data in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) using Kinesis Gait™ has been published in MDPI Biosensors as part of a special issue on Wearable Biosensors for Healthcare.
The study of 37 participants with multiple sclerosis, examined the reliability of short bouts of bilateral inertial sensor gait data, in assessing gait impairment in persons with MS.
The study shows that it is possible to reliably assess gait in MS using wearable sensors from a small number of steps.
Click here>> to read the article.
Over the past 12 years our products have evolved from early stage research concepts at Intel and the TRIL centre into a mature medical device product
This involved extensive user studies, iterative design and careful research studies.
Please contact us for more information on our product and how they can impact older adults and healthcare services!
Our CTO Barry Greene discusses how long duration gait tests, such as the 6 minute walk, can be analyzed using Kinesis Gait™ in a new
blog.
Click here>> to read Barry's blog.
The latest version of Kinesis Gait™, version 1.4 is available and now provides 58 additional gait parameters including separate bilateral gait analysis (left and right data) as well as individual stride analysis.
Excel and PDF exports are now configurable in addition to providing access to raw sensor data.
Kinesis Gait™ version 1.4 also now supports Android 9.0 and includes a number of additional bug fixes and minor performance improvements.
Click here >>> for more information.
Our CEO Seamus Small discusses how gait, balance and mobility can be assessed remotely during the COVIDー19 crisis in a new
blog
and video.
Click here>> to read Seamus's blog.
The QTUG 2.5 release contains improved fall risk estimation from questionnaire data, support for Android 9.0 as well as improved user experience and reporting.
QTUG Professional (version 3.2), an enterprise class digital health solution is now available.
QTUG 3.2 release contains improved fall risk estimation from questionnaire data, support for Android 9.0 as well as improved user experience and reporting.
Self-assessment and monitoring at home to prevent falls during the pandemic
The current COVID-19 crisis situation has resulted in many older adults been forced to remain indoors, cocooning to avoid infection.
Without proper support this may lead to an increase in social isolation and falls in this age-group, leading to increased strain on hospital systems.
Falls are not inevitable, strong evidence demonstrates that appropriate prevention activities, including home based programmes, can reduce falls by up to 50%.
We have developed a tool that can help empower older adults and their carers to stay healthy and take appropriate action to prevent falls during this difficult period.
Kinesis Screen is a free online self-screening tool that provides an older adult with tailored tips and advice,
including appropriate exercise routines and COVID-19 specific advice based on their level of falls risk.
Advice on exercises and fall prevention in the home is specifically tailored per country and risk level.
The advice can be customised and updated based on stakeholder feedback.
Click here for more information.
Our CTO, Dr. Barry Greene will be speaking at the 10th Annual Software Design for Medical Devices Global Forum at the Mercure MOA hotel in Berlin, Germany.
Barry is speaking on Wednesday 19th February 2020, giving a talk entitled: "Assessing the Risk of Falls in Older Adults with Inertial Sensors and Machine Learning".
Please get in contact if you would like to arrange a meeting.
Click here for more information.
We will be attending the EIT Health Matchmaking event for Business Plan 2021 in Berlin, Germany from the 4th to the 6th February 2020.
Our CTO, Dr. Barry Greene will be available to discuss how our technologies can support EIT partners in assessing falls, gait and balance.
Please get in contact if you would like to arrange a meeting.
Click here for more information.
A new study from Kinesis Health Technologies published today in Nature Digital Medicine
reports gait, mobility and fall risk factors on a sample of 8,521 participants assessed using Kinesis QTUG™.
Data were captured under real world clinical conditions in 6 countries over the past 5 years.
Results show that more than one fifth of older adults who have never reported a fall were at high risk while gait impairment was
noted in almost 1 out of 5 of participants.
Our CTO, Dr. Barry Greene has also written a blog post: "Predicting falls 'in the wild' using wearable sensors" for the Nature communities blog site.
Read the blog post here.
We are delighted to launch Kinesis Screen, a free fall risk screening tool for older adults, based on 11 years research and 5,000 patients.
Kinesis Screen is an older adult self-screening for assessment of falls risk. It is intended to motivate, engage and empower older adults to prevent falls using our advanced machine learning algorithms and best practice clinical advice.
Kinesis Screen is a secure portal based on our validated fall risk screening algorithm and backed by 11 years of research.
Create your free account here.
The latest version of Kinesis Gait™ is now available.
Upgrade instructions for Kinesis Gait™ version 1.3.1 are here.
A new independent study published today has found that Kinesis QTUG™ is cost-effective when used as part of a fall prevention programme.
The study used Markov modelling to examine the effectiveness of QTUG™ when compared to manually timed TUG as part of a fall prevention programme.
Paper is entitled A modelling-based economic evaluation of primary-care-based fall-risk screening followed by fall-prevention intervention: a cohort-based Markov model stratified by older age groups
published in Age & Ageing was authored by Dr. Matt Franklin and Dr. Rachel Hunter of the University of Sheffield.
Read more here.
Two recently published research papers have discussed how QTUG™ can be used to examine the effect of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and exercise on gait in people with Parkinson's Disease.
A paper entitled "The effect of exercise on mobility in PD Impact of Exercise Intervention in Parkinson’s Disease can be Quantified Using Inertial Sensor Data and Clinical Tests"
was presented at the IEEE EMBC conference in Berlin by Kinesis R&D engineer Killian McManus.
A paper entitled "Can the Quantified Timed Up and Go (QTUG) device support decision making for patients undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation?"
led by James Somerset of the Walton centre in Liverpool, UK, was presented
at the 2019 International Congress of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society in Nice, France.
Kinesis Health Technologies have been selected to pitch at the EIT Investors Day @ Nasdaq event at the NASDAQ stock exchange in Stockholm, Sweden.
Our CTO, Dr Barry Greene, will present at the event on behalf of Kinesis, showcasing our exciting new product roadmap.
Click here for more information.
QTUG Professional (version 3.1), an enterprise class digital health solution is now available.
The new version contains improvements such as patient search and improved error handling.
The latest version of Kinesis Gait™ is now available. Upgrade instructions for Kinesis Gait™ are here.
LeadingAge CAST have published a new case study on our work with Keswick Community Health.
The case study examines the use of Kinesis QTUG™ in community fall prevention and has a focus on empowering and engaging older adults to prevent falls.
Click here to read the full case study.
We are delighted to launch a major new revision of our Kinesis QTUG™ software.
QTUG Professional (version 3.0) is an enterprise class digital health solution that includes secure user login management and encryption,
the ability to add custom assessment locations as well as an optional analytics dashboard for data export and management. To find out more contact us!
The latest version of Kinesis QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions for Kinesis QTUG™ are here.
Our CTO, Dr Barry Greene, presented our recent research on "Population based screening for assessment of falls and mobility using wearable sensors",
at the IEEE BHI-BSN 2019 conference in Chicago, Illinois.
This work reports an analysis of 14,611 assessments from 8,521 participants assessed using Kinesis QTUG™
in seven countries over the past 5 years. Results detail the prevalence of unreported fall risk among older adults as well
as the prevalence of frailty, fall risk and gait impairment in a real world population.
The IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) is the flagship conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE-EMBS) on the topics of informatics and computing in healthcare and life sciences. The theme of the BHI2019 was “Integrative informatics and modeling for precision and preventive medicine.”.
Please contact us for more information on this research or for access to the published manuscript.
Join Aileen McShea Tinney, VP, Community Health, Keswick and our CEO Seamus Small on Wednesday 17th for an interactive workshop on working together to translate fall prevention knowledge into practice. The workshop titled ""What If ... We All Worked Together to Translate Fall Prevention Knowledge Into Practice?" will explore a cross sector view of fall prevention assets and opportunities in Maryland.
For more information on this event click here
McKnight's Senior Living, a leading industry magazine on senior living feature our deployment of QTUG™ in the Integrace facility at Fairhaven (Eldersburg, MD).
Read more here.
The latest version of Kinesis QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions for Kinesis QTUG™ are here.
A new health economic analysis by UCL Partners London as part of the Care City NHS test bed that the combination of falls risk screening in general practice using Kinesis QTUG™ with a prescription to falls prevention exercises is cost-effective and can be cost-saving for the over 75s.
Read the report here
A new economic model by the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield to assess cost effectiveness as part of NHS Perfect Pathway Test Bed found that QTUG produces more Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) & cost savings than paper based assessments.
Read the report here
Kinesis Health Technologies has successfully completed a 2nd round of fundraising in the amount of €350,000.
The investment was led by an angel syndicate and supported by Enterprise Ireland as part of the High Potential Startup (HPSU) programme.
This latest raise brings total investment funding raised by the company to €939,000, with total funding to date of €1.25M (including €310,000 in grants to date).
Kinesis Health Technologies were semi-final winners at the EIT Digital Health Catapult competition in Erlangen! The event was at the Medical Valley facility in the town of Erlangen, Germany. Kinesis will now progress to the European finals in Lodz, Poland, 3-4th December 2018.
The latest version of Kinesis QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions for Kinesis QTUG™ are here!
The latest version of Kinesis Gait™ is now available. Upgrade instructions for Kinesis Gait are here!
Kinesis Health Technologies are delighted to be a sponsor of this year’s EU Falls Festival, taking place in Manchester, UK on the 2nd and 3rd of July.
This unique event brings together leading academics, researchers, health and care professionals, industry representatives and other key stakeholders to celebrate best practices in research and innovation in falls prevention of older people. The theme of this year’s festival “New Solutions to Old Problems: ensuring sustainability of falls prevention interventions” is central to our company ethos.
As a sponsor of the event Kinesis Health Technologies will exhibit our latest fall prevention products.
We invite you to drop by our stand in the living lab area to try our award winning QTUG™ falls risk assessment solution.
Our CEO Seamus Small and CTO Dr. Barry Greene will be on hand to discuss your fall prevention needs and challenges. We look forward to meeting you there.
More information on the event can be found at: www.eufallsfest.eu.
We are thrilled to announce that our QTUG™ falls prevention technology picked up 3 out of 5 awards including Most Innovative Technology award, National Spread Choice award and Best Project award at the Perfect Patient Pathway Testbed Awards in Sheffield.
Our mission is to prevent falls, allowing older adults to remain independent, age in place and reduce healthcare costs.
It has been our privilege to partner with the perfect patient pathway to deliver innovative falls prevention solutions.
Join us at the Future Health Summit to discuss the opportunities of the Shift Left strategy for eHealth in Ireland.
We are delighted to be part of the panel on eHealth Innovation Successes at the Future Health Summit tomorrow Tuesday 29th May at the Convention Centre, Dublin Ireland.
The eHealth Summit at the Future Health Summit is a chance to delve into the opportunities of the Shift Left strategy for eHealth in Ireland.
Themes running through the day will be the impact of these different innovations on the triple aim of increasing efficiencies, increasing quality of care and the patient experience and increasing quality of life.
Join our CEO Seamus Small tomorrow at 10.30 in Liffey Hall 2 to find out more on how Kinesis advocates “Shift Left” as part of our mission is to prevent falls, allow older adults to remain independent, age in place and reduce healthcare costs.
For more information visit https://www.futurehealthsummit.com/.
Recent research from the Kinesis team was presented at the The IEEE Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) 2018 and the IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2018 in Las Vegas, 4-7th March 2018.
Kinesis was represented by our CTO Dr. Barry Greene who presented two papers; one entitled “Automatic fusion of inertial sensors and clinical risk factors for accurate fall risk assessment during balance assessment” and the second entitled “Objective assessment of functional mobility using the TUG test”.
We were honoured to be selected as a finalist in the Industrial Showcase Awards at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) and Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN). The industry showcase, sought to highlight some of the most innovative new products in the market, with a particular focus on chronic disease management.
'East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has started using wearable technology designed to prevent falls in older people'.
Read more here.
Recent research published in the Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering reports that Kinesis QTUG™ is reliable for assessment of mobility in people with Parkinson's and is more accurate in predicting falls within 30 days than the TUG time alone.
The paper, entitled "Longitudinal assessment of falls in patients with Parkinson’s disease using inertial sensors and the Timed Up and Go test" can be read here .
Kinesis have been awarded a place on a new NHS framework agreement to support rapid implementation and spread of innovative falls prevention and management solution.
East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN), supported by the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, has established a new framework following an open OJEU tender exercise.
Companies selected for the framework are offering innovative products and services which, when deployed in combination with related healthcare pathway changes,
can deliver improvements in falls prevention and management across a healthcare economy.
Click here for more information on the framework.
The latest version of QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions are here!
Recent research from the Kinesis team was presented at the Falls, Frailty and Bone Health 2017 meeting in Dublin, 9-10th November 2017.
Barry Greene presented recent work on Prediction of Falls in Parkinsons using wearable sensors and the TUG test event,
as well as recent work on Improved Assessment of Falls Risk using Wearable sensors combined with Clinical Risk Factors for Falls.
We are delighted to have won the Irish Smart Ageing Exchange (ISAX) innovation award in the Health and Wellbeing.
Our CTO Barry Greene An Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise Frances Fitzgerald at the event.
Kinesis are delighted to participate at Med In Ireland 2017, October 19th in the RDS Dublin.
Med In Ireland is Enterprise Ireland’s largest MedTech event and is a high-profile showcase for the entire spectrum of the Irish Medical Technologies Sector.
Top medical technology and healthcare companies, clinicians and healthcare systems from around the world will descend on Dublin’s RDS arena to develop strategic relationships with Irish companies exhibiting at the event.
Visit us at Stand 36 in Hall 3 to learn more about our proprietary technology for healthcare professionals that improves the ability to identify patients at risk of falling and assess mobility in a broad range of patient cohorts.
We look forward to meeting with you.
Contact us to arrange a one to one meeting at our stand.
The latest version of Kinesis Gait™ is now available. Upgrade instructions are here!
The latest version of QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions are here!
Kinesis Health Technologies have won the start-up award at the International Association for Geriatrics and Gerontology (IAGG) 2017 annual conference in San Francisco!
IAGG is the leading clinical and scientific meeting in Geriatrics and Gerontology.
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Kinesis Health Technologies are delighted to announce that Mr. Dan Maher of Nua Ventures has joined our board as a non-executive director and advisor.
Dan brings a wealth of experience from medical devices to venture capital, across a long and successful career.
Kinesis be exhibiting at the 21st IAGG (International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology) world congress in San Francisco, July 23-26 2017. Drop by and say hello!
Our CEO Seamus will also be pitching at the Technology and Aging: Innovation for Independence and Inclusion pitching competition!
Kinesis will be exhibiting at the East of England Healthy Ageing Conference in Hinton, Cambridgeshire on the 17th July
Drop by and say hello!
The latest version of QTUG™ is now available. Upgrade instructions are here!
Kinesis feature in a Silicon Republic article on 24 leading Irish MedTech startups: "Lust for life sciences: 24 start-ups that will send investor pulses racing".
Barry Greene, Kinesis Health Technologies CTO will be speaking at the Health 2.0 Dublin meetup event.
The topic of this event is "Generating evidence for digital health solutions - Irish startup experiences" and will feature a number of companies applying digital solutions to healthcare challenges.
Kinesis Health Technologies are featured in a new video promoting the Care City NHS Innovation test bed. The video can be seen here
The Care City Innovation Test Bed is one of the Test Beds selected and supported by NHS England as part of The Five Year Forward View (FYFV) to serve as a real world site for evaluating ‘combinatorial’ innovations that integrate new technologies and other novel approaches. The aim of the test bed programme is to offer the prospect of better care, and better patient experience of care, at the same or lower overall cost.
Kinesis Health Technologies are joining 80 handpicked digital health innovators (providers, insurers, pharma, investors, patients) in attending the HealthXL Global Gathering in Basel on February 23rd 2017.
The event has three themes: 1. Digital Biomarkers for Neuro Conditions 2. The Future of Sensors 3) Precision Medicine; and will focus on fostering collaboration between digital health innovators and major healthcare industry players.
Kinesis Health Technologies are joining Intel, Big Cloud Analytics and ICON as part of a collaborative study, run by the Applied Reseach for Connected Health (ARCH) centre in University College Dublin (UCD), to assess the feasibility of collecting clinical trial data remotely within a care home environment.
The REACHES (REmote Assessment of older people in a Care HomE Setting) study will deploy a number wearable technologies to a nursing home environment to examine location shifting and fall prevention in a nursing home environment.
Kinesis Health Technologies attending American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) 15-18th February in San Antonio, Texas. The APTA CSM is the largest physical therapy event in the United States and attended by over 11,000 professionals.
Kinesis will be exhibiting at booth 439 at APTA CSM 2017.
Kinesis Health Technologies attending MEDICA 2016 15-17th November in Dusseldorf, Germany. Medica is the world's leading health technology tradeshow and expo.
Kinesis will be exhibiting at MEDICA as part of the WT | Wearable Technologies Show in Hall 15 stand A23.
Kinesis Health Technologies Raises €590k to Expand Global Sales of its Intelligent Health Diagnostic Devices.
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Kinesis Health Technologies attending Leading Age Annual Meeting & EXPO in Indianpolis, IN. Leading Age is a major meeting of US senior care and ageing services providers.
Kinesis QTUG™ version 2.1 now launched!
Click here for more details and instructions on how to upgrade.
Click here to visit product support and user guide.
Kinesis Health Technologies are profiled in this weeks Sunday Times with an article discussing the recent DataSci award.
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Kinesis Health Technologies have won the start-up of the year award at the 2016 Data Science Awards! The awards, held at the Aviva stadium celebrate innovation in data science.
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Kinesis Health Technologies have have been featured in the Sunday Business Post list of top 100 startups
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Kinesis Health Technologies have made it to the final round in the 'Start-Up of the year' category in the National Data Science Awards 2016, with the award ceremony to be held in the Aviva stadium on the 22nd of September.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Gait assessment technology, Kinesis Gait™
The product is intended to provide repeatable, objective data on gait and movement for use in clinical gait analysis, rehabilitation and research. it supports multiple gait tasks including 6 minute walk, 30 metre walk and 25 foot walk.
Click here for more information.
Kinesis QTUG™ is featured in an article on Building Better Healthcare. The article discusses recent briefing notes published by NICE. The Kinesis QTUG™ technology briefing note, entitled 'QTUG for assessing falls risk and frailty', provides independent guidance and advice on the value of QTUG™ in assessing falls risk and frailty.
Click here to read the full story.
The National Institute for Health and Care and Excellence (NICE) have issued a briefing note on the Kinesis QTUG™ technology. The briefing note, entitled 'QTUG for assessing falls risk and frailty', provides independent guidance and advice on the value of QTUG™ in assessing falls risk and frailty.
Click here to read the briefing note.
Kinesis Health Technologies are seeking post-doctoral researchers who qualify for the SFI industry fellowship programme. We are seeking researchers to work on inertial sensor based algorithms for assessment of frailty, falls risk and cognitive function. Candidates should have expertise in medical statistics, pattern recognition or digital signal processing.
If you are qualified to apply for this programme and interested in joining Kinesis, please contact info@kinesis.ie.
Kinesis Health Technologies have been profiled in today's Irish Examiner. Read more
Kinesis Health Technologies have been accepted into Google's prestigious Adopt a Startup programme. Read more
Kinesis Health Technologies and Solutions4Health, a UK-based and global provider of preventative health solutions, today announced a partnership to market new falls prevention services and technologies in the UK.
QTUG™ is now available in Australia through our partners Rehacare Pty Ltd. QTUG™ has been registered with the Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) as a Class I medical device.
A new study published in the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) has shown that QTUG™ can provide more accurate assessment of fall risk in older adults, by automatically combining clinical questionnaire data with body-worn sensor data.
The study reports data from a population of 748 older adults and includes an independent validation of the accuracy of QTUG™ for fall risk assessment. Click here to read the article.
We are delighted to announce that Kinesis QTUG™ has been shortlisted for 'Best new product to support ageing-in-place' at the 4th Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards. Click here for more information.
The 4th Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards is held in conjunction with the annual international 7th Ageing Asia Innovation Forum held in Singapore from 26-27 April. Winners of each category will be announced at the 4th Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards Ceremony & Dinner on 27 April 2016.
We are delighted that Leading Age CAST has featured QTUG™ in the latest Functional Assessment and Activity Monitoring Toolkit. Click here for more information.
We are delighted to launch our new QTUG™ product website - www.qtug.org!
Kinesis Health Technologies CEO Seamus Small will be attending the EU Falls Festival in Bologna, Italy, 23-24th February 2016. The European Union Falls Festival brings together leading academics, researchers, health care practitioners, clinicians, industry representatives and key stakeholders from across the globe to celebrate best practice research and innovation in the multidisciplinary study and implementation of falls prevention in older people.
Seamus will also be participating in steering group meeting of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA)
Kinesis Health Technologies have announced that they have been selected as an industry partner to participate in two NHS Innovation Test Beds as part of major initiative launched by NHS England. Kinesis will be deploying at scale, its innovative QTUG™ mobility and falls risk assessment technology, in two out of the seven Test Beds sites: Sheffield and North East London. Read More
Kinesis Health Technologies are delighted to launch a major new release of QTUG™ , an evidence-based tool for assessment of mobility impairment, frailty and falls risk! QTUG™ can be used to identify people at risk of falling, as well as identification of mobility problems.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be exhibiting QTUG™: an evidence-based tool for assessment of mobility impairment, frailty and falls risk, at the The OT show at the NEC in Birmingham 25 and 26th November.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be exhibiting at the Care & Dementia Show and have been awarded a place on the Care & Dementia Show Start-up Academy, as part of the Care & Dementia Show in the NEC Birmingham, 3-4 November 2015.
New study on Kinesis QTUG™, authored by Erin Smith of Dundalk Primary Care Service (Co. Louth, Ireland) and University College Dublin, published in Gait & Posture shows that QTUG™ can provide reliable gait and mobility measures over 5 consecutive days. Study can be found here.
Kinesis QTUG™ is featured in the online Functional Assessment and Activity Monitoring tool produced by the Leading Age Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST). More information here as well as a detailed functional assessment matrix here.
Kinesis Health Technologies are seeking post-doctoral researchers who qualify for the SFI industry fellowship programme. We are seeking researchers to work on inertial sensor based algorithms for assessment of frailty, falls risk and cognitive function. Candidates should have expertise in medical statistics, pattern recognition or digital signal processing.
If you are qualified to apply for this programme and interested in joining Kinesis, please contact info@kinesis.ie.
Kinesis Health Technologies have been awarded a place on the Care & Dementia Show Start-up Academy, as part of the Care & Dementia Show in the NEC Birmingham, 3-4 November 2015.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be exhibiting at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo 2-3 September 2015 in Manchester Central, as well as the NHS Test Bed programme event in Manchester townhall.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be attending the NHS Test Bed 'meet and greet' event at the Oval in London, 29th July 2015.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be exhibiting at the Health Plus Care show in London's eXcel arena, 24-25th June.
A new study on assessment of multiple sclerosis using QTUG™, entitled "Assessment and classification of early stage multiple sclerosis with inertial sensors: comparison against clinical measures of disease state". has just been published by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Kinesis Health Technologies QTUG™ mobility and falls risk assessment technology features in an article on falls prevention and detection technologies in Medical Expo magazine.
Kinesis Health Technologies feature in Irish Times article on innovative companies shortlisted for American Chamber of Commerce and Royal Irish Academy US-Ireland Research Innovation awards 2015, in the SME category. Winners to be announced 15th of May.
Kinesis Health Technologies shortlisted for American Chamber of Commerce and Royal Irish Academy US-Ireland Research Innovation awards 2015, in the SME category. Winners to be announced 15th of May.
Kinesis Health Technologies shortlisted for the Web Summit Go Global programme.
Kinesis launch QTUG version 1.3. The new version contains substantial upgrades and a number of new features including sensor 'low battery' warning and improved error handling.
Kinesis Health Technologies will be exhibiting at Careshow, Bournemouth, UK, 25-26 March 2015. Drop by to hear about our mobility assessment and falls prevention technology
Falls Action (a partnership between Kinesis Health Technologies and Spectrum Health) have today announced the opening of three new centres of excellence for Falls Prevention in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
Kinesis Health Technologies have today announced two appointments to their scientific advisory board: Prof Brian Caulfield, University College Dublin and Dr. Stephen Redmond, University of New South Wales.
A recent MobiHealthNews article profiles QTUG and its use in assessing falls risk in older adults, and disease state in Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Kinesis launch QTUG version 1.2. The new version contains substantial upgrades and a number of new features including a clinical falls questionnaire, improved results display and graphical display of previous results. A 'non-falls risk' mode is also introduced for assessment of other patient populations as well as the ability to turn off timing exceptions.
Kinesis Health Technologies and Spectrum Health partner to launch Falls Action, a falls management service: Read more.
Kinesis will be participating in the Big Ideas @ Innovation Showcase 2014, 2nd December: Read more.
A recent Irish times article profiles Kinesis QTUG™ technology and the recent partnership with Shimmer Sensing. Read more.
Kinesis Health Technologies competing in the ALPHA startup competiion at the 2014 Web summit. Vote for us by clicking the button below!
Kinesis and Shimmer Sensing announce a partnership to supply technology for Kinesis QTUG™ worth €3 million. Read more.
Kinesis and Intel-GE Care Innovations announce a partnership to market and distribute QTUG in the United States and Canada. Read more.
Kinesis Health Technologies received certification from the Intel-GE Care Innovations Validation Institute Read more.
Kinesis Health Technologies reaches Dublin regional final of Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn investor readiness competition! Read more.
New Kinesis study on assessment of falls risk and frailty using combined instrumented assessment of TUG, balance and FTSS tests published in Physiological Measurement Read more.
Kinesis launches QTUG mobility and falls risk assessment product for international markets! QTUG is a class I medical device and available for sale in Ireland, UK, US and Canada. Read more.
Two papers on Kinesis QTUG technology presented at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Chicago. Papers are entitled: "Quantitative assessment of multiple sclerosis using inertial sensors and the TUG test" and "A comparison of cross-sectional and prospective algorithms for falls risk assessment".
New look Kinesis website launched with interactive support!
Kinesis Health Technologies now registered with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as the Health Products Regulatory Authority (formerly the Irish Medicines Board (IMB)) as a medical device manufacturer.
Two papers on Kinesis QTUG technology accepted for presentation at the IEEE EMBC 2014 conference in Chicago, 26th-30th August 2014.
Kinesis Health Technologies feature on RTE's Drivetimeradio programme.
Kinesis Health Technologies and Full Health Medical jointly win NHC Connected Health Award at the National Healthcare Conference.
New study shows that Kinesis QTUG technology can use be used to identify balance decline in older adults.
New study shows that Kinesis QTUG technology can be used for assessment of Frailty in older adults.
Kinesis wins major start-up accelerator award worth €25k. Kinesis CEO Seamus Small (photo left) and Kinesis CTO Dr. Barry Greene (photo right) receiving Venture Launch 2013 award.
Kinesis completes UCD's Venture Launch start-up accelerator programme.
Trial of ine mobility assessment technology commenced in St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin.
Kinesis secures license to intellectual property created under the TRIL research programme.
Kinesis Health Technologies incorporated as a limited company in Ireland.