FI STAR Apr 1, 2013 - Nov 15, 2015
New ideas are on the way to make healthcare more accurate, more affordable and matching the needs of our changing societies. Demographic changes, progress in technology and in medicine offer options to caregivers and patients, which were unthinkable... Read More about FI STAR.

Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference Nov 1, 2009 - Nov 1, 2011
This project relates to the research collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University, CipherLab, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, GS1 UK, Imperial College, and Kodit, and is funded through a research project with the TSB (Technology Strategy Board... Read More about Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference.

PEPS-C software for Prosody May 1, 2009 - Sep 30, 2009
This IIDI project led by Alistair Lawson investigates the feasibility of developing a prototype Flash-based version of PEPS-C (Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication).  This is a test which examines receptive and expressive prosodic ab... Read More about PEPS-C software for Prosody.

Scalable and Open Framework for Human/Digital Trust between Informal/Formal Personal Health Care Infrastructures Mar 1, 2011 - Jul 31, 2013
This project extends the e-Health Cloud-based Platform, and integrates with assisted living. The project integrates Edinburgh Napier University, Microsoft and HoIP, and has created a novel governance policy infrastructure using a circle-of-trust rela... Read More about Scalable and Open Framework for Human/Digital Trust between Informal/Formal Personal Health Care Infrastructures.

e-Health Security Infrastructure Evaluation Jan 1, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012
IIDI is working with Patient Reminders Limited supported the SFC Innovation Voucher scheme. 

Patient Reminders Limited provides patient reminder products and solutions for use in clinical studies, pharma marketing, public health, assisted living,... Read More about e-Health Security Infrastructure Evaluation.

Personal health data manager Apr 1, 2012 - Mar 31, 2013
This SE/RSE Enterprise Fellowship aimed to commercialise intellectual property owned by Edinburgh Napier University related to e-Health data management into an end-user product. The project paved the way to the spin-off of Vitalmeda, whose first prod... Read More about Personal health data manager.

Trust and Governance Integration into Living It Up (Sitekit) Nov 28, 2013 - Mar 31, 2014

AyeCan Mar 1, 2014 - Aug 31, 2014
Weight management is a key health issue within Scotland. The focus of this project is to develop an intelligent online platform for weight management.  The project will use artificial intelligence methods to provide feedback to users on the best way... Read More about AyeCan.

CM2000 Follow On Apr 7, 2014 - Dec 31, 2014
Investigation of Big Data applied into Health and Social Care

i-com Dec 1, 2014 - Mar 31, 2015
The project has successfully defined the long-term requirements of the solution and also produced a prototype implementing on of these requirements

dot.rural Portrait KE Oct 7, 2015 - Feb 29, 2016
Portrait is a software tool developed to help care staff get to know personal and social information about clients that live in residential care facilities. The Portrait system consists of a biography for individuals with dementia who live in a care... Read More about dot.rural Portrait KE.

Can counselling help patients and families after Intensive Care: a pilot study and evaluation: the CONNECT study Jan 16, 2017 - Jul 15, 2017
Surviving critical illness is associated with chronic psychological distress. Anxiety occurs in 43% of patients and depression in 30% of patients at 12 months after hospital discharge. Post-traumatic stress (e.g. distressing flashbacks) occurs in 51%... Read More about Can counselling help patients and families after Intensive Care: a pilot study and evaluation: the CONNECT study.

Scale-up BP: Implementing evidence-based hypertension research at scale Nov 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2017
To determine the feasibility of carrying out a phase 4 study on the clinical and health economic impact of implementing telemonitoring of BP as routine practice for the majority of patients with raised BP in primary care.

A novel website to support patients and families in and after Intensive Care; spreading improvement across NHS Lothian Apr 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2018
In this project, we will spread the use of an innovative website, designed to support patients and family members in and after Intensive Care. We have already implemented the website at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (including a mixed methods eval... Read More about A novel website to support patients and families in and after Intensive Care; spreading improvement across NHS Lothian.

Promoting smoking cessation during pregnacy: combined feasibility and pilot of a randomised controlled trial of a narrative and image-based intervention delivered via text-messaging. Feb 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2019
We have developed an intervention that aims to help pregnant women to stop smoking by sending text messages with embedded behaviour change techniques (BCTs), as part of an engaging story with pictures, from early in their pregnancy until after they g... Read More about Promoting smoking cessation during pregnacy: combined feasibility and pilot of a randomised controlled trial of a narrative and image-based intervention delivered via text-messaging..

The life and work of Derek Hoy – a Scottish nurse informatician Jul 1, 2017 - Aug 11, 2017
Derek Hoy was a Scottish nurse based predominantly in Glasgow who died in 2012. He worked for many years in the National Health Service (NHS) in a variety of clinical roles, where he began to experiment with computers and other technologies in health... Read More about The life and work of Derek Hoy – a Scottish nurse informatician.

The role of CHildhood Adversities and their subsequent effect on mental ill-health and Suicidal behaviour (CHASe) Oct 1, 2018 - Nov 27, 2020
Deaths by suicide among young people are common, increasing year by year in 15-19 year olds, have devastating consequences for everyone involved, and are a signficant UK public health problem. People with experience of adverse life events, particular... Read More about The role of CHildhood Adversities and their subsequent effect on mental ill-health and Suicidal behaviour (CHASe).

Review of mobile applications (apps) for people with dementia Jun 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2018
Mobile health (mHealth) is a rapidly growing area with patients and healthcare professionals using applications (apps) on smartphones to help them manage chronic illness. Dementia is a growing problem worldwide for ageing populations and many mobile... Read More about Review of mobile applications (apps) for people with dementia.

Scotland 2030 Vision Dec 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2019
The "Scotland 2030 Vision? project seeks to build on internal research funding from Edinburgh Napier University to engage citizens in gaining their social, economic and cultural aspirations for the future of Scottish society. This will be used to in... Read More about Scotland 2030 Vision.

Secondary detection of atrial fibrillation Jan 1, 2018 - Oct 31, 2019
Secondary detection of atrial fibrillation post stroke.