Year 3 Pilots

Company Launch: EC Safety Technologies LLC

About Founded in 2025, EC-Safety was born with a clear purpose: to transform geriatric care through technology designed with empathy, science, and real collaboration with those on the front lines of caregiving. From the beginning, we have worked hand in hand with experts in gerontology, clinical professionals, technologists, and elder care leaders to create a platform that not only digitizes processes but also eases the operational and emotional burden faced by caregivers. This mission has led us to collaborate with prestigious institutions such as the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where researchers use EC-Safety as a technological foundation in a pioneering project supported by the Massachusetts AI & Technology Center for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC), focused on improving the lives of Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers through artificial intelligence. Our technology was not born in…

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Oral Presentation: MIT Club of Northern California – AI in Healthcare at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

John Ralston presented on the NEURVESTA device mentioning the MassAITC pilot project work on January 14, 2025 as an featured AI startup at the AI Healthcare Event in association with the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Source: Event Post on MIT Club of Northern California Website

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Funding: Pre18, parallel18’s pre-acceleration program, grant

A new company founded by G. Antonio Sosa-Pascual (PI) to commercialize the technology and AI developed through this pilot project was one of 24 companies selected (out of more than 200 applicants) to join the pre18 accelerator as a recipient of a $25,000 grant. Source: News is my Business News Release

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Publication: Oscillometric blood pressure measurements on smartphones using vibrometric force estimation

Authors: Colin Barry, Yinan Xuan, Ava Fascetti, Alison Moore, Edward J Wang Abstract This paper proposes a smartphone-based method for measuring Blood Pressure (BP) using the oscillometric method. For oscillometry, it is necessary to measure (1) the pressure applied to the artery and (2) the local blood volume change. This is accomplished by performing an oscillometric measurement at the finger's digital artery, whereby a user presses down on the phone's camera with steadily increasing force. The camera is used to capture the blood volume change using photoplethysmography. We devised a novel method for measuring the force applied of the finger without the use of specialized smartphone hardware with a technique called Vibrometric Force Estimation (VFE). The fundamental concept of VFE relies on a phenomenon where a vibrating object is dampened when an external force is…

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Oral Presentation: NIA workshop – Leveraging Adaptive Technology (“Just-in-Time”) Interventions for Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-related Dementias

Dr. Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani (PI) presented work from this pilot project during a talk titled "Adaptive interventions and JITAIs as decision policies: What and why?" as part of Session 1 - Digital adaptive interventions: decision-focused evidence production held on October 16, 2024. Source: NIA Event Page

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