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World Joint Artificial Intelligence Network Challenge awards prototype and product aimed at supporting people with dementia The Joint Artificial Intelligence Network (JAIN) hosts the World JAIN Challenge (WJC). Alzheimer Europe and three members of the European Working Group of People with Dementia participated as reviewers in the WJC 2022. The main purpose of the World JAIN Challenge (WJC) is to form an international learning community that develops e-health products and services for people with memory problems or dementia, informal carers and family, healthcare professionals, healthcare institutions, government and healthcare insurers, which: y Increase self-reliance and quality of life of people with memory problems or dementia and informal carers y Extend the time that people with memory problems or dementia can live in one’s own living environment y Support informal carers, family and healthcare professionals y Reduce costs within healthcare promoting affordable healthcare, with the same number of Full Time Equivalents serving more clients.
World JAIN Challenge 2022 The WJC 2022 is a public competition for developed or prototyped technical products and services based on artificial intelligence (AI) It concerns products that support the quality of life and self-reliance of people with memory problems or dementia and their informal carers and that will support professionals and informal carers in providing optimal care. On 23 and 24 March 2022, the WJC was broadcast by the Dutch Embassy in Sweden, live on YouTube. The programme on both days was chaired by Hans Arnold (founder of JAIN) and moderated by Thomas Arnold. On 23 March, the WJC programme started with an introduction by Thomas Arnold, followed by a welcome by Bengt van Loosdrecht (Swedish
Ambassador), John Dekker (Innovation Attaché at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Sweden) as well as Hans Arnold . This was followed by a series of presentations starting with an opening by Charles Scerri (Vice-Chairperson, Alzheimer Europe), an outline of the mission of the WJC by Franka Meiland (Amsterdam UMC) and finally a look at technology solutions for everyday living in dementia care by Arlene Astell (University of Toronto). After that, the three finalists presented their prototypes in the form of pitches, which were followed by questions from the audience. The three prototypes presented were: y CeCe: A platform with a wearable tracker (patient) and a companion behaviour noting app (caregiver) aimed at collecting information that can be provided to doctors and care professionals for treatment decisions y myAVOS: A healthcare platform for cognitive screening, patient monitoring and to provide interventions through a mobile application y DeepVibes: A phone application aimed at stimulating and recording conversations between family members and people with dementia. It applies AI to monitor disease progression.
Conny Helder, Dutch Minister for long-term care and sport, announced the winners of WJC 2022
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