{"209681":{"#nid":"209681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Industrial Design Masters Student wins Convergence Innovation Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELjilja Kascak, a master\u2019s student in the School of Industrial Design, has been awarded first place in the \u201cconnected life\u201d category of the Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for a project called \u003Cem\u003ERemote Patient Monitoring\u003C\/em\u003E (RPM), a home-based monitoring application designed to help patients with chronic conditions. The competition, sponsored by the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (RNOC), is an annual student event that focuses on innovation in the areas of converged services, media, networks, and client and server platforms and environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the past year Kascak has been researching remote patient monitoring devices, the topic of her master\u2019s thesis. Under the supervision of assistant professor Claudia Rebola she has been designing and developing improved mobile information architectures for telehealth applications. She and teammates Michael Zeitz and Rahul Agrawal prototyped RPM as part of a class on mobile applications and services.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERPM is highly customizable by the user, and aims to reduce hospitalization costs and the frequency of hospital admissions, as well as increasing accessibility of interventions. While there are products on the market that allow patients to collect and store their data, they often use proprietary hardware. RPM is different and unique in that it can be used on any mobile or tablet device. It has the ability to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERecord a daily journal using a short survey of health-related questions,\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERecord blood pressure, using a separate blood pressure monitor,\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlert 911 in case of emergency, and\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMonitor data on the web for use in the doctor\u2019s office.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am so proud of Ljilja and her team,\u201d said Rebola, Assistant Professor of industrial design, and Kascak\u2019s advisor. \u201cThe CIC is highly competitive, winning it is an extraordinary accomplishment. RPM is the kind of product that will have a positive impact on so many people \u2013 I look forward to watching it take off.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the CIC and RPM, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/drupal\/springcic\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/drupal\/springcic\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial Design Masters Student wins Convergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Industrial Design Masters Student wins Convergence Innovation Competition"}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2013-04-26 13:43:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:08","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"209591":{"id":"209591","type":"image","title":"RPM","body":null,"created":"1449180001","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 22:00:01","changed":"1475894869","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:49","alt":"RPM","file":{"fid":"197038","name":"rpm.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rpm.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/rpm.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29248,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/rpm.jpeg?itok=Ft8p3QJY"}}},"media_ids":["209591"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"63931","name":"CIC"},{"id":"38451","name":"georgia tech school of industrial design"},{"id":"65071","name":"RPM"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}