#MCI Cohort 2016

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Study: Gastrointestinal events tied to GLP-1 receptor agonists use in diabetes Fewer type 2 diabetes patients who were treated with exenatide once weekly reported gastrointestinal adverse events, compared with those on exenatide twice daily or liraglutide once daily, according to a study in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Australian researchers conducted a pooled analysis of several studies and found that all of the reported gastrointestinal adverse events were mild. Healio (free registration)/Endocrine Today (4/27) Diabetes patients with MCI at increased risk for dementia, study finds A study in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications showed that patients with type 2 diabetes and mild cognitive impairment were twice as likely to develop dementia as those without diabetes. Spanish researchers used a cohort of 202 MCI patients with and without diabetes and found that type 2 diabetes was an independent risk factor for the development of dementia. Diabetes.co.uk (U.K.) (4/27) Childhood abdominal radiation tied to pregnancy risks later Women who survived childhood cancer after receiving abdominal radiation therapy had a higher risk of gestational diabetes and anemia during pregnancy compared with survivors who received other treatments. Researchers wrote in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that women who survived childhood cancer but didn't have radiation did not appear to have greater risk of labor complications compared with women who never had cancer. Reuters (4/26)

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Eating a low-fat diet may backfire, study suggests Research published in the journal Physiology & Behavior found rodents fed foods low in fat but high in sugar added body fat, compared with those that ate a more balanced diet. The study found the low-fat diet increased the rodents' fat-producing efficiency so they needed less than half the calories normally used to produce the same amount of body fat. U.S. News & World Report (4/26) Study suggests Instagram can help dieters lose weight People who used Instagram to photograph what they ate and posted the pictures to the site daily reported it made them more accountable for their diet, according to a study to be presented at the CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Researchers said study participants felt the support they received from other Instagram users helped keep them on track, and staying on the site after reaching their goals helped them keep the weight off. United Press International (4/26)

Doctor: Patients should be active participants in their care People who are active participants in their health care decisions, regardless of how bad their diagnosis, have the best chance of receiving care consistent with their values, goals and preferences, said palliative care specialist Dr. Steven Pantilat of the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. Pantilat, author of "Life After the Diagnosis," said patients should ask their physicians lots of questions and push for a prognosis. The Sacramento Bee (Calif.) (tiered subscription model) (4/24) Study examines efficacy of EHR-based disease surveillance system A study in the American Journal of Public Health found that an EHR-based surveillance system provided an accurate measurement of diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other chronic health issues in New York City, and was comparable to in-person and telephone surveys. The researchers developed a surveillance system, called NYC Macroscope, to gather data from EHRs of more than 700,000 primary care patients. BeckersHospitalReview.com (4/26)

Report: Health care ranked 2nd highest in cybersecurity incidents last year Data breach incidents increased by 22% across all industries, from 269 in 2015 to 328 in 2016, with health care experiencing the second-highest number of incidents in the services industry group, according to Symantec's 2017 Internet Security Threat Report. Researchers also found that 54% of emails in the health care sector contained spam, and 1 in 4,375 emails was a phishing attempt. Health IT Security (4/26) Insider misuse is major cybersecurity threat in health care, report finds

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Verizon's 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report showed a 50% increase in ransomware incidents across all industries in 84 countries, with 68% of the threats in health care coming from internal sources. "Insider misuse is a major issue for the health care industry; in fact it is the only industry where employees are the predominant threat actors in breaches," Verizon said in the report. ZDNet (4/27)

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Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. ... If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack. Theodor Seuss Geisel, writer and illustrator

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The Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project: Study Design and Baseline Cohort Overview.

IoN UCL PubMed: Related Articles The Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project: Study Design and Baseline Cohort Overview. J Alzheimers Dis. 2016 03 08;52(2):539-59 Authors: Jefferson AL, Gifford KA, Acosta LM, Bell SP, Donahue MJ, Davis LT, Gottlieb J, Gupta DK, Hohman TJ, Lane EM, Libon DJ, Mendes LA, Niswender K, Pechman KR, Rane S, Ruberg FL, Su YR, Zetterberg H, Liu D Abstract BACKGROUND: Vascular health factors frequently co-occur with Alzheimer's disease (AD). A better understanding of how systemic vascular and cerebrovascular health intersects with clinical and pathological AD may inform prevention and treatment opportunities. OBJECTIVE: To establish the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project, a case-control longitudinal study investigating vascular health and brain aging, and describe baseline methodology and participant characteristics. METHODS: From September 2012 to November 2014, 335 participants age 60- 92 were enrolled, including 168 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI, 73±8 years, 41% female) and 167 age-, sex-, and race-matched cognitively normal controls (NC, 72±7 years, 41% female). At baseline, participants completed a physical and frailty examination, fasting blood draw, neuropsychological assessment, echocardiogram, cardiac MRI, and brain MRI. A subset underwent 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) collection. RESULTS: As designed, participant groups were comparable for age (p = 0.31), sex (p = 0.95), and race (p = 0.65). MCI participants had greater Framingham Stroke Risk Profile scores (p = 0.008), systolic blood pressure values (p = 0.008), and history of left ventricular hypertrophy (p = 0.04) than NC participants. As expected, MCI participants performed worse on all neuropsychological measures (p-values http://dlvr.it/NDLrJn

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SPRINT THREE: Rapid Concept Development

Each Masters student took 5 minutes to present a concept based on ‘concept clusters’ derived in Sprint One.

Followed by a analysis of emerging and common themes

Then the cohort arranged themselves into Seven Scrums to develop a specific concept or to combine concepts into a larger one for further development

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Industry Context: Urban Utilities

Water Supply

Sewerage Management

Innovation Opportunities:

Help remote communities become self sustainable

identify new business/product/service opportunities with smart meters

SPRINT ONE: ANALYSIS

After forming our new SCRUMS (diverse teams of 4)... we analyse and map the client context...

Approach: Game-Design Thinking Scoping the environment and considering potential assets of the entire client ecology

World - People Places and Things

Play - Action and Interaction within the world by PCs and NPCs

Progress - Motivation and Mastery for PCs

Listing, categorising and mapping all of the assets of the ‘world’ to better understand the opportunities and contingencies for concept development (Sprint Two)

Ouput: Concept Clusters

By grouping assets from across the PEOPLE, PLACES and THINGS categories, we can experiment with micro-scenarios for micro-solutions!

Farmer + Dam + Smart Meter = Opportunity for Micro-Solution concept!

This cluster is an interesting scenario regarding remote communities and smart meter exploitation.

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WELCOME COHORT OF 2016

We will be creating Design Fictions (DesFi) using a game design approach to develop and demonstrate micro-solutions within complex systems... considering human experience, advancing technologies, environmental impact, resilient business models...

Design Fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change http://www.experientia.com/

Some of our favourite DesFi examples:

Bruce Branit, World Builder: https://vimeo.com/3365942

Microsoft: https://youtu.be/oKqzeoMCU0c (attached video)

Scanadu: http://www.scanadu.com/

Sumsung: https://youtu.be/XyIvSIY0MTM

Corning: https://www.youtube.com/user/CorningIncorporated 

Smart Design: http://smartdesignworldwide.com 

Our Industry Partner for 2016 Marek Kowalkiewicz: PWC Chair in Digital Economy http://www.chairdigitaleconomy.com.au/the-chair/

Our Industry Context Urban Utiliites http://www.urbanutilities.com.au/