InfoSAGE (http://www.infosagehealth.org), short for 'Information Sharing Across Generations,' is an innovative web and mobile application to created to help families coordinate the care of older adults. InfoSAGE was created by researchers at the Division of Clinical Informatics (http://www.hmfpinformatics.org) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. InfoSAGE allows an older adult, or their proxy, to create a private social network to help coordinate their care. Functions of InfoSAGE include the ability to manage an outpatient medication list, create a task list, and search a list of selected web information resources.  

We are seeking to expand the use of InfoSAGE to rural older adults and people with socio-economic challenges. To do this we seek to better understand health disparities in older adults and some of the digital divide issues that might be a barrier to older adults. This work will involve research literature search and phone calls to aging support agencies to better understand the social circumstance of older adults, and to develop innovative strategies to use technology to support aging-in-place. We are looking for a summer intern to work on this project. For more information, contact Dr. Yuri Quintana at yquintan@bidmc.harvard.edu

The Division of Clinical Informatics (http://www.hmfpinformatics.org) is one of the oldest and most prestigious academic research group focused on the effective use of information and communication technologies in patient care and healthcare delivery.  Founded over 50 years ago by Drs. Howard Bleich and Warner Slack, DCI was among the first academic divisions in the world to concentrate on the use of computers for patient care, teaching, and medical research. The goals of DCI have been to improve the quality and reduce the cost of medical care, to enhance the quality of medical education, to enhance the relationship between doctor and patient, and to explore innovative approaches to research through computing.