Training Healthcare Innovation's Next Generation
The Nurse-Engineer Approach: We are pioneering a bidirectional, real-time collaboration between nurses and engineers to identify healthcare challenges, develop and refine solutions, assess outcomes, and optimize the delivery of patient-centered care. This model forms the foundation of SHINE: Strengthening Healthcare Innovation through Nursing & Engineering, an NSF-funded program that expands this approach to train the next generation of researchers advancing healthcare through robotics, technology, and human-centered design.
The EMCNEI Report
Explore our Center's Achievements, Pilot Grants, Internships, and Events in the EMCNEI Reports. These annual publications offer a detailed look at our work, providing insights into our programs, milestones, and future plans. Read the latest reports to stay informed about our progress and find out how we're making an impact.
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This project, jointly funded with the Institute of Diversity Sciences, explores food access and affordability across Massachusetts. A multidisciplinary team is creating a geospatial model that combines food pricing, transit routes, and income data to reveal where healthy food is realistically accessible. By adding community interviews to the data, the project highlights hidden barriers and aims to inform smarter policies in transit, urban planning, and food assistance.
This interdisciplinary team is developing accessible and cost-effective AI-driven tools for the early detection of ADRD—a group of progressive, underdiagnosed neurodegenerative conditions.
This project uses wearable sensors and real-time data analytics to study nurse stressors in dynamic hospital environments.
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