Sense™
Where health becomes measurable.
Most systems alert you after something goes wrong. Sense measures the gradual changes first — six everyday signals, each grounded in published clinical evidence, read continuously across the home. Tap a signal to see what changes, why it matters, and the research behind it.
Healthy Habits Index™
Sample view
Hygiene
76
What’s changing
Why it matters
Clinical evidence
Nighttime Stability
69
What’s changing
Nighttime is less settled — more movement, more time out of bed, or longer stretches awake than usual.
Why it matters
Persistent disruption at night is worth watching alongside mobility, speech, hydration, and routine as part of the whole picture.
Clinical evidence
Sleep disturbance has been linked to increased risk of cognitive decline and clinical progression in longitudinal cohorts.
Hydration
72
What’s changing
Why it matters
Clinical evidence
Mobility
74
What’s changing
Daily movement through the home has become slower or less consistent than this person’s established baseline.
Why it matters
Shifts in mobility are closely tied to functional independence and to how someone is doing across the other Healthy Habits Index domains. Tracking them over time adds important context.
Clinical evidence
Gait speed is one of the most validated predictors of survival and functional decline in older adults.
speech
81
What’s changing
Everyday conversation has shifted — longer pauses, shorter answers, or less engagement than before.
Why it matters
Viewed over time, changes in how someone speaks add context alongside the other domains rather than standing alone.
Clinical evidence
Speech and language markers are an active research area for early detection of mild cognitive impairment, where subtle changes can appear before obvious symptoms.
Routine
70
What’s changing
The rhythm of the day is becoming less predictable — meaningful shifts in the timing and sequence of everyday activities.
Why it matters
Routine change is often among the earliest visible signs of shifting functional independence, drawing on mobility, cognition, and more — what we call functional drift.
Clinical evidence
Disrupted daily activity rhythms have been associated with higher risk of cognitive decline and dementia in large population cohorts.
You are not buying sensors. You are buying a decision.
The hard-to-copy advantage is the framework, not any single signal: everyday behavior becomes a domain score, six evidence-based scores become the Healthy Habits Index, and the Index becomes a clear moment to act — before a crisis, not after.
Everyday signals
Domain score
Healthy Habits Index
A decision to act
Mobility
Daily movement through the home has become slower or less consistent than this person's established baseline.
Hygiene
Personal-care routines such as grooming and bathing are happening less regularly than before.
Hydration
Hydration-related routines are happening less often, or at different times, than this person's usual pattern.
Speech
Everyday conversation has shifted — longer pauses, shorter answers, or less engagement than before.
Nighttime Stability
Nighttime is less settled — more movement, more time out of bed, or longer stretches awake than usual.
Routine
The rhythm of the day is becoming less predictable — meaningful shifts in the timing and sequence of everyday activities.
Evidence-based design
Six domains, each chosen from the clinical literature.
The Healthy Habits Index domains were selected from published clinical evidence showing that longitudinal changes in everyday behavior carry meaningful information about functional health, independence, and age-related change. Sense measures these behavioral patterns objectively over time to support families and healthcare professionals.
Sense is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Supporting research sourced from PubMed. Each domain links to a representative peer-reviewed study.
The category
The Science Behind Functional Drift
Functional Drift is the gradual, cumulative change in a person’s everyday function — how they move, sleep, hydrate, speak, and hold to their routines — that unfolds over weeks and months, beneath the threshold of any single alarming event. It is often visible in behavior long before it becomes visible in a clinic. Sense is built to measure it.
01
Change over time, not a moment
Decline is a slope, not an incident. A twice-a-year clinic visit or a one-time reading cannot see a trajectory. Continuous, longitudinal measurement can.
02
Measured against their own baseline
03
Beyond isolated events
04
Many domains, one picture
The shift from detecting emergencies to measuring functional health over time.
Credibility
Built With Leading Research Institutions
Sense and the Healthy Habits Index were not built in a vacuum. Development has been funded by federal research grants and shaped alongside clinical and academic collaborators.
NIH SBIR-funded development
Developed through multiple NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards, with our President serving as Principal Investigator.
Completed clinical studies
Three clinical studies completed, with a fourth underway across aging and functional-decline populations.
Ongoing real-world validation
Validation continues in real-world settings as the platform advances.
Research & clinical partners
EVMS at ODU (Eastern Virginia Medical School), Carilion Clinic, and UMBC (Advanced Simulation Center).
Independent Clinical Validation
Clinical validation is being conducted with leading research institutions including Old Dominion University (EVMS at ODU), Carilion Clinic, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Multiple NIH-funded studies have evaluated the platform across aging and functional-decline populations, with additional real-world validation continuing.
Federal Compliance & Stewardship
Index HealthTech has successfully managed nearly $5 million in federal research funding while earning two consecutive independent federal Single Audits with zero findings, demonstrating disciplined financial stewardship and regulatory compliance.
Credibility
Help Shape the Future of Functional Health Monitoring
Sense and the Healthy Habits Index were not built in a vacuum. Development has been funded by federal research grants and shaped alongside clinical and academic collaborators.
We’re seeking a limited number of:
Home Care agencies
Home Health providers
Value-Based Care organizations
PACE programs
Managed Care organizations
Health systems
Academic researchers
