Partnerships

Building the future of predictive care together

We partner with leading clinical institutions, research universities, federal funders, and industry innovators to advance Behavioral Biomarker Infrastructure.

A Coalition of Validators

Rigor by association.

Index HealthTech is proud to work alongside the researchers, clinicians, and institutions who make independent aging measurable. Our partners validate our science, inform our platform, and expand the reach of behavioral biomarker infrastructure across the care continuum.

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Clinical Partners

Leading clinical institutions evaluating Sense™ and the Healthy Habits Index™ in real-world aging care settings.

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Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University

Clinical Validation Partner

Leading clinical evaluation of behavioral biomarker signals through the Shirley and Richard Roberts Comprehensive Memory Center and the Glennan Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, under Dr. Hamid R. Okhravi — Director of the Memory Center and Al E. Abiouness Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics.

Carilion-Clinic

Carilion Clinic

Geriatric Research Partner

Partnering on geriatric functional decline research and clinical deployment pathways under Dr. Aubrey Knight.

Eastern-Virginia-Medical-School

Faschini Wallach Center for Restorative Therapies

Rehabilitation Research Partner

A multispecialty rehabilitation clinic within the Ellmer College of Health Sciences at Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at ODU, collaborating on clinical research applications of ambient sensing in rehabilitation populations under Dr. Lisa Koperna.

"CDR is rudimentary. We rely on caregiver memory to gauge weeks of behavior. This isn't precision medicine — it's retrospective guesswork. Tools like HHI could fundamentally change how and when we diagnose."
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Dr. Hamid R. Okhravi, M.D.
Director, Shirley and Richard Roberts Comprehensive Memory Center · EVMS at ODU

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Research & Academic Partners

Academic institutions and principal investigators advancing the science of behavioral measurement and machine learning for aging care.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

ML & Simulation Infrastructure

Hosting the high-performance computing environment used for synthetic behavioral data generation and predictive model training.

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Old Dominion University

Environmental Health Research

Collaborating on behavioral health signal validation and environmental sensing research.

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Dr. Hamid R. Okhravi, M.D.

Principal Investigator

Director, Roberts Comprehensive Memory Center Al E. Abiouness Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics EVMS at ODU

Aubrey Knight

Dr. Aubrey Knight

Clinical Collaborator

Geriatric Medicine
Carilion Clinic

Dr. Anna Jeng

Research Advisor

Professor, Joint School of Public Health
Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at ODU

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Industry & Innovation Partners

Strategic industry relationships advancing real-world validation and demonstration of behavioral biomarker infrastructure.

The Thrive Center

The Thrive Center

Innovation Sponsor · Louisville, KY

Sponsor and technology partner at The Thrive Center — a leading aging-tech showcase and validation environment demonstrating the future of senior care.

Additional Partners

Coming Soon

We're actively building relationships with senior living operators, home health networks, and aging-tech demonstration centers.

Nottingham Spirk

Nottingham Spirk

Industrial design and product innovation partner

The Cleveland-based firm behind 1,000+ commercialized products

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Federally Funded Research

Advancing behavioral biomarker infrastructure through federally funded research.

NIH

National Institutes of Health

This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health under awarded grants focused on behavioral measurement, functional decline, and aging-related health signals.

NIA

National Institute on Aging

This research was supported in part by the National Institute on
Aging.
Award Numbers
1R44AG087731-01
5R44AG087731-02

NICHD

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

This research was supported in part by NICHD.
Award Numbers
1R43HD108061-01A1
2R44HD108061-02
5R44HD108061-03

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State & Commercial Support

Non-dilutive funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia supporting commercialization and clinical development.

VIPC

Virginia Innovation Partnership Corp.

Non-dilutive state funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia's innovation arm, supporting commercialization and clinical development.

Additional Partners

Coming Soon

We're actively building relationships with senior living operators, home health networks, and aging-tech demonstration centers.

Research reported on this page was supported by the National Institutes of Health under awarded grants and by the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation. The content is solely the responsibility of Index HealthTech and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or its Institutes and Centers. Reference to these organizations does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies.

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We are actively seeking clinical collaborators, research partners, senior living operators, and innovation sponsors who share our mission to make functional decline measurable.

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Steve Waddell

Founder & CEO

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