Oregon Roybal Center for Care Support Translational Research Advantaged by Integrating Technology
.png)
Oregon Center for Aging and Technology
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
ORCASTRAIT has focused on creating necessary research procedures, a unique Life Laboratory of community volunteers and researchers, basic functional algorithms of human health-related activity and intervention outcome measures, and distinctive collaborations to create new knowledge and facilitate knowledge exchange and dissemination. ORCASTRAIT is designed to facilitate the wise use of technology to improve care provider support, affording the ready capacity to conduct intervention research by providing a ready infrastructure to conduct necessary early studies and to train and educate researchers in the optimal use and application of technology in their interventions.