SHB: Medium: Self-Care Management: Patient-Centered Diabetic Wound Care Using Smart Phones

SHB：中：自我护理管理：使用智能手机以患者为中心的糖尿病伤口护理

• 批准号: 1065298
• 负责人: Diane Strong
• 金额: $ 119.9万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1065298&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHB; Medium; Self; Care; Management

The project addresses specific health challenges of patients with diabetic foot ulcers and focuses on two key challenges: automatically analyzing wound healing progress of patients with diabetic foot ulcers, and using technology to motivate these patients to better care for their wounds and their diabetes. The proposed smart phone application requires the development of image analysis algorithms and is patient-centered and aims to improve patient health and wellbeing in a patient population that is experiencing severe and expensive health problems.In the performance of this work, the project extends the medical education of students to include how state-of-the-art computing technologies can assist healing. This research is of societal importance and provides technology-enabled care for patients with advanced problems like diabetic foot ulcers. Furthermore, it improves the quality of lives and reduces health care costs. Finally, the cross-disciplinary research team broadly disseminates results to multiple disciplines and is quite diverse. The team's diversity and the societal value of a health care application are helpful in recruiting a diverse group of students.

该项目解决了糖尿病足部溃疡患者的具体健康挑战，并侧重于两个关键挑战：自动分析糖尿病足部溃疡患者的伤口愈合过程，并使用技术激励这些患者更好地护理他们的伤口和他们的糖尿病。拟议的智能手机应用程序需要开发图像分析算法，以患者为中心，旨在改善正在经历严重且昂贵的健康问题的患者群体的健康和福祉。在这项工作的执行中，该项目扩展了对学生的医学教育，包括最先进的计算技术如何帮助康复。这项研究具有重要的社会意义，并为患有糖尿病足部溃疡等晚期问题的患者提供技术支持的护理。此外，它还提高了生活质量，降低了医疗成本。最后，跨学科研究团队广泛地将成果传播到多个学科，而且相当多样化。该团队的多样性和医疗保健应用程序的社会价值有助于招收不同的学生群体。