SBIR Phase I: Pressure Map Analytics for Ulcer Prevention

SBIR 第一阶段：预防溃疡的压力图分析

• 批准号: 1248587
• 负责人: Sarah Ostadabbas
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Dena Technologies, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1248587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Pressure; Map; Analytics

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to build a system that enhances understanding of the patient?s body pressure characteristics, such that it can provide assistive/cognitive support to hospital staff to prevent pressure ulcer. The intellectual merit of this project is an enabling technology that integrates analytics within a software platform for monitoring, prevention and management of pressure ulcers. Research efforts will focus on implementation of modules for whole-body pressure distribution data collection, posture classification, limb tracking, risk assessment, turning schedule utilization and patient status reporting. The anticipated result of this project is a software platform that can be employed as an assistive technology tool by caregivers for monitoring at-risk patients more effectively. This platform will work well with the pressure mat systems in the market, with the following abilities: (i) to receive data (raw pressure images) collected from pressure mats by customers (e.g. hospitals) in a HIPPA-compliant server; (ii) to apply image processing/enhancement techniques on uploaded data so that the analytics can run with a reasonable accuracy; and (iii) to provide key analysis data that improves caregiver cognition of the status of patient and assist them in making informative decisions for risk assessment and ulcer prevention.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be to create a commercially viable software package for monitoring, prevention and management of one of the most costly, acute health conditions, pressure ulcers - or bed sores. Unfortunately, conventional techniques have not been very successful due to overworked nursing staff who frequently miss turning patients, scarcity and high cost of special mattresses and pressure map systems and more importantly difficulty of interpreting pressure images by nurses/doctors. Statistics show that 11-23% of the patients in hospitals and nursing homes (3-6 million) in the United States develop pressure ulcers that cost our healthcare system more than $1.2 billion annually. Pressure ulcers represent an enormous burden on our healthcare system, in general, and an enormous problem for healthcare providers (e.g. hospitals and assisted-living homes) in particular. This SBIR proposal has the potential to have a significant impact by offering an important technology to the healthcare community. The potential societal and commercial impact includes: (a) effective ulcer prevention that will dramatically enhance quality of life and reduce patient suffering and discomfort; and (b) significant decrease in ever-escalating healthcare cost related to pressure ulcers.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目旨在建立一个系统，以增强对患者体重特征的了解，以便可以为医院工作人员提供辅助/认知支持以防止压力溃疡。该项目的智力优点是一项能够将分析集成到软件平台中，以监视，预防和管理压力溃疡的技术。 研究工作将集中于实施全身压力分配数据收集，姿势分类，肢体跟踪，风险评估，转弯时间表利用和患者状况报告的模块。该项目的预期结果是一个软件平台，可以通过护理人员来更有效地监视高危患者来用作辅助技术工具。该平台将与市场上的压力垫系统合作，具有以下能力：（i）接收客户（例如医院）在齐台上的服务器中从压力垫中收集的数据（原始压力图像）； （ii）将图像处理/增强技术应用于上传数据，以便分析可以以合理的精度运行； （iii）提供关键分析数据，以改善护理人员认知患者状况，并帮助他们为风险评估和预防溃疡做出信息性决策。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是为监控，预防和管理最昂贵的，急性健康状况，急性健康状况，压力溃疡，或床上糖或床上的最大可行的软件包。不幸的是，由于过度劳累的护理人员，他们经常错过转身患者，稀缺和特殊床垫和压力图系统的高成本，并且更重要的是，要解释护士/医生的压力图像的困难。统计数据表明，美国医院和疗养院（3-600万）的患者中有11-23％的患者发生压力溃疡，使我们的医疗保健系统每年超过12亿美元。通常，压力溃疡代表了我们的医疗保健系统的巨大负担，这对于医疗保健提供者（例如医院和辅助生活的房屋）来说是一个巨大的问题。该SBIR提案有可能通过向医疗保健社区提供重要技术来产生重大影响。潜在的社会和商业影响包括：（a）有效的预防溃疡，可以大大提高生活质量并减少患者的痛苦和不适； （b）与压溃疡有关的不断变化的医疗保健成本大幅下降。