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.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的目的是建立一个系统，提高对病人的了解？的身体压力特性，以便为医院员工提供辅助/认知支持，以预防压疮。该项目的智力价值是一种使能技术，该技术将分析集成在一个软件平台中，用于监测、预防和管理压疮。 研究工作将侧重于实施全身压力分布数据收集、姿势分类、肢体跟踪、风险评估、翻身时间表利用和病人状况报告等模块。该项目的预期成果是一个软件平台，可作为护理人员更有效地监测高危患者的辅助技术工具。该平台将与市场上的压力垫系统一起工作，具有以下能力：（i）接收数据（原始压力图像）由客户从压力垫收集（ii）对上传的数据应用图像处理/增强技术，使得分析可以以合理的准确度运行;及（iii）提供关键分析数据，以改善护理人员对病人状况的认知，并协助他们作出有参考价值的决定，以进行风险评估及预防溃疡。本项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将是创造一个商业上可行的监测软件包，预防和管理最昂贵的急性健康状况之一，压力溃疡-或褥疮。不幸的是，由于频繁错过翻身患者的过度工作的护理人员、专用床垫和压力图系统的稀缺性和高成本以及更重要的是护士/医生难以解释压力图像，传统技术还不是很成功。统计数据显示，美国医院和疗养院中11-23%的患者（300 - 600万）患有压疮，每年花费我们的医疗保健系统超过12亿美元。一般来说，压疮对我们的医疗保健系统造成了巨大的负担，特别是对医疗保健提供者（例如医院和辅助生活之家）来说是一个巨大的问题。这项SBIR提案有可能通过为医疗保健界提供重要技术而产生重大影响。潜在的社会和商业影响包括：（a）有效的溃疡预防，将显著提高生活质量并减少患者的痛苦和不适;以及（B）显著降低与压疮相关的不断上升的医疗保健成本。