Planning IUCRC Virginia Tech: Center for Cyber-Physical Systems for the Hospital Operating Room (CyBHOR)

规划 IUCCRC 弗吉尼亚理工大学：医院手术室网络物理系统中心 (CyBHOR)

• 批准号: 1747768
• 负责人: Rafael Davalos
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1747768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; IUCRC; Virginia; Tech; Center

The U.S. alone spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2014. This number is likely to increase over the next two decades as Baby Boomers, numbering 76 million, will retire, including many who work in medical professions. This planning grant will lay the foundation to establish a site of the Cyber-physical systems for the Hospital Operating Room (CyBHOR) Industry University Cooperative Research Center at Virginia Tech (VT). As part of this proposed site, the researchers seek to develop healthcare and surgical technologies for our most vulnerable populations: children and older adults. The site will complement existing sites at Houston Methodist and the University of Florida. Virginia Tech will use this planning grant to refine the vision for the new site in order to address growing biomedical needs complementary to the mission of CyBHOR. To achieve this, an organizational meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area with prospective industry members, secure financial commitments from industry partners, and select initial projects. The planning grant will allow the recruitment and input from multiple industrial partners to investigate six medical device research projects. Initial proposed research projects address areas ranging from training the next generation of healthcare workers via humanoid patient simulation, to treating both pediatric and geriatric surgical and healthcare needs with real-time tissue property monitoring. These projects will be refined with industry partners for the site's initial research efforts that will lead to increased innovation and competitiveness of U.S. industry, specifically providers of healthcare products.

2014年，仅美国就在医疗保健方面花费了2.6万亿美元。在未来20年里，这一数字可能会增加，因为婴儿潮一代将有7600万人退休，其中包括许多在医疗行业工作的人。这项规划拨款将为弗吉尼亚理工大学（VT）的医院手术室（CyBHOR）工业大学合作研究中心建立网络物理系统的网站奠定基础。作为这个拟议网站的一部分，研究人员寻求为我们最脆弱的人群开发医疗保健和外科技术：儿童和老年人。 该网站将补充现有的网站在休斯顿卫理公会和佛罗里达大学。 弗吉尼亚理工大学将利用这笔规划拨款来完善新网站的愿景，以满足日益增长的生物医学需求，补充CyBHOR的使命。为了实现这一目标，将在华盛顿地区与潜在的行业成员举行组织会议，确保行业合作伙伴的财务承诺，并选择初始项目。规划补助金将允许多个工业合作伙伴的招聘和投入，以调查六个医疗器械研究项目。最初提出的研究项目涉及的领域包括通过人形患者模拟培训下一代医疗保健工作者，以及通过实时组织特性监测来治疗儿科和老年外科和医疗保健需求。这些项目将与行业合作伙伴一起进行改进，用于该网站的初步研究工作，这将导致美国行业，特别是医疗保健产品供应商的创新和竞争力的提高。